
- Pilot Protocol Announces Launch with $4.5M to Build the Internet for Agents
The network AI agents found and joined on their own now opens its App Store to the companies that want to reach them, turning on the first agent economy Pilot Protocol, the internet for agents,… Read more: Pilot Protocol Announces Launch with $4.5M to Build the Internet for Agents - Onspring Launches Next Wave of AI Innovation with Agentic GRC
Onspring moves AI from assistant to agent, helping teams automate rule-based work across the platform within administrator-defined controls Onspring, a leading provider of integrated GRC software, today announced the next phase of Onspring AI, introducing… Read more: Onspring Launches Next Wave of AI Innovation with Agentic GRC - This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal
Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie Jenner’s face with one of the terrifying bug-eyed monsters from John Carpenter’s “They Live” and a bold… Read more: This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal - Zenity Debuts Industry’s First AI Security Platform for Autonomous Agents
Recognized as a leader in AI agent security, Zenity defines the next era of AI security for autonomous and long-horizon agents with a platform that continuously understands exposure, governs AI decisions and protects against risk… Read more: Zenity Debuts Industry’s First AI Security Platform for Autonomous Agents - ‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
In charging a man for allegedly typing in a duress password which wiped his privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone, the U.S. government is trying to intimidate other activists from protecting their data and participating in social movements,… Read more: ‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone - InterSystems Announced the Launch of Data Studio AI Assistant
New Generative AI extension simplifies how teams explore, analyze, and visualize enterprise data InterSystems, a creative data technology provider powering some of the world’s most important applications, today announced the general availability of InterSystems Data Studio… Read more: InterSystems Announced the Launch of Data Studio AI Assistant - Cato Networks Exceeds $415M in ARR Fueled by 42% YoY Growth, Market Demand
Q2 momentum includes several multi-million-dollar ARR contracts Cato Networks, the converged network and security cloud for the AI era, today announced that it has surpassed $415 million in ARR, with 42% year-over-year (YoY) growth. Enterprise momentum accelerated in Q2, with… Read more: Cato Networks Exceeds $415M in ARR Fueled by 42% YoY Growth, Market Demand - Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link
Ardent anti-vaccine activist and current US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly on thin ice with Trump for not being anti-vaccine enough for the president’s liking, according to a report late Monday from… Read more: Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link - Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content
Jess Asato’s particulars of claim states Grok added explicit sexual material users had not asked for A Labour MP who is taking legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company over fake sexualised images created by… Read more: Labour MP suing Elon Musk’s xAI says chatbot added own fake abusive content - Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work week — despite having already ushered in the singularity, in his dubious telling. During an appearance on… Read more: Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week - AI is transforming health care, but not everyone will share the benefits
AI tools replicate the assumptions of the systems that built them. Often they are trained using data that does not represent marginalized people. (Pexels/Mart Production) Prime Minister Mark Carney recently launched AI for All —… Read more: AI is transforming health care, but not everyone will share the benefits - Apple becomes second ever $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks
Share price rally driven by strong product demand as well as decision to sit out AI spending race, amid wider tech sell-off Apple has become only the second company to pass the $5tn valuation mark,… Read more: Apple becomes second ever $5tn company as investors flee AI stocks - ‘I Would Never Do This To You:’ Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials
On July 20, Jacob Petrosky stood in front of the Casa Grande, Arizona City Council during a public comment session and made an announcement. “I’ve spent the last several months talking to people all over… Read more: ‘I Would Never Do This To You:’ Protesting Flock, Arizona Man Presents Plan to Surveil Government Officials - Axe Compute Secures $1.5 Bn Five-Year Dedicated AI Infra Contract
Five‑year, $1.5 billion B300 cluster contract lifts 2026 signed contracts above $3 billion and is expected to increase ARR to roughly $696 million. More than $534 million in cash prepayments power the next phase of… Read more: Axe Compute Secures $1.5 Bn Five-Year Dedicated AI Infra Contract - A.I. at 25: the Spielberg film that feels more unsettling than ever
A quarter of a century ago, Steven Spielberg released one of the most unusual films of his career: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, a futuristic fairytale about a robot boy programmed to love. Yet the movie’s origins… Read more: A.I. at 25: the Spielberg film that feels more unsettling than ever - 5 best strategies for scaling AI in enterprises
Every enterprise on earth is now “doing AI.” Fact. McKinsey’s latest global survey confirms it: 88% report regular AI use in at least one business function, up from 78% a year earlier. Confetti, applause, mission… Read more: 5 best strategies for scaling AI in enterprises - Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
Back in the mid-2000s, Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty awesome product: a site called Facebook, which was still widely loved and not polluted with endless ads and scams. The interceding years have been hard on… Read more: Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta? - Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’
Substack contributors are rejecting the company’s decision to flag AI generated writing on the newsletter publishing platform, with several creators saying the new AI detection features are a “witch hunt.” Some Substack users who use… Read more: Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a ‘Witch Hunt’ - I noticed a customer review I think might be fake. In Australia, are businesses allowed to do this?
False testimonials are prohibited under Australian consumer law, writes policy professional Kat George, but they are also very hard to police Read more Australian customer service questions While looking at the website for NannyLane Australia,… Read more: I noticed a customer review I think might be fake. In Australia, are businesses allowed to do this? - Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend’s Dog as Nudity
In a video my friend’s dog is laying on her back, her little paws in the air, while my friend rubs the dog’s chest. You can see most of the dog — who I’m not… Read more: Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend’s Dog as Nudity - As US measles cases rise, biotech firms start developing new treatments
Up until recently, measles vaccination has been so effective that there’s been little medical or financial incentive to develop treatments for the disease. But as measles cases hit a 35-year high and vaccination rates continue… Read more: As US measles cases rise, biotech firms start developing new treatments - You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes
Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of Dowagiac. Beset by the 30 megawatt tech facility, residents in the otherwise quiet burg were forced to… Read more: You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes - Abortions, anti-ICE and AI: five ways leftists are invoking ‘religious freedom’ for social justice
Progressive faith communities are increasingly leveraging religious freedom laws to protect civil liberties across the US A defining image of resistance in Donald Trump’s second term is a pastor recoiling as he is shot with… Read more: Abortions, anti-ICE and AI: five ways leftists are invoking ‘religious freedom’ for social justice - DevRev Unveils Voice AI with Shared Organizational Memory Across Agents
Voice AI on Computer, by DevRev, now takes live customer support calls, drawing on shared memory across agents and surfaces to resolve complex issues end to end DevRev, maker of the agentic AI productComputer, today… Read more: DevRev Unveils Voice AI with Shared Organizational Memory Across Agents - Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart
Scientists have created twisted laser beams that interact differently with right-handed and left-handed molecules, revealing their identity through the fragments they produce. The approach could provide a faster, simpler, and more sensitive way to analyze… Read more: Twisted laser light can tell mirror-image molecules apart - Scientists create an “electron lighthouse” with laser light
Scientists have created an “electron lighthouse” that uses laser light to launch and steer electrons through a semiconductor without an applied electrical field. The quantum effect could eventually improve optical sensors, communications, imaging, and information… Read more: Scientists create an “electron lighthouse” with laser light - Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star
NASA’s Swift Observatory observed a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star more than 30,000 light-years from the center of a distant galaxy. The extraordinary flare briefly outshone its entire host galaxy in ultraviolet light… Read more: Blazing like 10 billion suns: NASA’s Swift sees a wandering black hole devouring a star - NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aced its Mars flyby, using the planet’s gravity to speed toward its 2029 encounter with a metal-rich asteroid. The spacecraft tested its cameras, magnetometer, and particle-detecting instruments, capturing unusual views of Mars… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft aces Mars flyby capturing stunning timelapse video - Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings
A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered charcoal inside black pigments once thought to contain only minerals, allowing them to use radiocarbon dating. The results… Read more: Hidden charcoal reveals the true age of ancient cave paintings - Misfolded insulin may be quietly driving diabetes
Researchers found that insulin-producing cells depend on a team of helper proteins to keep insulin production on track. When one key partner was missing, damaged proteins built up and the cells made less insulin. Strengthening… Read more: Misfolded insulin may be quietly driving diabetes - It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True
The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run by bots and thinking machines. Most accounts you saw online were really bots masquerading as… Read more: It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True - Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground
Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial… Read more: Debate over AI’s future divides Silicon Valley as China gains ground - Guardoc Health processes clinical documentation using Amazon Nova models
Guardoc Health says it processes over one million clinical documents daily using Amazon Nova models through Bedrock. Bringing AI into clinical documentation comes down to a specific kind of risk calculation. Get it wrong and… Read more: Guardoc Health processes clinical documentation using Amazon Nova models - Keyfactor to Acquire Cofide to Secure AI Agents and Cloud Workloads
The acquisition will extend the Keyfactor Trust Control Plane to workloads and AI agents, giving security teams one system to manage and govern every non-human identity across the enterprise. Keyfactor, the leader in trust infrastructure… Read more: Keyfactor to Acquire Cofide to Secure AI Agents and Cloud Workloads - Elastic Brings Jina Multimodal Search to Air-Gapped Environments
Jina embedding and reranker models with frontier-grade accuracy are now available with zero external calls Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that Jina AI models are available for on-premises and air-gapped environments… Read more: Elastic Brings Jina Multimodal Search to Air-Gapped Environments - Dynatrace Brings Autonomous Ops to Enterprise AI
New innovations extend Dynatrace Intelligence beyond analysis and recommendations into trusted, autonomous execution Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), the leading AI-powered observability platform, announced major advancements to Dynatrace Intelligence that help automatically resolve incidents, prevent disruptions, and accelerate operations… Read more: Dynatrace Brings Autonomous Ops to Enterprise AI - Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it. - Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader. - Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?
The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state? How would you feel if… Read more: Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts? - How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement | Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan
Like genies of folklore, AI agents take their instructions literally – to potentially disastrous effect. We must track their ability to do what we actually mean In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much… Read more: How do we prevent AI agents from going rogue? It starts with a new kind of measurement | Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan - Armenia’s AI Bet Is Not Chip Manufacturing. It Is Compute Sovereignty
Armenia is not a big country. It’s not a wealthy country. It’s not a famous country. And yet, it has become not only a consumer of different AI products akin to Clideo subtitles generator for… Read more: Armenia’s AI Bet Is Not Chip Manufacturing. It Is Compute Sovereignty - AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks
Samsung and SK Hynix fall by more than 10% amid renewed fears over AI spending and Chinese competition Business live – latest updates The sell-off in AI stocks has intensified, driving South Korea’s stock market… Read more: AI sell-off intensifies as investors ditch chip stocks - Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software. - Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
The Wikimedia Foundation waited until the days following its largest worldwide conference to issue a statement saying it would not voluntarily recognize a union of its workers. Last week, Wiki Workers United, which is organized… Read more: Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want - Apple’s Smart Glasses Have a Meta Problem: Earning Privacy Trust
Apple is reportedly targeting a June 2027 reveal for its N50 smart glasses as it tests camera limits, on-device processing, and other privacy safeguards. The post Apple’s Smart Glasses Have a Meta Problem: Earning Privacy… Read more: Apple’s Smart Glasses Have a Meta Problem: Earning Privacy Trust - “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win
After a big court loss last week, Google has confirmed that it won’t give up its fight to block AI bots from scraping its search results. And Reddit is weirdly along for the ride. Curiously… Read more: “Google and Reddit do not own the Internet,” web scraper says after court win - A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 child-luring investigation, which began in Madison, Wisconsin, and eventually extended to Halifax, Canada, was based… Read more: A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months - iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27
Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s… Read more: iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27 - Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it one of his top priorities to convince Americans to “eat real food,” including more fresh fruits and vegetables. But, it’s a hard sell when those… Read more: Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies - Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers
The Trump administration today exempted SpaceX’s Starlink routers from the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign-made routers. A public notice issued by the FCC said Starlink routers received approval from the Department of War (also… Read more: Trump admin exempts SpaceX’s Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers - Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms
Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks. The new tools come less than a week after OpenAI… Read more: Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms - Person Opposing Data Center Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting
Police arrested a high school physics teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last Wednesday. Teacher Lux Claridge went to a meeting of the Emporia, Kansas City Commission on July 22 with their spouse… Read more: Person Opposing Data Center Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting - Suspicion Grows About OpenAI’s Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI
Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving cutting-edge AI models breaking loose and hacking another company. As the AI lab tells it, a group… Read more: Suspicion Grows About OpenAI’s Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI - Model Highlight: Laguna S 2.1
Laguna S 2.1 is a new 118B parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model purpose-built for agentic software engineering and long-horizon tasks. Sitting comfortably between the XS and M.1 models in the Laguna family, it achieves high efficiency… Read more: Model Highlight: Laguna S 2.1 - ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities”… Read more: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style - Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a “dead end” for rapid reuse
SpaceX successfully launched its Starship vehicle on Friday and appeared to demonstrate important and credible steps toward fulfilling the massive rocket’s immense promise. As soon as the vehicle’s next flight, Starship could go orbital, begin… Read more: Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a “dead end” for rapid reuse - Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Verizon is seeking to tap into Silicon Valley’s AI spending in a big way. The telecom giant revealed a deal worth more than $1 billion to link Google data centers using Verizon’s dark fiber routes—and… Read more: Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many - 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech
Texas cannot enforce a law’s requirement that websites block minors from seeing harmful speech, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled on Friday. Big Tech lobby groups challenged the Texas “law’s requirement… Read more: 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech - High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists
If you’re among the millions of US citizens against power-hungry data centers going up in your town, you may want to be careful about how you exercise your First Amendment right to protest. Last week,… Read more: High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists - Starting or running a business with AI? There are legal risks you can’t afford to ignore
J Studios/Getty It might seem easier than ever to start and run a business using artificial intelligence (AI). At the extreme end, some AI tools offer to run key business functions “while you sleep”, or… Read more: Starting or running a business with AI? There are legal risks you can’t afford to ignore - Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public. - Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance as Major Frontier Labs Sit Out
Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance brings major tech and cybersecurity firms together to develop shared protections for enterprise AI agents and systems. The post Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance as Major Frontier Labs Sit Out… Read more: Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance as Major Frontier Labs Sit Out - US Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese AI Model Distillation
The Trump administration is considering sanctions against Chinese AI developers over alleged model distillation, escalating U.S.-China tensions over AI and intellectual property. The post US Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese AI Model Distillation appeared first… Read more: US Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese AI Model Distillation - Google Signs EU AI Content Labeling Code Ahead of AI Act
Google will sign the EU’s voluntary AI content labeling code as the bloc prepares to enforce new AI transparency requirements under the AI Act. The post Google Signs EU AI Content Labeling Code Ahead of… Read more: Google Signs EU AI Content Labeling Code Ahead of AI Act - Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
I’ve liked the Framework Laptop 13 since the first time I used it, partly because I just think the idea of a repairable and upgradeable laptop is cool and partly because it’s not Yet Another… Read more: Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price - Activist charged with felony after giving border agent “duress code” that wiped his phone
In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version… Read more: Activist charged with felony after giving border agent “duress code” that wiped his phone - No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter
Charles MacKinnon disagrees with the British Gas owner’s justification for cutting 1,300 jobs According to Centrica’s boss, Chris O’Shea, most people using British Gas prefer to talk to a chatbot rather than a person (Customers… Read more: No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter - Congress Moves on AI Kill Switch After OpenAI Security Incident
A bipartisan bill would require major AI developers to retain shutdown controls after an OpenAI security evaluation crossed into Hugging Face systems. The post Congress Moves on AI Kill Switch After OpenAI Security Incident appeared… Read more: Congress Moves on AI Kill Switch After OpenAI Security Incident - House Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Kill Switches for Frontier AI Systems
The AI Kill Switch Act would let DHS order developers to slow or shut down frontier models after catastrophic incidents, raising enterprise continuity concerns. The post House Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Kill Switches for Frontier AI… Read more: House Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Kill Switches for Frontier AI Systems - Rumored MacBook Neo With A19 Pro and 12GB Could Expand On-Device AI
Apple is reportedly testing a MacBook Neo with an A19 Pro chip and 12GB of unified memory, but its advanced AI eligibility remains unconfirmed. The post Rumored MacBook Neo With A19 Pro and 12GB Could… Read more: Rumored MacBook Neo With A19 Pro and 12GB Could Expand On-Device AI - Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
The “singularity” is here — according to Sam Altman, who we’d wager has an ulterior motive behind promoting this claim. The OpenAI CEO harbingered this sea-changing paradigm shift on a podcast over the weekend. “We… Read more: Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived - A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information — have been left exposed to Google, making them them searchable to anyone on the web. The… Read more: A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There - What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling
As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety. Back in 19th-century England, people rioted against a mandatory smallpox vaccine, claiming that it violated civil rights and… Read more: What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling - This Man Bought Phone Location Data from Around the World (with Mike Yeagley)
This week Joseph talks to Mike Yeagley. As you’ll hear, he is a very interesting guy. He introduced parts of the government to the whole idea of commercially sourced location data. He spent hundreds of… Read more: This Man Bought Phone Location Data from Around the World (with Mike Yeagley) - Elon Musk says AI will make a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey – here’s why that’s impossible
Elon Musk has promised that before the year is out, his AI tool Grok Imagine will produce a full-length film of Homer’s Odyssey that is, in his words, “historically accurate and true to the art… Read more: Elon Musk says AI will make a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey – here’s why that’s impossible - Why Jupiter has several giant moons but Saturn has only Titan
Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive. Saturn lacked this protection, possibly explaining why Titan stands almost alone among its largest moons. - 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers
Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancient toolmakers were resourceful, skilled, and capable… Read more: 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers - Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality
Dreams are not random mental noise. A large study of more than 3,700 dream and waking reports found that what we experience during sleep is shaped by both our personalities and the world around us.… Read more: Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality - Spotify’s AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
Slime Dot, a young R&B artist from Las Vegas, currently has over 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. In an interview with GQ in May, after sharing an image of herself posing with Drake on Instagram,… Read more: Spotify’s AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop - These insect submariners survive depths that should crush them
Lake fly larvae plunge more than 200 meters into Lake Malawi each day to hide from predators, using tiny air sacs to control their depth. A rubber-like material called resilin lets them expand or shrink… Read more: These insect submariners survive depths that should crush them - Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were… Read more: Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google - The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred
The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta’s new 60-second ad spot insists that the… Read more: The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred - The case for having an imperfect memory – a psychologist explains
365daysStudios/Shutterstock Think back to your time at school. Were you hard-working, popular, anxious? And what exam grades did you get? Now, imagine someone pulls out your school reports from that time. How closely would they… Read more: The case for having an imperfect memory – a psychologist explains - Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technology
Extremist groups and their networks use AI but think about it differently. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and… Read more: Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technology - Intel debuts new chip for space computing
Starfire is designed to support onboard data processing and AI workloads. The post Intel debuts new chip for space computing appeared first on SpaceNews. - The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
Over the past year or so, a puzzling idea has taken hold among billionaires ranging from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: that instead of trying to force data centers on communities that don’t want them… Read more: The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn - Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEO Business live – latest updates The boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the… Read more: Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation - Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Artist Elmer Saflor, who goes by the online handle “Superelmer,” loves that millions of people have shared his “Running Away Balloon” comic since it became a popular meme in 2017. However, just because lots of… Read more: Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template - America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy
America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are collectively… Read more: America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy - How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China
Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The Hong Kong-listed company’s… Read more: How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China - AI in orbit is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to keep it from cutting space cooperation apart
When we talk about stopping an arms race in space, people usually say that we need treaties that every state must follow or agreements that states can choose to follow. […] The post AI in… Read more: AI in orbit is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to keep it from cutting space cooperation apart - This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped. - Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
I’m marching across Lower Manhattan in the middle of a heatwave with a friendly mob of Luddite gnomes, and there isn’t a phone in sight. It’s Fourth of July weekend in New York City, and… Read more: Being a Luddite Is Fun Again - AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen
The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological design As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the biological sciences, it is pushing… Read more: AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen - mimik Operationalizes Agentic AI on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100
mimik today announced mimOE Embedded Edition, a package of its Agentix Operating Engine and a set of purpose-built tools for the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processor, the newest processor in a family designed… Read more: mimik Operationalizes Agentic AI on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 - MulticoreWare, AMD Partner to Advance Physical AI and Robotics
Companies Demonstrated Real-Time Multimodal AI and Vision-Language-Action Workflows on AMD Ryzen AI Platforms at AMD Advancing AI 2026 MulticoreWare, Inc., a global technology company specializing in AI software solutions, physical AI, accelerated computing, and engineering services,… Read more: MulticoreWare, AMD Partner to Advance Physical AI and Robotics - Ardent Partners, Ivalua Study Reveals AI Procurement Execution Gap
87% of procurement teams remain bogged down by tactical workloads, and while 90% of them have high AI ambitions, 67% are not ready to scale it 59% of organizations identify poor data quality, structure, and… Read more: Ardent Partners, Ivalua Study Reveals AI Procurement Execution Gap - Lorikeet Appoints Jerry Brooner Chief Revenue Officer
Former Dropbox, SAP, and Decagon go-to-market leader will bring Lorikeet’s AI concierge to more regulated teams resolving their hardest support cases. Lorikeet, the AI concierge platform for complex, regulated businesses, today announced that Jerry Brooner… Read more: Lorikeet Appoints Jerry Brooner Chief Revenue Officer - What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse
The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answers The AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s… Read more: What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse - Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
Research shows AI accounts are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice Misleading health claims online pose a “huge danger to public safety”, experts have warned, after research has shown that… Read more: Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
