Ruf has come quite a long way from its roots as a tuner of Porsches. The German company (no doubt familiar to those of us in the Playstation Generation as Gran Turismo 2‘s workaround because… Read more: Ruf debuts new flat-eight engine at Goodwood

We haven’t seen much footage to date for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, other than the broody and haunting extended teaser Warner Bros. dropped in March. But now we’ve got a shiny new trailer jam-packed… Read more: Conspiracies and regrets abound in Dune: Part Three trailer

A recent AWS GraphRAG deployment reduced drug research and development cycles in pharmaceutical environments by 87 percent. This acceleration is achieved by integrating previously separated proprietary databases into a unified and queryable knowledge graph. Historically,… Read more: AWS GraphRAG deployment cuts drug research cycles by 87%

Most people think of the waterfront as the edge of the city. A team of MIT researchers sees it as a dynamic, Lego-like construction site. Their new system, called “FloatForm,” is a swarm of small… Read more: Tiny robot boats build floating structures

The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

Incedo Inc., a leading global AI and data transformation firm, today announced the availability of Incedo DataXel on Google Cloud Marketplace. Incedo DataXel is an agentic AI-powered data modernization platform that helps enterprises replace legacy… Read more: Incedo DataXel Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

The soft, weirdly sexualized home-chore robot has been given some very tactile hands.

Google’s new default AI training settings impact Australian workplaces. Learn how to manage data privacy and Google Search, Lens, and Translate usage. The post Google’s New Default AI Training Setting Puts Australia on Notice appeared… Read more: Google’s New Default AI Training Setting Puts Australia on Notice

Opti9, a leading hybrid cloud solutions provider, today announced the appointment of TJ Houske as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Houske succeeds co-founder Paul Butcher, who will transition to Chairman of the Board following more… Read more: Opti9 Reshapes Leadership to Accelerate Growth

freedom100m/Shutterstock The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about their dangers. Most recently, its executives wrote about the threat posed by “recursive self-improvement”. This is… Read more: Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

AI companies want to capture the value created by entire industries. That concentration of wealth and power is society’s greatest risk Opposition to AI datacenters has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one… Read more: The fight against AI data centers is important – but it’s just a starting point | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

I can’t be delighted by something produced with generative AI. Give me books written by complicated people, drawings by sweet idiots, songs by those who feel Generative AI has gone too far. Many have said… Read more: We don’t need AI videos of fake animals. There are real ones out there and they’re really cute | Rebecca Shaw

This week the US Space Force brought two more companies into the pool of bidders eligible to compete for its launch contracts—Impulse Space and Relativity Space. For a rocket company, cracking into the lucrative US… Read more: The newest entrant in the military’s launch competition isn’t actually a launch company

Robotaxi companies have thrived in California, where the good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated labor force have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision from a state regulatory agency is… Read more: Free Waymo rides in California? You can thank a regulatory quirk.

The head start that the US companies enjoyed in the AI race is quickly vanishing. Chinese competitors are now nipping at their heels, and it’s causing a wave of anxiety in the American sector. Over… Read more: American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI

Wednesday, John Deere agreed to give farmers broader access to repair their tractors and farm equipment under an antitrust settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, one of the biggest wins in the long right… Read more: Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over

A shocking amount of the content that users encounter on popular social media websites is likely AI generated, according to data from a company that detects AI writing. As much as 41 percent of longform… Read more: LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

New cluster increases available GPU capacity for enterprises running large-scale AI inference applications DeepInfra, a purpose-built cloud platform for high-throughput AI inference, today announced the opening of a new data center location in Toronto. Global… Read more: DeepInfra Launches First International Data Center in Toronto

San Francisco still gets the headlines, but New York is running its own AI economy and it is bigger than most people know. More than 2,000 AI startups now call the city home, backed by… Read more: New York’s AI scene: The 25 companies you need to know

Colorado passed a landmark artificial intelligence law that was challenged in a federal lawsuit. AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images When Colorado replaced its landmark AI law in May 2026, the move looked like… Read more: Why Colorado replaced its AI discrimination law with a transparency requirement that the feds might challenge anyway

Crypto marketplace Coinbase is under fire after sending out an AI-generated breaking news alert that Norway’s national men’s soccer team had clinched a spot in the quarter finals of the ongoing FIFA World Cup by… Read more: Coinbase AI Sends Mass “Breaking News” Alert That’s Completely Hallucinated

A surprising discovery is reshaping scientists’ understanding of how humans develop sharp central vision before birth. Instead of blue cone cells migrating away from the retina’s center, the study found they transform into red and… Read more: A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision

Oak trees keep absorbing carbon dioxide long after their annual growth has ended, revealing that photosynthesis and wood production are not as closely linked as scientists once believed. The finding could reshape forecasts of how… Read more: Trees keep absorbing carbon long after they stop growing

It wasn’t easy to find anyone outside of SpaceX clamoring for a rocket like Starship just 10 years ago. Today, the space industry can’t wait for Starship to finally deliver. With a payload capacity of… Read more: Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.

Scientists have rewritten the story of gallium after discovering that its unusual atomic bonds re-form at high temperatures, contradicting decades of accepted theory. The finding changes how researchers explain why the metal melts so easily… Read more: Scientists finally solved a 150-year-old gallium mystery

The hunt for ancient life on Mars just got an important test run. Scientists confirmed that the Rosalind Franklin rover’s sophisticated instrument can detect subtle differences in two stable molecules that could preserve evidence of… Read more: This Mars rover could finally reveal whether life ever existed on Mars

Astronomers have uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including the two earliest ever detected, shining from a time when the universe was only about 670 million years old. Powered by supermassive black holes billions… Read more: These ancient quasars shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang

Several NHS hospitals are preparing to use an AI-powered blood test to help assess women referred for possible womb cancer before invasive checks are carried out. According to The Guardian, around 90,000 postmenopausal women in… Read more: NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive womb cancer checks

If you are feeling financially depleted personally, and pessimistic about the economic outlook generally, figures released this week won’t cheer your mood. The OECD found Australia was one of 11 developed countries where the real… Read more: Grattan on Friday: AI’s opportunities and risks front and centre on Albanese government’s agenda

Connect and control agents from everywhere, across any network and device, on the Blocks Network. PubNub introduces Blocks.ai today, a global network to connect and control agents across all agent frameworks, providers, and APIs. Blocks.ai lets developers… Read more: PubNub Unveils Blocks.ai: The Control Plane and Network Layer For AI Agents

NLP Logix, one of the fastest-growing artificial intelligence consultancies in the United States, announced the appointment of Brian Moffatt as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Moffatt brings more than 25 years of experience leading… Read more: Brian Moffatt Joins NLP Logix as CTO

Globant’s signature AI Pods can now ship AI-built applications natively to Vercel in one click, turning multi-month projects into same-week experiences making ROI visible almost immediately. Globant is also launching Vercel-powered AI Pods — specialized… Read more: Globant, Vercel Partner to Scale Enterprise AI

Research pilot combines Cloudflare’s global network signals with OpenAI’s frontier search capabilities Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced Cloudflare and OpenAI are launching a first-of-its-kind research pilot to explore how insights… Read more: Cloudflare, OpenAI Team Up for Research Initiative

Gremlin / Getty Images What makes people change their minds, or their behaviour? Social scientists spend a lot of time thinking about this question, and experiments are one of the most powerful ways to answer… Read more: AI can predict how you’ll respond to a survey. But that’s not the same as understanding you

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and water-based enzymes, offering a cleaner alternative to conventional DNA manufacturing. The breakthrough could eventually support portable DNA-writing devices… Read more: Harvard scientists turn a silicon chip into a DNA writing machine

Researchers have cracked the code behind bacteria’s ability to naturally manufacture multiple versions of powerful anti-cancer drugs. The discovery could make it much easier to engineer new cancer treatments inspired by nature, including improved versions… Read more: Scientists finally crack nature’s secret for building better cancer drugs

Water’s odd behavior becomes even more dramatic when it is supercooled, but scientists have struggled to compare the many different ways of describing its microscopic structure. Researchers at the University of Osaka used an AI… Read more: Scientists used AI to crack one of water’s biggest mysteries

For the first time, researchers have filmed the elusive goblin shark alive in the deep ocean where it naturally lives. The remarkable sightings greatly expand the shark’s known range and depth, showing that this 125-million-year-old… Read more: Rare goblin shark filmed alive for the first time in the deep sea

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold atoms, semiconductors, and other… Read more: Heidelberg physicists just united two opposing quantum theories

Getty Images A person wakes in the middle of the night, overwhelmed and needing someone to talk to. But instead of calling a loved one or booking a counselling session, they open ChatGPT. Around the… Read more: AI can’t replace mental health therapists. But here’s where it might make a difference

Pre-built, industry-specific agents, built with Gemini Enterprise, Agentic Data Cloud and AI Threat Defense, enable mid-market companies to move from AI pilots to production faster Accenture (NYSE: ACN), through its newly launched Accenture Edge business, and Google… Read more: Accenture Edge, Google Cloud Expand Agentic AI

Rising DRAM and NAND prices are forcing Android phone makers to cut specs, raise prices, and rethink budget smartphones, according to Omdia. The post AI Boom Could Make Cheap Android Phones More Expensive appeared first… Read more: AI Boom Could Make Cheap Android Phones More Expensive

A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity flaws to surface this week in the open source operating system. The vulnerability resides in… Read more: Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

Kalshi lost an attempt to override New York’s state gambling laws yesterday, with a federal judge rejecting the prediction market operator’s request to prevent enforcement of the rules. Kalshi is appealing the decision to a… Read more: Judge rejects Kalshi attempt to override New York state gambling laws

One of the most horrific cases of allegedly Grok-generated child sex images was shared in a proposed class action lawsuit that was expanded Tuesday. Now, young girls not only accuse X and xAI of building… Read more: Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. They don’t need to use generative AI to cheat on exams; they could just learn the material. But they also tend to be competitive, ambitious, and overscheduled,… Read more: “We cannot choose to become idiots”: The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.

OpenAI is set to launch GPT-5.6 after a US security review, raising new questions for enterprise AI access, safeguards, and governance. The post OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Is Coming Sooner Than You Think appeared first on… Read more: OpenAI’s New GPT-5.6 Is Coming Sooner Than You Think

Meta Muse Image brings AI image generation to Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI. Here’s what users should know about features and privacy. The post Meta’s Muse Image Explained: What to Know About the New AI… Read more: Meta’s Muse Image Explained: What to Know About the New AI Image Model

New global security research shows exactly how unmonitored AI agent permissions get exploited inside the enterprise — and Australian identity governance, built around human employees, isn’t set up to catch it. The post The AI… Read more: The AI Security Gap No One’s Watching in Australian Enterprises

New US data links heavy AI investment to job growth, not cuts — challenging Australian firms pairing AI budgets with hiring freezes. The post New AI Hiring Data Undercuts the Case for Hiring Freezes in… Read more: New AI Hiring Data Undercuts the Case for Hiring Freezes in Australia

Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.

Code generation is emerging as one of the most popular applications for large language models (LLMs), but not all agents are equally good at all development tasks. Google created a benchmark earlier this year to… Read more: Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

The proliferation of nuclear power in space got a little more real Tuesday with the launch of a small satellite developed by a Florida-based company specializing in nuclear micro-power technology. It’s a long way from… Read more: Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space

The US military has lost dozens of Reaper drones collectively worth more than $1 billion while carrying out surveillance and attack missions over Iran. Now the Pentagon is seeking large numbers of cheaper drones that… Read more: US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

TikTok’s For You Page (FYP) is the default home screen for users of the video-sharing platform. It’s a personalized, algorithmically driven content feed, but the approach differs from other social media in that TikTok’s algorithm… Read more: TikTok users don’t have as much agency over their FYPs as they think

Last week, thousands of SamKnows routers were bricked after a government program ran its course. In 2020, as part of a program conducted by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government’s chief… Read more: Aussie gov’t tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers

Samsung Heavy Industries plans to commercialize a floating AI data center by 2028 as power, land, and cooling constraints squeeze AI infrastructure. The post Samsung Plans Floating Data Center Launch by 2028 appeared first on… Read more: Samsung Plans Floating Data Center Launch by 2028

Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses an AI to analyse your mood. The patent’s stated, theoretical goal is for Meta, a company that… Read more: Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

One of the central features of plate tectonics is the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges. Part of the spreading process that drives continents apart, it was arguably the discovery of these ridges that… Read more: Ocean rift zone saw spreading happen in a sudden burst

Two California teens have learned that Waymo’s robotaxis can and will enforce their rider rules on misbehaving passengers. It probably seemed like a marvelous jape—ride around in the back of a robotaxi getting drunk and… Read more: Two teens learn the hard way not to do toy gun drive-bys from a Waymo

The co-founder of adult creator subscription platform MintStars announced she’s leaving the platform and donating her ownership shares in the company to its creators and sex workers.  In an email to creators using the platform… Read more: Porn Platform Gives Sex Workers Stake in the Company’s Profits

When millions of people fled Ukraine following Russia’s invasion in 2022, governments and humanitarian organizations used mobile phone and online platform data to track movements and identify where support was needed. Similar approaches have been… Read more: How AI and digital data shape our understanding of migration

Solution outperforms LLMs alone with greater clinical reliability and no hallucinations emtelligent®, a leader in clinical-grade AI, today announced that testing shows that LLMs using its next-generation Medical Language Engine significantly outperform LLMs alone in… Read more: emtelligent Boosts LLM Medical Coding Accuracy

They suck up energy and water, and blast out heat. Just who is better off from all this investment – aside from tech bros? The two great existential threats of our time – the climate… Read more: Datacentres are a ticking time bomb. We must make sure AI’s benefits outweigh the costs | Nicki Hutley

A June 2026 research review found that AI chatbot warning labels may be a weak safeguard for organization-backed AI advisors, raising new audit questions for IT, security, and compliance teams. The post AI Chatbot Warnings… Read more: AI Chatbot Warnings May Not Stop Hallucinations, Researchers Say

US rare earths produced by Washington-backed companies are flowing to Japan and South Korea, as American demand has yet to materialize despite the Trump administration’s push to develop a national supply chain. Rare earths products… Read more: US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

I am not sure, exactly, how many ChatGPT signs, flyers, or advertisements I had seen without noticing. But I do remember that once I began noticing them, I saw them everywhere. A few blocks from… Read more: We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

Meta said it was working with officials to be a ‘good neighbor’ and drinking water supplies were not affected Officials in Wyoming said a contractor for Mark Zuckerberg’s tech company, Meta, flushed bacteria-contaminated water into… Read more: Wyoming tightens wastewater rules after Meta datacenter contractor flushed contaminated water

Veteran Leader Joins AI Coding Company Helping Engineering Teams Build Higher-Quality Code While Reducing Token Use Adronite, the AI coding company with full codebase intelligence, today announced the appointment of Dr. William Colleran as Chief… Read more: Adronite Appoints Dr. William Colleran as CEO to Accelerate Growth

Expands the BarracudaONE® Platform with AI-Ready Identity Security, Creating the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Partner-First Platform News highlights: Barracuda acquires Evo Security, an identity and access management (IAM) provider purpose-built for managed service providers (MSPs). The… Read more: Barracuda Acquires Evo Security for Identity Resilience

The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin, is raising private capital, the DealBook newsletter reported early Wednesday. According to the publication, the company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130… Read more: Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital

As global consumption for AI computing tokens accelerates at unprecedented speed, Zettabyte, a global AI computing company, is using the occasion to argue that compute should be judged by the quality of the useful work… Read more: Zettabyte Backs Taiwan’s Sovereign AI Future

Global technology service provider, Logicalis, has achieved Microsoft Frontier Partner status alongside its Microsoft Copilot specialisation, reinforcing its position as a trusted partner for organisations looking to scale AI securely, responsibly, with measurable business impact. The recognition reinforces Logicalis’… Read more: Logicalis Earns Microsoft Frontier Partner Status

AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent “new physics,” or to become the genius autodidact you always dreamed of being. Or you can drop… Read more: Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known ChatGPT User

July update projects GDP growth of 1% this year, making UK the third fastest-growing economy in the G7 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its growth forecast for the UK, while leaving those for… Read more: IMF upgrades UK growth forecast as fears over impact of Iran war diminish

Political campaigns are increasingly deploying AI and deepfakes to further their messaging, and the scale of spread has experts concerned From the comfort of his bed, Jonathan Rinaldi, a political candidate for a city council… Read more: Can AI equalize political campaign ads – or will it remain a tool for spreading lies?

A software developer made a Chrome and Firefox extension called Knockoff that automatically hides, grays out, or filters products from sketchy brands on Amazon, which highlights just how many shady brands are on the platform… Read more: ‘Knockoff’ Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

55% of enterprises are deploying AI, but only 26% say governance is keeping pace, creating growing compliance, security, and operational risk Enterprises are embracing artificial intelligence at unprecedented speed, but most are not prepared to… Read more: Smarsh: AI Adoption Outpaces Enterprise Governance

Pasqal, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, and MegazoneCloud, South Korea’s leading cloud and AI transformation company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly explore a series of quantum computing initiatives designed to… Read more: Pasqal, MegazoneCloud Partner on Quantum Computing

A new book claims that Mystery, who teaches awkward men how to hit on women, had sex and smoked weed with an AI chatbot named Miss Shira Always.

This week, we talk about Jason’s dive into the world of LARPing, where hustlebros and influencers use fake YouTube, OnlyFans, and Stripe dashboards as “proof” that they’re rich in order to sell low-quality get-rich-quick courses… Read more: LARPING: How Influencers Fake Being Rich

Those with high levels of vocational training, including tradespeople, are least exposed to AI displacement, according to government review Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Artificial intelligence has yet to… Read more: Women and university graduates in Australia most at risk of losing jobs to AI, report finds

I can’t blame my patients for turning to its straightforward assessments. But it has real risks – and care may require human messiness “Chat told me I should break up with him.” I instructed my… Read more: My patients use ChatGPT for therapy. Now I use it too | Sarah Dargouth

Researchers have created an AI-based simulation that makes it much faster to model how neutron star mergers produce many of the universe’s heaviest elements. The new tool could improve predictions of these powerful explosions while… Read more: New AI model reveals how neutron star mergers forge heavy elements

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration after a devastating crisis. The shift coincided with new… Read more: Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe’s megalith builders

Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.

From repainted walls to imaginary lawns, estate agents say modified photos help buyers ‘visualise the potential of a property’. But how much AI enhancement is too much? Agents, viewers and trading standards experts tell all… Read more: The rapid rise of housefishing: are AI-enhanced property listings helpful – or sinister?

MIT’s research has found 95% of enterprise GenAI investments produce no measurable P&L impact. Premium models run routine prompts. Recursive loops burn five-figure sums before detection. Costs surface after the invoice, not before. Join us… Read more: Your AI Workforce Is Already Running. Can You Prove What It’s Producing?

Attribute measures real-time consumption at the kernel and traces every token, model request and GPU cycle to the customer, feature and agent that drove it DoiT, the company behind Cloud Intelligence, today introduced Attribute, a technology… Read more: DoiT Announced the Launch of Attribute™

In the brief history of AI security, the prompt injection has quickly become the top threat. Large language models are inherently unable to distinguish between legitimate instructions provided by users and malicious ones sneaked into… Read more: Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

New MCP integration bridges diseases, medications, procedures, laboratory tests, outcomes, and eligibility criteria in plain language to automatically translate them into retrieval-ready code sets across clinical vocabularies directly into Databricks Marketplace  Kythera Labs, a data technology leader… Read more: Kythera Launches Clinical Semantic Bridge on Databricks

OZ Digital, a leading provider of cloud, AI & data, and automation solutions, today announced it has joined the Anthropic Partner Network, to strengthen its ability to help organizations deploy generative AI solutions powered by… Read more: OZ Digital and Anthropic to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption with Claude

Researchers rebuilt long-extinct versions of a crucial enzyme that helps make nitrogen available to life, offering an unprecedented glimpse into Earth’s distant past. The breakthrough could aid the search for extraterrestrial life while helping scientists… Read more: Scientists resurrect 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme to reveal how life began on Earth

A newly developed material can control and “program” heat, allowing it to direct thermal radiation, switch modes, and remember its settings without continuous power. The innovation could lead to smarter infrared sensors, better energy technologies,… Read more: Incredible new material makes heat programmable

A centimeter-sized crystal has revealed clear signs of quantum entanglement, showing that large, everyday objects can display surprisingly deep quantum behavior. The discovery could help solve the mystery of strange metals while opening new possibilities… Read more: Schrödinger’s anthill: Quantum entanglement found in a crystal large enough to hold

Cases of a diarrhea-causing intestinal parasite have exploded in Michigan over the last two weeks in an outbreak that still has no clear source. As of July 6, the state has received reports of over… Read more: Michigan sees explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite with over 700 cases

Report finds widespread overbidding as rapid AI growth generates increased wealth in city where housing is scarce San Francisco’s AI boom has buyers spending unprecedented amounts of money on homes – much more than sellers… Read more: ‘Absolutely bananas’: San Francisco homes sell for $1m above asking price amid AI boom

The Supreme Court yesterday decided not to intervene in challenges to a Texas app store law, allowing the state to enforce age-verification rules while a lawsuit continues. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking… Read more: SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls “censorship regime”

In some parts of the US, up to 30 percent of people may carry the antibody behind a red meat allergy spurred by tick bites, far exceeding the estimated number of people who actually have… Read more: Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy