Researchers are growing increasingly suspicious that outsourcing intellectual tasks to AI is causing a range of cognitive deficits. A new study adds a wrinkle worth paying attention to: that use of the bots can eat… Read more: Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Researchers have shown that blending quantum computing with AI can dramatically improve predictions of complex, chaotic systems. By letting a quantum computer identify hidden patterns in data, the AI becomes more accurate and stable over… Read more: Quantum AI just got shockingly good at predicting chaos

As the Moon swallowed the Sun during the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse, something remarkable happened on the ground—cities went eerily quiet. Scientists analyzing seismic data found that human-generated vibrations, usually caused by traffic,… Read more: Total solar eclipse led to seismic quiet for cities within its path

Engineers at Northwestern University have taken a striking leap toward merging machines with the human brain by printing artificial neurons that can actually communicate with real ones. These flexible, low-cost devices generate lifelike electrical signals… Read more: Artificial neurons successfully communicate with living brain cells

Caffeine doesn’t just perk up humans—it can sharpen ants’ minds too. Invasive Argentine ants given caffeinated sugar learned to find food much more efficiently, taking straighter paths and reducing travel time by up to 38%.… Read more: What caffeine does to ants could change pest control

Scientists have captured stunning new insights into one of the universe’s most powerful phenomena—black hole jets—by using a planet-sized network of radio telescopes. Focusing on Cygnus X-1, one of the first known black holes, they… Read more: Black hole jets measured for first time and rival the power of 10,000 suns

During the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the Democratic party establishment made the strange decision to swing right, in an apparent attempt to capture the mythical conservative-centrist vote. Republican stalwart Liz… Read more: Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar AI Lobbyists, Even Though It’d Be a Slam Dunk With Voters

Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean it. In Festus, Missouri — a sleepy town of roughly 12,700 residents — the backlash was so… Read more: City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center

For years now, a thriving cottage industry in China has been offering families the opportunity to speak to an AI clone of their deceased loved ones — for a monthly fee, of course. But what… Read more: Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him

Molotov cocktail attack on OpenAI CEO’s home comes amid growing discontent against artificial intelligence In the early hours of 10 April, a man approached the gate of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house in San Francisco… Read more: How a fiery attack on Sam Altman’s home unfolded

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week… Read more: Babies Born from Dead Parents Will Increase with New Tech. Are We Ready?

Most tech industry products are easily accessible by the US government. Ring Doorbells have given the Los Angeles Police Department warrantless access to their customer’s camera footage. The FBI can extract your iPhones metadata to… Read more: Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court

The evolutionary edge that fueled great white shark dominance for millions of years could soon become its greatest downfall. The ocean’s most iconic predators maintain warmer body temperatures than the surrounding seawater and are paying… Read more: Great white sharks are overheating

Many people asked me over the past months to share my workflow for how I come up with the LLM architecture sketches and drawings in my articles, talks, and the LLM-Gallery. So I thought it… Read more: My Workflow for Understanding LLM Architectures

Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more.

Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up.

Grinex, a US-sanctioned cryptocurrency exchange registered in Kyrgyzstan, said it’s halting operations after experiencing a $13 million heist carried out by “western special services” hackers. Researchers from TRM, which has confirmed the theft, put the… Read more: Russia-friendly exchange says “western special service” behind $15 million cyberattack

A 25-year-old Tennessee man avoided prison time after pleading guilty to accessing government systems with stolen login credentials and boasting of the deed on an Instagram account with the handle, @ihackedthegovernment. Defendant Nicholas Moore accessed… Read more: Man with @ihackedthegovernment Instagram account tells judge, “I made a mistake”

Anthropic launches Opus 4.7 with improved coding and reasoning, as its more “broadly capable” Mythos AI remains restricted over security concerns. The post Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7, Not as ‘Broadly Capable’ as Mythos AI appeared… Read more: Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7, Not as ‘Broadly Capable’ as Mythos AI

President Trump on Thursday announced his third nominee for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Dr. Erica Schwartz, a well-qualified former public health official and board-certified physician in preventive medicine, who has… Read more: Trump picks qualified, normal health leader to head CDC; experts still cautious

The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex.

While Google’s AI may no longer recommend eating rocks or confidently telling users to put glue on their pizza, even cutting-edge AI chatbots remain staggeringly incompetent at dispensing medical advice. In a new study published… Read more: Millions of Americans Are Talking to AI Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It’s Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice

China’s Canton Fair 2026 opens with a powerful robotics showcase, highlighting humanoid machines and automation systems already transforming global industries. The post Chinese Humanoid Robots Dominate Opening Day of Canton Fair 2026 appeared first on… Read more: Chinese Humanoid Robots Dominate Opening Day of Canton Fair 2026

Silicon Valley has been pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into building ever-larger AI data centers that require as much electricity as hundreds of thousands of US homes—but that massive buildout faces significant construction and… Read more: Satellite and drone images reveal big delays in US data center construction

Whether you’re considering an electric vehicle because of gas prices or climate change, there has probably never been a better time to buy a used EV, despite that the Trump administration abolished the used clean… Read more: $25,000 buys plenty of used EVs: Here are some options

The rising costs of RAM and other computing components are pushing up the price of Meta’s Quest VR headsets, which the company says will increase by $50–$100 (about 12–20 percent) starting on April 19. In… Read more: Meta’s AI spending spree is helping make its Quest headsets more expensive

The crew of Artemis II spoke with the media on Thursday, six days after returning to Earth following their mission around the Moon. After a news conference, the astronauts gave a handful of interviews, and… Read more: Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion

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On Tuesday evening, we published an original interview with a researcher who had recently coauthored an intriguing study about the effects of AI on users’ cognition. A news site called National Today quickly sprang into… Read more: A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale

Post-apocalyptic scenarios are a longtime staple of science fiction, and director Ridley Scott’s latest film, The Dog Stars, falls firmly into that subgenre. Based on Peter Heller’s critically acclaimed 2012 novel, the story depicts the… Read more: Ridley Scott’s post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer

The writing was on the wall, and now it’s on Amazon’s website. Newly released Fire Sticks will not support the sideloading of Android apps or any other software from outside Amazon’s official app store. The… Read more: Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore

The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are coming out. Most recently, a man allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s… Read more: There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from April 13–17. The post AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

The explosion of healthcare-focused LLMs and chatbots has given patients greater access to health information, but the accuracy of results and patient trust are falling short Built on the company’s Symptom Checker, Consult provides a… Read more: Ubie Launches Medically Validated Consult LLM

Any robot. Any warehouse. One brain. Now at scale. Skild AI today announced the acquisition of Zebra Technologies’ Robotics Automation business, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. The Skild Brain — the industry’s first omnibodied… Read more: Skild AI Acquires Zebra Technologies’ Robotics Automation Business

AI has upended the foundation of open source security, and commercial open source applications must close their code to protect sensitive data. “Open source security always relied on people to find and fix any problems,”… Read more: Open source is collapsing under AI-powered threats | Cal.com

On Wednesday the Federal Aviation Administration rescinded a temporary flight restriction (TFR) that created a no-fly zone within 3,000 feet of “Department of Homeland Security facilities and mobile assets.” The new restriction softened the language… Read more: FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.

Study.com finds 9 in 10 employees use AI at work, but training and readiness lag as more employers expect workers to use the tools every day. The post Widespread AI Use Masks a Growing Workplace… Read more: Widespread AI Use Masks a Growing Workplace Readiness Gap

Welcome to Edition 8.37 of the Rocket Report! NASA is still climbing down from the high of the Artemis II mission, the first flight by humans to the Moon since 1972. What a mission it… Read more: Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA’s tentative step toward crew launch

Hollywood actors have been ringing the alarm bells over an industry that’s seemingly hellbent on replacing them with AI. And the general public appears to be on their side. Last year, a talent studio drew… Read more: Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in AI Film Made From Beyond the Grave

MIT Associate Professor Jacob Andreas of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EECS] and MIT Associate Professor Brett McGuire of the Department of Chemistry have been selected as the winners of the 2026 Harold E. Edgerton… Read more: Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how bacteria share genes—including those that spread antibiotic resistance. Tiny virus-like particles called gene transfer agents (GTAs), once ancient viral invaders, have been repurposed by bacteria into delivery… Read more: Scientists discover bacteria can “explode” to spread antibiotic resistance

A new quantum sensing approach could dramatically improve how scientists measure low-frequency electric fields, a task that has long been limited by bulky setups and blurry resolution. Instead of relying on traditional vapor-cell methods, researchers… Read more: This chain of atoms can detect electric fields with stunning precision

Validated integration delivers fully operational AI factory platforms in minutes, accelerating time to production for enterprise and neocloud GPU environments Mirantis, delivering Kubernetes-native infrastructure for AI, today announced the company is enabling enterprises and neocloud… Read more: Mirantis Automates AI Factory Deployments with k0rdent AI and NVIDIA Run:ai

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 the Madonna-whore algorithm, reader tips, and jazz.… Read more: Behind the Blog: Jazz and Journalism

🌘 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 remnants of a bizarre long-lost world that fell apart before… Read more: The Destroyed Remnants of a Lost World Are Falling to Earth, Scientists Discover

An effort toward bringing AI agents into the legal fold through integrated AI and legal research  Norm Ai (Norm) today announced the launch of the Legal AGI Lab (the Lab), a research initiative dedicated to building… Read more: Norm Ai Announced the Launch of The Legal AGI Lab

Lumen is the first partner to deliver network connectivity for AWS Interconnect – last mile, helping to simplify connectivity for enterprises The way businesses connect to the cloud is changing in a major way. What… Read more: AWS, Lumen Partner to Transform Private Cloud Networks

The disinformation industry was worth $417 billion in 2024, according to a new study conducted by Sopra Steria. Its impacts are distributed across financial, social and political costs, affecting businesses, markets and public institutions. In response… Read more: Disinformation Costs Global Economy $417B: Sopra Steria

Dr. Markus Wulfmeier brings deep expertise in reinforcement learning, robotics, and Physical AI to advance Nomagic’s software-driven automation platform Nomagic, a leading robotics company applying advanced Physical AI to warehouse automation, has appointed Markus Wulfmeier, formerly… Read more: Nomagic Hires New Chief Scientist to Develop Foundational Models for Robotics

Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world. The malware—reportedly jointly developed by the US and Israel—pushed a… Read more: Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone

What happens when advanced AI capabilities enter the cybersecurity stack at scale? 💡 Recent developments from OpenAI and Anthropic highlight a meaningful shift in how AI-powered security tools reach practitioners. The focus has moved beyond… Read more: How access models are shaping AI cybersecurity deployment

Frontier Media Announces the Inaugural Robotics & Physical AI Conference for Founders, Investors, Engineers, and Enterprise Operators on July 16, 2026 in San Francisco Frontier Media today announced the launch of AUTONOMOUS, a new conference… Read more: AUTONOMOUS Debuts as the Premier Conference for Robotics & Physical AI

New release adds MCP server availability, natural language querying, enhanced network discovery, and expanded reporting, furthering Liongard’s position as the system of authority for asset intelligence. Liongard today announced the expansion of LiongardIQ with new capabilities spanning programmatic… Read more: Liongard Launches MCP Server and Expands Platform, Deepens Asset Intelligence

Release of new Claude model, so far limited to US firms, will expand to British institutions in coming days British banks will be given access in the next week to a powerful AI tool that… Read more: Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool

Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025 Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a “pitiful” low, despite a… Read more: Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds

Technology secretary plays down fears over jobs and cyber security as stake taken in British startup The UK technology secretary has urged the country to “make AI work for Britain”, brushing off fears about its… Read more: Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment

NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX will launch the European Space Agency’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. So why is NASA… Read more: After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars

Artificial intelligence is already proving it can accelerate drug development and improve our understanding of disease. But to turn AI into novel treatments we need to get the latest, most powerful models into the hands… Read more: Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

Lucasfilm released the final trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu last night at CinemaCon, to much applause. And why wouldn’t there be? The trailer has all the elements that mark the best of the Star… Read more: Lucasfilm drops The Mandalorian and Grogu final trailer at CinemaCon

Intel’s Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships ever since it retired the older generational branding scheme and the i3/i5/i7/i9 branding a few years back. The Core Ultra Series 1, Series 2, and Series… Read more: Intel refreshes non-Ultra Core CPUs with new silicon for the first time

Mozilla is the latest legacy tech brand to make a play for the enterprise AI market. But the company behind Firefox and Thunderbird isn’t releasing its own standalone AI model or agentic browser. Instead, the… Read more: Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure

NASA is apparently pretty serious about building a base on the Moon, and the astronauts who just flew there say it is “absolutely doable.” Within two days of landing on Earth, the Artemis II astronauts… Read more: As they got close to the Moon, Artemis II astronauts were eager to land

On Thursday, OpenAI announced it had developed a large language model specifically trained on common biology workflows. Called GPT-Rosalind after Rosalind Franklin, the model appears to differ from most science-focused models from major tech companies,… Read more: OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM

Stellantis, the global car company that owns brands from Alfa Romeo to Vauxhall (including Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram), has begun a five-year partnership with Microsoft. The tech company will use its expertise to help… Read more: Microsoft and Stellantis want to use AI to help car owners

A Chinese ship has tested a new device capable of slicing through submarine data cables thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface. That demonstration may exacerbate security concerns over a spate of suspected sabotage incidents… Read more: New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone

It’s been seven long years now since Metro Exodus wowed us with its early RTX-powered ray tracing in a chilling post-apocalyptic setting. A lot has changed in the intervening years, both in the game industry… Read more: The Ukraine war’s deep impact on Metro 2039’s development, story

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex desktop app reaches users today. It brings a smorgasbord of new features and changes, ranging from new developer capabilities to expansion into non-developer knowledge work to laying the groundwork… Read more: New Codex features include the ability to use your computer in the background

NTT Research launches Scale Academy to turn AI and security research into real products, debuting SaltGrain, a zero-trust data security platform. The post NTT Research Launches Scale Academy to Bring Lab Technology to Market appeared… Read more: NTT Research Launches Scale Academy to Bring Lab Technology to Market

The Federal Trade Commission pressured three advertising firms into settlements that will likely result in more ad spending on conservative media platforms. The FTC and eight US states filed a lawsuit against ad firms Dentsu,… Read more: Ad firms settle with Trump FTC over claims they boycotted conservative media

Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI infrastructure — news that was met with a mix of incredulity and ridicule. The company’s blindsiding metamorphosis… Read more: Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot

Rumors point to a redesigned MacBook Pro with OLED, touch support, thinner hardware, and M6 chips, but Apple’s launch timing still looks uncertain. The post New MacBook Pro Overhaul Expected with OLED, Touchscreen, and M6… Read more: New MacBook Pro Overhaul Expected with OLED, Touchscreen, and M6 Chips

Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say about it. The oldest civil rights organization in the United States has named Elon Musk’s AI company,… Read more: NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center

Heaven club neighbour admits offences under Licensing Act, as Met says fictitious AI-generated complaints a growing issue A businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down a nightclub, which police… Read more: Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say

This post is 8,000 words long—it is our new collaborative paper on an emerging type of AI evaluation. The paper is also published in a PDF format here. Summary: AI models have started to saturate… Read more: Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities

In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.

In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.

E-bikes have started to blur what was once a basic feature of cycling: you push the pedals, which turns the wheels. Now, with throttles, you only have to pedal some of the time. And in… Read more: First look: Also’s upcoming e-bike disconnects the pedals and wheels

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced meeting dates for advisors to discuss lifting restrictions on 12 unproven peptides that the agency deemed to pose significant safety risks in 2023. The meetings are scheduled… Read more: RFK Jr. forces FDA to reconsider 12 unproven peptides after 2023 ban

Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation… Read more: Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos

Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey.

In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to infiltrate dozens of targets around the world. It was trivially easy to get around Anthropic’s AI guardrails,… Read more: Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

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Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, new editing tools, and adds partner models as it turns Firefly into a hub for agentic creative workflows. The post Adobe Expands Firefly Into AI-Powered Editing Assistant Across Creative Apps… Read more: Adobe Expands Firefly Into AI-Powered Editing Assistant Across Creative Apps

A new report from the nonprofit research group Tech Transparency Project (TTP) claims that Google and Apple’s app stores go beyond simply hosting harmful “nudify” and “undress” apps that remove women’s clothing in images, and… Read more: App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows

Case of businessman using AI to generate false letters of complaint against Heaven nightclub part of a growing issue, say police A businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down… Read more: Man used AI to make false statements in effort to shut down London nightclub

There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically the first adopters of new technology like MP3 players and the internet — are actually the most… Read more: Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds

Is AI helping with your workouts? We want to hear about it According to reports, people are incorporating AI into their fitness routines in a variety of ways; they have it write up training plans,… Read more: Tell us: do you use AI for fitness?

Why AI safety breaks at the system level Two developments in AI have started to reveal a deeper shift in how intelligent systems are built and deployed.  One model operates behind closed doors, supporting a… Read more: Why AI safety breaks at the system level

Scientists are often advised to explain their work in terms that a child can understand—a task that is particularly challenging when it comes to such complex topics as quantum mechanics. It’s easier when the interviewer… Read more: Meet the Quantum Kid

As tensions with the US government mount, Anthropic has leased a new office with enough space to quadruple its 200-person head count in London.

The difference between a developer who gets mediocre results and one who ships faster than ever comes down to one thing: How well they have set Claude up to succeed.  Claude Code works best as… Read more: 3 easy ways to get the most out of Claude Code

As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s latest obsession are three magic words: “pivot to AI.” In a baffling announcement today, struggling tech bro… Read more: What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent

Footage of As Deep As the Grave screened in the US, featuring an authorised visual deepfake of the actor who died in 2025 A trailer has been released for the first film to star an… Read more: First trailer released for western starring AI version of Val Kilmer

As AI chatbots go, OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t the most provocative. Its relentlessly upbeat, hand-holding style has drawn constant criticism for coming across as condescending. Still, Starbucks’ newly announced partnership with the chatbot may have pushed… Read more: Starbucks’ Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups

I thought I would be a “cool” bride. I believed this because I never dreamed of my own wedding. When other girls daydreamed aloud about riding down the aisle on a pony, or gracefully officiated… Read more: I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

Researchers have discovered lithium hidden in pyrite within ancient shale rocks—an unexpected find that could reshape how we source this critical battery material. It raises the possibility of extracting lithium from existing waste, reducing the… Read more: Fool’s gold isn’t so foolish: Scientists find hidden treasure in pyrite

The ozone layer has been on track to recover thanks to the Montreal Protocol—but a loophole may be holding it back. Chemicals still permitted for industrial use are leaking into the atmosphere at higher rates… Read more: MIT scientists just found a hidden problem slowing the ozone comeback

Cloud migration becomes much harder when teams are not moving workloads, but also trying to make every environment reproducible and deployment-ready through Infrastructure as Code. The challenge is not limited to copying applications from one… Read more: 5 top cloud migration software for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)