Across the United States, lawmakers are increasingly caught between two competing pressures: the massive investment flowing into the tech industry to build AI data centers, and a growing, bipartisan backlash against those same facilities, not… Read more: New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers

Believe it or not, there was a time when searching the web for images was not possible. Twenty-five years ago, Google launched image search, and it’s celebrating by looking back at its biggest visual milestones… Read more: Google revamps image search for its 25th anniversary with more images and more AI

Credit: Wanqing Zhang Credit: Wanqing Zhang Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have developed a novel conductive ink that can be painted directly onto the skin in colorful custom designs, turning into a functional electrode for… Read more: These painted e-tattoos could be the future of wearable biosensors

For the first time in its history, the US military sent explosive-laden drone boats into combat by attacking an Iranian midget submarine and naval port. The unprecedented use of such kamikaze sea drones by the… Read more: US military sent explosive drone boats into combat for the first time

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’ A group of major publishers have filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of… Read more: Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has long garnered a reputation for experiencing horrifically racist meltdowns, enabling child abuse, and doxxing users’ home addresses. It should come as no surprise, then, that its supposed “translation” is… Read more: Grok’s Foul-Mouthed AI “Translation” Feature Puts Unspeakably Ghoulish Words Into Users’ Mouths

Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed software engineering. Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) can create huge volumes of code and documentation; machine-learning algorithms can monitor performance and detect security vulnerabilities. But when the task… Read more: Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering

IBM issued profit warning after weak second quarter, triggering selloff in software sector including Microsoft Shares in IBM plunged more than 25% on Tuesday after the US tech giant released disappointing preliminary second-quarter results. IBM’s… Read more: IBM loses quarter of its value as tech giant’s shares plunge and profits falter

New York became the first state to pause all construction of massive new data centers after Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul announced a one-year moratorium on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The state-wide ban applies to data centers… Read more: New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry

AWS (Amazon Web Services) has explained how Bluesight developed Prism, an AI layer that connects hospital pharmacy and compliance data across its product suite. Prism Assistant for ControlCheck has reached general availability and operates across… Read more: AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE: PD), a leader in AI-first operations management, today announced the appointment of Arnaud Lagarde as vice president of EMEA. Lagarde will lead PagerDuty’s next phase of growth in the EMEA region, bringing… Read more: PagerDuty Announces the Appointment of Arnaud Lagarde as VP of EMEA

A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

If you listen to the 404 Media podcast by now you probably realized that Joe and I are a little obsessed with a game called Marathon. I’m embarrassed to say that I’ve played it for… Read more: Is the Best Game of the Year a Failure? (With Rob Zacny)

The combination gives engineering teams one place to automate their most important work, from data pipelines to agentic workflows Prefect, the maker of critical AI and data automation software, today announced that it has agreed… Read more: Prefect Announced the Acquisition of Dagster

Baby boomers are the generation cutting back most on alcohol consumption, outstripping Gen Z’s abstinence, as moderation takes hold at every level of society. Seventy-one percent of boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, consumed… Read more: Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities New York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday. Governor Kathy Hochul… Read more: New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

Lettuce and salad greens have become the prime suspects in an explosive outbreak of the diarrheal parasite Cyclospora, which is surging nationwide but erupting to extraordinary heights in Michigan. In recent years, Michigan has typically… Read more: Taco Bell eyed in explosive diarrheal outbreak; leafy greens suspected

Freya Holmér’s had this idea in her head for a long time—Tetris, but the whole board rotates. The game developer and Unity tool maker started making the idea real and built out a prototype. Holmér… Read more: AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever

To say Americans are divided on AI would be an understatement. Polls have shown that more people than ever have a negative view of the tech, and you can take your pick on the reasons… Read more: A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry

Company honored for helping midmarket organizations govern AI agents and non-human identities with Intent-based identity security platform Token Security, the intent-based identity security platform for Agentic AI, announced today that it has been recognized on… Read more: Token Security Earns Spot on Prestigious 2026 MES Midmarket 100 List

Researchers found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, slowed biological aging markers in adults with HIV, marking the first clinical evidence that the drug may influence human aging. Although the findings are… Read more: Popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may slow biological aging

New channel-first strategy gives resellers, consultancies and systems integrators a route into the fastest-growing budget line in regulated IT RecordPoint, the global data and AI governance platform, today announced the launch of its Global Partner… Read more: RecordPoint announced the launch of global partner program

K2-18b is one of the most promising worlds for the search for extraterrestrial life, so astronomers conducted an unusually powerful radio survey using both the VLA and MeerKAT telescopes. Advanced software analyzed millions of signals,… Read more: Are there aliens on exoplanet K2-18b? Scientists just scanned it for signals

New integration combines durable execution with real-time authorization and auditability, addressing the next operational challenge for enterprise AI agents Enterprises are discovering that keeping AI agents running is only half the problem. As agents gain… Read more: OpenBox AI, Temporal Launch AI Agent Governance

Research suggests that AI models tend to favor Western moral frameworks when judging people’s actions. mirjanajovic/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Large language artificial intelligence models, such as ChatGPT, often misjudge what people outside the West… Read more: Large language models often prioritize Western moral values, overlooking other cultures

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is taking direct oversight of the government’s handling of Australia’s AI rollout by establishing an Office of AI in his own Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Albanese will announce… Read more: View from The Hill: Albanese takes oversight of government’s response to AI under his own wing

PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2; Marimittu GamesA soft puzzle game makes a sharp point about the over-optimised future ahead In the far future, on a planet that is not Earth,… Read more: D-topia review – cosy sci-fi mystery takes aim at AI

Proprietary engineering solution allows Z.ai-developed model to execute natively on AMD hardware, driving substantial cost savings Featherless introduces a flat monthly fee of $7,500, replacing variable usage-based token billing – an engineering team would save… Read more: Featherless.ai Debuts Cost-Saving GLM 5.2

Deal expands Presidio’s presence in California, one of the country’s top tech markets Adds deep regional relationships Strengthens advanced networking, security, cloud, and AI infrastructure capabilities Supports Presidio’s AI vision to help clients modernize and… Read more: Presidio Announced the Acquisition of LookingPoint

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, WIRED’s senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan talks to Gowanus about eschewing Big Tech, going outside, and rejection in the age of dating apps.

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth Marc Isaacs’ new film is a curious, intriguing, semi-sincere affair that I couldn’t make friends with. It… Read more: Synthetic Sincerity review – Marc Isaacs’ AI interrogation grapples with identity and existence

Ant Group’s AI Security Lab today announced the open-source release of SingGuard-NSFA, a specialized security guardrail framework designed specifically for autonomous AI agents. The framework secures agentic AI systems against operational threats like prompt injection,… Read more: Ant Group Advances AI Agent Security

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

Native desktop application brings multi-repo Git management, terminals, worktrees, and AI-assisted development into one repository-aware workspace  Glint Software today announced the public beta of Glint (glint.dev), a native desktop workspace that brings multi-repo Git management,… Read more: Glint Opens Public Beta of AI-Native Git Workspace

New capabilities move AI beyond the chat window and into the documents teams rely on, enabling them to build with AI together and create custom tools connected to their data Superhuman Databases launches in beta… Read more: Superhuman Announced the Launch of Superhuman Docs

Exercise doesn’t just make the heart stronger. It also rewires the nerves that regulate it, a discovery that could pave the way for more personalized treatments for common heart conditions such as arrhythmias and angina.

Researchers have discovered that the retina uses an unexpected communication network that lets separate visual pathways cooperate instead of working alone. A newly identified “commander” cell appears to coordinate this system, helping the eye detect… Read more: Yale scientists found a hidden network inside the eye

Dark matter may be far more complicated than scientists once believed. A new study suggests it could consist of at least two different kinds of particles that slowly separate over time, with heavier particles sinking… Read more: New dark matter theory could solve multiple cosmic mysteries at once

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing’s famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense,… Read more: Alan Turing’s biggest AI assumption may have been wrong

NASA is ramping up its lunar ambitions by awarding nearly $600 million for four commercial Moon landings planned for late 2028. Each mission will carry the same trio of science instruments to improve lunar navigation,… Read more: NASA selects four new Moon missions to build a permanent lunar base

NASA’s Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) across the Red Planet. It accomplished the feat in just five… Read more: NASA’s Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars

A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of a dramatic predator-prey encounter. The discovery suggests the giant carnivore delivered an incredibly powerful face-to-face bite,… Read more: This dinosaur fossil captures the final moments of a T. rex attack

Labor MP says ‘a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work’ was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work Follow our… Read more: Ed Husic says weakening copyright to benefit AI companies would betray Labor party’s ethos

The next test flight of SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster could take off as soon as Thursday, and much of the hour-long mission will look a lot like the last Starship flight in… Read more: SpaceX is gearing up for Starship’s 13th test flight later this week

The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the… Read more: The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router

A US citizen doing humanitarian work in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola, marking the second American infected amid the DRC’s explosive Ebola outbreak—and the second to be sent for care… Read more: US continues to shun Ebola-infected citizens; second American sent to Germany

Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.

When Warner Bros. showed new footage of its forthcoming satirical black comedy, Digger, at Cinemacon in April, industry insiders considered it a highlight of the event. The general public hasn’t seen anything other than a… Read more: Tom Cruise is utterly transformed in Digger trailer

A group of 12 states led by California sued Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery today in an attempt to block a $111 billion merger that was greenlit by the Trump administration last month. “The… Read more: States sue to block Paramount/WBD merger that was approved by Trump admin

Watering your lawn in the summer can be both pragmatic and fun with so-called “silly sprinklers,” designed to create amusing loops and spirals of water jets. And there’s some fascinating physics at work to boot.… Read more: Solution to Feynman’s reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to “silly sprinklers”

Apple is gunning for OpenAI, demanding steep penalties after stumbling on a “rare” bug that temporarily allowed a poached employee that joined OpenAI to maintain access to confidential information on Apple servers for weeks after… Read more: Apple sues OpenAI after ex-engineer allegedly used bug to steal trade secrets

Maskot/Getty Images Last week, the US software company Turnitin revealed 53.6% of Australian tertiary education submissions run through its system used some form of AI in the period from October 2025-April 2026. The company, whose… Read more: More than 50% of Australian university assignments used AI. How should unis respond?

Anthropic When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can feel as though you are in contact with another conscious… Read more: An AI lab says chatbots have what may be a key feature of consciousness. Are they right? And what now?

At the end of last September, electric vehicle adoption in the US began to crater. That followed the abolition of the IRS clean vehicle tax credit as part of a series of moves by President… Read more: California creates $3,500 rebate for new electric vehicle buyers

Ukrainian drone strikes have forced Russia to completely halt shipping in the Sea of Azov in less than a week—showing once again how a country without traditional naval power can still effectively blockade maritime corridors.… Read more: Ukrainian drone strikes forced Russia to stop shipping in vital sea corridor

In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them. The city refused to pay ransom.… Read more: How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

Is your sex life as private and personal as you think it is? Or is it shaped by – and constantly shaping, in turn – the society and systems you exist in?  This week we’re… Read more: Podcast: Liberation, Eroticism, and Sex in Public (with Angela Jones)

As corporate AI bills spiral out of control, many companies are beginning to ask themselves a simple question: why pay a pretty penny for the US’s leading AI models when Chinese ones are far cheaper?… Read more: US Companies Are Realizing That Chinese AI Models Are Way Cheaper, Ditch American Ones

Meta scrapped a Muse Image feature days after launch following backlash over consent, privacy, and the use of public Instagram photos. The post Meta Removes Muse Image Instagram Feature After Consent Backlash appeared first on… Read more: Meta Removes Muse Image Instagram Feature After Consent Backlash

A Microsoft study found command-line AI coding agents were linked to more merged pull requests, but adoption and review capacity shaped the results. The post Microsoft Study Finds AI Coding Agents Lift Pull Requests by… Read more: Microsoft Study Finds AI Coding Agents Lift Pull Requests by 24%

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about… Read more: What will be left for us to work on?

Robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers, is an increasingly common sight. But these machines aren’t yet the do-it-all assistants you’d want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is… Read more: AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

Peraton[x] TM transforms enterprise operations to unleash their full power Peraton has released Peraton[x]TM, a breakthrough enterprise agentic AI platform that redefines what artificial intelligence can do for organizations operating at the highest stakes. Peraton[x]TM will evolve the future… Read more: Peraton Announced the Launch of Peraton[x]™

FF Mobility Trading continues to strengthen its Middle East EAI robotics strategy through strategic cooperation frameworks and regional ecosystem collaboration across the UAE, GCC, and potentially the broader MENA region. These cooperation frameworks represent an… Read more: Faraday Future Announced Cooperation with Local UAE, GCC Ecosystem Partners

k0rdent AI supports NVIDIA Grace Blackwell today and provides day-zero readiness for NVIDIA Vera Rubin and future accelerated computing generations for continuous evolution; builds on k0rdent AI support and integration with NVIDIA DSX OS Mirantis,… Read more: Mirantis Future-Proofs AI Infrastructure

Joint achievement highlights how Analog In-Memory Computing can address the growing energy and thermal challenges of AI while laying the foundation for deeper collaboration on next-generation memory and computing architectures. TetraMem Inc., a leader in… Read more: TetraMem, SK hynix Advance Memory-Centric AI

Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an… Read more: Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

NASA breathed a deep sigh of relief six years ago when SpaceX launched two astronauts, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, on a successful mission to the International Space Station. With the safe landing of Crew… Read more: A “disaster waiting to happen”? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

Last month, we passed along Modern Vintage Gamer’s (MVG) confident assertion that Doom is functionally impossible to run on the Neo Geo, owing to the console’s sprite-based display hardware and lack of a frame buffer.… Read more: Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not “impossible”

A ballot measure written by a conservative nonprofit could amend the Colorado Constitution to enshrine fossil fuel companies’ right to sell methane gas and possibly force communities that have tried to eliminate gas appliances from… Read more: Colorado will decide whether a “right to natural gas” is added to state constitution

Smartphone shipments started to plateau a few years back, ending the days of guaranteed double-digit growth for any company that wanted to make phones. Fewer smartphone manufacturers exist today, and they’re facing new pressure in… Read more: Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) announced it will let its surveillance contract with automated license plate reader company (ALPR) Flock expire, becoming the largest police department in the country to drop its contract. Notably,… Read more: LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

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Classes are going to look a little different for the University of Chicago’s first year law students. On Thursday, the law school said it was banning the use of phones, tablets, and even laptops in… Read more: Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows

Putting on the $3,000 Katalyst suit is like sliding around with an electric eel. First you lay out the vest, shorts, and arm straps (on a towel if you don’t want to make a mess)… Read more: I Bought the $3,000 Fitness Suit That Electrocutes You. I’m Sending It Back

Forget the surveys asking executives whether they plan to adopt AI. That question closed sometime in 2024. The live question in 2026 is which AI tools Fortune 500 companies are actually using, day to day,… Read more: The 15 AI tools Fortune 500 companies are using in 2026

Apple’s failed car project reportedly shaped its Neural Engine, future M7 chips, and plans for more powerful AI server infrastructure. The post Apple’s Failed Car Project Reportedly Shapes M7 AI Chips appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google is adding AI disclosure labels to ads on Search, YouTube, and Discover, but third-party AI use still depends on advertiser reporting. The post Google Will Now Tell You If That Ad Was Made With… Read more: Google Will Now Tell You If That Ad Was Made With AI

Labor sources say the PM will discuss safety concerns in speech this week but will not provide an update on copyright reforms to protect artists Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news… Read more: Albanese to compare pivotal moment in AI to renewable energy transition as he outlines approach

The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace. The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption, but… Read more: Can Labor save us from the risks of AI? – podcast

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). In the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, they show that this theory… Read more: Physicists say quantum mechanics may not need imaginary numbers after all

Scientists have developed a new framework that could finally apply the laws of thermodynamics to real, ever-changing black holes instead of only perfectly stable ones. The advance may improve our understanding of black hole mergers,… Read more: Stephen Hawking’s black hole laws just got a major upgrade

A new study suggests the brain begins making decisions much earlier than scientists previously thought. Researchers found that even primary sensory regions are influenced by higher brain areas through rapid feedback loops, rather than simply… Read more: Scientists discovered the brain doesn’t make decisions the way we thought

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a surprisingly simple way to create exotic light structures called optical skyrmions using a 200-year-old optical effect known as the Poisson spot. Instead of relying on… Read more: A 200-year-old physics experiment could help build future computers

One of the largest health networks integrating AI into the medical space is facing allegations that its high-tech tools are ruining patient’s lives. In a new civil suit, former Mayo Clinic research director and AI… Read more: Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care

Earlier this week, I somewhat stupidly asked our readers to send me examples of “ChatGPT flyers,” the AI-generated posters and advertisements that have taken over social media, bulletin boards, restaurant menus, store signage, business cards,… Read more: These Are the Worst ChatGPT Flyers You’ve Sent Us

While there are benefits to personalized tutoring, the evidence isn’t clear that having AI tutors helps students learn better or faster. CreativaImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus Over the past decade, the AI-focused, for-profit Alpha School has grown… Read more: Despite the growth of some AI schools like Alpha, research doesn’t show that AI tutors are better than human teachers

The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike Marilyn Shuler has worked as a utilization review nurse for 39 years at Montefiore hospital… Read more: The New York nurses replaced by AI: ‘It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care’

Driven by rapid customer adoption, surpassing 5.5 million AI actions, the new intuitive agent builder eliminates technical barriers, making end-to-end automation accessible to every team. Wrike, the trusted work delivery platform for people and AI,… Read more: Wrike Unveils Conversational AI Agent Builder With Platform Updates

AI agent crawlers, the bots that fetch pages in real time on behalf of a person waiting for an answer, will be blocked by default on a slice of the web from September 15 onwards.… Read more: AI agent crawlers now need permission. Here’s how to get it

New capabilities let AI agents run on any surface — from customer applications and websites to internal systems and automated workflows — while inheriting native, secure-by-default governance from Workato Enterprise MCP. Workato®, the leading Control… Read more: Workato Unveils Headless API and Agent Guardrails

QualityKiosk Elevates Chitra Ramaswamy to Executive Director – Innovation and Technology; Names Ravishankar Gopalan as COO and Sairam Vedam as CMO QualityKiosk Technologies announced key leadership appointments and role advancements as it sharpens its focus… Read more: QualityKiosk Accelerates AI Reliability Vision with Leadership Appointments

First Agent Harness Built on EverOS to Feature 100,000 Evaluated Skills and Code-Level Self-Improvement, Advancing Digital Life Toward the L3 Frontier EverMind, a global AI company incubated by Shanda Group and dedicated to pioneering long-term… Read more: EverMind Announced the Launch of Raven Agent

Ebttikar Technology Company, a Saudi technology solutions provider and systems integrator, and MemryX Inc., a developer of edge AI inference accelerator chips, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercial deployment of production-ready Computer… Read more: Ebttikar, MemryX Partner to Boost Computer Vision Edge AI Across Saudi Arabia

Citizen scientists have helped researchers solve a long-standing mystery about how parental care evolved in harvestmen. Using photos and observations from iNaturalist, scientists more than doubled the known cases of egg-guarding behavior and discovered that… Read more: Spider-like creatures help uncover the surprising origins of fatherhood

A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon’s most scientifically valuable regions, potentially masking ancient clues about how life began on Earth. Researchers say future lunar missions should consider new ways to… Read more: Future moon landings could wipe out clues to how life began on Earth

With the exploding popularity of generative artificial intelligence, many open-source models are now available online for anyone to adapt for their task, such as generating product renderings in a certain artistic style.  But these models… Read more: New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

I believe that chatbots have no place in a decent society, and am repelled by the topic of AI in general. But could I be seduced? By Lauren Oyler. Read by Kate Handford Read the… Read more: ‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend – podcast