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London neurosurgeons have completed what's being described as the first successful AI-assisted operation to remove a brain tumour. The procedure marks a significant moment in surgical medicine, where artificial intelligence moves from diagnostic support into the operating theatre itself — raising real questions about accountability, training, and what it means when an algorithm has a hand in the cut.
Shifting to the world of cryptocurrency infrastructure, Bitcoin researchers have put forward a proposal called SHRINCS, designed to make the network resistant to quantum computing attacks. The clever part is that it would allow transactions to use larger, quantum-safe cryptographic signatures without crowding out regular network capacity — a trade-off that has defeated most previous post-quantum designs. Whether the broader Bitcoin community adopts it remains an open question.
And in the ongoing conversation about artificial general intelligence, a new piece examines ARC-AGI-three, described as a game with no instructions. The benchmark is designed to test whether AI systems can reason through genuinely novel problems without being told the rules — a much harder bar than current models typically clear, and a reminder that pattern matching and true reasoning are still very different things.
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