Freshwater lakes across North America and Europe are becoming noticeably browner, reducing underwater visibility and reshaping fish populations. Research found that several popular sport fish, including trout, bass, perch, and whitefish, tend to decline in… Read more: As lakes turn brown, trout and bass decline while pike and walleye thrive

Researchers found that a Chinese sodium-ion battery performs far better than expected, with production quality and design features comparable to Tesla’s batteries. If engineers can improve cold-weather charging and energy density, sodium could become a… Read more: Chinese sodium battery surprised scientists by matching key Tesla benchmarks

When Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation went to court recently to challenge Alberta’s handling of the proposed Wonder Valley AI Data Centre Park project, the dispute underscored a question that is increasingly difficult to ignore: What… Read more: Canada’s AI strategy must reckon with the environmental implications of data centres

To generate a satisfactory AI image, we must do for a machine what novelists have done for readers: translate objects, spaces and moods into words. A person on their device next to a statue of… Read more: How AI prompting turned writerly description into an everyday skill

Not that anyone in power is going to care, but there’s even more evidence that Americans are coming to overwhelmingly loathe AI — despite, or perhaps because, they’re using chatbots more than ever. In a… Read more: Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers

Workplace morale at Meta is in a tailspin after Mark Zuckerberg and his executive crew slashed thousands of jobs to free up more funds for AI. Usually when rank-and-file morale takes a nosedive, corporate bosses… Read more: Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits

Widow’s Bay, the delightfully eccentric new comedic horror series from Apple TV, is easily one of the best new series of the year. There’s a reason everyone from Guillero del Toro and Ben Stiller to… Read more: Review: Widow’s Bay is a boldly original take on comedic horror

Sure, anyone can use OpenAI’s chatbot. But with smart engineering, you can get way more interesting results.

For artists, it’s bad enough that AI companies scraped their artwork without permission or compensation. In a saner age, we’d recognize that for what it is: theft. And it’s even worse that so-called AI “artists”… Read more: New Law Would Give Artists Sweeping Protections Against AI Stealing Their Work

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey routinely causes some of the most severe… Read more: Scientists discover neurons must break their DNA to build the brain

Despite centuries of study, scientists are still finding new details and even overlooked structures within the human body. As researchers explore anatomical differences between individuals, it’s becoming clear that the body is far more complex—and… Read more: Think human anatomy is finished? Scientists say think again

Investigation finds AI content that purports to show genuine customers, prompting calls for greater transparency Brands promoting their products online are quietly deploying AI-generated influencers on social media, an investigation has found, prompting calls for… Read more: Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, cleaning parasites, or gaining protection. New research suggests these interspecies “conversations” are flexible, evolved, and far more important to… Read more: The secret language behind animal cooperation

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, cleaning parasites, or gaining protection. New research suggests these interspecies “conversations” are flexible, evolved, and far more important to… Read more: The secret language behind animal cooperation

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting “good guy” can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help repair DNA, but when… Read more: This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting “good guy” can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help repair DNA, but when… Read more: This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn’t originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing their metabolism or hibernating.… Read more: The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics

A surprising new study suggests the earliest primates didn’t originate in tropical forests but in cold, dry parts of North America. Some may have even survived seasonal Arctic conditions by slowing their metabolism or hibernating.… Read more: The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics

The global cobalt supply chain is more interconnected—and more vulnerable—than previously thought, with disruptions capable of triggering far-reaching cascades across multiple countries and industries. Researchers warn that protecting battery supply chains will require system-wide coordination… Read more: A single cobalt shock could trigger global EV battery supply chaos

The global cobalt supply chain is more interconnected—and more vulnerable—than previously thought, with disruptions capable of triggering far-reaching cascades across multiple countries and industries. Researchers warn that protecting battery supply chains will require system-wide coordination… Read more: A single cobalt shock could trigger global EV battery supply chaos

Researchers found that twisting layered sheets of hexagonal boron nitride can dramatically change the light produced by quantum emitters embedded within the material. The technique offers an unexpected new level of control over components that… Read more: This simple twist could bring quantum computers closer to reality

Researchers found that twisting layered sheets of hexagonal boron nitride can dramatically change the light produced by quantum emitters embedded within the material. The technique offers an unexpected new level of control over components that… Read more: This simple twist could bring quantum computers closer to reality

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the stories this week that shook the Earth, birthed a universe, exploded in space, and sought the fountain of lepidopterological youth. First, a wave from a disastrous earthquake… Read more: Scientists Propose Black Holes Don’t Exist, Are Something Much Stranger

AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out human creators across platforms. Even the vertical video darling TikTok has fallen victim. According to a new… Read more: TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop

Age verification is consuming the Internet. From social media bans in Australia to porn restrictions in half of US states, for many having to prove their age to access websites is becoming an everyday requirement.… Read more: The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed

We hear a lot about how college students are happy to use AI to help with their studies, if not churn out entire assignments. But is this too one-sided a narrative? Many appear to be… Read more: College Students Consumed by “Resignation and Despair” as They’re Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI

Exclusive: While recruits will increase headcount for now, broader adoption of AI could lead to jobs cuts in future Lloyds Banking Group has launched an AI recruitment drive for 300 tech experts, weeks before its… Read more: Lloyds Banking Group to hire 300 tech experts to work on AI

We asked people in the US about their customer service battles and hundreds responded on the financial and emotional costs Guardian readers from across the US wrote in to tell us about their battles with… Read more: How do people in the US describe customer service in 2026? ‘Debilitating, depressing, enraging. Ugh’

A burgeoning genre of fictional AI doomsday scenarios says lagging behind on the technology could threaten the continent’s sovereignty It’s 2031 and the US and China are about to tear Europe into pieces. The US… Read more: As the US and China surge ahead, is Europe sleepwalking into AI disaster?

The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.

Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore The prominent literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth short story prize after one… Read more: Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy

Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy, and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve performance. But in order to understand how those materials will actually behave once they’re inside rockets or… Read more: A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the drive-thru, it’s nearly impossible to avoid some type of AI-integrated device these days. Now it turns out… Read more: Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads

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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 questionable analysis, mysterious parcels, and the Knicks… Read more: Behind the Blog: Landfillcore and Go Knicks

deepset, the company behind Haystack, the production-ready open-source AI agent framework and platform, today announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program to help government, defense, and regulated enterprises deploy production-grade AI systems… Read more: deepset Joins HPE’s Unleash AI Program to Accelerate Sovereign Agentic AI

Company recognized as a leader for the third time among top Privileged Access Management vendors, reflecting strong market momentum and platform depth in AI era Delinea, the identity security control plane that secures access across… Read more: Delinea Named a Growth and Innovation Leader in Frost Radar™: PAM 2026

New platform targets enterprise data ROT – redundant, obsolete, and trivial files silently inflating costs and undermining AI performance Clario, the first platform built to eliminate enterprise data ROT, launched from stealth today with $6… Read more: Clario Launches with $6M Seed Funding to Rid Enterprises of Garbage Data

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Expanding access to Claude through Amazon Bedrock while combining enterprise AI capabilities with AWS operational expertise. Lyra Cloud Services (“LCS”), Evergreen’s newest addition to the Lyra Technology Group Portfolio, today announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic, expanding customer access… Read more: LCS Partners with Anthropic to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption on AWS

Robo.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AIIO), a Nasdaq-listed UAE-based company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the equity interests of QC Capital Limited (“Quantum Core” or “QC Capital”). Under the… Read more: Robo.ai announces proposed acquisition of QC Capital

MSPAlliance® today announced a groundbreaking AI risk monitoring capability integrated into the Cyber Verify program. This new feature, available through the External Service Provider Dashboard (ESP), gives MSP organizations (and their clients) instant visibility into a… Read more: MSPAlliance Launches AI Risk Visibility in Cyber Verify

I’ve spent the better part of a decade working on personalization, search, and recommendations at scale, most recently at Netflix, and now in a new chapter at Zoctok. The through line has stayed the same… Read more: From prediction to decision: Smaller models will reshape how we build AI

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SAP and Google Cloud are deploying agentic commerce architecture to automate multi-agent marketing and retail operations at enterprise scale. SAP research indicates 78 percent of businesses consider AI essential for retaining customers in 2026. However,… Read more: SAP and Google Cloud deploy agentic commerce architecture

Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn’t expanding wildly fast. The study suggests that the very shape of space-time… Read more: Einstein’s “biggest blunder” may finally have an explanation

A newly identified molecule called OLE helped restore the brain’s immune cells to a more protective state in Alzheimer’s models. The treatment reduced toxic plaque buildup and improved memory, raising hopes for a new therapeutic… Read more: Scientists reprogram brain immune cells to fight Alzheimer’s

Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers. The method uses Shannon entropy to identify guesses that reveal the most about the hidden… Read more: Researchers found a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time

A distant galaxy nicknamed Shadow Blaster may have revealed a surprising source of cosmic neutrinos: extreme star formation instead of a supermassive black hole. The discovery suggests that hidden, dust-filled starburst galaxies could account for… Read more: Scientists expected a black hole but found a neutrino factory powered by stars

Welcome to Edition 8.46 of the Rocket Report! We don’t mention Starship in the body of this week’s report, so I’ll give a brief update here. The next test flight of SpaceX’s mega-rocket—Flight 13—could happen… Read more: Rocket Report: Rebuild begins at Blue Origin launch pad; Relativity targets Mars

OpenAI, a company currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits, just hired Noam Shazeer — a cofounder of the notorious AI companion startup Character.AI, which has settled a pile of lawsuits over… Read more: OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things

AI is revolutionizing cyberattacks, as advancements in the tech allow bad actors to find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities in software across the web. If there were ever a time to shore up your security habits… Read more: Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History

MAJURO, Marshall Islands—Perched on the bow of an aluminum landing craft, Anne Cohen gazed a few yards ahead of the vessel toward a yellow robot gliding across the emerald Majuro lagoon. The unmanned surface vehicle,… Read more: As global warming threatens corals, scientists search for reefs that can take the heat

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Nadia Carlsten, AI and advanced computing industry leader, appointed president, CEO and board member Independent Director Lily Yan Hughes appointed as board chair Allbirds, Inc. name changed to Smartbird, Inc. Smartbird, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIRD), an AI… Read more: Smartbird Appoints New CEO to Advance AI Infrastructure Strategy

Guardian readers in the US share concerns about how the SpaceX IPO and AI boom affect their retirement accounts Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire last week after SpaceX debuted on the stock market… Read more: ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings

These prompt engineering courses can help you refine and structure natural language requests to get the most out of generative AI. The post Top 5 Prompt Engineering Certifications That Are Worth Taking (2026) appeared first… Read more: Top 5 Prompt Engineering Certifications That Are Worth Taking (2026)

Australian enterprises remain dependent on foreign technology infrastructure, while major economies treat that dependency as a strategic liability. The post As the World Claims Tech Sovereignty, Where Does Australia Stand? appeared first on TechRepublic.

Depending on AI can also potentially decrease the ability to discern misinformation, research says A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the latest research to find that relying too much on chatbots… Read more: Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds

Built around digital twin technology and customer-dedicated AI models, Cumulo answers the recent announcement by GCHQ for AI Cyber Shield, enabling early identification of threats and vulnerabilities before incidents occur Abingdon, U.K., 19 June, – SOC-as-a-service… Read more: e2e-assure introduces Cumulo, the U.K.’s only sovereign, AI-driven, zero-day SOC platform to secure IT and OT environments

California first lady’s Miss Representation: Rise Up studies the backlash against women in the era of algorithms and deepfakes Life moves pretty fast. It is Monday lunchtime when Jennifer Siebel Newsom drops into the Guardian’s… Read more: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media

Marquee customer wins, analyst recognition, and platform innovation underscore Opsin’s leadership in governance for autonomous enterprise agents Opsin, the Enterprise AI Security company, today reported significant 2026 momentum across customer adoption, analyst recognition, partnerships, and… Read more: Opsin Advances Enterprise AI Security for Autonomous Agents

Trustible, the purpose-built AI governance platform for regulated enterprises, today announced it has been recognized as an Honorable Mention in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for AI Governance Platforms. What the Recognition MeansThis is… Read more: Trustible Named in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Governance Platforms

Benchmark of 500 U.S. firms finds the dividing line is the operating model, not the number of AI tools deployed Moonnox today released its 2026 Impact of AI on System Integrators Benchmark, a primary research… Read more: New Moonnox research: 91% system integrators use AI, only 15% capture value

Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc# US54126826, June 2026). Download the complimentary excerpt here. The IDC MarketScape’s… Read more: Elastic Named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SIEM 2026

The race to build data centers in space is gaining momentum as AI drives unprecedented demand for computing power. Orbital facilities could tap into abundant solar energy and avoid many of the environmental challenges faced… Read more: SpaceX wants to build AI data centers in space. Will it work?

Astronomers may be closing in on a long-standing cosmic mystery: why some of the universe’s biggest galaxies seem to have far fewer stars than expected. Using NASA- and JAXA-supported XRISM observations of a galaxy called… Read more: Black hole winds may be robbing giant galaxies of their future stars

Microsoft says it has detected new self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives in search of cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the worm Crypto Clipper because it monitors… Read more: Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency

WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia—Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before. Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk… Read more: A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?

Taiwan’s existence as a self-governing democracy may depend heavily on having enough military drones to discourage any attempted invasion by China’s military. As the Taiwanese government aims to boost domestic production of military drones and… Read more: As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military

Independent advisors for the Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted 9–0 in support of approving Moderna’s seasonal mRNA flu vaccine, which a Trump appointee at the agency initially tried to block from even being… Read more: FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna’s mRNA after agency drama

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays.

Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-20701, allowed improper authentication in the firmware running… Read more: Apple patches high-severity eavesdropping vulnerability in Beats Studio Buds

Jens Büttner/Getty Images A customer sends a WhatsApp message to a local store asking about a product. Within seconds, they receive an answer. The product they’re after is in stock. Or, if it isn’t, they’re… Read more: More than chatbots: why business AI agents are Big Tech’s next product battleground

Almost 20 years ago, Google pitched Android as the more open alternative to Apple’s walled garden. Last year, Google announced it would begin erecting its own walls through developer verification. The company has issued an… Read more: Android verification is coming: Google confirms timeline and supported app stores

Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the… Read more: NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module

Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.

Bernie Sanders has unveiled an aggressive plan to transfer trillions from leading AI firms to the public, and, to the likely horror of AI firms, it goes even further than expected to give Americans more… Read more: Bernie Sanders unveils $7 trillion plan to give Americans control of AI industry

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A businessman with ties to Chinese military contractors was among the overseas investors who acquired stakes in SpaceX while it was still a private company. An entity linked to the Qatari royal family also took… Read more: Before SpaceX IPO, investors in China secretly acquired stakes

In May, the federal government announced without warning that it would take apart a network of ocean monitoring systems that it had spent over $350 million to build. No reason was given for the decision… Read more: After Senate vote, Trump admin backs off plans to kill ocean monitoring

Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and higher case closure rates. The rising number of wrongful arrests attributed to AI facial recognition systems, however,… Read more: Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Ancient fossils have revealed that the earliest animals to walk on… Read more: A New Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from hunter-gatherer cemeteries in Siberia, researchers discovered early plague… Read more: Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth. University of Oxford ancient DNA researcher Ruairidh… Read more: Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

A new study suggests Southern California’s major fault system is more stressed than at any point in the last 1,000 years. Researchers found that the Cajon Pass, where the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults… Read more: Scientists discover an earthquake gate as California faults reach their highest stress levels in 1,000 years

Alibaba Cloud opened two Paris availability zones as European enterprises weigh data sovereignty, resilience, and AI infrastructure needs. The post Alibaba Cloud Bets on France as Europe Seeks More Control Over AI appeared first on… Read more: Alibaba Cloud Bets on France as Europe Seeks More Control Over AI

An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers. In a federal lawsuit filed Monday, Karl Kahn accuses the Claude AI maker of misleading customers about the usage… Read more: Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers

The rise of chatbots disrupts traditional ideas of community. Ying-Chieh Lee/Kingston School of Art/betterimagesofai.org, CC BY Can technology really replace human relationships? As philosophy scholars who focus on human happiness and on artificial intelligence (AI),… Read more: People are marrying holograms and making friends with chatbots. But can AI bring true happiness?

The unified platform combines AI discovery, runtime security enforcement, shadow AI control, identity and privilege control, and continuous red teaming.  Uniquely integrates AI security into a broader identity security architecture to manage human, machine, and AI identities… Read more: Securden Expands Identity Platform with AI Agent Security and Governance

Built on a decade of deep Kubernetes Network Security experience, Lynx gives AI, platform, security, and compliance teams one place to discover, authenticate, authorize, govern, and audit every AI agent — with no agent code… Read more: Tigera Launches Lynx, a Unified Control Plane for Kubernetes-native AI Agents

Computer vision deployments are driving retail productivity gains as operators automate physical shelf tracking to protect eroding margins. This hardware deployment directly addresses the persistent in-store execution failures currently costing the industry billions. A study… Read more: Computer vision deployments drive retail productivity gains

The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal

In a viral essay about how ludicrous the idea that LLMs are conscious is, science fiction writer Ted Chiang asked us to consider Microsoft Word: “Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is… Read more: If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

Anthropic updated Claude Design with design system imports, Claude Code syncing, canvas editing, and more export options for enterprise teams. The post Anthropic Adds Brand Controls, Code Sync to Claude Design appeared first on TechRepublic.

Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can… Read more: ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton

Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, who served twice as a crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including during the final US space shuttle mission in 2011, has died at the age of 56. With… Read more: Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die

If you Google “SCP-565” — an iconic entry in the collaborative fan fiction universe known as the “SCP Foundation” — the company’s AI Overviews describes the nonexistent entity as though it were entirely real, without… Read more: Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real

Citizens attend a City Council hearing in Pocatello, Idaho, to discuss the prospect of a new $2.6 billion data center in their community. Natalie Behring/Getty Images As the race to build data centers across the… Read more: How local communities are challenging Big Tech data centers’ noise, pollution and rising electricity bills