
- Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery
Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS artificial intelligence tools across drug discovery, including AI agents for target identification, therapy design, and research workflows. Under the agreement announced recently, AWS will become Novo Nordisk’s… Read more: Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery - AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. - Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell
A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment It is fashionable in certain circles to dismiss the… Read more: Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell - Anthropic Partners With Zaelab for Enterprise AI Delivery
Zaelab today announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic to help enterprises turn AI pilots into production-ready solutions deployed across the business. Every enterprise has access to powerful AI models; competitive advantage comes from the ability… Read more: Anthropic Partners With Zaelab for Enterprise AI Delivery - Navan Partners with DataVisor to Strengthen Fraud Protection
DataVisor, the leading AI-powered fraud and risk platform, today announced a partnership with Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, to strengthen real-time fraud detection across Navan’s platform. As Navan continues… Read more: Navan Partners with DataVisor to Strengthen Fraud Protection - Ragic Wins Two Stevie Awards for AI Innovatio
Cloud database platform recognized for breakthrough approach to AI agent deployment and enterprise application development Ragic, the no-code database builder with built-in AI that allows its users to build their own custom business systems with… Read more: Ragic Wins Two Stevie Awards for AI Innovatio - PerfectServe Launches AI-Powered Intelligent Voice Answering
AI answering service draws on 30 years of clinical workflow expertise and features the first application of Sloane, PerfectServe’s virtual AI agent Most answering services can tell a practice that a call happened. They can’t… Read more: PerfectServe Launches AI-Powered Intelligent Voice Answering - AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’
Study finds technology could boost recoverable oil and gas reserves by 5% and cut cost of deepwater projects by 10% AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid from renewables,… Read more: AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’ - AI Is Helping Solve the Intricate Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia
Recent findings provide one of the most detailed pictures to date of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, opening up new avenues for research into the disorder. - How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline
Artificial intelligence is giving security researchers new ways to examine code, trace unusual behaviour and identify flaws that conventional tools may overlook. The pressure is particularly visible around Zero-day vulnerabilities, a recent Minimus analysis considers how… Read more: How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline - ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform, according to newly published procurement records. The data is to help,… Read more: ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir - Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
Social media scuttlebutt about Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht failing to assist stranded boaters off the coast of Alaska was partly corroborated by ship-tracking data—and eventually prompted responses from both the US Coast Guard and… Read more: Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat - Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States,” The New York Times… Read more: Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution - Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch. The game originally cost $30 (or $60 for… Read more: Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds - Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist
President Trump signed an executive order Monday that makes sweeping, unilateral changes to federal vaccine recommendations. The order aims to reduce the number of lifesaving vaccines all children are recommended to get—from 18 to 11—while… Read more: Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist - With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has announced its intention to focus on open-weight large language models. Additionally, the company announced the release of an open model called Muse Glimmer and a promise to open the weights for Muse Spark… Read more: With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy - Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
By now, any serious gamer is familiar with a favorite title becoming unplayable after a centralized online server gets shut down, or being unable to purchase and download a digitally delisted, critically acclaimed title from… Read more: Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement - Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans… Read more: Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model - Scam.ai Announced the Launch of Halo
Scam.ai, the company building state-of-the-art AI to detect deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, today announced the launch of Halo, a real-time, on-device deepfake detection model for video meetings, developed in close collaboration with Qualcomm. Video-call impersonation… Read more: Scam.ai Announced the Launch of Halo - Education ministers are worried about technology use in schools. Should they be?
Thirdman/ Pexels Australia’s education ministers are increasingly asking if there is too much screen time in schools. Phones are already banned or restricted in every public school around the country. And Victoria has announced that… Read more: Education ministers are worried about technology use in schools. Should they be? - Complaints about online platforms often go nowhere. AI could actually be part of the solution
Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images You know the feeling. Your account is suspended, your refund request is refused, or you’re still being charged for a cancelled subscription. So you go to the company’s website… Read more: Complaints about online platforms often go nowhere. AI could actually be part of the solution - What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow’s guide is an outdated map, lacking answers
A “centaur” is a human helped by a machine: the person sets the direction, the machine supplies the horsepower, and together they are better than either one alone. Tech activist Cory Doctorow’s nightmare is the… Read more: What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow’s guide is an outdated map, lacking answers - Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future. Called “The Future is for Everyone,” it’s so breathlessly optimistic about the technology that it ends up… Read more: Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting - With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren’t as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, since… Read more: With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios - Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it’s one that Google tried very hard to avoid. The first third-party app store has arrived in Google Play as a result of the long-running… Read more: Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store - Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
SteamOS is continuing its slow march to fuller support on a wider variety of non-Valve hardware. This weekend’s release of the SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta includes “initial gamepad support” for a few recent gaming handhelds and… Read more: Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware - Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
Amid a massive Cyclospora outbreak linked to its iceberg lettuce, Taylor Farms is now recalling products containing jalapeños, which were linked last week to a large, multi-state Salmonella outbreak. On Sunday, August 9, Taylor Farms… Read more: Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak - Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.
Talk of the affordability crisis may be penetrating corporate boardrooms. Hot on the heels of the name and starting price for Ford’s new affordable electric truck, news leaked today that the sub-$30,000 Fathom isn’t the… Read more: Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way. - Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning… Read more: Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity - SK hynix Approves $38 Billion Memory Expansion as AI Demand Strains Supply
SK hynix approved about $38.1 billion for two memory fabs, but new HBM and NAND capacity may not ease AI-driven supply pressure until 2029. The post SK hynix Approves $38 Billion Memory Expansion as AI… Read more: SK hynix Approves $38 Billion Memory Expansion as AI Demand Strains Supply - Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US Grid Data Shows
AI power demand is surging, but the grid problem emerging in US data is more local and complicated than a nationwide electricity shortage. The post Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US… Read more: Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US Grid Data Shows - USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with AI surveillance firm Palantir to monetize “actionable intelligence” on its audience. According to USA Today CEO Mike… Read more: USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir - Sigma Signs Agreement with AWS to Accelerate AI Apps, Agents, and Analytics
Multi-year agreement deepens Sigma’s relationship with AWS, expanding joint go-to-market, co-selling, and availability in AWS Marketplace to help enterprises build and scale on governed cloud data. Sigma, the layer to build and scale analytics, apps,… Read more: Sigma Signs Agreement with AWS to Accelerate AI Apps, Agents, and Analytics - Firebird Opens Region’s Largest AI Factory and Announces Global Expansion
Firebird launches one of the world’s fastest-deployed NVIDIA DSX AI factories, accelerating its global expansion across emerging markets. NVIDIA’s investment will accelerate Firebird’s expansion of AI infrastructure across emerging markets. Firebird’s three-phase expansion in Armenia plans… Read more: Firebird Opens Region’s Largest AI Factory and Announces Global Expansion - Eldridge Announced the Acquisition of Ownership Stake in AI Firm Sudolabs
Companies form strategic partnership to help enterprises deploy AI at scale Eldridge today announced it has acquired a significant stake in Sudolabs, a provider of custom agentic AI systems and consulting services for enterprise clients.… Read more: Eldridge Announced the Acquisition of Ownership Stake in AI Firm Sudolabs - ACL Digital, Hubbl Partner to Accelerate AI for Salesforce
The partnership pairs ACL Digital’s enterprise engineering depth with Hubbl’s AI-powered Salesforce intelligence to turn insight into impact in days. ACL Digital, part of the ALTEN Group, a trusted AI-led Digital Enterprise & Systems Engineering… Read more: ACL Digital, Hubbl Partner to Accelerate AI for Salesforce - Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp
Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners. As 404 Media reports, the controversial company drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber… Read more: Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp - ‘You’re a 4 out of 10’: the troubling rise of AI appearance ratings
New Africa/Shutterstock A teenager joins an online video chat. Within seconds, artificial intelligence analyses their face and gives them a score out of ten for “attractiveness”. They are compared in real time with another user… Read more: ‘You’re a 4 out of 10’: the troubling rise of AI appearance ratings - 6 mistakes AI leaders keep making with agentic deployments
The gap between ambition and infrastructure Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to get canceled by the end of 2027, a June 2025 prediction driven by rising costs, murky business value, and thin… Read more: 6 mistakes AI leaders keep making with agentic deployments - A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average… Read more: A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. - 2026 Subaru Outback review: Great interior, refined drive, divisive looks
When station wagons headed for the same retirement home as the vinyl roof and the opera window, Subaru looked at its sensible Legacy wagon and had a different idea. Raise it a few inches, wrap… Read more: 2026 Subaru Outback review: Great interior, refined drive, divisive looks - Dogs can tell if you’re scared or sad
Any dog owner would tell you that their canine companions are attuned to their humans’ emotional state and respond accordingly. Scientists have performed fMRI scans on dogs and identified a specific brain region that processes… Read more: Dogs can tell if you’re scared or sad - One of China’s workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
One of China’s most used rockets, the Long March 7A, exploded a little more than a minute after lifting off on Monday evening, local time. The medium-lift rocket’s payload was classified, but it was believed… Read more: One of China’s workhorse rockets just exploded in flight - The sun will vanish over Europe in a rare total solar eclipse: Watch live
A total solar eclipse will plunge parts of Europe into darkness on August 12, 2026, with Spain offering some of the best views. ESA will livestream the spectacle from the Javalambre Observatory, combining telescope feeds,… Read more: The sun will vanish over Europe in a rare total solar eclipse: Watch live - Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower
The rise of the potato in the Andes appears to have left a lasting mark on human DNA. Indigenous Peruvians carry exceptionally high numbers of a starch-digestion gene, likely because people with more copies gained… Read more: Potatoes may have given Indigenous Andeans a digestive superpower - 240-million-year-old reptile fossil reveals a lost chapter before dinosaurs and crocodiles
A 240-million-year-old reptile discovered in Brazil is revealing what evolution looked like just before the rise of dinosaurs and crocodiles. The small predator had unusually positioned legs that may have allowed it to move more… Read more: 240-million-year-old reptile fossil reveals a lost chapter before dinosaurs and crocodiles - Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts
Silver nanocatalysts have been found to switch where they perform their most important reactions depending on whether a solid oxide cell is making electricity or hydrogen. The discovery could enable smarter catalyst designs that boost… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts - Verb Launches Marketplace That Lets Consumers Sell Their Personal Data
Verb has launched a marketplace that lets consumers sell selected personal data, testing whether users will trade privacy for direct payment. The post Verb Launches Marketplace That Lets Consumers Sell Their Personal Data appeared first… Read more: Verb Launches Marketplace That Lets Consumers Sell Their Personal Data - The Mayor Who Said ‘No’ When Flock Came to Town
Norman, Oklahoma is a Flockless outpost on the outskirts of the Oklahoma City metro area. As you drive south down I-35 away from the big city and into Norman, coverage from the automated license plate… Read more: The Mayor Who Said ‘No’ When Flock Came to Town - Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community
A quiet war is playing out in rural communities across the country. City council meetings are bursting into conflict as local residents try to keep AI data centers out of their backyards. Americans are starting… Read more: Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community - Omdia Report Highlights Governance as Key to Autonomous Security
A 2026 market update to Omdia’s technical validation examines managed agentic SOC delivery on Google Security Operations, finding that governance, not autonomy, is what separates measurable outcomes from AI hype. As organizations move quickly to… Read more: Omdia Report Highlights Governance as Key to Autonomous Security - Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence - Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient
Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains won’t help individual workers. During a podcast appearance last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he… Read more: Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient - The canary test AI agents keep failing
Every AI agent evaluation tells you the same frustrating half-truth: the model picked the wrong tool. What it rarely tells you is why. A new paper from researchers Atul Anand and Sourav Chattaraj finally builds… Read more: The canary test AI agents keep failing - AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership Problem
AI shopping sends valuable traffic to retailers, but brands want customers to complete purchases on their own sites and retain the resulting customer data. The post AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership… Read more: AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership Problem - AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership Problem
AI shopping sends valuable traffic to retailers, but brands want customers to complete purchases on their own sites and retain the resulting customer data. The post AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership… Read more: AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership Problem - The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting
404 Media is publishing this article in partnership with Proof News, a new nonprofit media outlet investigating the social impacts of AI. Join their mailing list here and read the version of this article on… Read more: The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting - Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
Jason Semprini was excited about his research on policies mandating that elementary school students receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. HPV causes most cases of cervical cancer, but counterintuitively, Semprini found that mandates don’t do that… Read more: Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era? - The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content. - What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran
AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically… Read more: What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran - Morpheus and Secret Network Unveil Unhackable, Zero-Snoop AI Infra
Morpheus, a decentralised marketplace for AI inference, has announced a partnership with Secret Network to enable private, secure execution of AI models using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). The collaboration introduces a new TEE Provider developed… Read more: Morpheus and Secret Network Unveil Unhackable, Zero-Snoop AI Infra - The Rise of the 1 am Job Interview
An AI interview is increasingly the first step of a hiring process. Since there’s no human on the other end, candidates are scheduling them whenever—even deep into the night. - Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs
Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weights on Hugging Face. Meta… Read more: Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs - The limits of physics AI: where Siemens says the human stays in charge
Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would take a traditional simulation to chew through a handful of them. Precisely up to 1,000 times faster, according to Siemens. What… Read more: The limits of physics AI: where Siemens says the human stays in charge - Convince an AI it’s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You’re Human
Sunset Visitor studio’s founder tells us about their new, unnerving Captcha-filled world which prompts players to ask what it means to have a ‘meat body’ Sunset Visitor is a studio that has long engaged with… Read more: Convince an AI it’s not alive in psychological horror game Prove You’re Human - Meme factories are churning out hard right AI slop on Facebook | First Dog on the Moon
What does it even mean? You don’t want to know – stop reading now! I’m serious Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published Get all your needs met at… Read more: Meme factories are churning out hard right AI slop on Facebook | First Dog on the Moon - UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year
Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attack Nearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or… Read more: UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year - Local governments are using AI more and more. But are they doing it wisely?
Mikkel William / Getty Images The most visible faces of artificial intelligence (AI) are things like ChatGPT, self-driving cars and humanoid robots. But AI is also quietly making inroads in our neighbourhoods. Across the world,… Read more: Local governments are using AI more and more. But are they doing it wisely? - No degree is AI-proof. But delaying specialisation may offer students an edge
Getty Images Choosing a university degree has never been straightforward. Students and parents have always asked which courses and majors offer the best returns and lead to secure careers. But now the age of generative… Read more: No degree is AI-proof. But delaying specialisation may offer students an edge - Australia news live: NSW schools may ban take-home tests over AI concerns; minister calls urgent meeting over airport chaos
Intervention follows days of delays and a near-miss between two planes on the Sydney aiport tarmac. Follow today’s news live Butler confident about ‘constructive discussions’ on gambling during upcoming session of parliament Mark Butler said… Read more: Australia news live: NSW schools may ban take-home tests over AI concerns; minister calls urgent meeting over airport chaos - Generative AI has changed mathematics forever. Where to from here?
Malte Mueller / Getty Images A little over a week ago, artificial intelligence company OpenAI announced ten advances in mathematics and computer science made with their as-yet unreleased model Astra. The discoveries cover a wide… Read more: Generative AI has changed mathematics forever. Where to from here? - Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs
Turns out there’s one thing AI chatbots are definitively better at than humans: scamming innocent people. A new piece of research flagged by Wired found that large language models are significantly better than humans at… Read more: Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs - 5 flaws in the ‘augmented work’ myth: What a major Québec survey found
We’re being promised a revolution. Artificial intelligence is said to make work both more productive and more enjoyable by freeing us from tedious tasks and allowing us to devote more time to what really matters.… Read more: 5 flaws in the ‘augmented work’ myth: What a major Québec survey found - The dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering
CT scans of the world’s rarest dodo skulls suggest the extinct bird may have had a stronger sense of smell, a highly sensitive beak, and a lifestyle that extended into dawn and dusk. The discoveries… Read more: The dodo bird had a secret sensory world scientists are only now discovering - Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds
Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS. Researchers found that cortisol, a hormone released during stress, made people significantly worse at navigating a virtual environment and disrupted the precise activity of grid cells, specialized… Read more: Stress can scramble your brain’s internal GPS, MRI study finds - A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough could push transistors beyond silicon
Atomically thin semiconductors could enable dramatically smaller and more efficient chips, but a stubborn problem at the boundary between materials has limited their performance. Researchers have now engineered that atomic interface to protect electron flow… Read more: A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough could push transistors beyond silicon - Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early… Read more: Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny? - Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species
Mount Toba was the biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2.6 million years, and some have suggested it nearly wiped out humanity. Around 74,000 years ago, a caldera on what is now Sumatra emptied thousands… Read more: Mount Toba eruption doesn’t seem like it could nearly kill our species - Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier
Chemists have developed a catalyst that breaks a long-standing rule governing which molecules receive electrons during chemical reactions. By releasing electrons directly into solution, the technique could unlock reactions—and potentially useful new molecules—that were previously… Read more: Chemists set electrons free and break a decades-old chemistry barrier - Scientists discover bacteria that lock toxic uranium into a stable form
Deep underground, bacteria may be capable of doing something remarkable: trapping toxic uranium before it spreads. When researchers fed microbes in uranium-contaminated mine water with glycerol, about 95% of the dissolved uranium disappeared within 130… Read more: Scientists discover bacteria that lock toxic uranium into a stable form - 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind
More than 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa were engraving ostrich eggshells with intricate geometric patterns that appear far more organized than previously realized. Researchers found recurring grids, parallel lines, right angles, and repeated… Read more: 60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind - Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source. - Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers
It’s no secret that data centers have become a massive sore point for a vast swathe of the American electorate. Poll after poll has found that the facilities are immensely unpopular, a key bipartisan issue… Read more: Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers - What are datacentres doing to the places we love? In Slough, I found a bleak answer | John Harris
Whitehall wants to triple the UK’s number of datacentres – but demand for electricity and water means that could be at the expense of new homes Amid headlines about the UK’s drought, Europe’s wildfires and… Read more: What are datacentres doing to the places we love? In Slough, I found a bleak answer | John Harris - These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise? - AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s
Finance sector will gain from the tech but it will need substantial investment and create risks, says rating agency The rating agency Moody’s has said the race to adopt AI is putting big banks at… Read more: AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody’s - Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents
If you feel like the internet is turning into a place for bots — not to mention by bots — you’re not alone. Social media platforms have been flooded with low-effort AI slop, while even… Read more: Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents - Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI
Reddit has long heavily relied on moderators, a team of volunteers working without pay to keep Reddit communities free of abuse and other nefarious content — with extremely varying degrees of success, earning them a… Read more: Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI - AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build
The amount of pollution spilling out of fossil-fuel generators is astounding. In the United States, this explosion of emissions is led by states like Texas, which on a global scale is comparable only to China… Read more: AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build - OpenAI to pause work on AI model Astra due to security concerns
Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated… Read more: OpenAI to pause work on AI model Astra due to security concerns - The sun is covered in tiny whirlpools we’ve never seen before
Scientists have discovered incredibly tiny plasma whirlpools swirling across the Sun’s surface, some just 20 kilometers wide. These previously invisible vortices may twist magnetic fields and help build up the energy released in small solar… Read more: The sun is covered in tiny whirlpools we’ve never seen before - This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze
Scientists have created the first quantum material that can sort and transport different quantum states of light at room temperature, potentially removing the need for bulky, ultra-cold refrigeration systems. Built from a gold film carved… Read more: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze - A protein older than blood circulation could transform cancer immunotherapy
A protein that evolved long before the human circulatory system may help unlock stronger cancer treatments. When C3 is produced inside tumors, it blocks immune-suppressing cells and gives immunotherapy a better chance to work. Researchers… Read more: A protein older than blood circulation could transform cancer immunotherapy - New fuel cell breakthrough could help power energy-hungry data centers
A new nanostructured carbon design lets fuel-cell catalysts use tiny amounts of platinum while remaining remarkably stable and efficient. The breakthrough could help hydrogen fuel cells become a more practical way to power data centers,… Read more: New fuel cell breakthrough could help power energy-hungry data centers - Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins
A rare meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey roof contains evidence of ancient salty fluids, organic compounds, and amino acids from a primitive asteroid. Its pristine chemistry could offer new clues about how space… Read more: Meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey roof reveals clues to life’s origins - VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud
It turns out the venture capital industry doesn’t just merely fund junky AI startups — it also systematically breeds the conditions for fraud. A new joint study from researchers at the UK’s Imperial College and… Read more: VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud - Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech… Read more: Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook - DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence… Read more: DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists - The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
Sometime next week, NASA’s newest rover on Mars, Perseverance, will set a record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world. The automobile-sized rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, will… Read more: The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success - Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over When Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal moment in human history” last month,… Read more: Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
