An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls

December 1, 2025
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates’ phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes.  Securus Technologies president Kevin Elder told MIT Technology Review that the company began building its AI tools in…

Airbus orders software fix to thousands of planes due to solar radiation risk

November 29, 2025
Flights were delayed and cancelled globally after Airbus ordered fixes to 6,000 of its A320 series planes, according to The Guardian. The company said it’s taking action because “analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.” Citing […]