NHS chickenpox vaccine, Microsoft's AI models, and glow in the dark plants, plus more

A vaccine for chickenpox will be rolled out on the NHS in England from January. The jab will be offered as a combined immunisation that will eventually replace the MMR vaccine.

Microsoft have unveiled their two upcoming in-house AI models. MAI-Voice-1, a natural speech generation model, and MAI-1-preview, first homegrown foundation model trained end-to-end.

An AI tool to end childhood sleep apnoea bottlenecks goes into NHS trials in Scotland. To find out more, we spoke to Haytham Kubba, chief investigator and paediatric ENT surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.

Also in this episode:

-Could glow in the dark succulents be the answer to sustainable lighting systems

-The parents of a California teen are suing OpenAI over the death of their son

-The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's AI-generated film of what a volcanic eruption of Mt Fuji would look like

-Medieval document pours more doubt on the Shroud of Turin - the burial cloth claimed to have been worn by Jesus Christ

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