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AI models and people played “collaborative” Battleship to test strategies for efficiently solving problemsBy Peter Hall edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Thomas FuchsIf artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize the way science is done, as many of the frontier AI laboratories hope, it needs to master board games first. That’s the lesson from a recent study of AI models’ decision-making skills, tested with the game Battleship. The goal was to find ways for models to be more careful with limited resources: “cheap interventions” for information seeking, as research scientist Valerio Pepe puts it. Science requires lots of decisions—researchers must choose which hypotheses to pursue and which simulations to run. The choices will determine which path to follow when resources for experiments are limited. “You can get only so much data because getting data is either expensive or time-consuming,” says Pepe, who led work on the project before joining OpenAI.

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Milan, Italy – Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Italy to demonstrate against Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government and the rising cost of living, a week after clashes with police and looting during demonstrations in Milan. Protests were called in eight Italian cities on Saturday, including the fashion and finance capital, Milan, where the government deployed hundreds of soldiers. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Democracy by ZIP Code: Two Americas, one electionlist 2 of 4Barcelona housing activists evicted by police from residential buildinglist 3 of 4Serbia elections test student movement demanding justice for 16 victimslist 4 of 4Malaysia considers complete ban on Israel-based navigation app Wazeend of listAs soldiers spread out and luxury boutiques were boarded up, two demonstrations marched through the streets of the northern city. Around 50 people gathered spontaneously in Cordusio Square, heading towards the central Castle square and chanting, “We are all antifascists”. Small groups joined the main demonstration along the way, swelling its ranks. Many of the protesters were young people. At its peak, the protest drew around 10,000 people.

Protests over a range of issues have taken place in cities across Europe, from Milan and Madrid to Lisbon and Tirana. Demonstrators are taking to the streets over pensions, housing, education, corruption and opposition to war, reflecting a diverse mix of grievances across the continent. Despite precautions, bans and heavy policing the protests led to violent clashes in several cities in France - around 2,400 people have been arrested, while nearly 1000 members of the security forces were injured, as well 100 protesters and residents in Paris alone.

This combination photo shows Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, left, in Palmer, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2026, and a candidate in Alaska's Senate race, Dan Sullivan, right, in Petersburg, Alaska, July 3, 2026. A legal expert says a lawsuit by the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) doesn’t hold up and threatens to delegitimize the results if Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan loses November’s Senate race in Alaska.

More than 200 families have been displaced, Palestinian officials sayThe Israeli military has launched a sweeping crackdown in the occupied West Bank, demolishing homes and businesses in the city of Hebron and displacing hundreds of families, according to local officials. Footage shared online showed destruction caused by Israeli bulldozers, with at least one whole street appearing to have been flattened. The military has also cordoned off the city, heavily restricting the movement of its 200,000 residents. The operation was announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, in response to the killing of two Israeli soldiers by two Palestinian gunmen in an attack on a checkpoint. Three other Israeli soldiers were injured, and the gunmen were also killed. Netanyahu said on Friday that buildings around the site of the attack and the neighbourhoods that the two gunmen were from would be "destroyed". Hebron's Mayor Youssef al-Jaabari said more than 1,000 people had been displaced by the operation, which centred on the Ein Deir Baha and Farsh al-Hawa neighbourhoods, and targeted homes, businesses, industrial sites and infrastructure.