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

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 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.

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 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

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 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, 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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.

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, 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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, 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

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 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

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, 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

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?

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 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

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

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

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”

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.

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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

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.

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

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

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 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

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

“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

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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.

🌘 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

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 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

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

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

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.

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

A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and personal identifying information like emails and user IDs with the tech giants — and targeted advertising behemoths — Meta and Google,… Read more: OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google

Blue Origin may seek outside funding for the first time as it looks to scale launches, compete with SpaceX, and expand its space business. The post Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin May Need Outside Cash to… Read more: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin May Need Outside Cash to Catch SpaceX

Kevin O’Leary’s Wonder Valley data center project faces scrutiny as job estimates shift and Utah residents raise environmental concerns. The post Kevin O’Leary’s ‘Wonder Valley’ Data Center Advances as Job Estimates Shift appeared first on… Read more: Kevin O’Leary’s ‘Wonder Valley’ Data Center Advances as Job Estimates Shift

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing, and yet deeply illuminating lawsuit — filed against Altman by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man — that’s been gripping Silicon… Read more: Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings

Scientists exploring deep underwater canyons off the coast of Western Australia uncovered a hidden world packed with bizarre and elusive marine life — including signs of the legendary giant squid. By analyzing traces of DNA… Read more: Giant squid discovery uncovers a hidden deep-sea world off Australia

Motorola was early to foldable phones, announcing its first Razr-branded foldable in 2019. Since then, the company has churned out a series of foldable flip phones, but the new Razr Fold is its first attempt… Read more: Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, overturning a long-standing belief that fossilization destroys all organic material. In a remarkably well-preserved Edmontosaurus fossil from South Dakota,… Read more: Paleontology rocked by discovery of organic molecules in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Scientists said this week that a developing El Niño is likely to amplify heatwaves, droughts and floods this year, but warned that the long-term warming caused by burning fossil fuels remains the main driver of… Read more: Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño

Deep beneath Portugal’s São Jorge Island, a massive surge of magma silently pushed upward from more than 20 kilometers underground in 2022, triggering thousands of earthquakes and briefly raising fears of a volcanic eruption. Scientists… Read more: Giant “stealth” magma surge triggered thousands of earthquakes beneath Atlantic island

Scientists studying mysterious ultra-powerful cosmic rays have uncovered a surprising hidden pattern that could finally help explain where these particles come from. Using the DAMPE space telescope, researchers found that cosmic ray particles—from tiny protons… Read more: After 100 years, scientists finally uncover hidden rule behind cosmic rays

Built-In Orchestration and Low-Code Playbooks in Log360 Let Security Teams Handle the Full Incident Life Cycle Within One Platform Introduces native SOAR built into the unified security platform’s core data model Adds seven critical integrations across… Read more: ManageEngine Announces Native SOAR

A few weeks ago, I came across a wild post on Reddit’s r/DHExchange, a subreddit for trading large datasets: “I hoarded a large database of something valuable, just not what’s [sic] you expect…150k stools images.” … Read more: Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users’ Poops

An ancient disk shows the priestess Enheduanna, third figure from the right, during a ritual. Mefman00/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY I teach writing and rhetoric, but my college students and I often overlook a surprisingly complicated… Read more: Is AI really ‘writing’? From a priestess to philosophers, ancient authors would have said ‘no’

Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.

Build right the first time with UnqorkAI, a new, AI-first, trusted development platform Unqork announced UnqorkAI, a new development platform designed to help organizations build and operate AI-generated applications with greater control, predictability, and governance. As… Read more: UnqorkAI Ends the Chaos of Enterprise AI Code Sprawl

Blend today announced it has achieved Snowflake Elite Partner Status, the highest designation in the Snowflake Partner Network. The milestone recognizes Blend’s sustained technical depth, production-scale delivery, and measurable client outcomes on the Snowflake AI… Read more: Blend Achieves Snowflake Elite Partner Status

Expanding a multiyear partnership that combines TechBlocks’ AI operating model, accelerators, and enterprise delivery expertise with Factory’s agent-native software development platform to help enterprises scale production-grade AI with confidence. Key highlights Industry-grade AI engineering delivery: TechBlocks integrated Factory into… Read more: TechBlocks and Factory Partnership: Powering Secure, Scalable Enterprise AI

Donald Trump has very little leverage heading into two days of meetings with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in Beijing this week, experts say. The thinking goes that Trump came into office with a plan that… Read more: Desperate Trump taps “Tim Apple,” Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.

Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI If it wasn’t already clear, Elon Musk and Sam Altman hate each… Read more: The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao

Creator of Politidex hopes free online app will help humanise politics and act as a way of ‘flipping the narrative’ The year is 2016 and Pokémon Go has taken over the world. People are wandering… Read more: Gotta catch an MP! Players ‘debate’ UK politicians in Pokémon-style game

British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported. The two companies’ agreement covers an estimated 1,000 to 2,000 robots in Schaeffler’s global manufacturing sites by… Read more: Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots

Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like Are you there God? It’s me, Arwa. I’ll be quite… Read more: No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious | Arwa Mahdawi

The Global AI Show will make Riyadh a global destination for artificial intelligence. Hosted by VAP Group and powered by the Times of AI, it is a summit for leaders in the field of artificial… Read more: Riyadh to Host Global AI Show: Where Minds and Machines Meet

New Virtana Study Finds Enterprises Scaling AI Faster Than They Can Govern It Two-thirds of enterprises are running AI infrastructure without system-level visibility, creating a fragile foundation beneath rapidly expanding AI deployments. New research from Virtana found… Read more: Survey: When AI Factories Fail, 6 in 10 Enterprises Cannot Tell You Why

Leaders from NVIDIA, GEICO, Highmark Health, Citizens Bank, and Dell share how to overcome governance and infrastructure barriers to scaling AI As enterprises push AI beyond pilots and into production, a new challenge is emerging:… Read more: Starburst to Host AI & Datanova 2026