
- AI Evaluation is Becoming an Exciting Standalone Discipline
Introduction Throughout my academic career, I worked on various problems surrounding the robustness of deep learning models. Until a few years ago, these topics had their own niches within the academic but also industrial community.… Read more: AI Evaluation is Becoming an Exciting Standalone Discipline - Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work
On the surface, companies across nearly every industry seem to be gobbling up AI contracts. Yet under the hood, employees increasingly complain that AI results in more stress while saving no time whatsoever on productive… Read more: Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work - Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation
Is your dentist upselling you on something? Does your old filling really need to be replaced, and is that tooth decay really bad enough to warrant new work? Such suspicions have probably crossed your mind… Read more: Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation - John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow
Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder Coming just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now… Read more: John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow - What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAI A nine-person jury is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s allegations of “stealing a charity”… Read more: What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman - Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
If you’ve been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that your doctor was using an AI scribe: software that listens into the conversation, transcribing it and structuring… Read more: Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients - Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark side of AI: its impact on cishet relationship dynamics. Variations on the format typically depict a woman… Read more: Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI - Scientists discover hidden “brakes” that stop massive earthquakes
A mysterious underwater fault near Ecuador has been producing nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every five to six years, baffling scientists for decades. Researchers now believe the fault contains hidden “brake zones” where seawater and… Read more: Scientists discover hidden “brakes” that stop massive earthquakes - Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic “ape-to-human” progression and paints human… Read more: Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins - Scientists find hidden brain nutrient deficit that may fuel anxiety
A major analysis of brain scans found that people with anxiety disorders have noticeably lower levels of choline, a nutrient crucial for healthy brain function. The strongest evidence appeared in the prefrontal cortex, the region… Read more: Scientists find hidden brain nutrient deficit that may fuel anxiety - First-ever direct image of the cosmic web reveals the Universe’s hidden highways
Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure connecting galaxies across the Universe. The glowing strand stretches 3 million light-years and links two… Read more: First-ever direct image of the cosmic web reveals the Universe’s hidden highways - The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the… Read more: The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets - Scientists Discover Strange New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that were long in the tooth, trapped in the lattice, unearthed in Thailand, and entombed in post-apocalyptic waters. First, scientists discover that even Neanderthals… Read more: Scientists Discover Strange New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast - Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a programmer realizes he’s living in an invisible cage, mediated by algorithms that keep him going through the dull motions of life — and he’ll stop at… Read more: Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix - Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention
After a short family break, I am excited to be back and catching up on a busy few weeks of open-weight LLM releases. The thing that stood out to me is how much newer architectures… Read more: Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention - Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi
The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US.… Read more: Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi - These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome
You know when you’re in a noisy bar, trying to have a conversation, but you’re missing every other word because of the nonstop din? Okay, maybe this one is just for those of us who… Read more: These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome - Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies
As the AI boom trundles along, the data centers powering it have quickly become unwelcome neighbors across the country. Opponents point to a great range of alleged ills associated with the facilities — from their… Read more: Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies - Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association. - Review: Good Omens finale sticks the landing
It’s been a three-year wait, but Prime Video finally released the series finale for Good Omens: a 90-minute single episode that sought to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. Verdict: Truncating the final… Read more: Review: Good Omens finale sticks the landing - US hantavirus case was false positive; outbreak cases drop from 11 to 10
In a press briefing Friday, officials for the World Health Organization announced that the case count of the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius in the South Atlantic has shrunk from 11 cases… Read more: US hantavirus case was false positive; outbreak cases drop from 11 to 10 - Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
After several authors and class members raised objections to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over its widespread book piracy to train AI, a federal judge has delayed final approvals of the settlement. On Thursday, US District… Read more: Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval - Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots
Russian universities are promising free tuition and up to $70,000 to students who are willing to serve as drone pilots in the Russian military for a year—all while claiming students can avoid the risk of… Read more: Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots - Tech Companies to Discuss Iran’s Future During ‘Private Conference’ at Uber HQ
A who’s who of the Iranian diaspora will meet at Uber HQ on Saturday to discuss tech and the future of Iran, according to an email about the event viewed by 404 Media. The guest… Read more: Tech Companies to Discuss Iran’s Future During ‘Private Conference’ at Uber HQ - Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app
Weather-monitoring company AcuRite is forcing device owners to use a new companion app on May 30, frustrating some long-time customers. AcuRite, which sells devices such as weather stations, indoor thermometers, and rain gauges, began emailing… Read more: Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app - Solar power production undercut by coal pollution
Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities in the coal produce a lot of sulfur dioxide aerosols, as well… Read more: Solar power production undercut by coal pollution - Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the Northeastern Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Officials in Uganda subsequently reported that the deadly hemorrhagic… Read more: Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths - Three’s a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO
The world’s leading space powers desperately want to know what the others are up to high above the equator. For more than a decade, the US military has operated a fleet of “inspector” satellites designed… Read more: Three’s a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO - Apple and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Deal Reportedly Risks Legal Clash
Apple and OpenAI’s AI partnership is reportedly under strain as Siri plans, ChatGPT integration, and OpenAI hardware ambitions collide. The post Apple and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Deal Reportedly Risks Legal Clash appeared first on TechRepublic. - Volkswagen shows its first electric GTI; there’s no chance of US sales
When Volkswagen introduced the first Golf GTI in Europe in 1976, it might not have been the first hot hatchback, but it quickly became the gold standard version. Unlike in America, where big cars were… Read more: Volkswagen shows its first electric GTI; there’s no chance of US sales - OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say
OpenAI is reportedly exploring legal options after Apple’s ChatGPT integration into its products didn’t live up to the AI firm’s expectations. When the deal was announced, Apple likened features linking Siri to ChatGPT to its… Read more: OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say - Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations
AI-generated slop has shown up everywhere, including in the peer-reviewed literature. Fake citations, unedited prompt responses, and nonsensical diagrams have all slipped past editors and peer reviewers, and it’s not always clear if there are… Read more: Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations - US Approves Nvidia H200 Sales to China, But Shipments Remain Stalled
US approvals could let Nvidia sell H200 AI chips to China, but Beijing’s security concerns and export rules have stalled shipments. The post US Approves Nvidia H200 Sales to China, But Shipments Remain Stalled appeared… Read more: US Approves Nvidia H200 Sales to China, But Shipments Remain Stalled - Ambi Robotics Celebrates Third RBR50 Honor for AmbiStack
Ambi Robotics, a leading provider of AI-powered robotics for commercial operations, today announced that it has been named a 2026 RBR50 Innovation Award winner for AmbiStack, an advanced AI-powered multi-purpose robotic system autonomously stacking packages… Read more: Ambi Robotics Celebrates Third RBR50 Honor for AmbiStack - Mind Robotics Secures $400M Funding to Expand Industrial Robotics Deployment
Kleiner Perkins leads Mind Robotics’ next round of financing to scale deployment of AI-powered robots in live manufacturing environments. Mind Robotics today announced a $400 million financing led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total investment in Mind… Read more: Mind Robotics Secures $400M Funding to Expand Industrial Robotics Deployment - CoreWeave Introduces Sandboxes for Agentic AI Testing
Secure, isolated environments for running AI tool use and evaluation at scale CoreWeave, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRWV), The Essential Cloud for AI, today announced CoreWeave Sandboxes, an execution layer that gives AI researchers and platform teams secure,… Read more: CoreWeave Introduces Sandboxes for Agentic AI Testing - Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included
This week, a company called Casimir Inc. emerged from “stealth mode” to announce that it had raised significant funding from venture capitalists willing to roll the dice on free energy. That’s right: a startup has… Read more: Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included - OpenAI Warns Mac Users to Update Apps After Supply-Chain Attack
OpenAI says Mac users must update ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas apps by June 12 after an npm supply-chain attack exposed signing certificates. The post OpenAI Warns Mac Users to Update Apps After Supply-Chain Attack appeared… Read more: OpenAI Warns Mac Users to Update Apps After Supply-Chain Attack - Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss
After US government policies wrecked the country’s electric vehicle market, automakers have been scrambling to adapt. The loss of federal clean vehicle tax incentives and funding for charging infrastructure, combined with capricious tariffs, has resulted… Read more: Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss - Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly’s appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major… Read more: Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California - Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions
Cement production alone currently accounts for about 8 percent of global CO2 emissions, so considerable effort is going into lowering that number. Efficiency can be increased, and energy sources can be swapped for cleaner ones,… Read more: Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions - Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke: “I Don’t Want to Live in a World Where Humans — Employees or Otherwise — Are Exploited for Their Training Data”
Mark Zuckerberg’s new initiative to track employee computer use is tearing the company apart. In a sign that those simmering tensions are boiling over into open revolt, some workers are sending clear shots across the… Read more: Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke: “I Don’t Want to Live in a World Where Humans — Employees or Otherwise — Are Exploited for Their Training Data” - Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | Letters
Salley Vickers and Carrie Eckersley respond to a letter on Richard Dawkins and his chats with AI bots I was delighted to read Dr Simon Nieder’s cogent rebuttal of Richard Dawkins’s attribution of consciousness to… Read more: Richard Dawkins and the question of AI consciousness | Letters - Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold
A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet painting while claiming it was an AI fake, unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So,… Read more: Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold - Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shakeup
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience. - Behind the Blog: New Music and a Crash Out
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss developers’ AI woes, how the magic happens,… Read more: Behind the Blog: New Music and a Crash Out - ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
ArXiv, the open-access repository of preprint academic research, will ban authors of papers for a year if they submit obviously AI-generated work. Late Thursday evening, Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv,… Read more: ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop - Deloitte: Scale ‘autonomous intelligence’ for real growth
Enterprise leaders must progress past generative applications and scale “autonomous intelligence” to capture real P&L margin growth. Generating text or summarising internal communications offers localised productivity improvements, yet these abilities rarely alter the core cost… Read more: Deloitte: Scale ‘autonomous intelligence’ for real growth - Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
The latest example of burgeoning opposition to rapid data-center development in Pennsylvania came at a town hall meeting overflowing with frustration about how the state is managing the surge. As about 225 people watched, more… Read more: Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom - Figure Humanoid Robots Sort Packages Non-Stop in 24/7 Demo
Figure AI’s Helix 02 humanoid robots neared 40 hours of autonomous work and almost 50,000 packages in a livestreamed warehouse demo. The post Figure Humanoid Robots Sort Packages Non-Stop in 24/7 Demo appeared first on… Read more: Figure Humanoid Robots Sort Packages Non-Stop in 24/7 Demo - Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how
More and more routine vaccines are being linked to lower risks of dementia. Shots against seasonal flu, RSV, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap), pneumococcal infections, hepatitis A and B, and typhoid have all been linked… Read more: Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how - Rocket Report: Russia claims success with new ICBM; spaceplane déjà vu in Europe
Welcome to Edition 8.41 of the Rocket Report! The stories of the world’s two most powerful rockets are now intertwined. Hardware for NASA’s third Space Launch System rocket is coming together at Kennedy Space Center… Read more: Rocket Report: Russia claims success with new ICBM; spaceplane déjà vu in Europe - AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat that could impact all life on Earth. Our best experts can’t agree on its trajectory or even… Read more: AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair - If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the phenomenon in which new technology eliminates certain jobs but supposedly creates new ones elsewhere. But AI, more… Read more: If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence? - Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits
Mayo Clinic, the massive U.S. hospital network, is using what it describes as “Ambient Listening” to record patient interactions with nurses, including in emergency rooms, then using AI to process that collected data. The recording… Read more: Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits - Mars may have once had an ocean and this chaotic valley is a big clue
A colossal valley near Mars’s equator is revealing dramatic clues about the Red Planet’s watery and volcanic past. Stretching roughly 1,300 kilometers, Shalbatana Vallis was carved billions of years ago when enormous floods of groundwater… Read more: Mars may have once had an ocean and this chaotic valley is a big clue - NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves
NASA is testing a next-generation space computer chip that could give spacecraft the ability to operate far more independently in deep space. The radiation-hardened processor is showing performance levels hundreds of times beyond current spaceflight… Read more: NASA’s new AI space chip could let spacecraft think for themselves - The brain’s “feel good” chemical may be secretly fueling tinnitus
Scientists have uncovered evidence that serotonin — the same brain chemical boosted by many antidepressants — may actually worsen tinnitus. Using advanced light-based brain stimulation in mice, researchers identified a serotonin-driven circuit linked directly to… Read more: The brain’s “feel good” chemical may be secretly fueling tinnitus - Allegro MicroSystems Appoints Robert Willett to its Board of Directors
Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGM) today announced the appointment of Robert J. Willett to Allegro’s Board of Directors (“Board”) as an independent director. Mr. Willett’s appointment is effective on May 13, 2026. With a distinguished… Read more: Allegro MicroSystems Appoints Robert Willett to its Board of Directors - Can your AI agent remember your secrets without the cloud ever seeing them?
As LLM-powered agents move to edge devices, they face an unexpected constraint. These systems live on your phone or your company’s server, but they need the cloud to do anything sophisticated: form long-term memories, retrieve… Read more: Can your AI agent remember your secrets without the cloud ever seeing them? - Scientists discover giant “last titan” dinosaur, Southeast Asia’s largest ever
A massive new dinosaur discovered in Thailand is rewriting Southeast Asia’s prehistoric history. The newly named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis was a colossal long-necked sauropod that weighed around 27 tonnes and lived more than 100 million years… Read more: Scientists discover giant “last titan” dinosaur, Southeast Asia’s largest ever - You can persuade AI models to accept falsehoods as truth, study shows
You can make AI chatbots spout information that’s not true. Nicoletaionescu/iStock via Getty Images When you ask a large language model a question, the reply may include falsehoods, and if you challenge those statements with… Read more: You can persuade AI models to accept falsehoods as truth, study shows - AI-generated fantasies of US intervention reveal how desperation has narrowed Cuba’s political horizons
Cuba’s American liberators, depicted on the left in a political cartoon from 1898 and on the right in an AI image. Cartoon: Blanche S. Crawford, Cartoon History of the Spanish American War (Scrapbook, 1898), 48.… Read more: AI-generated fantasies of US intervention reveal how desperation has narrowed Cuba’s political horizons - Joinable Announced the Launch of JoinClaw
JoinClaw enables individuals, teams, and organizations to deploy private AI agents powered by trusted internal knowledge and data. As organizations race to adopt agentic AI, many face a critical challenge: their most valuable knowledge remains… Read more: Joinable Announced the Launch of JoinClaw - Claude Code’s product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the “lean harness”
SAN FRANCISCO—Amid an ever-expanding array of surfaces, growing demand for tokens and compute, and a rapidly evolving user base, Anthropic doesn’t have a long-term road map for Claude Code. However, it’s betting that such a… Read more: Claude Code’s product lead talks usage limits, transparency, and the “lean harness” - The perfect commuter bike? Velotric’s Discover 3 makes its case.
Commuter bikes don’t come with the same constraints many other bikes do. Mountain bikes must glide gracefully through all sorts of abusive terrain; road bikes need to mix high performance with enough comfort to let… Read more: The perfect commuter bike? Velotric’s Discover 3 makes its case. - ‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge
Tech workers say AI-driven restructurings are eroding mentorship, support and paths to promotion across Silicon Valley As tech companies pour billions into artificial intelligence bets and slash their workforces, middle managers are squarely in the… Read more: ‘I didn’t want to be the guinea pig’: inside tech’s AI-fueled manager purge - Judgment Labs Closes $32M in Seed and Series A to Improve AI Agents Layer
Both rounds were led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and will fund Judgment’s research team and platform — already in production at agent-native companies — to help builders turn their own production data into continuously better… Read more: Judgment Labs Closes $32M in Seed and Series A to Improve AI Agents Layer - Infrrd Celebrates 10 Years, Earns Everest PEAK Matrix Honor
Infrrd, a global leader in Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), marks its 10th anniversary. Founded in 2016 to tackle the challenges of unstructured data, Infrrd is helping enterprises automate complex, document-heavy workflows with AI. Infrrd’s platform is powered… Read more: Infrrd Celebrates 10 Years, Earns Everest PEAK Matrix Honor - Champ AI Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M in New Funding
ChampAI, which automates the browser workflows, phone calls and document processing that consume enterprise ops teams, today announced its emergence from stealth alongside an $8.5 million funding round led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from… Read more: Champ AI Emerges from Stealth with $8.5M in New Funding - Freshworks Unveils AI Agent Studio in Freshservice
With an AI-powered, unified service operations foundation and new agentic accelerators, IT and business teams can deploy AI their way and move as fast as their business demands At its annual Refresh conference, Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ:… Read more: Freshworks Unveils AI Agent Studio in Freshservice - Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition
Three-storey GreenSquare datacentre in Hazelmere was to power cloud computing and the acceleration of AI Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A 15,000 sq metre datacentre near Perth will no… Read more: Developer withdraws plans for Perth datacentre after fierce community opposition - Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate. - DEEPX and Ultralytics Partner to Advance Physical AI Standards
Empowering the world’s largest computer vision ecosystem with a unified, one-click NPU hardware standard for building the next generation of real-world AI applications. DEEPX, a leading fabless AI semiconductor company specializing in ultra-low-power Neural Processing… Read more: DEEPX and Ultralytics Partner to Advance Physical AI Standards - A grad student’s wild idea sparks a major aging breakthrough
A casual conversation between graduate students helped spark a breakthrough in aging research at Mayo Clinic. Researchers discovered that tiny synthetic DNA molecules called aptamers can selectively attach to senescent “zombie cells,” which are linked… Read more: A grad student’s wild idea sparks a major aging breakthrough - Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created a remarkable new material that works like a “rechargeable solar battery,” storing sunlight inside tiny molecules and releasing it later as heat — even long after the sun… Read more: Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy - The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial
A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad. - Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype
Vocal fry, aka “creaky voice,” is a distinctive drop in pitch, usually at the end of sentences, associated with the speech patterns of young women in particular. Britney Spears is the go-to example of the… Read more: Men use “vocal fry” more than women, counter to stereotype - Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
Perhaps you remember Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, the 34-year-old twin brothers we profiled earlier this week. Although they had the tech chops to commit years of petty crimes (like stealing airline miles), what landed them… Read more: Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes - Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars
MIT master’s student Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarship. Now in its ninth year, the highly competitive scholarship provides up to three years of financial support for… Read more: Two from MIT named 2026 Knight-Hennessy Scholars - Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him
Elon Musk is locked in a heated trial in a lawsuit he lodged against his rival OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Or at least, he’s supposed to be. Despite the judge’s explicit order that… Read more: Elon Musk Flees OpenAI Trial as Tide Turns Against Him - Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
The tourist and ski resort town of Lake Tahoe must scramble to find a new energy supplier by May 2027—the result of a Nevada utility company saying it needs the power capacity in part for… Read more: Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers - Cell phone users can’t stop incriminating themselves
“What kind of doctor was dr. pepper,” Utah real estate agent Kouri Richins once asked a search engine. (Sadly, there was no actual Dr. Pepper.) But it was Richins’ less innocuous online searches that helped… Read more: Cell phone users can’t stop incriminating themselves - An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta
Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity. - Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world’s first ‘AI art’ museum be any different?
Dataland will open at the Frank Gehry designed The Grand LA. RDNE Stock project/Pexels The “world first museum of AI arts” is scheduled to open next month in a 35,000 square feet purpose-built facility in… Read more: Museums have always been entangled with European imperialism. Will the world’s first ‘AI art’ museum be any different? - Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced what sounds like a truly awful day on the stand this week during cross-examination in the ongoing Musk v. Altman court saga, as the opposing counsel hammered him with ruthless… Read more: Sam Altman Faces Nightmare Questions in Cross-Examination - Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
In recent years, many overworked doctors have turned to so-called AI medical scribes to help automatically summarize patient conversations, diagnoses, and care decisions into structured notes for health record logging. But a recent audit by… Read more: Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds - Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections and gain complete access to an encrypted drive within seconds. The exploit, named YellowKey, was… Read more: Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections - Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption
A federal judge reportedly said she will not rubber-stamp a settlement between Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying the deal raises red flags and needs scrutiny over whether Musk is getting special… Read more: Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption - AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs
When AMD announced version 4 of its FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) graphics upscaling technology early last year, it came with strings attached: The improved hardware-backed image quality would be available only on Radeon RX 9000-series… Read more: AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs - Trump’s Tech Posse in China, Who’s Winning in Musk v. Altman, and Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories
Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher. - Microsoft Retires ‘Copilot Mode’ as Edge Gets Built-In AI Tools
Microsoft is retiring “Copilot Mode” in Edge as it builds AI browsing tools directly into Edge on desktop and mobile. The post Microsoft Retires ‘Copilot Mode’ as Edge Gets Built-In AI Tools appeared first on… Read more: Microsoft Retires ‘Copilot Mode’ as Edge Gets Built-In AI Tools - Top New Features in Android 17 You’ll Notice This Year
Google previewed Android 17 with Gemini AI tools, AirDrop-style sharing, privacy upgrades, multitasking changes, and stronger security controls. The post Top New Features in Android 17 You’ll Notice This Year appeared first on TechRepublic. - DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. The sudden shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development… Read more: DOGE Cuts Unleashed a Deadly Wave of Violence Across Africa, Study Finds - Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which were previously carried out by humans — in an attempt to boost productivity and efficiency, often in a prelude to… Read more: Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad - Trump’s China Summit Turns Into a Big Tech Power Play
Trump’s China summit brought Nvidia, Apple, and Tesla leaders into talks shaped by AI chips, trade pressure, and market-access demands. The post Trump’s China Summit Turns Into a Big Tech Power Play appeared first on… Read more: Trump’s China Summit Turns Into a Big Tech Power Play - Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech
Emergence AI’s experiment with AI agents shows extent to which programming shapes their behaviour is still unclear AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”,… Read more: Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech - Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
Following a quarter in which his company delivered record revenue, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced that the company’s latest round of layoffs begins today. In a blog post yesterday, Robbins was quick to boast that… Read more: Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day - Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.
Among the many advantages the Chinese auto industry appears to have over foreign competitors is its ability to quickly turn a new idea into a car that customers can buy. At the other end of… Read more: Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models. - Your data engineers may be more influential than you think
From plumber to platform builder The first generation of data engineers were essentially ETL developers: extract data from here, transform it, load it over there. The job was largely reactive: Business stakeholders asked for a… Read more: Your data engineers may be more influential than you think
