Writing about quantum entanglement is always a challenge. There are so many clichés to avoid: It’s mysterious, ghostly, spooky, and weird. Entanglement is none of those things, and yet it is also all of those… Read more: An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the federal health department is undertaking an agency-wide effort to focus on injuries claimed to be related to vaccines. In a press announcement Thursday, the Department of… Read more: RFK Jr. unveils sweeping federal initiative to find evidence of vaccine injuries

A federal jury in Texas recently ruled in favor of a man who sued Bexar County and its sheriff over allegations that the agency ran what the plaintiff’s attorneys called an “unconstitutional traffic stop scheme”… Read more: Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches

Let’s Encrypt is continuing a push toward improved security by reducing free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes from 90 days to 64 days, starting on February 10, 2027. For administrators already implementing modern ACME clients that support… Read more: Let’s Encrypt cuts certificate lifetimes to 64 days starting February 2027

Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” and led the development of on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program in the 1960s, died last week at the age of 90. A recipient of the… Read more: R.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landing

Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It stated that private equity firm Boyu Capital led the investment… Read more: AI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation

Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

The incident is the latest to raise questions about the growing reliance on digital maps for wilderness navigation The route up the Widowmaker Arete, a 1,700-foot wall in British Columbia, is deceptively described as “mostly… Read more: A teen tried to navigate Canadian mountains with Claude. His trek ended in an emergency rescue

Parenting is hard. Why not let an AI model take over some of your childrearing duties? It may come at the expense of forming lasting emotional bonds with your progeny, but that’s a tradeoff that… Read more: Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories

The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to distinguish themselves through the… Read more: CoreWeave makes the case for an open, full-stack AI cloud

Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, from Nordic Capital. The firm seeks to build the “autonomous enterprise,”… Read more: Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI

The world’s largest retailer wants to sell you something else—Internet from space. Amazon has been developing a constellation of satellites to deliver broadband Internet from low-Earth orbit for the better part of a decade, and… Read more: Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, will launch space internet service by end of year

For the last 15 years, you’ve been able to buy a Fire tablet from Amazon. Which Fire tablet? It doesn’t matter—like Kindles, they have been pretty much the same year to year. The company’s new… Read more: Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

AI Now’s Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West joined the Washington Journal to talk about how artificial intelligence should be regulated. Watch the full interview here. The post Jennifer Huddleston and Sarah Myers West on Artificial… Read more: Jennifer Huddleston and Sarah Myers West on Artificial Intelligence Regulation

For years, illustrators, photographers, designers, and video editors have been held under the thumb of a single software company: Adobe. The infamous Adobe Creative Suite, later rebranded as the Creative Cloud — a change which brought… Read more: Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source

An Iowa man has kicked off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa, Iowa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about… Read more: ‘It Is Done. Hail Satan:’ City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting

A well-designed AI system could help newcomers find English or French classes, employment workshops, food banks, legal clinics, housing information or community events. (Unsplash/John Lockwood) Artificial intelligence is no longer just a technology-sector issue. It’s… Read more: Canada’s settlement services are going digital. AI should support workers, not replace them

OpenAI’s GPT-6 brings interactive charts, forms, and calculators to ChatGPT. See how the rollout works, what devices support it, and the key limits. The post OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-6 Intelligent UI With Interactive Charts, Forms,… Read more: OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-6 Intelligent UI With Interactive Charts, Forms, and More

On-device personal AI requires models and agent software that can operate within fixed hardware limits. Developers also need ways to keep those systems improving after deployment. Model builders are rethinking architectures designed around elastic cloud… Read more: Liquid AI builds personal AI around device-level context

A fully AI-generated feature film is set to get a theatrical release and has already been rated R, making it the first AI film to be blessed by an official MPA rating. And the studio… Read more: The First Fully AI-Generated Movie to Receive an MPA Rating Is Making a Push for an Academy Award, But We Wouldn’t Hold Our Breath

Healthleap raises $38 million to expand AI that analyzes hospital records for overlooked health risks, as questions remain about clinical accuracy and patient care. The post Healthleap Raises $38M for AI That Spots Hidden Health… Read more: Healthleap Raises $38M for AI That Spots Hidden Health Risks in Hospitals

Google opens SynthID Detector to the public, letting users check images, videos and audio for AI watermarks. Here’s what the tool can and cannot verify. The post Google’s SynthID Detector Is Now Public: Here’s What… Read more: Google’s SynthID Detector Is Now Public: Here’s What It Can Actually Detect

AI model training can leave startups managing infrastructure alongside the products they are trying to build. Willow Care Inc., the company behind AI dictation app Willow Voice, chose CoreWeave Inc. for its forward-deployed support rather… Read more: Willow taps CoreWeave to simplify AI model training

Malaysia’s Silicon Island aims to expand Penang’s chip industry with a 700-acre tech park. See its costs, 2029 timeline, and APAC implications. The post Malaysia Builds a New ‘Silicon Island’ to House Its AI Ambitions… Read more: Malaysia Builds a New ‘Silicon Island’ to House Its AI Ambitions

Put Claude AI to work in Excel, project management, reporting, and web design while earning CPD credentials. The post Four Claude AI Courses With CPD Certificates Are $19.99 for Life appeared first on TechRepublic.

We start this week with a story from our old friend Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, about how cops can bypass the inactivity reboot on iPhones. After the break, Jason tells us how people are losing their minds… Read more: Podcast: Leak Show Cops Can Break into Locked iPhones

Recognition from IDC, Constellation Research and Microsoft signals fresh momentum for Digitate – and mounting evidence that Agentic AIOps is turning the promise of Autonomous IT into measurable performance. News Summary Digitate was named a… Read more: Digitate’s Agentic AIOps Leadership Ushers in Autonomous IT Era

Autoloop continuously improves agents on task completion, business-rule adherence, cost, customer experience, and safety, before and after deployment Kore.ai, the global leader in enterprise AI platform and agentic applications, today announced general availability of Autoloop,… Read more: Kore.ai Announced the Launch of Autoloop

Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media reveals the first Flock camera searches ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, and highlights how the system has turned otherwise mundane traffic stops into interrogations for drivers. On… Read more: Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional

We got the bodycam and in-car footage from the unconstitutional Flock search. Also now you can basically have sex with Claude Code?

NASA is preparing for humanity’s first Moon base with three investigations that will hunt for underground shelters, uncover hidden ice, and track dangerous conditions on the lunar surface. The findings could reveal how astronauts can… Read more: NASA is searching for hidden caves to build its first Moon base

New fossils from South Africa are reshaping the story of early human evolution. Researchers have described 18 hominin fossils from Drimolen Cave, including an adult Homo erectus skull fragment dated to about 2 million years… Read more: Scientists found Homo erectus 200,000 years earlier than expected

A brilliant yellow coral discovered off Costa Rica proved so unusual that scientists had to create an entirely new family to classify it. The meter-tall colonies rise from seafloors covered in brittle stars, inspiring the… Read more: This “golden tree” coral was too strange for any known family

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was nearly universal. While testing a new DNA sequencing technique, they examined a previously unknown protist collected from a… Read more: Scientists accidentally discover a genetic code that breaks the rules of life

Researchers at Yale have identified a promising new approach to osteoarthritis that could do more than simply ease pain. The epilepsy drug lacosamide appears to block a protein involved in both pain signaling and cartilage… Read more: FDA-approved epilepsy drug may help reverse osteoarthritis damage

“I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t tell, because there’s no annoying little blinking light on these glasses,” a creator boasting nearly half a million followers declares in an August TikTok video. “I’m… Read more: Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don’t Have the “Annoying Blinking Light” When They Record

In 2024, award-winning singer songwriter Taylor Swift became the victim of a wave of pornographic deepfakes flooding social media feeds. The controversy set the stage for a pandemic of nonconsensual AI-generated nudes, forcing big tech… Read more: Taylor Swift Applies for Top Level Domain Sites That End in .Taylorswift

If there was a year the world began waking up to climate change, it might have been 1988. That June, the NASA climatologist James Hansen testified to Congress that the climate was warming and would… Read more: ExxonMobil’s own scientists doubted climate fixes the company hyped

Michael Smith receives 18 months in prison for using AI-generated songs and bot accounts to collect over $8 million in fraudulent streaming royalties. The post AI Music Streaming Fraud: Musician Gets 18 Months for $8M… Read more: AI Music Streaming Fraud: Musician Gets 18 Months for $8M Scheme

Life sciences and consumer products companies can now discover and deploy RegASK through Microsoft Marketplace, simplifying access to regulatory decision intelligence and agentic AI workflows. RegASK today announced the availability of its AI-native regulatory platform… Read more: RegASK Expands Enterprise Regulatory AI Ecosystem via Microsoft Marketplace

AI book scammers are still thriving on Amazon’s marketplace. Just a day after a new book about the AI industry’s race to build a powerful artificial general intelligence hit the shelves, its author Kevin Roose… Read more: Kevin Roose’s Buzzy New Book About the AI Industry Immediately Duplicated by Amazon Scammers Selling AI Lookalikes

According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homes To say that Maria Zamudio and her team have been busy lately would… Read more: An AI boom is sending San Francisco rents through the roof: ‘nowhere left for people to go’

The inflammatory clip shows the wild west of online politicking created by unrestricted access to AI – and why watchdogs need more powers to do something about it Get our new political email, free app… Read more: One Nation’s AI video is vile and tired – but the ensloppification of Australian politics doesn’t stop there

The Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route in Wakayama, Japan. tororo/Stone via Getty Images In 2025, two scholars of religion decided to make a multiday pilgrimage along the Kumano Kodō trail – an ancient route in Japan… Read more: AI is changing pilgrims’ journeys, but sacred journeys have always adapted to new technology

AI biases can crop up even with guardrails in place to try to block them. Patpitchaya/iStock via Getty Images Ask an artificial intelligence model whether a face looks gay or straight and it will refuse… Read more: ‘Make this face look gay’: AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical ‘gay,’ ‘straight’ or ‘criminal’ features

We’d like to hear from people who have been monitored or assessed by AI at work and what they thought about the experience Firms are increasingly using AI to monitor or assess their employees, leading… Read more: Tell us: have you been monitored or assessed by AI at work?

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by… Read more: OpenAI Says Teens Can Talk About Suicide for Hours Before ChatGPT Will Notify Parents

As AI, sovereignty, and board-level accountability converge on identity, RSA Agent ID enables finance, government, and regulated industries to find and register agents, prove the authority behind every consequential action, and run it where they… Read more: RSA Agent ID Secures AI Agents in Highly Regulated Industries

Google LLC’s Cloud division today introduced Gemini agent, a unified artificial intelligence assistant that can act autonomously, generate code and complete work across any device, including web, mobile and desktop. The new agentic AI experience… Read more: Google Cloud introduces Gemini agent to change enterprise work

In July 2010, US Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) predicted the rise of prediction markets and the problems they could cause. If not properly regulated, Lincoln warned during Senate proceedings on the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform… Read more: A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she’s a Kalshi lobbyist

AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms. The… Read more: A biologist queries whether AI ‘borrowed’ his work to make major discovery – an expert explains the rules

Investors bullish on AI data centers may be fueling Nvidia’s multi-trillion-dollar market capitalization, but the AI chipmaker has also bet billions of dollars on physical AI technologies such as robotics and self-driving cars. Part of… Read more: Nvidia’s big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots

Expands Airia’s cloud marketplace availability, giving enterprises a streamlined path to procure AI governance through AWS or Microsoft Azure Airia, the enterprise AI governance platform, today announced its availability on AWS Marketplace and its “Deployed… Read more: Airia Available on AWS Marketplace With “Deployed on AWS” Designation

EVOLVE Government Summit will convene public sector and technology leaders to explore how agencies can securely bring AI to data anywhere while maintaining governance and control. Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere,… Read more: Cloudera’s EVOLVE Comes to Washington, D.C.

Enterprises can find up to 1.5x more security and safety issues during agent development with Vijil than with the leading alternative Vijil, the trust infrastructure for AI agents, today announced the release of Diamond Adaptive… Read more: Vijil Announced the Launch of Diamond Adaptive Red Team

The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell WIRED.

AI is already implicated in violent deaths and nearly started world war three. Those bad things? They only happen to other people Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has some words for you about… Read more: Sam Altman says AI will make ‘bad things’ happen. Exhibit A: needless death | Moustafa Bayoumi

Trustero’s AI reads vendor attestations and questionnaires, sorts vendors into customer-defined risk tiers, and flags what needs a human, turning weeks of due diligence into a review-and-approve step. Trustero, the AI-powered governance, risk, and compliance… Read more: Trustero Extends AI-Powered GRC Platform to Third-Party Risk Management

OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, announced it has been named a registered OpenAI Select Partner. The designation recognizes what OpsGuru has already delivered in the field: agentic AI built on OpenAI models and… Read more: OpsGuru Announced its Naming as an OpenAI Select Partner

Second AI acquisition in a year will extend Automation Anywhere’s leadership from employee service to customer-facing conversational and voice AI, creating the most complete offering for the Autonomous Enterprise Automation Anywhere, a leader in agentic… Read more: Automation Anywhere Intends to Acquire Boost.ai

Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs In a portable building in Kakuma, a refugee camp near Kenya’s northern border with… Read more: ‘Someone else will do it for less’: Refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay

Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls is ‘oppressive and dystopian The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology that rates every phone… Read more: Co-op Legal Services using AI to rate workers’ phone calls to customers

CAEVES Technology, Inc. today announced that CAEVES Context LAKE will be generally available on October 20, 2026. Part of the CAEVES AI Data Platform, Context LAKE now extends the platform beyond Microsoft Azure to any public,… Read more: CAEVES Announced the Introduction of Context LAKE™

Partnership brings DoiT’s cost attribution product Attribute, Forward Deployed Engineers and an FTR-approved migration path onto Amazon Bedrock to teams building on OpenAI DoiT, which attributes AI and cloud costs to the customers, features and… Read more: DoiT Partners With OpenAI to Run Models on AWS

Giant artificial intelligence rounds have pushed U.S. venture capital deal value about 44% past its previous annual record with a quarter still to go, according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today, but… Read more: US venture deal value reaches record $515.8B as exits fail to keep pace

A Stanford-designed molecule turns a major lymphoma-promoting protein against cancer cells, activating their own self-destruct machinery instead of simply blocking tumor growth. In mice, the treatment completely eliminated aggressive human lymphoma tumors within 11 days,… Read more: Stanford scientists turn a cancer driver into a kill switch

The global building boom of power-hungry data centers is straining electrical grids, causing greater reliance on energy from polluting fossil fuels. Christina Delimitrou, a newly tenured associate professor at MIT, is fighting this environmental threat… Read more: Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers

Google LLC is making its SynthID identification tools for artificial intelligence-created and AI-edited videos and images more widely available with the launch of a new service today that everyone can use. The web-based SynthID Detector… Read more: Google debuts SynthID Detector tool for flagging AI-generated content, but it’s far from perfect

In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could… Read more: Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes

Exclusive: Revelation comes after company’s executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI used AI to… Read more: OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites

Sources say Firmus is slashing its price and may even shelve initial public offering altogether Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The momentum behind Firmus Technologies’ high-flying valuation is showing… Read more: Datacentre company Firmus’s high flying valuation may be coming back down to earth ahead of expected ASX debut

Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.  Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined… Read more: Nvidia, Samsung back $90M round for AI agent startup Nous Research

OpenAI Group PBC says ChatGPT is moving away from its traditional wall-of-text responses and giving users a more interactive user interface to play with. In a media briefing today, the company said its GPT-6 models… Read more: With GPT-6, ChatGPT’s responses are much more visually appealing and interactive

For a while, those hoping to avoid the difficulty and expense of dealing with Adobe’s Creative Suite have been able to use several free and/or open-source alternatives that replicate some or all of those capabilities.… Read more: “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is… Read more: Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 with an Nvidia RTX Spark GPU, up to 128GB of memory, and support for running large AI models locally. The post Microsoft’s $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts Nvidia… Read more: Microsoft’s $2,599 Surface Laptop Ultra Puts Nvidia RTX Spark Inside a Windows Laptop

TP-Link is facing more legal troubles in the US as Florida and three other states filed lawsuits alleging that it lied to consumers about its connections to China and the risks of its routers being… Read more: TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits

Pennsylvania’s explosive measles outbreak is now the largest the US has seen since the highly infectious virus was declared eliminated in 2000. With well over 1,000 cases, it’s the largest on record since 1991. Pennsylvania’s… Read more: PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated

Artificial intelligence has become part of the zeitgeist. And while it’s a polarizing topic, Linda Rabieh has a unique take on AI: “It’s good for business. Our business, of humanistic thinking.” As senior lecturer in… Read more: Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Ampersand lets agentic applications read and write inside legacy systems of record, removing the integration work that has stalled AI projects industry-wide. Ampersand today announced a $15 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners,… Read more: Ampersand secures $15 million from Bessemer Venture Partners

Back-end AI gives manufacturers opportunities to improve operations, but choosing where to apply it requires attention to business value. For Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., that means evaluating operational use cases while preserving its personalized customer… Read more: Aston Martin puts back-end AI to work while keeping agents off its website

Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace management and enables customer-service agents to continue working after… Read more: Cisco broadens agentic features in Webex collaboration platform

OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model.  Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disapprove proposed explanations… Read more: OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math discoveries in major scientific milestone

Riverbed Global Survey 2026: The State of Autonomous IT Operations explores the path towards autonomous IT operations and the new capabilities required across visibility, data quality, infrastructure simplicity, governance and human oversight to help enterprises… Read more: Riverbed: 90% Plan Autonomous IT, Yet 77% Require Human Approval

We compare current Ring, Nest, Arlo, and Eufy outdoor security cameras by video quality, AI features, storage, subscriptions, and long-term cost. The post Best Smart Home Security Cameras for 2026: Ring, Nest, Arlo and Eufy… Read more: Best Smart Home Security Cameras for 2026: Ring, Nest, Arlo and Eufy

Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. See how it compares with Gemini for editing, spreadsheets, presentations, and Workspace context. The post Claude vs Gemini: Comparing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides appeared first… Read more: Claude vs Gemini: Comparing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

New marketplace lets teams browse, size, and allocate capacity credits across managed AI agents from a single console Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, today… Read more: Netskope Announced the Launch of AgentSkope Marketplace

Agentic AI governance helps midsized distributors decide which tasks software agents can handle and which require human oversight. For lean IT teams, automating more work also means checking the data and rules behind those decisions.… Read more: Midwest Wheel builds toward AI agents that fix problems

Finish environmental authorities are in a rage over Google’s $15 billion data center projects after the discovery that company contractors had chopped down some 330 hectares of government-protected forests, seemingly without a permit. According to… Read more: Finland Orders Google to Suspend New Data Centers After Contractors Pave Over Protected Forests

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In… Read more: Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

As many doctors are moving ahead with the latest advances of modern medicine—from powerful obesity drugs to breakthrough cancer treatments—pediatricians are being forced to turn back, fighting to maintain advances in children’s health that were… Read more: Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns

Firmus Technologies, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, plans to raise A$7 billion from investors on the Australian Securities Exchange on October 23. The float values the company at up to $43.7 billion.… Read more: Can data centre company Firmus live up to its blockbuster $43 billion listing value? Why some investors doubt it

BlackJack3D / Getty Images A few months ago, a friend posted something that caught my eye on social media. She struggled listening to what she termed “(literally) breathless AI voices for audiobooks”. When I asked… Read more: What happens to language when machines start talking back?

Mart Production/Pexels Many of us use digital health tools every day, such as period trackers, fitness apps or online quizzes to check our mental health. These mobile apps, wearable devices, and diagnostics often based on… Read more: Why most health apps are biased even before their first lines of code are written

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50-50 mix of the left- and… Read more: Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Content warning: this story contains descriptions of disturbing AI-generated videos that depict violent child abuse. Last month, we reported that Facebook was hosting enormous numbers of graphic AI-generated videos of physical child abuse that showed… Read more: Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven

Jade Gao/Getty Images They’re dubbed duanju, or microdramas – and they’ve become big business. In China, the smartphone-friendly shows reportedly generated US$7 billion in 2024, overtaking the country’s domestic box office for the first time.… Read more: Microdramas are booming. AI could make it even harder to stop binge-watching

Industry-specific AI brings business context to agents handling enterprise workflows. Building around industry processes can help companies address reliability concerns as they automate more tasks. Infor (US) LLC is developing industry-specific AI agents for several… Read more: Infor uses industry-specific AI to address agent hallucinations

Artificial intelligence is helping to change what success looks like for customer service teams, with less focus on call speed and deflection and greater emphasis on resolving customer issues. That shift is changing how companies… Read more: Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of ‘The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit’