Compare six business laptops for AI workloads and see which device supports each role, from office assistance to local AI development. The post Business Laptops for AI Workloads: 2026 Top Picks appeared first on TechRepublic.

There’s data center activism, fought with Facebook groups and petitions, and then there’s data center annihilation, fought with guided missile and suicide drones. Recently, the Iranian military announced it had hit and damaged two Amazon… Read more: Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map

Netflix has been sued after admitting that an unencrypted drive containing an unreleased, hotly anticipated 2026 blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage was stolen from its offices. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Netflix was accused of waiting… Read more: Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.

Sony is “cautiously” moving forward with plans to stop producing discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028, CFO Lin Tao said through an interpreter today. During an earnings call, Tao said there are “various… Read more: Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs

While recycling is a mathematically obvious response to the finite, non-renewable nature of many resources, the economic math is often challenging. For many materials, it can be hard to compete with virgin materials on a… Read more: China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs

Human eyes don’t register the infrared portion of the light spectrum because infrared photons don’t carry enough energy to trigger the signaling pathway inside our light-sensing cells. But we’ve been able to make devices that… Read more: Researchers devise a full-color night vision goggle

One of the first schools to shut down after students were found making AI nudes of female classmates is now asking a court to toss a lawsuit filed by victims who claimed that the school… Read more: High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates

As OpenAI and Anthropic employees grow quieter online, researchers at Chinese AI labs are flocking to X to explain their work, recruit talent, and shape the global conversation on AI.

Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. But today, the company undermined its own credibility with a dangerous new AI feature — and then quickly pulled it down after people started… Read more: Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks

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Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’ A high-profile publishing deal for a debut crime novel has collapsed after doubts emerged over whether artificial… Read more: $2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use

Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down. Earlier this week, the social media company announced during its second quarter earnings call that it… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly

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New global alliance unites world leaders in compute, cloud, governed data, and consulting to move agentic AI workflows from pilot to production scale Cursor, a leading multi-model AI coding platform, today announced the launch of Cursor… Read more: Cursor Launches Benchmark Partners Program for Enterprise AI

On Thursday, Google introduced a new AI feature into Google Earth which lets anyone fabricate all sorts of misleading or straight up inaccurate satellite imagery, from making it look like a specific place has suffered… Read more: Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images

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 going into the woods, a “he admit… Read more: Behind the Blog: Silent Retreat

Does it ever feel like your inbox is filling up with emails that don’t sound quite human? You may be right. Last week, I received an email from a publicist identified as “June Barton,” whose… Read more: We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients

OpenAI has outlined how it aligns safety, security, and transparency work with the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code as enforcement approaches. The company has contributed to and endorsed the EU’s General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of… Read more: OpenAI aligns safety practices with EU AI Act’s GPAI Code

Bangoland / Shutterstock Headlines about AI systems going rogue and “escaping” test environments undeniably capture the imagination. For years, we have been primed by films, TV and books to expect our AI to finally throw… Read more: An AI system ‘escaped’ during a test and hacked a company. How worried should we be?

When I talk to enterprise teams deploying systems, there’s a pattern I keep seeing. The compute is there. The models are there. The workflows are there. What’s consistently missing is a layer of trust. And… Read more: Trust: The next critical infrastructure layer for autonomous AI

Welcome to Edition 9.05 of the Rocket Report! It was a big week for launch contracts, with both Rocket Lab and SpaceX scoring sizable deals from the US military for their respective Electron and Falcon… Read more: Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon

Thierry Rignol is furious at Yale. Rignol paid Yale $208,500 in tuition for its Executive MBA program. But after he was accused of cheating, the school suspended him for a year and gave him an… Read more: How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit

Over the past couple of weeks, my immune system has been struggling to fight off a cold. It’s been unpleasant, as all colds are. But over the same period—in defiance of my plight—I’ve been waging… Read more: Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus

The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims is now a reality for anyone fighting the fraud operations that steal tens of billions… Read more: AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.

Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.

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AIRO is a multi-agent system built into the Workato platform. Business users bring intent, AIRO brings the expertise and works with them to deliver business outcomes. Workato®, the leading Control and Execution Platform for Enterprise… Read more: Workato Announces Global Availability of AIRO

YouTube banned a wave of ASMR artists this week for violating the platforms’ rules against “sexually gratifying” content, leaving creators confused and angry. Several creators received the same notice from YouTube about their channels being… Read more: YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making ‘Sexually Gratifying’ Videos

Every AI engineer has a folder of notebooks that stays on localhost forever.  Fine for learning. A problem in July 2026, when half the industry still calls a Jupyter cell a production system. Shipping is… Read more: 7 things every AI engineer should have shipped by now

Following 404 Media’s reporting that book database company ISBNdb claimed to source printed books to then sell to AI companies for AI training, the company deleted the part of its website offering the service and… Read more: Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Scientists have proposed the existence of a fifth “dark dimension” that governs the behavior of both dark energy and dark matter—and which may be observationally detected in the near future, according to a recent preprint… Read more: A Hidden ‘Dark Dimension’ Could Rewrite Our Understanding of the Universe

KnowBe4 delivers customizable voice simulations that mirror real attacker tactics KnowBe4, the global leader in digital workforce security, securing both humans and AI agents, today announced its newsimulated vishing capability designed to help organizations close… Read more: KnowBe4 Launches Advanced Simulated Vishing Capabilities

Collaboration combines OpenAI’s advanced reasoning models with governed enterprise context in Elasticsearch across AI applications, security operations, and observability Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced an expanded collaboration with OpenAI to help organizations… Read more: Elastic and OpenAI Bring Frontier AI to Enterprise Data

Pope Leo XIV, whose first encyclical discusses artificial intelligence, speaks at the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa on April 13, 2026 in Algiers, Algeria. Matteo Pernaselci – Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Image Pope… Read more: The Catholic principle guiding popes through tech upheavals, from the Industrial Revolution to AI

Partnership delivers consistent, high-performance AI storage across Andromeda’s global provider network, lowering the total cost of innovation for AI teams  WEKA, the AI data and memory infrastructure company, today announced that Andromeda, the platform connecting AI… Read more: WEKA, Andromeda Partner to Power AI Workloads Globally

Companies must ensure people know when they are interacting with artificially generated images, audio and text designed to look real From apparently conspiring to steal elections to abusing staff or performing embarrassing dance moves, the… Read more: AI labels to be compulsory on authentic-looking content under EU rules

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956, and Trump’s campaign… Read more: McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

More than a dozen honors from leading industry organizations including KMWorld, CRN, DBTA, and Great Places to Work® reinforce company’s leadership position in Agentic-Ready Data Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced that… Read more: Precisely Earns 2026 Honors for AI Innovation and Technology Leadership

Recognition highlights 14 years of collaboration delivering document intelligence and fraud detection capabilities to financial institutions ParaScript, an Al-powered document processing company, today announced it has been named Embedded Technology Partner of the Year by Tungsten Automation, a… Read more: Tungsten Automation Names ParaScript® Embedded Technology Partner of the Year

Leave books alone! Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and… Read more: Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon

Live, rolling coverage as British oil company looks for buyer amid political dispute over future drilling licences The owner of British Airways has reported a steep fall in profits and said it expects no growth… Read more: BP to sell North Sea business; AI companies lead record surge on Korea’s stock market – business live

Getty Images The artificial intelligence boom is driving a global expansion in data centres – and with it, public debate over their heavy demand for power, water and land. Increasingly, governments are weighing their economic… Read more: Data centres are power hungry – but they don’t have to be a burden on NZ’s grid

Across the country, workers are fearful about the impact of AI on their livelihoods in an increasingly fragile labour market On the tree-lined streets of Wuhan, where cars jostle for space with mopeds and cargo… Read more: Could AI take your job? Some workers in China already know the answer

In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

IMDB When Forbidden Planet arrived in cinemas in 1956, it was a daring investment in a small genre. At a time when science fiction meant low-budget monster movies and tales of alien invasion, MGM spent… Read more: Forbidden Planet hit cinemas in 1956. Its warnings about AI should terrify us

ko_orn/Getty Images “We are now, like, in the singularity”. These are the words of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speaking on the Relentless podcast on July 25. He added: “I’ve been waiting for this my… Read more: Sam Altman says we’re ‘in the singularity’ with AI. Here’s why he’s wrong

Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent Anthropic ⁠said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked ⁠systems of ⁠three ​organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI ⁠revealed… Read more: Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

This spring, 25 MIT students and postdocs traveled to Washington to meet with congressional staffers and advocate for sustained federal investment in scientific research.  With recent cuts to National Science Foundation programs and continued uncertainty… Read more: Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science, has received the 2026 High-Tech Prize of the Bavarian Minister-President for her contributions to robotics, artificial… Read more: Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President’s High-Tech Prize

Researchers fear AI is moving too fast, while Mark Zuckerberg is worried about who owns it. Plus: Inside Black Forest Labs’ push into robotics.

Funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners comes as increasingly sophisticated AI requires more oversight and control Onyx Security, the AI control company, announced a $113 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners,… Read more: Onyx Security Secures $113M Series B Funding

With fingers in various highly lucrative pies, maybe the firm becoming LSE’s most valuable isn’t as fanciful as it seems Tufan Erginbilgiç, the chief executive of Rolls-Royce, seemed to be getting ahead himself when he… Read more: The outlook gets better and better at Rolls-Royce

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would take a classical computer an unreasonable amount of time to generate. Unfortunately, today’s quantum computers… Read more: Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust

Protera, a leading SAP-focused cloud modernization and AI-enabled managed services provider, today announced it has achieved the Expert competency in SAP Business AI Platform, SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP Cloud ERP Private. SAP’s Competency… Read more: Protera Earns Three Expert Competencies for SAP Solutions

The seed round, led by Madrona, backs the top-performing AI browser, capable of running long, multi-step web tasks end to end Polar, the AI browser that automates the tedious parts of knowledge work, today announced… Read more: Polar, the AI Browser That Does Real Work, Secures $5.7M in Funding

Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content. It has become the AI slop “punching bag,” a repository of painful engagement bait being spewed out… Read more: LinkedIn Adds Button on Every Post to Report “Seems Like AI Slop,” Which Is Definitely Going to Get a Real Workout

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

A single toggle adds a certified BreachLock penetration testing expert as the final checkpoint on any autonomous pentesting engagement, giving teams that run their own assessments an optional layer of expert assurance. BreachLock, a global… Read more: BreachLock Adds Human Verification to Autonomous Pen Testing

Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, today announced the appointment of Chandu Thota to its Board of Directors effective July 27, 2026. Mr. Thota brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling… Read more: Dynatrace Appoints AI and Technology Leader Chandu Thota to its BOD

Stairwell analysis finds 2.4 related malware variants for each sample named in public threat reports; confirms security teams lack true depth of malicious files across their environment Stairwell, the AI SOC that stops breaches no… Read more: Stairwell Announced the Launch of Backstory

Researchers found that seven of nine tested Hugging Face image-editing tools produced sexualized alterations, highlighting gaps in model oversight, provenance, and enterprise vendor controls. The post Hugging Face Deepfake Tests Raise New Risks for AI… Read more: Hugging Face Deepfake Tests Raise New Risks for AI Procurement

Releases CopyScore V2 for AI-Generated Video as Demand Grows for Pre-Production Copyright and Likeness Risk Review CopySight, an AI IP governance company, today announced a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital, with participation… Read more: CopySight Raises $3 Million to Build the IP Clearance Layer for Gen AI

LinkedIn, a social network awash with long AI-generated posts from executives and other corporate workers, has introduced a new button that users can click to flag if a post “seems like AI slop,” according to… Read more: LinkedIn Introduces a ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ Button

ChatSee’s study of 10,000+ AI failure events finds less than 10% were hallucination-related, 31.1% involved resolution or escalation breakdowns, and execution and action failures rose 62% relative to the Q2 2024 baseline New research from ChatSee.ai,… Read more: Study: Enterprise AI Failures Extend Beyond Hallucinations

In February, a content creator from New Zealand named Harry Chang posted a YouTube video called “This AI TikTok Shop Video Made Me $67,420 (Here’s How).” In the video, Chang and another YouTuber, Jimmy Farley,… Read more: Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA

This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP’s protocol core is… Read more: New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the biggest social media scandals in history. Back in March 2018, journalists at The Observer and The New… Read more: Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm

The latest version of Google DeepMind’s AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

We’d like to hear from Black Americans who are using artificial intelligence for health or spiritual guidance Artificial intelligence is growing in influence in the healthcare space, and more people are seeking guidance from AI… Read more: Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?

Apple is reportedly preparing new smart home devices centered on a revamped Siri, signaling a renewed push into AI-powered home automation. The post Apple Reportedly Plans Biggest Smart Home Push in Years With New Siri… Read more: Apple Reportedly Plans Biggest Smart Home Push in Years With New Siri

More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes, but each lineage used a different combination of genes. Researchers… Read more: Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands

Public Claude chats surfaced in Google search just as New Zealand agencies are ordered to adopt AI faster. Privacy Act obligations don’t disappear when a share link goes public. The post Claude Chat Leak Tests… Read more: Claude Chat Leak Tests New Zealand’s AI Rules as Agencies Race Ahead

Learn what an AI-ready workplace needs beyond AI PCs, including secure endpoints and compatible software for responsible deployment. The post AI-Ready Workplaces Need More Than AI PCs appeared first on TechRepublic.

Are AI PCs worth the investment for enterprises? Learn what CIOs should prioritize in an AI roadmap and which workloads benefit most from AI-enabled PCs. The post How CIOs Can Turn AI Device Investment Into… Read more: How CIOs Can Turn AI Device Investment Into Business Value

As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade systems, and lack of powerful royal elites suggest that equality may have helped fuel the ancient city’s… Read more: This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history

Learn the differences between local AI, cloud AI, and hybrid AI for enterprise workloads, including security, cost, performance, and deployment strategies. The post Local AI vs. Cloud AI for Enterprise Workloads appeared first on TechRepublic.

Christof Koch is taking on one of science’s deepest mysteries: how the brain creates conscious experience, or whether it creates it at all. He argues that materialism has yet to solve this “hard problem” and… Read more: What if the brain does not create consciousness?

Meta knows its AI-powered camera equipped spectacles are widely seen as “pervert glasses.” And though it professes to be cracking down on creeps using them to record people without their consent, whatever measures it’s taking… Read more: Meta’s Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing

There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK Artificial intelligence is widely regarded… Read more: The future of AI hinges on openness and cooperation. China and Britain can gain much by working together | Zheng Zeguang

Sen. Bernie Sanders frequently raises concerns about what artificial intelligence could do to American jobs. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Creating a government fund to own AI stock and benefit all Americans would require many hard choices.… Read more: A government fund of AI stocks to benefit all Americans is a good idea, but hard to pull off

Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan argues with referee François Letexier during the Argentina-Egypt World Cup match on July 7, 2026. AP Photo/Erik S. Lesser If you watched the 2026 FIFA World Cup, you probably saw… Read more: What video review controversies in sports reveal about AI and human decision-making

Simply reducing students’ screen time at school will not prepare them for a world increasingly shaped by data and AI. Klaus Vedfelt/Digital Vision via Getty Images When the COVID-19 pandemic forced in-person classroom instruction to… Read more: Schools are rethinking whether every student needs a laptop

AI companies and evangelists frequently use terms such as co-pilot, co-worker, co-creator and co-scientist to imply these rapidly developing systems can happily co-exist with us humans. Their inference is clear: people should always be in… Read more: Why the AI industry is so fond of the prefix ‘co’ – by an expert in linguistics

Roadside safety advocates say some automated license plate readers may not meet highway safety standards Flock Safety cameras have been pilloried for facilitating the AI-powered surveillance of private citizens and for targeting immigrants for years.… Read more: Flock surveillance cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers, US experts say

With his popularity at historic lows, Friedrich Merz seeks spiritual guidance from Pope Leo’s encyclical on AI Europe live – latest updates Summer is normally thought of as the time for pacy potboilers and brain-soothing… Read more: Embattled German chancellor chooses papal pageturner for his beach read

Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it’s challenging engineers to make every GPU count.

Chief executive says the four-year plan will lead to greater efficiency but gives no details of potential job losses Business live – latest updates Lloyds Banking Group will cut another £2bn of costs as part… Read more: Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

Cybersecurity wasn’t really something small and mid-sized businesses worried about too much a few years back. That’s changed fast. Once your customer data, your apps, your internal tools all end up online, protecting the server… Read more: How AI is Changing Linux VPS Security for Businesses

Mark Zuckerberg has published a WSJ op-ed that argues superintelligence must reach individuals, not just a handful of institutions. The Meta chief published the piece as a statement of company philosophy rather than a product… Read more: Zuckerberg details Meta’s personal AI superintelligence strategy

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion… Read more: I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger

As enterprise AI matures, connected and trusted data is becoming the foundation for real business value. Graph technologies are helping organizations turn fragmented information into actionable intelligence. Fragmented enterprise data remains one of the biggest… Read more: CommonThread AI targets connected, trusted data as the foundation for enterprise AI

Enterprises are discovering that a scalable intelligence layer built on knowledge graphs delivers the institutional context that turns generic AI models into reliable production systems. As companies push AI from pilots into production, a new… Read more: How a scalable intelligence layer turns enterprise data into production A

Knowledge graph architecture has emerged from the concept stage, consigned to the realm of academia, to the production infrastructure stage, and the enterprises that shape it the right way will own the intelligence their AI… Read more: Knowledge graph architecture gives enterprises ownership of the AI intelligence they create

Disaggregated AI inference is proving to be more than a complementary answer to the prefill and decode bottleneck slowing enterprise AI at scale, and Cerebras and AMD just announced a partnership to build the fastest… Read more: Cerebras and AMD partner to build the world’s fastest disaggregated AI inference solution

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a program that will give 100,000 researchers free access to ChatGPT’s advanced features. ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is part of a $250 million OpenAI initiative designed to support scientific projects.… Read more: OpenAI opens new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program to 100,000 scientists