
- Hackers Expose How AI Music App Suno Stole Decades Worth of Copyrighted Music
A hack revealed in detail how AI music generating app Suno scraped millions of songs, likely including copyrighted ones, from across the web to feed into its AI model, 404 Media reports. Suno, which is… Read more: Hackers Expose How AI Music App Suno Stole Decades Worth of Copyrighted Music - Will Russia’s answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Everyone seems to be launching and landing rockets these days. Last week, China joined the club of countries that have launched an orbital mission and brought its booster safely back to Earth, which is just… Read more: Will Russia’s answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight? - Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
Last month, we reported on a troubling incident at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans. On June 5, five leading scientists were ousted for handing out copies of an editorial,… Read more: Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy - AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over
Yet another domino appears to be falling as part of the Ruth Goldberg machine that will eventually pop the AI investment bubble. Earlier this month, economic forecasters were sounding the alarm that overspending on AI… Read more: AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over - Following the questions where they lead
Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity. Describing her young self as spirited and a bit unruly, she… Read more: Following the questions where they lead - IntelePeer Announced the Launch of Aqurio
Company’s mission is to help organizations in complex industries operate more efficiently and scale faster by combining Agentic AI with compliance-first vertical integrations IntelePeer today announced the launch of Aqurio, an Agentic AI company purpose-built… Read more: IntelePeer Announced the Launch of Aqurio - H2O.ai Deepens Investment in Forward Deployed AI Lab in Singapore
A deeper APAC investment: a local team of forward-deployed engineers, backed by H2O.ai’s world-renowned Kaggle Grandmasters, delivering sovereign, IMDA-accredited AI to enterprise and government. H2O.ai, the sovereign enterprise AI platform spanning predictive, generative, and agentic… Read more: H2O.ai Deepens Investment in Forward Deployed AI Lab in Singapore - DataDome: AI Agent Traffic Jumps 45% in Q2
Findings reveal rapid growth in agentic traffic and a growing gap between consumption and value DataDome, the leader in bot and agent trust management, today released The AI Traffic Report Q2 2026: Agentic Traffic Surged 45%,… Read more: DataDome: AI Agent Traffic Jumps 45% in Q2 - Elon Musk’s xAI, Which is Being Sued Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes, Sues Grok User Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes
Elon Musk’s xAI is suing a man for using its flagship chatbot, Grok, to create nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of women and children. The Grok user, a 67-year-old in South Carolina named Terry Wayne Harwood, was arrested… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI, Which is Being Sued Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes, Sues Grok User Over AI-Generated Sexual Deepfakes - GoodVision AI to Build 100 MW AI Factory in Japan
Flagship Deployment in Fukushima Anchors Scalable, High-Performance AI Infrastructure Buildout GoodVision AI (“GoodVision”), a developer of next-generation AI compute infrastructure purpose-built for inference, today announced the establishment of its first next-generation AI Factory in Japan… Read more: GoodVision AI to Build 100 MW AI Factory in Japan - Elastic Named a Leader in Gartner Observability MQ for 2026
Elastic credits the recognition to its unified data architecture and focus on cutting the cost and complexity of observability at scale Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that Gartner®, Inc. has named it… Read more: Elastic Named a Leader in Gartner Observability MQ for 2026 - Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
If you’re a skilled writer with outsize technology chops who gets excited by the idea of taking the Ars audience with you as you go hands-on with hardware—all kinds of hardware!—then this position has your… Read more: Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it! - Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems
Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y… Read more: Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems - San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported. Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to… Read more: San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores - You’re Invited: 404 Media’s Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party!
404 Media is turning three years old! We’ve come a long way with your support, so let’s hang out. We’re throwing TWO separate events to celebrate: A live taping of the podcast and a special… Read more: You’re Invited: 404 Media’s Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party! - Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo prices are going up by $15 per month because it will have some NBCUniversal channels again. For years, Fubo, a sports-centric vMVPD (virtual multichannel video programming distributor, which lets subscribers watch traditional TV channels… Read more: Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November - A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech Industry
While Wall Street was fast asleep, a Chinese-made large language model quietly leapfrogged 16 other models to become number one on the AI charts. The model is called Kimi-K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI.… Read more: A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech Industry - Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine
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 AI music, slop bowls, and the endless… Read more: Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine - ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to pay data broker giant Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to its databases of personal data — which includes peoples’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers, ethnicity, social… Read more: ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’ - Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world’s most valuable company
Shift in pecking order illustrates that investors are reassessing outlook for artificial intelligence Apple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company, reshuffling the top ranks of tech heavyweights as investors reassess… Read more: Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world’s most valuable company - OPAQUE Joins the Linux Foundation’s Appia Foundation and AAIF
The memberships bring OPAQUE’s open AI trust standards to the industry efforts shaping how AI is verified, and autonomous agents are governed OPAQUE, the Confidential AI company, today announced it has joined two Linux Foundation… Read more: OPAQUE Joins the Linux Foundation’s Appia Foundation and AAIF - Rocket Report: India’s Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?
Welcome to Edition 9.03 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX counted down all the way to T-0 on Thursday evening in South Texas before a handful of Raptor engines decided not to light at ignition of… Read more: Rocket Report: India’s Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company? - 2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
When Lucid introduced the Air electric sedan in late 2021, the first Air Dream Edition I tested packed over 1,100 hp (820 kW) and carried a $180,000-plus window sticker. It’s easily the most powerful street… Read more: 2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2 - FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
The rich and famous who filed into the Kennedy Center’s opera house in December were there to enjoy one of the nation’s most exclusive celebrations of the performing arts: the center’s annual honors gala. The… Read more: FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals - The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
Climate change is being driven largely by the greenhouse gases we’ve pumped into the atmosphere, which trap more of the Sun’s energy there. That added energy increases the odds of extreme events: longer, more intense… Read more: The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science - Critical thinking has become an AI-era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it?
MalikNalik/Shutterstock Spend enough time in discussions about education and artificial intelligence (AI), and critical thinking will inevitably pop up sooner rather than later. AI is changing how students learn and how educators assess learning, and… Read more: Critical thinking has become an AI-era buzzword. But what does it actually mean, and how do we teach it? - Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?
Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn’t be sure that the stranger you met at a… Read more: Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them? - Keeper Security Launches Keeper Privileged Cloud
New just-in-time access capability within KeeperPAM ensures privileged credentials are granted only when needed and revoked automatically when a session expires Keeper Security, the leading zero-trust and zero-knowledge identity security and Privileged Access Management (PAM)… Read more: Keeper Security Launches Keeper Privileged Cloud - Survey Finds Identity Gap in Agentic AI Deployments
90% of respondents say they need identity-management improvements to address AI-related risks, including the surge of non-human identities gaining always-on access to corporate data Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leader in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today… Read more: Survey Finds Identity Gap in Agentic AI Deployments - San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls. - New “living plastic” self-destructs in just 6 days without leaving microplastics
Researchers have created self-destructing living plastic that uses engineered bacteria to completely break itself down when activated. The material degrades in just six days without creating microplastics, offering a potential new solution for single-use plastic… Read more: New “living plastic” self-destructs in just 6 days without leaving microplastics - Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D
A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of light-producing material. Using a light-field camera, highly sensitive photon sensors, and AI, it reconstructs particle paths in… Read more: Scientists built a camera that can track invisible particles in 3D - A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War
The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.” - ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy As facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public… Read more: ‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream? - Pipefy Named Gartner Market Shaper for No-Code AI Agents
Pipefy Named One Of the Market Shapers in Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant for No-Code Agent Builders – Startup Vendors Pipefy, a global leader in AI-driven business process orchestration, today announced it was named one of… Read more: Pipefy Named Gartner Market Shaper for No-Code AI Agents - Shift: Gen Z Leads AI Adoption but Voices Concerns
Study finds that while 47% of 18-24 year olds now use AI tools first for search, 34% say AI is already “far too dominant” and 67% worry about its environmental costs Shift, the world’s first… Read more: Shift: Gen Z Leads AI Adoption but Voices Concerns - Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review
BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral works Robert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he… Read more: Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review - ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI – podcast
Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference? By… Read more: ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI – podcast - SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn’t start
SpaceX called off a test flight of its powerful Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster as the countdown clock reached zero Thursday at the company’s spaceport in South Texas. The launch team at Starbase, Texas, just… Read more: SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn’t start - HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
The Indian government has fined HP India and its partners a total of 1.4 billion rupees (about $14.4 million) for working with reseller partners in the “cartelization” of computers, ink cartridges, and toner. The Competition… Read more: HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs - Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing
Two nominees for high-profile health roles in the Trump administration faced scrutiny from the Senate health committee Wednesday—and both crashed and burned in their own special ways. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and… Read more: Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing - Why force models to compute knowledge when they could just look it up?
Large language models are trained to be generalists. They solve physics problems, write poetry, recall historical facts, and debug code using the same neural machinery. This means a model must dedicate precious computational resources to… Read more: Why force models to compute knowledge when they could just look it up? - Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.”
The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their workflows and anti-AI absolutists who don’t want large language model-generated code anywhere near their projects.… Read more: Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.” - Now, even Russia’s most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
One of the Russian government’s most elite hacking groups has adopted an attack, known as Clickfix, to compromise devices belonging to sensitive organizations in Ukraine, the latter country’s CERT center is warning. Clickfix has emerged… Read more: Now, even Russia’s most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices - 2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric
For year after year, more Americans have bought Toyota RAV4s than anything that isn’t a pickup truck. The brand’s reputation for solid reliability has kept it ahead of SUVs from other automakers, and the nation’s… Read more: 2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric - Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say
Kalshi is a high-tech prediction market that allows people to “forecast the future” (their term). It is about contracts and information, the company says, making its offerings more like a soybean futures contract than a… Read more: Trump teleprompter aide made $100,000 betting on what Trump would say, reports say - Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers began walking off the job early after negotiations with the South Korean automaker broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots—the most significant pushback from organized labor so far… Read more: Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory - xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.
Facing mounting pressure to acknowledge that Grok can still be used to generate non-consensual sexualized images of adults and minors, xAI filed a lawsuit Tuesday, suing the first user that Elon Musk’s firm has accused… Read more: xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users. - It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Europe wasted no time using its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to try and rein in Big Tech. Companies like Apple, Meta, and Google have faced steep fines and orders to modify their business practices… Read more: It’s official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android - T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users’ free lines
T-Mobile canceled some longtime subscribers’ free-line promotions as part of a forced migration to new rate plans, spurring complaints from customers yesterday. T-Mobile admitted the problem and blamed it on technical errors that it is… Read more: T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users’ free lines - Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developments could further hurt the company—particularly in its fight against Anthropic. - Elon Musk Acquires APR Energy in Deal Valued at More Than $1 Billion
Elon Musk’s $1 billion APR Energy acquisition could help xAI expand faster while raising new questions about emissions, cost, and grid dependence. The post Elon Musk Acquires APR Energy in Deal Valued at More Than… Read more: Elon Musk Acquires APR Energy in Deal Valued at More Than $1 Billion - The data centre boom won’t mean higher power prices – if we unlock stalled renewable projects
moisseyev/Getty To meet demand from artificial intelligence companies, some of the world’s largest data centres are planned for the outskirts of major Australian cities. Dozens more are planned. OpenAI chief Sam Altman has said Australia… Read more: The data centre boom won’t mean higher power prices – if we unlock stalled renewable projects - Short Sellers Are Having a Field Day Betting Against SpaceX as Shares Continue to Slip
SpaceX bears are smelling blood in the water. As its stock languishes below its IPO price — at press time, $131 — short sellers are going all in against the company, hoping to make a… Read more: Short Sellers Are Having a Field Day Betting Against SpaceX as Shares Continue to Slip - Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows
Public backlash to AI is intensifying — and transforming into real-world attempts at physical violence. Industry leaders are fearing for their lives. Leading AI companies and their top executives are beefing up security, the Wall Street… Read more: Terrified Tech Execs Are Traveling With Armed Bodyguards as AI Backlash Grows - We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere
Most of the gas in the Universe is a mixture of hydrogen and helium. It’s thought that the initial atmospheres of most planets also start out that way. However, over billions of years, as planets… Read more: We’ve seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet’s atmosphere - Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster
The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may already be outdated. - Singapore’s AI Glasses Boom Meets a Privacy Reckoning
Meta’s AI glasses are arriving faster than regulators can respond. New York’s courtroom ban highlights the growing privacy concerns that countries like Singapore may soon have to address. The post Singapore’s AI Glasses Boom Meets… Read more: Singapore’s AI Glasses Boom Meets a Privacy Reckoning - Elon Musk’s AI Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is in turmoil behind the scenes. The company is constantly playing catch-up with rivals Anthropic, with Musk personally obsessed with having his chatbot Grok match Anthropic’s Claude, Bloomberg reports. And… Read more: Elon Musk’s AI Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes - The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or… Read more: The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials - Claude for Chrome Flaw Puts Gmail at Risk From Rogue Extensions
Researchers say a Claude for Chrome flaw lets rogue extensions trigger Gmail, Docs, and Calendar tasks, with greater risk in unattended mode. The post Claude for Chrome Flaw Puts Gmail at Risk From Rogue Extensions… Read more: Claude for Chrome Flaw Puts Gmail at Risk From Rogue Extensions - OpenAI’s First Device Explained: Everything We Know About the Screenless AI Speaker
OpenAI is reportedly developing a portable screenless AI speaker with cameras, sensors, GPT-Live, and moving parts. The post OpenAI’s First Device Explained: Everything We Know About the Screenless AI Speaker appeared first on TechRepublic. - SpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Privacy Backlash
SpaceXAI open-sourced Grok Build under Apache 2.0 after privacy backlash over broad directory uploads from its terminal AI coding agent. The post SpaceXAI Open-Sources Grok Build After Privacy Backlash appeared first on TechRepublic. - The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the… Read more: The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs - Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet in the… Read more: Scientists Discover Planet Has Everything to Host ‘Earth-Like Life’ In Breakthrough - Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds
On Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary findings verifying Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s claims that a driver involved in a fatal Texas crash that killed a grandmother overrode Full Self Driving in… Read more: Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds - Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom
Energy companies are raising money at IPO at their fastest pace this century, taking advantage of investors’ hunt for new ways to bet on the boom in power-intensive AI data centers. Initial public offerings for… Read more: Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom - Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
One week ago, three widely respected European news outlets published the results of an investigation into what they described as a “joint plan” by China and Russia to “defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink.” The story was… Read more: Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang. - OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice
OnePlus arrived on the scene in 2014 with brash marketing and a compelling pitch: What if your phone was cheaper and faster? More than a decade later, the market is much different, and so is… Read more: OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice - The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a… Read more: The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway - Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs outlined a bioresilience program to curb AI misuse in biology while aiding outbreak response. The two organisations published an update on a joint initiative that began quietly and has now… Read more: Examining Google DeepMind’s AI bioresilience push - The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix
Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augmented generation is already the default context source, and provider-native retrieval has quietly overtaken… Read more: The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix - Codenotary Announced its Joining the Anthropic Verified Access Program
Participation strengthens Codenotary’s ability to research emerging AI agent threats and accelerate protections for enterprises Codenotary, leaders in assuring safe and secure use of AI, today announced it has joined Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program, a security research… Read more: Codenotary Announced its Joining the Anthropic Verified Access Program - Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material
Case is one of first brought by an AI company against a user for allegedly using a tool to generate child abuse material Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested… Read more: Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material - Concho AI Unveils Concho to Modernize Mission-Critical Apps
Concho AI, the application understanding software company, today introduced Concho, an AI system that provides deep semantic understanding of application architecture, business functions and technology patterns, using MCP to transform how developers work with complex… Read more: Concho AI Unveils Concho to Modernize Mission-Critical Apps - Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup
Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training A man who was paralysed from the chest down in a swimming accident six years… Read more: Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup - Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws
shutterstock New Africa/Shutterstock Copyright is built on the idea that human creativity deserves protection. Legally, this is known as “originality”. The principle is simple: people create valuable cultural works and the law protects that effort.… Read more: Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws - Precisely Appoints New CRO and Chief Business Officer
Industry veterans Vinesh Vis and Jane Gilson bring decades of enterprise technology growth experience to accelerate commercial execution for data integrity leader Precisely, the global leader in data integrity, today announced the appointments of Vinesh… Read more: Precisely Appoints New CRO and Chief Business Officer - How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars
Police departments around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on… Read more: How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not Cars - Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
New navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit could provide 100 times stronger signal strength compared to GPS and other global navigation satellite systems operating from higher orbital altitudes—enabling greater location accuracy within dense cities, under thick… Read more: Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback - Can a power company take your land to support a data center? It depends
Meeting data center power demands will mean building more transmission lines and acquiring more land to put them on. These lines are in California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The artificial intelligence boom in the United States… Read more: Can a power company take your land to support a data center? It depends - TikTok facing UK investigation amid fears over age checks and harm to children
Ofcom concerned TikTok’s age verification is ineffective, leaving some exposed to posts on suicide, self-harm and pornography TikTok is under formal investigation over concerns it has failed to protect children from harmful content, the UK’s… Read more: TikTok facing UK investigation amid fears over age checks and harm to children - Nebius Scales AI Cloud with Infrastructure Partnerships
Pairs Nebius’s systems architecture, software stack and customers with partner capacity Gives data center developers, infrastructure investors, regional operators and national AI projects worldwide route to tap fast-growing AI cloud market Generates high-margin revenue stream… Read more: Nebius Scales AI Cloud with Infrastructure Partnerships - Berlin, Paris, London: how Europe’s AI hubs are diverging
For years, US investors and operators treated “the European AI scene” as one line item, a single region to watch from across the Atlantic. That framing is retiring fast. Capital flows, flagship companies, AI talent… Read more: Berlin, Paris, London: how Europe’s AI hubs are diverging - Wherever AI is heading next, older people want a say
Older people are being left out of decisions about how artificial intelligence is being built. Many older adults are highly skilled, curious about emerging technologies and keen to learn about AI; they’re interested in its… Read more: Wherever AI is heading next, older people want a say - Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI
I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features. - Plixer 19.8 Opens Full Investigative Engine to External AI Tools
New release also brings Plixer’s own AI investigation agents and extends searchable flow history to months or years. Plixer today announced the general availability of Plixer 19.8, a platform release that lets network and security… Read more: Plixer 19.8 Opens Full Investigative Engine to External AI Tools - Rafay Introduces Managed MCP Server for Governed AI
New offering gives platform and SRE teams a secure, controlled way to connect AI assistants and agentic applications to Rafay operation context, starting with fleet intelligence cost attribution and incident diagnosis. Rafay Systems, a leader… Read more: Rafay Introduces Managed MCP Server for Governed AI - Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US
Neko Health has raised $700 million to expand its AI body scans in the United States, starting with a clinic in New York. The company’s preventive screening service combines medical imaging, blood tests, proprietary sensors,… Read more: Neko Health raises $700 million to expand AI body scans in the US - AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio
Product listings in AWS Marketplace gained new AI-based features last month in anticipation of continued growth in the use of enterprise agents. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled AI-assisted product listings in Product Assistant chat, a… Read more: AWS adds AI-assisted product listing service to its Marketplace portfolio - Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking… Read more: Cadence extends its AI agents beyond chips with AuraStack for circuit boards and packaging - Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling is… Read more: Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines drops Inkling, an open-weights model anyone can access - QumulusAI’s direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI
Neocloud provider QumulusAI said today that it will starting trading Thursday as a publicly traded company on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QMLS via a direct listing. For those unfamiliar with the process, the typical initial… Read more: QumulusAI’s direct listing: Accelerating the neocloud for enterprise AI - Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of RAISE Summit
Agentic inference is reshaping the center of gravity in AI infrastructure. What began as a race to scale training has shifted into a phase defined by expanding context windows, memory‑augmented reasoning and the need to… Read more: Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of RAISE Summit - Common constipation drug may help clear depression brain fog
An existing constipation drug may have an unexpected new use: helping clear the “brain fog” that often lingers after depression. In a small clinical trial, people with a history of depression who took the medication… Read more: Common constipation drug may help clear depression brain fog - NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a strange atmosphere on a hellish lava planet
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details about the blistering lava planet 55 Cancri e, where temperatures are high enough to melt rock. The data indicate the planet likely has a hydrogen-rich atmosphere… Read more: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a strange atmosphere on a hellish lava planet - Quantum breakthrough links light and magnetism in atomically thin materials
A new review highlights exciting progress in atomically thin quantum materials where light and magnetism work together in ways never before possible. In these materials, light-generated excitons can interact directly with magnetic behavior, creating opportunities… Read more: Quantum breakthrough links light and magnetism in atomically thin materials - A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping
Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as for airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they’ll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate… Read more: A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping - Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences
Uncrewed systems are the future for armed forces and the Netherlands is leading the way ‘to keep people out of danger zones’ On each side of the target ship, a black vessel keeps a watchful… Read more: Robots, AI and drones: how the Dutch navy is using tech to transform its sea defences - ‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health
She has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years and fears the debate obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers – from the impact of Covid to the health of their adult caregivers The… Read more: ‘Social media bans are likely to make things worse’: psychologist Candice Odgers on kids, tech and mental health
