Nvidia GTC 2026 revealed agentic AI, desk supercomputers, and space-based computing, signaling a major shift in how AI is built and deployed. The post Nvidia GTC 2026: 5 Biggest Takeaways From Jensen Huang’s Biggest Show… Read more: Nvidia GTC 2026: 5 Biggest Takeaways From Jensen Huang’s Biggest Show Yet

Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” Reuters said the phone is codenamed Transformer but couldn’t confirm… Read more: Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

Cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com lays off 12% of staff; the latest in a wave of tech company layoffs as AI is integrated The post Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce, Targets Roles That ‘Do Not Adapt’… Read more: Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce, Targets Roles That ‘Do Not Adapt’ to AI

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its storability and simplicity,… Read more: NASA is blowing stuff up to study the explosive potential of methalox rockets

When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on the crater’s… Read more: Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars

Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock Worries about the British economy have long been dominated by one persistent concern – weak productivity. Since the financial crisis of 2008, growth has stagnated, leaving the UK trailing well behind the US,… Read more: Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output

A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing… Read more: Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

The publisher has cancelled the US release of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and withdrawn the UK edition after weeks of online speculation about the novel’s origins Hachette Book Group has withdrawn a horror novel… Read more: Hachette pulls horror novel Shy Girl after suspected AI use

Datavid’s expertise in graph data engineering and knowledge graphs for LLM grounding will further enhance C5i’s capabilities in deploying business-ready generative and agentic AI solutions AI & Analytics company, C5i, today announced the signing of an… Read more: C5i Inks Agreement to Acquire UK-based Datavid

One-pedal driving is not causing Tesla electric vehicles to suddenly accelerate when parked, according to federal regulators. For almost as long as Tesla has been selling cars, it has been hit with sporadic accusations of… Read more: Feds say no need to recall Tesla’s one-pedal driving despite petition

Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters in the US. No major hurricanes made landfall, while the total number of acres burned in wildfires last year—a way of measuring the… Read more: The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather

A little more than a month ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk put down a marker of his intent to saturate low-Earth orbit with up to 1 million satellites. Its purpose? Provide always-on data center services… Read more: Jeff Bezos just announced plans for a third megaconstellation—this one for data centers

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as much… Read more: Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change

Valve’s Steam Machine desktop is currently in a state of involuntary limbo, driven by historically awful pricing and availability for memory and storage chips. AI data centers are absorbing much of what memory manufacturers can… Read more: Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs. The study was led by Stanford… Read more: Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

Peter Vandermeersch says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’ after being investigated by NRC title where he had once been editor-in-chief The publisher of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one… Read more: Mediahuis suspends senior journalist over AI-generated quotes

Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock.com An Australian tech entrepreneur has helped create what appears to be a made-to-measure cancer vaccine for his dog, Rosie, using artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT as part of the process. The… Read more: A man used AI to help make a cancer vaccine for his dog – an oncologist urges caution

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting stories from Twitter, the metaverse, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse

As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.

‘These AI agents have been really, really helpful,’ says a former Sydney employee. ‘But you couldn’t use something like that to replace an actual human worker’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily… Read more: First came the AI ‘teammates’, then the layoffs: the new reality for Atlassian staff now looking for work

Who benefits from artificial intelligence? This basic question, which has been especially salient during the AI surge of the last few years, was front and center at a conference at MIT on Wednesday, as speakers… Read more: What’s the right path for AI?

The tiny city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is worried about being a target for drone strikes thanks to a planned datacenter that the University of Michigan is building to support nuclear weapons research According to Douglas… Read more: Tiny City Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter

Lack of variation is one of the giveaways of AI language. Sorbetto/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always… Read more: How AI English and human English differ – and how to decide when to use artificial language

A mysterious spike of platinum buried deep in Greenland’s ice has long fueled theories of a catastrophic comet or asteroid strike 12,800 years ago—possibly triggering a sudden return to icy conditions known as the Younger… Read more: Scientists solve 12,800-year-old climate mystery hidden in Greenland ice

Many people believe closing their eyes sharpens hearing, but that is not always true. In noisy settings, participants struggled more to hear faint sounds with their eyes closed, while matching visuals made it easier. Researchers… Read more: Closing your eyes to hear better might be a big mistake

The following is a joint announcement from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute, and Hasso Plattner Foundation. The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), MIT Schwarzman… Read more: MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity

Kayhan Space is branching out from providing orbital intelligence used to coordinate satellite fleets with a new software platform that turns that data into business insights for investors and insurers. The post Kayhan targets investors,… Read more: Kayhan targets investors, insurers with expanded orbital intelligence platform

Companies will accelerate digital transformation, enhance decision-making and increase efficiencies across federal agencies Seekr, a leading generative and agentic AI technology company, announced that it will collaborate with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to develop… Read more: Seekr, GDIT Partner to Advance Secure Agentic AI for Government

Wholly Owned Subsidiary to Begin U.S. Commercial Rollout; New Initiative May Offer Potential Upside Beyond Previously Announced $180-200 Million 2026 Revenue Target Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), an artificial intelligence (“AI“) data center company anchored… Read more: Hyperscale Data Announced the Launch of Omnipresent Robotics

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it’s great—go see it! Though a little light on the science, the movie goes hard on the relationship… Read more: Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport in Nova… Read more: Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty

These apps, some of which use AI and computer vision, were helpful for meeting my caloric and nutrition intake goals. But they also gave me some anxiety.

When social media is constantly exhorting people to use AI, what is the point of not letting AI agents participate?

Researchers have created a cutting-edge catalyst that turns CO2 into methanol more efficiently than ever before. Instead of using clumps of metal atoms, they engineered a system where each single indium atom actively drives the… Read more: Scientists turn CO2 into fuel using breakthrough single-atom catalyst

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic patterns because it slammed into its larger neighbor millions of years ago. That collision disrupted its structure… Read more: Astronomers discover nearby galaxy was shattered by cosmic crash

Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally An AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta’s sensitive data to some… Read more: Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

Stopping popular weight-loss injections like Ozempic or Mounjaro might not trigger the dramatic rebound many fear. A large real-world study of nearly 8,000 patients found that most people who discontinue these drugs manage to keep… Read more: What happens after Ozempic shocked researchers

Ravens have long been thought to follow wolves to find food, but new research shows they’re far more strategic. By tracking both animals in Yellowstone, scientists discovered that ravens memorize areas where wolf kills are… Read more: Scientists thought ravens followed wolves. They were wrong

In his role as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a long-time anti-vaccine activist with no background in science, medicine, or public health—has made headlines for his thorough perversion of the Centers for Disease Control and… Read more: RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept’s expert panels

Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan discusses what separates true AI agents from chat interfaces and which agent strategies succeed over the next 12 to 24 months. The post Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan on What Makes an AI Agent… Read more: Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan on What Makes an AI Agent Enterprise-Ready

A trade association of cloud service providers (CSPs) filed an antitrust complaint today with the European Union’s European Commission (EC) over Broadcom’s shuttering of VMware’s CSP partner program this year. Since Broadcom bought VMware, it… Read more: Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.

If a battle is fought in space, it will look nothing like those depicted in the Star Wars franchise, with sleek TIE fighters blasting enemy ships with laser cannons and mag-pulses. Instead, these battles will be… Read more: Dogfighting in space won’t look like the movies, but this company wants in on it

Three years after saying it had stopped buying location data of Americans without a warrant, the FBI acknowledged it has restarted the purchases. During questioning at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing yesterday, FBI… Read more: FBI started buying Americans’ location data again, Kash Patel confirms

iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small number of hand-picked targets that they’re only rarely seen in the… Read more: Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild

MSI, a global leader in high-performance server solutions and Edge AI, unveils its comprehensive AI ecosystem at NVIDIA GTC 2026. In addition to launching the servers based on NVIDIA MGX architecture and powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs,… Read more: GTC 2026: MSI Bridges Cloud and Edge for End-to-End AI

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company into its Codex… Read more: OpenAI is acquiring open source Python tool-maker Astral

The tremendous hype surrounding AI coding shows no signs of dying down. Last month, Anthropic released a suite of industry-specific plug-ins for its Claude Cowork AI agent, panicking investors over fears that traditional enterprise software-as-a-service… Read more: A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments

As Silicon Valley obsesses over a new wave of AI coding agents, Google and other AI labs are shifting their bets.

Dual role reflects Singulr’s focus on pairing AI governance, security, and market strategy as enterprises scale agentic AI Singulr AI (Singulr), a rising leader in AI governance and security, today announced that Richard Bird has expanded… Read more: Singulr AI Names Richard Bird Chief Security and Strategy Officer

On Wednesday, Afroman won a widely watched defamation lawsuit that seven cops filed after the rapper made music videos mocking them for conducting a 2022 raid of his home that resulted in no charges and… Read more: Afroman keeps trolling cops after winning “Lemon Pound Cake” defamation case

The dream of the metaverse may have died for now, but Meta has decided it’s not completely giving up on the VR experience in Horizon Worlds, the virtual worlds service that it originally envisioned as the… Read more: At the last minute, Meta decides not to kill Horizon Worlds VR after all

Apple’s MacBook Neo is impressive for its $600 price, but its A18 Pro processor is one of its biggest compromises compared to a modern MacBook Air—in our review, we found it was more than up… Read more: Despite hardware limits, Parallels supports running Windows on MacBook Neo

AT&T’s new app pushes AI deeper into billing, support, and device management. The post AT&T Launches AI-Powered App for Millions of Customers appeared first on TechRepublic.

At GTC 2026, Jensen Huang, Aravind Srinivas, Harrison Chase, Mira Murati, and Michael Truell made a compelling case that the future of AI belongs to open agent systems, not just open models. The post Nvidia’s… Read more: Nvidia’s Open Model Super Panel Made a Strong Case for Open Agents

Google is planning big changes for Android in 2026 aimed at combating malware across the entire device ecosystem. Starting in September, Google will begin restricting application sideloading with its developer verification program, but not everyone… Read more: Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company:  1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on… Read more: RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted

Dr Simon Williams says the UK is trying to build a quantum ecosystem while hollowing out the academic pipeline that produces the talent Liz Kendall is right to warn that the UK must not let… Read more: Lack of funding is stifling scientific research | Letter

Writers are often cautioned not to hit readers over the head with the dictionary. But what if it’s the dictionary that’s throwing blows? On Friday, Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster struck back against the… Read more: Encyclopedia Britannica Hits OpenAI With Scary Lawsuit

Mutual success has only heightened tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI, whose partnership helped kickstart the AI boom. Now, the Financial Times reports the latest escalation between the two heavyweights: Microsoft is considering suing OpenAI. The… Read more: Grab Your Betrayal-Themed Popcorn Buckets, Because Microsoft Is Threatening to Sue OpenAI

If you think it’s hard to find a job now, ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says just wait until AI really gets going. Speaking to CNBC‘s “Squawk on the Street” panel, the AI software executive laid… Read more: CEO of AI Company Says Gen Z Needs to Get Ready for 30 Percent Unemployment

Apple pushes back on vibe coding apps like Replit and Vibecode over App Store rules, raising questions about how AI-built apps fit within platform guidelines. The post The Hidden Problem With ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps on… Read more: The Hidden Problem With ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps on Apple’s App Store

People in North America adopted the bow and arrow as replacement weapons for the dart and atlatl about 1,400 years ago, according to a new paper published in the journal PNAS Nexus. But the adoption… Read more: Study pinpoints when bow and arrow came to North America

For decades now, Counter-Strike players have gotten used to tapping the reload button whenever they have a spare, safe moment. Yesterday evening, though, Valve announced that it had decided this system needed “higher stakes,” overhauling… Read more: After 25 years, Valve reworks Counter-Strike’s reload system

A chatbot won’t fix your family drama, but it might help you hear what someone’s really trying to say Sign up for AI for the People, a six-week newsletter course, here Last autumn, I was… Read more: I asked AI to explain my mother to me. It translated her worldview

OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.

Tinder plans to let machine vision algorithms loose on your camera roll. Instead of building a profile on their own, AI will scan users’ locally-stored photos—everything from gym selfies to pictures of their family, sensitive… Read more: Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll

Academics discover black people ‘significantly more likely’ to be identified when compared with other ethnic groups Essex police has paused its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study found cameras were significantly… Read more: Essex police pause facial recognition camera use after study finds racial bias

The life sciences landscape is at a defining crossroads. On one hand, the promise of scientific breakthroughs in genomics, biologics, and diagnostics is more palpable than ever. On the other, the path to bringing these… Read more: How AI in life sciences is reshaping healthcare

Learn more about how AI agents are reshaping enterprise workflows in TechRepublic’s latest generative AI coverage. The post Xiaomi Unmasks Mystery AI Model Behind DeepSeek Buzz appeared first on TechRepublic.

North Oaks, Minnesota is the only city in the United States that is not on Google Maps Street View. YouTube documentarian Chris Parr, who grew up not too far from North Oaks, set out to… Read more: Mapping Google’s Unmappable City

Iran war and its impact on energy and fertiliser costs is the main risk to the global economy, report says Business live – latest updates An extended period of high oil prices as a result… Read more: Prolonged high oil prices could ‘crimp’ AI boom, WTO warns

YouTube is rife with AI-generated “educational” videos targeting children, and many of the lessons they’re imparting — if there’s a discernible message at all — could be harming their development. Disturbing new reporting from The… Read more: “Educational” YouTube AI Slop Encourages Kids to Play in Traffic

Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his end-to-end encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.

This is a comprehensive list of the best AI art generators. Explore the advanced technology that transforms imagination into stunning artworks. The post 7 Best AI Art Generators (2026): Top Tools for Stunning Digital Art… Read more: 7 Best AI Art Generators (2026): Top Tools for Stunning Digital Art

Artificial Epistemics announced today its readiness to begin licensing the Sustainability Code, an epistemic, rule-based protocol for quality-controlling the truth and morality of knowledge produced in and by AI. The Susty Code is the first such attempt to address… Read more: Susty Code’ Protocol Launched for Maximizing Truth and Morality in AI

MuleRun, the self-evolving personal AI, officially launched today at the “MuleRun Agentic Computer: Major Feature Update” boat party in San Francisco. With zero barriers to entry, MuleRun lets anyone — regardless of technical background —… Read more: MuleRun Debuts Self-Evolving Personal AI for Digital Workforce

Germany recently banned TCL from marketing some of its TVs as QLED (quantum dot light-emitting diode), with a Munich court ruling that the TVs lack the quantum dot (QD) structure and performance associated with QLED… Read more: TCL’s German QLED ban puts pressure on TV brands to be more honest about QDs

Malaria parasites contain tiny spinning crystals that have puzzled scientists for years. New research reveals they’re powered by a rocket-like reaction that breaks down hydrogen peroxide, releasing energy. This motion may help the parasite detoxify… Read more: Scientists discover tiny rocket engines inside malaria parasites

A new subatomic particle known as the Ξcc⁺ has been discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. This heavy proton-like particle contains two charm quarks and was detected using the upgraded LHCb experiment. Scientists observed it… Read more: Physicists discover a heavy cousin of the proton at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

New strength training guidelines emphasize that doing any resistance training is what truly matters. Based on decades of research, experts say even simple routines can increase muscle, strength, and physical function. The key is not… Read more: The best strength training plan might be simpler than you think

Paul Griggs says senior staff at consulting firm who are not ‘paranoid about being AI-first’ are likely to be replaced Business live – latest updates The US boss of PricewaterhouseCoopers has warned that partners who… Read more: PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns

Sadler’s Wells East, LondonVisual spectacle overwhelms the human drama in the choreographer’s tech-heavy double bill Technology can sometimes seem to take on its own life and sideline the people it is nominally assisting. That tension,… Read more: The Rite of Spring / Mirror review – glitchy Stravinsky and digital doppelgangers from Alexander Whitley

AI videos let young people adopt the guise of DFS agents, sparking debate over glorifying corruption and impunity Young people in Mexico are taking to TikTok to imagine themselves as agents from the country’s 1970s… Read more: Glamming up ‘dirty war’: Teens in Mexico glorify 1970s secret police on TikTok

Payments rely on a simple model: a person decides to buy something, and a bank or card network processes the transaction. That model is starting to change as Visa tests how AI agents can initiate… Read more: Visa prepares payment systems for AI agent-initiated transactions

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.

$800-a-day position involves exposing a chatbot’s inconsistencies as it forgets, fudges or hallucinates Imagine a day at work where your main task is to pick a fight with a computer. No meetings, no emails –… Read more: US startup advertises ‘AI bully’ role to test patience of leading chatbots

Describing the company as “The first vertically integrated but horizontally open company,” Huang positioned NVIDIA as the foundation layer for all AI workloads, while encouraging developers, enterprises, and partners to innovate openly on top.  For… Read more: NVIDIA GTC 2026: The AI stack gets real

The NVIDIA Agent Toolkit is Jensen Huang’s answer to the question enterprises keep asking: how do we put AI agents to work without losing control of our data, our systems, and our liability? Announced at GTC… Read more: NVIDIA wants to make enterprise AI agents safe enough to actually deploy

Scientists have mapped the genetics of cancer in cats for the first time at scale, uncovering major overlaps with human cancers. Key mutations—like those linked to breast cancer—appear in both species, and some human cancer… Read more: The surprising cancer link between cats and humans

Scientists recreated a life-size oviraptor nest to understand how these dinosaurs hatched their eggs. Their experiments showed the parent likely couldn’t heat all the eggs directly, meaning sunlight played a key role. This uneven heating… Read more: Scientists recreated a dinosaur nest to solve a 70-million-year-old mystery

Long-awaited Alexa+ aims to get Britons re-engaging with their devices – but it may have its work cut out “Commiserations, mate, Chelsea lost 3-0 in the Champions League last night against Paris Saint-Germain,” says Alexa… Read more: ‘Alright mate?’: Amazon pins UK hopes on AI upgrade of Alexa

How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out Chen Liang, the founder of Guchi Robotics, an automation company headquartered in… Read more: Inside China’s robotics revolution

Driverless ‘robotaxis’ will be accepting fares in Britain’s biggest city by the end of next year. Can they deal with London’s medieval roads, hordes of pedestrians and errant ebikers? I got in the passenger seat… Read more: ‘We don’t tell the car what it should do’: my ride in a self-driving taxi

MIT researchers have spent more than a decade studying techniques that enable robots to find and manipulate hidden objects by “seeing” through obstacles. Their methods utilize surface-penetrating wireless signals that reflect off concealed items. Now,… Read more: Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

Large language models (LLMs) can generate credible but inaccurate responses, so researchers have developed uncertainty quantification methods to check the reliability of predictions. One popular method involves submitting the same prompt multiple times to see… Read more: A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

The European Union may soon ban nudify apps after Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok emerged as a prime example of the dangers of an AI platform failing to block outputs that sexualized images of real people,… Read more: Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve probably used a tool like Google Translate to convert webpages or snippets of text to and from languages ranging from Uzbek to Esperanto.… Read more: Kagi Translate’s AI answers the question “What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?”

Neanderthals may have used birch tar as more than just glue; it could have helped them ward off infection and even insect bites. People from several modern Indigenous cultures, including the Mi’kmaq of eastern Canada,… Read more: Never mind Band-Aids, Neanderthals had antiseptic birch tar

In the US, the economics of coal power generation are marginal at best, and a large number of coal plants have shut down as cheaper renewables and natural gas have surged. The Trump administration has… Read more: Coal plant forced to stay open due to emergency order isn’t even running