
- Art ‘must not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit’ Liberal senator says as AI policy debate rages
Andrew McLachlan says he chooses ‘real forests over virtual ones’ as he urges Labor government to consider AI’s impact on artists and environment Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast Outspoken… Read more: Art ‘must not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit’ Liberal senator says as AI policy debate rages - AI Agent Can’t Explain Why It Randomly Ordered its Human Meat Proxy an Absurd Number of Eggs
You could order your groceries yourself. Or you could engage in an excruciating Rube Goldberg machine of a conversation by micromanaging an AI agent to describe what food you need from the supermarket — just… Read more: AI Agent Can’t Explain Why It Randomly Ordered its Human Meat Proxy an Absurd Number of Eggs - AI Chatbots Won’t Stop Recommending Scam Websites to People Trying to Shop
AI chatbots are taking over as the main way that people use the internet outside social media — and that includes shopping. It makes it pretty concerning, then, that they still have a bad habit… Read more: AI Chatbots Won’t Stop Recommending Scam Websites to People Trying to Shop - Scientists discover a surprisingly simple way to turn coffee waste into fuel
Scientists have developed an efficient method to transform used coffee grounds into a potential source of biodiesel while preserving the leftover material for other renewable fuels and valuable chemicals. The discovery could turn millions of… Read more: Scientists discover a surprisingly simple way to turn coffee waste into fuel - A giant icy world hiding beyond Pluto could be our sixth dwarf planet
Astronomers have uncovered a potentially enormous new dwarf planet beyond Pluto, hidden for years in one of the most crowded regions of the night sky. The discovery of 2026 ED138 could expand the solar system’s… Read more: A giant icy world hiding beyond Pluto could be our sixth dwarf planet - Stanford scientists discover hidden brain signals that predict Alzheimer’s years before symptoms
Stanford researchers have discovered that hidden patterns of brain activity can predict Alzheimer’s risk years before memory problems appear, potentially offering an earlier warning than traditional biomarkers. The same patterns also reveal which brains are… Read more: Stanford scientists discover hidden brain signals that predict Alzheimer’s years before symptoms - Scientists find a simple daily routine linked to less pain and depression
A simple change to your daily routine could make a surprising difference in how you feel, both physically and mentally. University of Missouri researchers found that older adults who followed consistent daily schedules reported less… Read more: Scientists find a simple daily routine linked to less pain and depression - Scientists Made Monkeys Watch Minions to Study Their Brains
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that watched movies, made sacrifices, got crafty, and aged backwards. First, scientists learn how primates make meaning out of visuals by peeking into the… Read more: Scientists Made Monkeys Watch Minions to Study Their Brains - Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom
Fully automated ransomware hasn’t arrived—yet. But seemingly unsophisticated attackers are using AI tools to wreak havoc. - Even San Francisco Is Turning Against AI
For years, San Francisco has been a haven for AI optimists, leaving many of them baffled when they travel beyond the Bay Area and encounter people outside their industry who despise the tech. Increasingly, though,… Read more: Even San Francisco Is Turning Against AI - Winemakers are learning that conservation can be good for business
More than 500 vineyards are scattered across the slopes and valleys of South Africa’s Western Cape, one of the world’s most biologically diverse landscapes. The region produces about 90 percent of South Africa’s wine, but… Read more: Winemakers are learning that conservation can be good for business - James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits
Beta Pictoris is a young star, roughly 20 million years old, and located about 64 light-years away from Earth. It is surrounded by a vast disk of dust and rubble where planets are still forming—astronomers… Read more: James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits - No Pilots. Few Air Traffic Controllers. What Could Go Wrong?
Normally, aviation is slow to embrace new technology—but AI has come for the skies. - Jensen Huang’s Exit Just Gave AMD and Google Their Biggest AI Opening
On the same day that Jensen Huang resigned as NVIDIA’s chief executive after 33 years at the helm of the company he co-founded, another semiconductor company CEO was being celebrated. AMD CEO Lisa Su was… Read more: Jensen Huang’s Exit Just Gave AMD and Google Their Biggest AI Opening - ‘The social contract is broken’: young people on feeling shut out of careers
In the first instalment of a new series, four young people reveal the impact of an endless cycle of applications and rejections Guardian to follow lives of eight young people in their search for jobs… Read more: ‘The social contract is broken’: young people on feeling shut out of careers - ‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary world
With authors losing lucrative deals and writers removed from prize shortlists, accusations of AI use are sending shock waves through the publishing industry. Is it too late to turn the tide on machine writing? The… Read more: ‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary world - OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Wallet for Agent-Led Payments
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Wallet, a payment feature that allows AI agents to make purchases on behalf of users without accessing their actual card details. The feature requires users to approve every transaction through a… Read more: OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Wallet for Agent-Led Payments - AI supercharges laser physics with a stunning 250x speed boost
Researchers at Stanford, UCLA, and SLAC have developed an AI system that simulates complex laser interactions thousands of times faster than conventional methods. The breakthrough allows scientists to predict how laser pulses behave inside special… Read more: AI supercharges laser physics with a stunning 250x speed boost - Scientists capture electrons making seemingly impossible quantum jumps
Scientists have captured electrons making seemingly impossible jumps across forbidden energy gaps in graphene, with some transitions occurring at a remarkable 100% probability. The breakthrough offers an unprecedented look at quantum behavior and could help… Read more: Scientists capture electrons making seemingly impossible quantum jumps - 5,000-year-old skulls reveal a disturbing secret of ancient Egypt’s first kings
A 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding the tombs of Egypt’s first kings has taken a disturbing turn. Scientists reexamining 46 ancient skulls discovered evidence of potentially fatal head injuries in 18, suggesting that at least 39% of… Read more: 5,000-year-old skulls reveal a disturbing secret of ancient Egypt’s first kings - AI Chatbots and Children: Should India Regulate What Bots Say?
“I would rather speak to and share with an AI companion; at least I am not being judged.” A 15-year-old girl from Delhi made this observation in the Expert Engagement Group on AI and Child… Read more: AI Chatbots and Children: Should India Regulate What Bots Say? - Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
STARBASE, Texas—Starship lifted off right on schedule Friday from South Texas, making its 15th test flight in more than three years. The largely successful launch took place in the early evening; as the massive rocket… Read more: Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday - NiCE’s next-generation Cognigy bets the hard part of AI agents is running them, not building them
The contact center has been the low-hanging fruit for the artificial intelligence industry. Ask any information technology or business leader what they want to use agentic AI for, and they will say it’s to improve… Read more: NiCE’s next-generation Cognigy bets the hard part of AI agents is running them, not building them - FAA orders third nationwide ground stop in its history
On Friday afternoon, days after expanding use of an AI tool, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop, halting departures from all US airports. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced the ground stop… Read more: FAA orders third nationwide ground stop in its history - FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the… Read more: FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace - Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence?
Mere days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dramatically expanded the use of an AI air traffic control tool nationwide, the agency issued an extremely rare ground stop for all flights in the entire country… Read more: Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence? - Mirendil raises $1B in funding to speed up AI model development
Mirendil Inc., a provider of software that speeds up artificial intelligence development, has raised $1 billion in early-stage funding. The startup stated on Thursday that Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital jointly led the Series A… Read more: Mirendil raises $1B in funding to speed up AI model development - What the choice between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen for Senate leader is all about | Bernie Sanders
This is not a personality contest. This is a debate about the future of the Democratic party The election for Democratic Senate leader between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen must be understood for what… Read more: What the choice between Chuck Schumer and Chris Van Hollen for Senate leader is all about | Bernie Sanders - Millions in US use unapproved GLP-1s—and use them in unapproved ways
GLP-1 medications are everywhere these days. The peptide-based drugs are both highly effective and wildly popular for diabetes, weight loss and a growing range of connected chronic health conditions, including cardiovascular disease and obstructive sleep… Read more: Millions in US use unapproved GLP-1s—and use them in unapproved ways - OpenAI board member worries an AI “takeover” of society could be months away
How do you think you’re going to die? If you go by the current statistics for deaths in the US, it’s reasonable to expect that cancer or heart disease will eventually get you. But OpenAI… Read more: OpenAI board member worries an AI “takeover” of society could be months away - Why the Nvidia scandal is far from over – The Latest
Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout… Read more: Why the Nvidia scandal is far from over – The Latest - Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted “optics” weren’t good
Donald Trump Jr. agreed to end his advisory role with the prediction market Kalshi shortly after Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm made a large investment in its competitor, Polymarket. “We have mutually agreed to end… Read more: Kalshi ditches Trump Jr. as advisor; CEO admitted “optics” weren’t good - Tenant Uses AI to Beat Down His Landlord in Court
It took years, but a worthy use case for AI has finally emerged. In the United Kingdom, a south London man successfully argued against a petty rent-hike imposed by his landlord using generative AI, the… Read more: Tenant Uses AI to Beat Down His Landlord in Court - In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits
Elephants live in some of the most complex and resilient societies in the animal kingdom. Individuals die or move away, calves grow up, and newcomers join, but the local communities as a whole usually hold… Read more: In elephants, the resilience of communities has its limits - Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash. - This Week in Tech: Nvidia’s Shakeup and AI’s Reality Check
See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Nov. 9–13. The post This Week in Tech: Nvidia’s Shakeup and AI’s Reality Check appeared first on TechRepublic. - AI Now Statement on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) to US Congress
The AI Now Institute has released a statement outlining concerns with the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), which serves as a backdoor bailout of the AI industry. The statement’s key points are as… Read more: AI Now Statement on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) to US Congress - AI-Pilled Tech Bro Claims His Agents Found an Ancient Maya Site in the Jungle. It Turns Out That Researchers Actually Discovered It.
Google AI researcher Pietro Miotti let his AI agents loose on some NASA lidar data — where, according to him, they made a staggering discovery: an ancient Maya site lurking deep under the thick canopy… Read more: AI-Pilled Tech Bro Claims His Agents Found an Ancient Maya Site in the Jungle. It Turns Out That Researchers Actually Discovered It. - OpenAI board member worries an AI “takeover” of society could be months away
How do you think you’re going to die? If you go by the current statistics for deaths in the US, it’s reasonable to expect that cancer or heart disease will eventually get you. But OpenAI… Read more: OpenAI board member worries an AI “takeover” of society could be months away - Behind the Blog: Priorities, Priorities
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 getting inspired and how things get prioritized.… Read more: Behind the Blog: Priorities, Priorities - Why the Nvidia scandal is far from over – The Latest
Jensen Huang’s resignation from the AI chipmaker Nvidia has sent shockwaves through the global economy. Huang resigned after reported affairs with an Nvidia executive and a woman alleged to be a Chinese spy. The fallout… Read more: Why the Nvidia scandal is far from over – The Latest - If Gen Z are asked to go to war, it might not be in the way they expect | Brief letters
Fighting for your country | Starbucks | Sparta | Itching powder Jason Okundaye addresses the issue of whether Britain’s youth would be willing to lay down their lives in defence of our country (Gen Z… Read more: If Gen Z are asked to go to war, it might not be in the way they expect | Brief letters - How it feels to battle with a flood of AI-generated complaints | Letters
An investigator writes that a human-written grievance at least gets to the heart of the issue immediately. Plus letters from Dexter Jandoo and Pete Bibby Re your article (‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught… Read more: How it feels to battle with a flood of AI-generated complaints | Letters - The Guardian view on M John Harrison’s Booker win: a new frontier for science fiction | Editorial
The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past “Science fiction will never be Literature with a capital ‘L,’” began a New York Times review of… Read more: The Guardian view on M John Harrison’s Booker win: a new frontier for science fiction | Editorial - Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights
Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym of a researcher with an ongoing, very public beef with Microsoft, has dropped yet another Windows zero-day. On Tuesday, Nightmare Eclipse disclosed SignDrop, a vulnerability that gives local users full System… Read more: Windows 0-day dropped by disgruntled researcher hands hackers System rights - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s abrupt departure shakes AI industry’s foundations
Oh, Jensen… really? Honeypot or not, the Chinese executive/accused spy with whom Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted an affair this week should have been a flashing red light to him. So should fraternizing with one… Read more: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s abrupt departure shakes AI industry’s foundations - Samsung and Google Open AI Glasses Preorders: What $395 Gets You
Samsung and Google open AI glasses preorders from $395. Explore Gemini features, Warby Parker and Gentle Monster styles, release dates, and phone compatibility. The post Samsung and Google Open AI Glasses Preorders: What $395 Gets… Read more: Samsung and Google Open AI Glasses Preorders: What $395 Gets You - Fivetran Finds 4 in 10 Companies Spend 25% of AI Budgets on Data Fixes
New Fivetran research finds companies losing at least 25% of AI spending to avoidable work are 5x as likely to report significant project delays Key Findings: Nearly 4 in 10 companies spend at least a… Read more: Fivetran Finds 4 in 10 Companies Spend 25% of AI Budgets on Data Fixes - Insight Unveils Agent Store to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption
A catalog of AI agents, enterprise-ready platforms, and integrated services helps companies achieve value in as little as days to weeks Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) today announced the global launch of its online Agent Store,… Read more: Insight Unveils Agent Store to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption - ‘Ahead of his time’: AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of man who transformed maths
Kurt Gödel left 1,009 pages of densely written text – much of it in an obsolete shorthand – which is now said to contain hundreds of proved theorems The Austrian logician Kurt Gödel was one… Read more: ‘Ahead of his time’: AI helps unlock discoveries hidden in notebooks of man who transformed maths - Jensen Huang and the End of the Founder Fairy Tale
The former tech CEO is obsessed with the power of storytelling. But he hasn’t spun his way out of his sex scandals. - OpenAI Leadership Gets Fooled by Pranksters Pretending to be Ukrainian Officials, Discusses Military Secrets With Them
Weeks ago, three OpenAI higher-ups became the butt of an embarrassing joke pulled by a duo of Russian pranksters, a gaffe with alarming implications for a company jockeying for military contracts. According to the Intercept,… Read more: OpenAI Leadership Gets Fooled by Pranksters Pretending to be Ukrainian Officials, Discusses Military Secrets With Them - Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon’s or CrowdStrike’s, expert says
A global outage taking down a wide range of Microsoft 365 services remains ongoing Friday morning. The outage started midday Thursday, impacting users of Microsoft email, cloud, and AI services. Microsoft has documented the full… Read more: Microsoft’s global outage may be worse than Amazon’s or CrowdStrike’s, expert says - Podcast: Election Fallout
This year’s election results show voters are really mad about the tech oligarchy, Silicon Valley, and data centers. And the right’s memes aren’t working anymore. Then we discuss how AI-powered reverse engineering is under threat… Read more: Podcast: Election Fallout - AI Document Summaries: What Gets Missed and What to Check
Learn why AI document tools can miss charts, footnotes, exceptions, and revisions—and what IT teams should verify before relying on summaries for decisions. The post AI Document Summaries: What Gets Missed and What to Check… Read more: AI Document Summaries: What Gets Missed and What to Check - Google, Meta, TikTok Oppose Indonesia’s AI Copyright Bill
Google, Meta, and TikTok oppose Indonesia’s proposed copyright changes. Here’s what APAC businesses should know about AI content, news links, and liability. The post Google, Meta, TikTok Oppose Indonesia’s AI Copyright Bill appeared first on… Read more: Google, Meta, TikTok Oppose Indonesia’s AI Copyright Bill - Agents idling while they wait on humans push Kubernetes to hand back unused resources
Agentic AI workloads are handing Kubernetes an unexpected second act. The orchestrator once dismissed as reliable but boring is now at the center of how enterprises plan to run autonomous software. Past platform shifts, from… Read more: Agents idling while they wait on humans push Kubernetes to hand back unused resources - Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029
ANTALYA, Turkey—Amid upbeat green-tech pep talks and notices for happy hours at the annual United Nations COP31 climate change conference on Thursday, two new reports offered a stark reminder of how far the world remains… Read more: Scientists warn 1.5°C climate change threshold could arrive by 2029 - Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, “Remember the road atlas”
Whether it’s nostalgia or a sense that technology has gotten a bit too pervasive, there’s no denying that Slate Auto appears to be tuned into the particular moment. The startup has a simple pitch: an… Read more: Screenless GPS: Slate Auto says, “Remember the road atlas” - Apple Wants $50 for More AI Usage: How Much Do You Actually Get?
Apple now sells $49.99 AI usage packs for Creator Studio subscribers. Here’s how they work, who qualifies, and why the extra capacity is hard to predict. The post Apple Wants $50 for More AI Usage:… Read more: Apple Wants $50 for More AI Usage: How Much Do You Actually Get? - It’s the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist’s 1960 prediction
As of this morning, Microsoft is still scrambling to restore service following yesterday’s global outage, with millions of users unable to access Outlook and other vital tools. It’s not the end of the world, but… Read more: It’s the end of the world as we know it, per a physicist’s 1960 prediction - SoftBank’s AI Empire Rests on a Single Asset—And It’s Over-Leveraged
Last year, SoftBank Group Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son declared his vision of turning the Japanese technology investment group into the biggest platform provider for “artificial super intelligence”. That required massive and aggressive investments into… Read more: SoftBank’s AI Empire Rests on a Single Asset—And It’s Over-Leveraged - Allegheny County has more license plate readers than any other Pa. county. Here’s what’s at stake
Surveillance is a reality in the modern world. Security cameras record streets, stores, home entrances and even highways – and our phones keep track of where we go. Most of us likely don’t want to… Read more: Allegheny County has more license plate readers than any other Pa. county. Here’s what’s at stake - The Sun unleashed a monster storm. Earth may have made it worse
The massive solar storm that illuminated skies worldwide in May 2024 has uncovered an unexpected twist: Earth’s own atmosphere may have helped make the storm so powerful. Satellite measurements revealed that roughly 85% of the… Read more: The Sun unleashed a monster storm. Earth may have made it worse - Dark energy may have flipped from negative to positive 9.5 billion years ago
A mysterious force driving the expansion of the Universe may have undergone a dramatic reversal billions of years ago. Scientists exploring an overlooked branch of an alternative gravity theory discovered that dark energy could have… Read more: Dark energy may have flipped from negative to positive 9.5 billion years ago - Superheated magma could fuel towering lava fountains
Why do some volcanoes erupt with spectacular lava fountains while others release lava more quietly? Scientists have discovered that a hidden effect of extreme heat inside magma may help explain the difference. Experiments revealed that… Read more: Superheated magma could fuel towering lava fountains - Scientists discover a hidden danger of viral infections that vaccines may prevent
A new study reveals that viral infections may leave behind hidden damage to the immune system long after symptoms disappear. Researchers found that mice recovering from an acute infection experienced lasting changes to their spleens… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden danger of viral infections that vaccines may prevent - The datacenter industry is using propaganda to fight opposition | Samuel Woolley, Dean Jackson and Maia Woluchem
Big tech has used misdirection, disinformation and jargon to obscure the harm the facilities can cause to communities “Antifa”. “Commies”. “Chinese bots”. Everyone from tech leaders to the president has called datacenter resistance a “documented… Read more: The datacenter industry is using propaganda to fight opposition | Samuel Woolley, Dean Jackson and Maia Woluchem - Shameless Scammers Are Cashing in by Posting Fake, AI-Altered Paparazzi Shots of Celebrities Undergoing Going Huge Body Changes, Drinking While Pregnant, and Cheating on Their Partners
In one synthetic image published to X-formerly-Twitter, the singer Billie Eilish looks terrifyingly thin. In another, the model and reality TV star Kendall Jenner is pictured heavily pregnant as she carries a bottle of liquor.… Read more: Shameless Scammers Are Cashing in by Posting Fake, AI-Altered Paparazzi Shots of Celebrities Undergoing Going Huge Body Changes, Drinking While Pregnant, and Cheating on Their Partners - Could you survive without Microsoft? Inside the costs of digital dependence
Microsoft products including Outlook were out of action globally on November 13 2026. Alex Photo Stock/Shutterstock When I arrived at work to discover that Outlook had vanished from my computer, I wondered how I was… Read more: Could you survive without Microsoft? Inside the costs of digital dependence - ReNew Pledges ₹80,000 Cr for Green Data Centre to Fuel India’s AI Push
ReNew Energy Global plans to invest approximately ₹80,000 crore in Andhra Pradesh across data centre infrastructure and clean energy manufacturing. The investment includes a 1 GW green hyperscale data centre in Anakapalli, envisioned to run… Read more: ReNew Pledges ₹80,000 Cr for Green Data Centre to Fuel India’s AI Push - Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron
Welcome to Edition 9.19 of the Rocket Report! Will something historic happen this weekend? No orbital rocket has ever been fully recovered with the intent of reusing all of its components. But that’s just what… Read more: Rocket Report: Starship set for historic test flight; a century of Electron - This Startup Is Betting on AI Microdramas to Get More Black Stories in Hollywood
Mansa says its AI microdramas can serve as proofs of concept for what Black audiences want. Critics say the studio is selling out. - Mars Opens Hyderabad GCC With Genpact to Expand Digital, AI Capabilities
Mars, the US-based food and pet care company, has opened a global capability centre (GCC) in Hyderabad with Genpact to expand its digital, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The 60,000 sq ft facility will… Read more: Mars Opens Hyderabad GCC With Genpact to Expand Digital, AI Capabilities - Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride
I love a good Zone 2 ride. There’s nothing like getting on the bike, settling into a groove, and letting the miles (and hours) flow by. But sometimes when I hopped on the Specialized Tarmac… Read more: Specialized’s Tarmac SL9 S-Level is built to wreck your Zone 2 ride - Adobe, Google Expand AI Partnership Across Creative and Productivity Tools
Adobe and Google have expanded their strategic partnership to integrate Google’s artificial intelligence models into Adobe’s creative software and extend Adobe’s tools across Google’s products, including Workspace, Gemini, and Google Search. The collaboration will bring… Read more: Adobe, Google Expand AI Partnership Across Creative and Productivity Tools - Shield AI Opens Bengaluru Engineering Office to Build Defence Autonomy Software
Shield AI, a US-based defence technology company, has opened an engineering office in Bengaluru to develop and test autonomy software for Indian aircraft and defence systems. Welcoming the expansion, Karnataka IT Secretary Dr Manjula N.,… Read more: Shield AI Opens Bengaluru Engineering Office to Build Defence Autonomy Software - Xurrent ITAM Announced Launch to Make CMDB Data Trustworthy Enough for AI
New capabilities bring asset data from existing tools into one place, reducing manual upkeep and helping IT teams make better-informed decisions Xurrent, the AI-powered service management platform for corporate IT teams and enterprise MSPs, today… Read more: Xurrent ITAM Announced Launch to Make CMDB Data Trustworthy Enough for AI - Can Karnataka’s AI Hub Ease Compute Costs for Women-Led Startups?
Among the greatest concerns plaguing the progress of Indian AI is the cost of developing AI products and limited access to computing infrastructure. The IndiaAI Mission has secured and allotted 62,000 GPUs to date, however,… Read more: Can Karnataka’s AI Hub Ease Compute Costs for Women-Led Startups? - A Practical Blueprint for an AI-Ready Enterprise
An AI-ready enterprise needs room to experiment, safeguards for sensitive workloads and the freedom to adopt new models without starting again. Building one means clear choices about infrastructure, data, costs and responsibility. When an AI… Read more: A Practical Blueprint for an AI-Ready Enterprise - Kindo Raises $57.6M to Expand Enterprise AI Agent Control
Crosspoint Capital and Forgepoint Capital co-lead $30 million expansion to scale Kindo’s go-to-market operations and accelerate development of its AI agent management platform Kindo, the run-anywhere AI agent management platform that puts the enterprise in… Read more: Kindo Raises $57.6M to Expand Enterprise AI Agent Control - Logic Pursuits Certified as Best Firm for Women in Tech
Logic Pursuits has been certified as a Best Firm for Women in Tech by Analytics India Magazine (AIM) through its workplace recognition programme. The certification is based on structured feedback from professionals within the organisation… Read more: Logic Pursuits Certified as Best Firm for Women in Tech - Google Launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Faster Coding and AI Workflows
Google has launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen, targeting coding, research, and everyday business tasks. The model is part of Google’s Gemini 4 family, which also includes Gemini 4 Carbon and Gemini 4 Argon. According to Google,… Read more: Google Launches Gemini 4 Hydrogen for Faster Coding and AI Workflows - Stibo Systems Research Reveals the Hidden AI Trust Tax on Enterprises
New survey finds 72% of leaders are confident in AI outputs, yet 65% still manually validate or rework them, and fewer than 3 in 10 can always explain the data behind an answer Most enterprises… Read more: Stibo Systems Research Reveals the Hidden AI Trust Tax on Enterprises - Barndoor announces availability of AI Gateway on Google Cloud Marketplace
Enterprises can now buy Barndoor through Google Cloud Marketplace to help govern MCP tool access, LLM traffic and cost spend, and agentic automations Barndoor today announced that its AI Gateway and Automations platform is now… Read more: Barndoor announces availability of AI Gateway on Google Cloud Marketplace - Rafay and Fortanix Enable Confidential AI as a Service
Joint solution lets operators run customers’ AI workloads in attested, hardware-isolated environments where sensitive data and models stay encrypted even while in use. Rafay Systems and Fortanix® Inc. today announced a joint solution that lets neoclouds,… Read more: Rafay and Fortanix Enable Confidential AI as a Service - Kalshi to Develop Trading Platform for Compute Futures: Report
The prediction market platform Kalshi is in talks to raise funds to develop a platform aimed at trading compute futures, according to Reuters. Kalshi hasn’t confirmed the development. Kalshi raised $1 billion last month at… Read more: Kalshi to Develop Trading Platform for Compute Futures: Report - Microsoft Outage: Fix Fails to Restore Outlook, Teams, Copilot Across 74 Countries
Microsoft is struggling to restore services following a global outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and several other Microsoft 365 applications. The company’s initial recovery measures have not delivered the anticipated improvements, forcing it to… Read more: Microsoft Outage: Fix Fails to Restore Outlook, Teams, Copilot Across 74 Countries - Nvidia scandal sparks US national security furore and calls to take tough line on China
Former CEO Jensen Huang and US commerce secretary to appear before Congress amid bipartisan concern that America’s security was put at risk Nvidia scandal – latest updates Analysis: Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now… Read more: Nvidia scandal sparks US national security furore and calls to take tough line on China - The Nightmare at NVIDIA
It took Jensen Huang forty years to go from working as a ‘dishwasher, waiter, busboy’ to starting NVIDIA and turning it into a trillion-dollar company by 2023. But it took only a fortnight and a… Read more: The Nightmare at NVIDIA - Have we finally found a valid use case for AI? Meet Pino the autonomous virtual kiwi | First Dog on the Moon
Pino noodles about making his own AI decisions. He has decided independently that he is into trains and cats. Aren’t we all Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published… Read more: Have we finally found a valid use case for AI? Meet Pino the autonomous virtual kiwi | First Dog on the Moon - Helping robots fit into the human workplace
Despite fears about robots replacing humans at work, there are still plenty of things humans can do far better than machines. That’s fine with Robust AI, a startup building robots designed to complement what humans… Read more: Helping robots fit into the human workplace - New AI “copilot” helps engineers design better structures
The use of algorithms to design structures has led to new parts optimized for ultralight aircraft, high-bandwidth antennas, and F1 racing cars. But the best algorithmic design techniques still require lots of computation and time:… Read more: New AI “copilot” helps engineers design better structures - AI agent tooling provider LangChain secures $300M investment
LangChain Inc., a startup with a set of popular open-source tools for building artificial intelligence agents, has raised $300 million in funding. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG fund led the… Read more: AI agent tooling provider LangChain secures $300M investment - As AI agents take control, Nvidia rethinks the security playbook
Nvidia Corp. recently added a new pillar to its AI networking infrastructure with the unveiling of Scale-In. Scale-In brings purpose-built acceleration to secure, manage and operate agentic AI factories. It is designed to deliver secure… Read more: As AI agents take control, Nvidia rethinks the security playbook - Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a lower-cost model said to outscore Argon
Google LLC today released Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a lower-cost model in its Gemini 4 artificial intelligence family that it says outscores its frontier Gemini 4 Argon model on an independent intelligence ranking. Measured on the… Read more: Google releases Gemini 4 Hydrogen, a lower-cost model said to outscore Argon - CNCF data shows cloud native is the on-ramp to AI, and maintainers are paying the price
The global population of cloud-native developers has topped 21 million, but the headcount tells only part of the story. Artificial intelligence is changing what those developers build and how open-source projects absorb their work. Fresh… Read more: CNCF data shows cloud native is the on-ramp to AI, and maintainers are paying the price - In reversal, American Cancer Society urges prostate cancer tests for all men
In a significant update to its guidelines for prostate cancer screening, the American Cancer Society is now recommending that all men get routinely screened for prostate cancer with a PSA test. Men at average risk… Read more: In reversal, American Cancer Society urges prostate cancer tests for all men - Jensen Huang Is Out. Will Nvidia’s Rivals Cash In?
In a special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we break down Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia, what comes next for the company, and where the AI industry goes from here. - FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the… Read more: FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
