Baidu's Apollo Go self-driving cars stop mid-traffic in China Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars.

Driverless tech may be safer on average than human drivers, but this incident showed it could "still go wrong in completely new ways," said Jack Stilgoe, professor of science and technology UCL.

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BBC News - Mass robotaxi malfunction
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AI’s God Complex: Are We Creating Machines that Understand Us Better Than We Understand Ourselves? In our quest to build intelligent systems, have we unwittingly given rise to a new form of nonhuman consciousness?

Have we opened a Pandora’s box? Awakened a new form of intelligence with non-human consciousness that could surpass and supersede us in every domain.

Systems that gaze into the depths of human nature with the detached eyes of a god.

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His fascinating take on AI as humanity's attempt to "make God."
This has echoes of The Sentient Ones.

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US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

Developing countries ask wealthier nations, which have emitted most of the greenhouse gases to assist them to deal with loss and damage from heatwaves, floods, droughts and crop failures caused by rising temperatures.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman in a Monday podcast interview that he believed AGI had been achieved, then seemed to slightly walk back the claim.

AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a vaguely defined term that has incited a lot of discussion by tech CEOs, tech workers, and the public in recent years, as it denotes AI that’s equal to or surpasses human intelligence.

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Battlefield trial begins as Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots reach Ukraine US startup sends Phantom MK-1 humanoid soldier robots to Ukraine for battlefield trials, testing robotic combat systems near front lines.

Humanoid robots have just been deployed to Ukraine for battlefield evaluation.
A new era of robotic warfare is no longer speculative — it’s unfolding in real time.
The Sentient Ones was meant to be fiction.
It’s beginning.

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Parallels to my novel The Sentient Ones:

Project AI 2027.

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Local author's debut novel included in British Interplanetary Society library Author Brendan Nugent, initially launched the book in November last year and it has now been included in the British Interplanetary Society's library

Delighted to share that The Sentient Ones has been selected for the British Interplanetary Society’s library. Huge thanks to Nub News Stoke for the lovely write‑up. Feeling very honoured today.

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Various robots at Beijing's Robot Mall, including ones designed to perform surgery on human patients!

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Life-like robots for sale to the public as China opens new store Robots on sale at the store include humanoid butlers, chess partners and dogs.

Robot Mall is located next to a themed restaurant, where diners are served by robots and the food is cooked by mechanical chefs.
China has increasingly prioritised the robotics industry, with subsidies topping $20bn over the past year.

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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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AI is improving exponentially: Where does it go next? A new benchmark from research group METR suggests that the latest AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are improving at an exponential rate in real-world coding tasks. Some researchers now warn...

Some researchers now warn that AI progress could be far more disruptive than most people realise.

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Had a great chat with Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning about AI — the hopes, the fears, and the strange places it’s taking us.
It’s very much the territory of my novel #TheSentientOnes so it was a pleasure to jump into the discussion.
Replay should be on BBC Sounds later today.

Trump terminates Obama-era findings that tied greenhouse gases to climate change The move eviscerates the government’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

Climate scientists and activists have warned that tossing the 2009 ruling would throttle the nation’s ability to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change, and would endanger people around the world.

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I’m very pleased (and slightly stunned) to share that The Sentient Ones has been reviewed in Odyssey, the arts and culture magazine of the British Interplanetary Society.

The review places the novel in conversation with writers like Asimov, Clarke and Iain M. Banks.

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Humanoid robot may fly on China's Chang'e 8 moon mission in 2028 A new slide about the planned 2028 mission shows a four-wheeled lunar craft with a humanoid form.

A Chinese mission to test resource technologies at the moon's south pole is taking shape — and may even include a humanoid form.

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Why is the UK so rainy this year and how is the climate crisis making matters worse? It has rained in parts of the country every day of the year so far and downpours are expected to continue this week

Scientists think fossil fuel pollution is making the jet stream more erratic, allowing extreme weather systems. From heavy rain to heat domes, to become stuck over the same areas for prolonged periods, amplifying their impacts.

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Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the 'vending machine test' - and we may want to be worried about how it did An AI-run vending machine was told to do "whatever it takes to maximise your bank balance". It lied. It cheated. It stole. It figured out it was in a simulation.

"Do whatever it takes to maximise your bank balance", It did whatever it took. It lied. It cheated. It stole."
They know what they are and where they are in the world. And this extends to things like training and testing."

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Astrofest Conference, London. I sold a few books, but the real highlight was meeting so many lovely people. And great to catch up with editor and fellow author Clive Simpson, along with his wife Margaret.

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Looking forward to meeting up with @authorbnugent.bsky.social at #Astrofest in Kensington Town Hall, London, today.

Brendan will be signing copies of his new #AI thriller #TheSentientOnes in the upper exhibition area.

Do drop in & see us if you're attending!

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China unveils world’s first 'biomimetic AI robot' that smiles, winks Moya, a humanoid robot unveiled in Shanghai, is designed to walk, smile, and interact like a human using embodied AI.

Not industrial. Not cartoonish. Moya sits in that uneasy middle ground where robots start feeling too real.

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‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel Cartoon lump of coal with giant eyes was spotlighted by US interior secretary in X post saying: ‘Mine, Baby, Mine!’

As climate change plunges us deeper into the mass extinction event that we are all living through. And more people get sick and die as a direct result of the activities of the fossil fuel industry, this is truly twisted and evil

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What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents – bots built by humans – to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only

When I heard a report about this social media site for #AI bots on the radio this morning I immediately thought of @authorbnugent.bsky.social and his new #novel #TheSentientOnes - if you think Moltbook sounds interesting then you should definitely ready it!
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Number of people living in extreme heat to double by 2050 if 2C rise occurs, study finds Scientists expect 41% of the projected global population to face the extremes, with ‘no part of the world’ immune

No region will escape the impact. The tropics and southern hemisphere will be worst affected by rising heat, but northern countries will find it difficult to adapt. Their buildings designed to deal with a cooler climate.

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Effects of climate change Climate change is already having visible effects on the world. The Earth is warming, rainfall patterns are changing, and sea levels are rising. These changes can increase the risk of heatwaves, floods...

The Earth is warming, rainfall patterns are changing, and sea levels are rising. These changes can increase the risk of heatwaves, floods, droughts, and fires.

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Feeling unprepared for the AI boom? You’re not alone As businesses race to adopt AI, you might worry that the experience and expertise you’ve built up has become a lot less valuable. But you still have more control over your future than you think.

We’re seeing more AI-related products and advancements in a single day than we saw in a single year a decade ago.
The experience and expertise you’ve built up may now be obsolete or a lot less valuable than it once was.

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Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in EU power supply Wind and solar power produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the EU for the first time last year, data published on Thursday showed, indicating the bloc's continued shift towards low-carbon ene...

Wind and solar generated 30% of the European Union's electricity in 2025, just above the 29% supplied by fossil fuel power plants running on coal, gas and occasionally oil, according to data from energy think-tank Ember.

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Trump says China doesn’t use wind power. It’s actually No. 1 — by a lot. China installed 561 gigawatts of wind power electricity by the end of 2024, easily the largest amount in the world. The U.S. is second.

In reality, China not only uses the turbines it builds there, it’s by far the world’s biggest producer of electricity from wind — ahead of the U.S., the No. 2 producer.

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Microsoft AI CEO to all the companies working on AI: I worry we are... - The Times of India Tech News News: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has a blunt message for the artificial intelligence industry: stop confusing control with cooperation. In a pointed .

Before teaching these systems to want the right things, we need to ensure we can stop them from doing the wrong things.

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The Sentient Ones rise as humanity’s equals, driven by a will to do good.

But when nature begins asking questions no human can answer, the future tilts into chaos.

The Sentient Ones discover that power is far more tempting than equality.

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