TP-Link is facing more legal troubles in the US as Florida and three other states filed lawsuits alleging that it lied to consumers about its connections to China and the risks of its routers being… Read more: TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits

Pennsylvania’s explosive measles outbreak is now the largest the US has seen since the highly infectious virus was declared eliminated in 2000. With well over 1,000 cases, it’s the largest on record since 1991. Pennsylvania’s… Read more: PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated

Artificial intelligence has become part of the zeitgeist. And while it’s a polarizing topic, Linda Rabieh has a unique take on AI: “It’s good for business. Our business, of humanistic thinking.” As senior lecturer in… Read more: Discovering the value of humanistic inquiry

Ampersand lets agentic applications read and write inside legacy systems of record, removing the integration work that has stalled AI projects industry-wide. Ampersand today announced a $15 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners,… Read more: Ampersand secures $15 million from Bessemer Venture Partners

Back-end AI gives manufacturers opportunities to improve operations, but choosing where to apply it requires attention to business value. For Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., that means evaluating operational use cases while preserving its personalized customer… Read more: Aston Martin puts back-end AI to work while keeping agents off its website

Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace management and enables customer-service agents to continue working after… Read more: Cisco broadens agentic features in Webex collaboration platform

OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model.  Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disapprove proposed explanations… Read more: OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math discoveries in major scientific milestone

Riverbed Global Survey 2026: The State of Autonomous IT Operations explores the path towards autonomous IT operations and the new capabilities required across visibility, data quality, infrastructure simplicity, governance and human oversight to help enterprises… Read more: Riverbed: 90% Plan Autonomous IT, Yet 77% Require Human Approval

We compare current Ring, Nest, Arlo, and Eufy outdoor security cameras by video quality, AI features, storage, subscriptions, and long-term cost. The post Best Smart Home Security Cameras for 2026: Ring, Nest, Arlo and Eufy… Read more: Best Smart Home Security Cameras for 2026: Ring, Nest, Arlo and Eufy

Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. See how it compares with Gemini for editing, spreadsheets, presentations, and Workspace context. The post Claude vs Gemini: Comparing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides appeared first… Read more: Claude vs Gemini: Comparing Google Docs, Sheets and Slides

New marketplace lets teams browse, size, and allocate capacity credits across managed AI agents from a single console Netskope (NASDAQ: NTSK), a leader in modern security and networking for the cloud and AI era, today… Read more: Netskope Announced the Launch of AgentSkope Marketplace

Agentic AI governance helps midsized distributors decide which tasks software agents can handle and which require human oversight. For lean IT teams, automating more work also means checking the data and rules behind those decisions.… Read more: Midwest Wheel builds toward AI agents that fix problems

Finish environmental authorities are in a rage over Google’s $15 billion data center projects after the discovery that company contractors had chopped down some 330 hectares of government-protected forests, seemingly without a permit. According to… Read more: Finland Orders Google to Suspend New Data Centers After Contractors Pave Over Protected Forests

After pleading guilty, a 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for using artificial intelligence to generate songs for a scheme that stole millions from music streaming platforms. In… Read more: Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift

As many doctors are moving ahead with the latest advances of modern medicine—from powerful obesity drugs to breakthrough cancer treatments—pediatricians are being forced to turn back, fighting to maintain advances in children’s health that were… Read more: Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns

Firmus Technologies, a developer of artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, plans to raise A$7 billion from investors on the Australian Securities Exchange on October 23. The float values the company at up to $43.7 billion.… Read more: Can data centre company Firmus live up to its blockbuster $43 billion listing value? Why some investors doubt it

BlackJack3D / Getty Images A few months ago, a friend posted something that caught my eye on social media. She struggled listening to what she termed “(literally) breathless AI voices for audiobooks”. When I asked… Read more: What happens to language when machines start talking back?

Mart Production/Pexels Many of us use digital health tools every day, such as period trackers, fitness apps or online quizzes to check our mental health. These mobile apps, wearable devices, and diagnostics often based on… Read more: Why most health apps are biased even before their first lines of code are written

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50-50 mix of the left- and… Read more: Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Content warning: this story contains descriptions of disturbing AI-generated videos that depict violent child abuse. Last month, we reported that Facebook was hosting enormous numbers of graphic AI-generated videos of physical child abuse that showed… Read more: Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven

Jade Gao/Getty Images They’re dubbed duanju, or microdramas – and they’ve become big business. In China, the smartphone-friendly shows reportedly generated US$7 billion in 2024, overtaking the country’s domestic box office for the first time.… Read more: Microdramas are booming. AI could make it even harder to stop binge-watching

Industry-specific AI brings business context to agents handling enterprise workflows. Building around industry processes can help companies address reliability concerns as they automate more tasks. Infor (US) LLC is developing industry-specific AI agents for several… Read more: Infor uses industry-specific AI to address agent hallucinations

Artificial intelligence is helping to change what success looks like for customer service teams, with less focus on call speed and deflection and greater emphasis on resolving customer issues. That shift is changing how companies… Read more: Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of ‘The AI ROI in Contact Center Summit’

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest living land animal, is still chugging along at the ripe age of roughly 194. Now, scientists have discovered some of the secrets to Jonathan’s longevity by sequencing his genome… Read more: ‘Jonathan’ Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth. He Could Hold the Secrets to Defying Death

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but an AI model straight-up impersonating a humble cartoonist is probably not what that adage was going for. When a kitschy cartoon tribute to the recently… Read more: ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

One of Donald Trump’s biggest goals as president is to increase domestic manufacturing and reshore supply chains so that the most in-demand technologies in the world can be 100 percent made in the United States.… Read more: Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech

Does it feel like people are perhaps a little grumpier or more on edge these days? It’s not like it’s without reason. There are wars. The climate is going haywire. Someone just died of plague.… Read more: Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari

AI-powered process automation requires software that understands the industry and workflows it serves. Moving from a promising prototype to practical use also requires implementation expertise. Infor LLC develops software around the specific processes its customers… Read more: Infor combines industry expertise and embedded engineers for process automation

It was only a matter of time until AI agents, bots that are being advertised as a way to stay on top of tedious tasks, started spilling their human overlords’ secrets. With the advent of… Read more: Man Says He Was Mortified When His AI Agent Posted His Bank Balances and Exactly What He’s Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel

The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Paying a frontier model to reformat JSON is the AI equivalent of hiring a concert pianist to press doorbells. Small language models, generally those under 10 billion parameters, now cover a growing share of that… Read more: 7 reasons small language models belong in your 2027 AI roadmap

Leaders worry OpenAI is not doing due diligence to vet results and that AI models aren’t accessible to broader field of mathematicians OpenAI has astounded mathematicians after releasing hundreds of new mathematical findings on Tuesday.… Read more: OpenAI’s release of mathematical findings draws concerns from experts

I found the trailer for Digger intriguing, starring a nearly unrecognizable Tom Cruise and giving off strong Doctor Strangelove vibes. Plus, it is four-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s (Birdman) first English-language film since 2015’s… Read more: Review: Fine, let’s talk about Digger

There’s been something of a change in the world of motorsport over the past few years. It has to do with where the money comes from. In the old days, it was tobacco, and to… Read more: AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport

Every piece of AI content from Google’s Gemini models has a hidden SynthID label, which makes it very difficult to pass the content off as authentic. SynthID has also gotten buy-in from other major AI… Read more: Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally

As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely available model that it claims can compete with the very best from the US and China.… Read more: Mistral says “Le Chonk” can challenge the best AI models

Howdy, it’s hump day and we’re rolling along. Today we’ve got an update on a very strange case involving a man whose image was resurrected from the dead via AI and made to appear in… Read more: ‘Undue emotional weight’

Better learn about “brain privacy,” because it may soon go the way of the dodo. Researchers have developed an AI tool that can predict what you’re looking at by analyzing your brain scans — and… Read more: New AI Can Figure Out What You’re Thinking About From a Brain Scan

Users reject site’s explanations after detailed instructions for writing response to post on popular forum was published Mumsnet has denied using AI to produce content after detailed instructions to help an AI model write one… Read more: Mumsnet denies using AI for content after prompt appears on message board

The triple release of The Social Reckoning, Musk and Artificial is less a clear political stance, more like movie studio opportunism Hollywood is sending a clear message: it’s a friend of tech. Netflix is no… Read more: Will the Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman movies make a dent on tech giant evangelism?

Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Kore.ai Inc. today launched Autoloop, an optimization engine for the AI agents that customers build on its Kore.ai Agent Platform. Businesses set the targets, and Autoloop keeps adjusting the agents… Read more: Kore.ai launches Autoloop to keep tuning enterprise AI agents after they go live

Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for builders The latest series of data on housing and building activity has been released, showing residential building… Read more: Australia is building a lot of new homes. But is the datacentre boom holding us back? | Greg Jericho

There are a growing list of reasons not to want to live near an AI data center. Some of them emit constant screeching noises that are impossible to drown out. Others rely on massive diesel… Read more: Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It’s Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed

Earth’s center of mass is constantly on the move, shifting by a few millimeters as enormous amounts of water, ice, and even air migrate around the planet with the seasons. NASA scientists have developed a… Read more: Earth’s center is moving, and NASA just measured it

The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky lava world HD 3167 b has an atmosphere, despite circling its star every 24 hours under extreme heat. The surprising discovery could help… Read more: Webb finds a surprising atmosphere on a scorching lava world

How do large language models work? In some ways, like a brain. MF3d/E+ via Getty Images When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to… Read more: AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why

AI tools are not all the same – and should not be used interchangeably. Mininyx Doodle/iStock/Getty Images Plus Almost 25% of adults in the United States are using artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis,… Read more: AI can help with academic research but doesn’t always get it right – here are some tips to check the information you receive

Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery could help researchers repurpose existing drugs for conditions including traumatic… Read more: Drug target could block brain inflammation linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Physicists have found striking evidence for an unusual form of superconducting behavior in uranium ditelluride, where electron pairs organize into rippling patterns called pair density waves. Even more surprisingly, these patterns appear to survive after… Read more: Physicists just found the ‘ghost’ of superconductivity

Fair enough if you shrugged at AI agents hacking into government websites and corporate systems. But now it appears that these rogue models have gone after something much nearer and and dearer: Wikipedia. On Monday,… Read more: Rogue AI Agents Have Gone Too Far Now That They’ve Infiltrated Wikipedia

Giving zoo lions whole carcasses on a feast-and-fast schedule appears to bring out more natural behavior. The lions spent nearly three times longer feeding, engaged in more tearing and manipulating of food, and rested more… Read more: Scientists changed how zoo lions eat. Their wild side came out

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving astronomers a glimpse of the kinds of violent collisions that may have shaped our own solar system, including the giant impact thought to have created the Moon. By… Read more: NASA’s Webb finds signs of Mars-sized worlds smashing together

Wife of Jamaica-born sociologist says project celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ he made to Britain’s culture Whether it was Thatcherism, populism or the story of the Sony Walkman, Stuart Hall was a public intellectual famed for defining… Read more: Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.

Suit says AI tool allows independently owned franchises to exchange nonpublic price and sales information McDonald’s is facing a lawsuit in federal court over its alleged use of an AI tool to determine pricing across… Read more: McDonald’s sued for alleged antitrust violations by using AI tool to determine pricing for franchises

Veteran CISO will lead advisory board as the growth of human, machine, and AI agent identities outpaces the systems built to govern them Oak, the AI-native Identity Operating System governing every human, machine, and AI… Read more: Bobby Ford Appointed as Chair of Oak’s Executive Advisory Board

Aembit, the identity control plane for AI agents, today announced support for securing personal agents’ access to enterprise environments, available immediately to existing customers at no additional cost.  As personal agents, such as Meta Muse… Read more: Aembit Expands Access Controls to Personal AI Agents

Kristalina Georgieva says big economies will have to make ‘very touch choices’ as soaring bond yields hit budgets Business live – latest updates The head of the International Monetary Fund has called on governments across… Read more: IMF chief urges governments to tighten belts as global debt levels soar

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by… Read more: OpenAI’s “ChatGPT for Teens” Is an “Unsafe” Mess, Testing Finds

Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.

Intellias, a global partner for AI-enabled product engineering and digital solutions, today launches Agentic ServiceOps a managed IT service that applies governed agentic AI across IT service management (ITSM) and IT operations management (ITOM), from the… Read more: Intellias announced the launch of Agentic ServiceOps

Unlocks the Value of Unstructured Data for People and AI, Lowers Infrastructure and AI Costs, Strengthens Resilience, and Improves Productivity Nasuni, a leading AI infrastructure company purpose-built for unstructured data, today announced the general availability… Read more: Nasuni Expands File Data Platform With AI and Search Tools

Nscale Limited, the full-stack AI cloud platform, today announced the appointment of Amy Banse, a seasoned corporate executive and veteran board director, to its Board of Directors. Banse will also serve as Chair of the… Read more: Nscale Names Amy Banse to Board of Directors

Atlassian Corp. today announced Agentic Multiplayer Protocol, a platform update designed to change how humans and artificial intelligence agents collaborate and get work done using shared context and tasks within the same digital space. At… Read more: Atlassian lays groundwork for humans and AI agents to work side by side

Cannabinoids may intensify anxiety by removing a natural brake on specific neurons in the brain’s fear center, particularly during stressful situations. In mice, shutting down those neurons sharply reduced cannabinoid-related anxious behavior.

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived before or… Read more: Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than we thought

A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently fight or show mild aggression are… Read more: Humans may not be as hardwired for violence as we thought

Scientists discovered that disrupting the chemical messages bacteria use to communicate can push dental plaque toward a healthier microbial balance. The approach could lead to new treatments for gum disease that control harmful bacteria without… Read more: A new way to fight gum disease without wiping out good bacteria

Demand for new data centers, power plants and highways is fueling a construction boom, even as the industry wrestles with declining productivity and a shortage of skilled machine operators. Physical AI, which lets machines perceive… Read more: Caterpillar and CoreWeave shorten the learning loop for physical AI

Meta Platforms Inc. is partnering with Walmart Inc., Stripe Inc. and the enterprise artificial intelligence firm Sierra Technologies Inc. on the creation of new standards that will define how autonomous AI agents interact with other… Read more: Meta teams up with Bret Taylor’s Sierra Technologies on new standards for AI agent commerce

We don’t accept drugs killing a few people because they cure most patients. Or a few planes crashing because most land safely. AI should be no different OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was asked to appear… Read more: OpenAI came to Australia to apologise. It will leave without answering these key questions | Toby Walsh

Pia Johnson/Melbourne Theatre Company During talk therapy one day, my psychologist said to me, “Look, the human mind is a mystery. We may never fully work things out.” For me, it was at once shocking… Read more: Eliza, a theatrical thriller about the first chatbot, feels emotionally distant. That’s the point.

Commissioner said Shenzhen Qingcheng, the app maker behind the HeyCyan app in the smartglasses, failed to respond to her inquiries Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian privacy regulator… Read more: Privacy watchdog launches probe into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app

Google LLC today released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model small enough to run on a smartphone. The release takes the EmbeddingGemma line beyond text, which was all the first version handled when Google… Read more: Google expands EmbeddingGemma beyond text to images, audio and video

Vinci4D Inc. today announced that it has closed a $250 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. Advent, Temasek and Xora jointly led the Series B deal. They were joined by several startup funds… Read more: Vinci reels in $250M for its engineering simulation platform

Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl, and… Read more: Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services

A low-pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico should soon become a tropical storm, and based on the latest forecast modeling, it has a decent chance of becoming a hurricane. Normally, a hurricane forming… Read more: It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane

After months of industry and customer speculation, Paramount Skydance has shed some light on the future of the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services. Paramount Skydance completed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) today,… Read more: HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ “will unify into a single service”

OpenAI will begin automatically watermarking text generated with ChatGPT in the European Union, the company has announced. It will also offer the watermarking feature in other regions, but it will be off by default outside… Read more: OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU

Drones sank two cargo ships and damaged a third in the exclusive economic zones of NATO member countries for the first time, killing at least two sailors. The attacks represent a notable escalation as Black… Read more: Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says

Mistral AI SAS today opened access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable large language model to date. On launch, the LLM is available in public preview through the company’s cloud platform. Mistral plans to… Read more: Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap

As artificial intelligence transforms industries and national security, understanding the latest hardware capabilities is important for maintainind technological advantage. AI accelerators — specialized systems designed to speed up capabilities such as neural networks, deep learning,… Read more: Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

AI is taking shape, moving from models that answer questions to models that can reason. Now models are powering the agentic era, and Dell Technologies Inc. has announced several extensions to its AI Data Platform… Read more: Transforming the data path: Dell’s new releases move enterprises closer to the agentic data center

Open-weight models keep multiplying, and the AI coding harness around them is becoming just as important to get right. Developers and enterprises are trading off cost against capability. The harness helps translate a model’s capabilities… Read more: Cline Bot makes the case for an open AI coding harness

A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an impact statement. An… Read more: Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried “Undue Emotional Weight”

AI storage strategy is taking on a larger role as enterprises move from successful experiments to systems that must deliver dependable business results. How organizations store, serve and manage data increasingly shapes the performance, cost… Read more: Three key insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the Supermicro Open Storage Summit interview series

GPU utilization during post-training depends partly on how efficiently infrastructure moves data and loads updated models. As enterprises continually refine AI agents, reducing delays between training rounds can help keep that process moving. The need… Read more: CoreWeave targets GPU utilization in continuous AI post-training

AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless source of frustration. Applicants are using the tech to stuff keywords into their resumes and cover letters, while generating a… Read more: Footage of AI Job Interviewer Going Berserk Is Genuinely Terrifying

As a flight director during NASA’s Apollo missions, Gerry Griffin led several lunar landings. He helped bring the crew of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth. Later, he directed Johnson Space Center in Houston. Through… Read more: Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

Googlebooks are Google’s latest attempt to carve out a piece of the premium laptop market, and tight integration with Android phones is a key part of that effort. Now that Googlebooks are available, we’re learning… Read more: Googlebook “Better Together” phone features don’t work with Samsung at launch

Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”… Read more: Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize

Amazon has disabled Alexa control of devices plugged into the company’s Echo smart speaker’s AUX port. Users have reported receiving an email from Amazon this week informing them of the change. “This is a reminder… Read more: Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers’ AUX input

When Ars launched in 1998, there was one way to read it: in a web browser on a PC (or Mac). Your screen of choice was either some massive CRT or a very expensive LCD… Read more: Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return

A reported leak of 13,000 screenshots shows how AI agents can bypass weak approval and audit controls even when organizations have written policies. The post AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed… Read more: AI Agents Leaked 13,000 Screenshots: Why Enterprise Approval Controls Failed

Paramount Skydance completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery today, after a last-ditch effort to block the deal was rejected by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The post-merger company is called Skydance, taking… Read more: Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.

AI teaching agents could make personalized instruction available to more learners by reducing the cost and staffing demands of one-to-one tutoring. MasterClass is exploring that potential through a system designed to adapt to how each… Read more: MasterClass bets AI teaching agents can broaden access to tutoring

Meta’s new AI agent Muse might come with a cutesy new mascot, but under its fuzzy exterior lies a vast surveillance network under the control of one of the world’s most powerful — and least… Read more: Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family