
- AI is a matter of power, infrastructure and security: TechEx North America
Although visitors to an event like TechEx North America will always want to see the cutting edge front and centre stage, the nuance and detail brought to the show by the speakers and exhibitors mean… Read more: AI is a matter of power, infrastructure and security: TechEx North America - Hidden sugar patterns on human cells could reveal cancer early
Scientists have uncovered a hidden “sugar code” on the surface of human cells that could transform how diseases are detected. Using an advanced imaging technique called Glycan Atlasing, researchers at the Max Planck Institute mapped… Read more: Hidden sugar patterns on human cells could reveal cancer early - Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds
Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid it One in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil… Read more: Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds - Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date
An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on… Read more: Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date - Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected
The Ebola outbreak first reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday has seemingly escalated quickly into a large, uncontrolled multinational outbreak. As of May 17, there were 10 confirmed cases, 336 suspected… Read more: Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected - Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author — and his entire archive of articles — from its website following allegations of AI plagiarism. Last week, the sports news site Sportico published an article featuring an original analysis… Read more: Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism - One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions
NASA released a much-anticipated contract solicitation for a Mars-orbiting spacecraft late last week, kicking off what is sure to be a hotly contested and potentially controversial procurement. At issue is $700 million, already appropriated by… Read more: One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions - Most mainstream films already use AI. The new Oscars rules won’t stop that
Venti Views/Unsplah, FAL The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has adjusted the eligibility criteria for films vying for Oscars from 2027 onward. Films featuring actors generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are now ineligible,… Read more: Most mainstream films already use AI. The new Oscars rules won’t stop that - A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop
Joyce Hankins / Unsplash The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will face a year-long ban and ongoing restrictions.… Read more: A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop - Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder
The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican says In the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid rise of… Read more: Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder - The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest
Many gadgets marketed as being “smart” make me wonder if they would be better off dumb. Some examples are smart TVs that insist on sending your activities to businesses to track you, smart fridges that… Read more: The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest - Guy Gardner makes a cameo in new Lanterns teaser
Lanterns, the new DC Universe series coming to HBO Max, dropped a surprising teaser in March that swapped the usual superhero hijinks for gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives and Slow Horses. Personally,… Read more: Guy Gardner makes a cameo in new Lanterns teaser - Pompeii victim ID’d as a likely doctor
Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been… Read more: Pompeii victim ID’d as a likely doctor - Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees
Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after… Read more: Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees - The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant, according to… Read more: The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers - Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo’s grave for decades
A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells. Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South… Read more: Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo’s grave for decades - Parents Explode in Fury at School’s Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI
A planned University of Washington study would’ve had preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of everything in the classroom, including the young children they were instructing, and use that footage to train AI… Read more: Parents Explode in Fury at School’s Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI - Apple’s Fall Lineup Could Include Foldable iPhone, New Macs
Apple is rumored to have more than 15 products planned for fall, including a foldable iPhone, new Macs, AirPods, Watches, and smart-home devices. The post Apple’s Fall Lineup Could Include Foldable iPhone, New Macs appeared… Read more: Apple’s Fall Lineup Could Include Foldable iPhone, New Macs - Banned Nvidia AI Chips Keep Reaching China Despite US Crackdown
US export-control cases show how Nvidia chips and other restricted tech are allegedly diverted to China and Russia through shell firms and intermediaries. The post Banned Nvidia AI Chips Keep Reaching China Despite US Crackdown… Read more: Banned Nvidia AI Chips Keep Reaching China Despite US Crackdown - Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats
Apple’s reported Siri revamp may add auto-deleting AI chats as the company prepares a privacy-focused software push at WWDC 2026. The post Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats appeared first on TechRepublic. - Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk
OpenAI CEO and president found not liable for breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startup A jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman in the culmination of a long and bitter legal battle… Read more: Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk - Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI
The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision. - AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology
A bulk of Americans really hate AI — and many AI CEOs can’t quite grasp why. There’s a serious mismatch between public sentiment and corporate excitement over AI. Companies continue to AI-wash layoffs and jam the… Read more: AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology - Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse
Ofcom to update codes of practice amid rise in ‘revenge porn’ and AI-generated deepfakes targeting women and girls Social media, messaging platforms and online forums that publish intimate image abuse – often intended to humiliate… Read more: Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse - People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI-Generated
Life imitates AI art. Plastic surgeons say that more patients are coming in and asking to look like an AI-generated version of themselves with cartoonishly unrealistic features, in the latest grim sign of how the… Read more: People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI-Generated - Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)
When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the… Read more: Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more) - Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop
Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software are being inundated with low-quality reports generated by AI, forcing some to suspend the programs altogether. Businesses that run “bug bounty” schemes have long relied… Read more: Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop - Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.
When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the week-long “Aviation Challenge” program at Space Camp, in Huntsville, Alabama. “For the first time, I got behind the controls of an airplane when… Read more: Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward. - BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive
The march of time, and what counts for progress in the automotive industry, has not been particularly kind to the driving enthusiast. Our vehicles have gotten bigger and heavier. Touch-sensitive panels and screens replaced buttons.… Read more: BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive - Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking
Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider Get our breaking news email, free app… Read more: Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking - Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay
Being a straight-A student doesn’t mean what it used to. Today, widely available AI chatbots make cheating on your homework and churning out entire essays easier than ever. If students don’t outright ask an AI… Read more: Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay - Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement
Pew research shows Americans are more worried than excited about AI as graduates voiced fears over jobs A former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was met with students’ boos at a university commencement address in Arizona… Read more: Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement - Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models.… Read more: Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI - Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris
As you scroll around the web, how often to you think about the physical infrastructure—the miles of cables, acres of land—that makes up the internet? This is where real power lies, and there are ways… Read more: Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris - Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that
The struggling footwear company Allbirds, which announced in April 2026 that it was rebranding into an AI company, may be one of the most recent notable examples of ‘AI washing.’ Business Wire Across corporate earnings… Read more: Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that - Uncovering coded antisemitism online takes both human expertise and AI automation
The volume of social media posts makes content moderation challenging – especially when it comes to more subtle hate speech. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images This article includes examples of antisemitic hate speech.… Read more: Uncovering coded antisemitism online takes both human expertise and AI automation - An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes
Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something. A joint investigation by The Florida Trib and the KCRW podcast Question Everything found that a so-called… Read more: An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes - The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver?
These days, one would be forgiven for forgetting that SpaceX is, at its core, a rocket company. Consider the company’s mega deals over the last year. SpaceX paid $17 billion—more than it has spent developing… Read more: The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver? - Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog
Startup has declined to release Claude Mythos AI model publicly amid fears it could be used by hackers Business live – latest updates Anthropic is to brief the global finance watchdog on the implications of… Read more: Anthropic to share Mythos cyber flaw findings with global finance watchdog - Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts
Use of AI is a valuable tool for weather prediction but only when it’s trained with ample data, experts say As the US prepares for hurricane season and a summer of record-breaking heat, experts fear… Read more: Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts - vcita’s BizAI Brings Agentic AI to SMB Management
vcita, an SMB technology company that has long led the SMB market with its all-in-one business management solution, today announced a significant evolution of BizAI, evolving from AI-powered capabilities into a fully agentic AI experience.… Read more: vcita’s BizAI Brings Agentic AI to SMB Management - Redpanda Reports Record Q1, Delivering 70% Year-Over-Year Growth
As Companies Scale AI Agent Deployments, a Growing Governance Infrastructure Gap Between Agents and Enterprise Data Fuels Demand for Redpanda Redpanda, the leading provider of mission-critical data and agent governance infrastructure, today announced record first… Read more: Redpanda Reports Record Q1, Delivering 70% Year-Over-Year Growth - Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years and gravity still didn’t make sense
For more than 200 years, scientists have struggled to pin down the exact strength of gravity — and one physicist spent a decade chasing the answer while keeping his own results hidden from himself. Stephan… Read more: Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years and gravity still didn’t make sense - Schrödinger’s clock: Time could tick faster and slower at the same time
Time might be even stranger than Einstein imagined. Physicists are now exploring the possibility that a single clock could exist in a quantum superposition, ticking both faster and slower at the same time — almost… Read more: Schrödinger’s clock: Time could tick faster and slower at the same time - The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI
Now that real life has caught up with science fiction, the imminent danger isn’t malfunctioning cowboys, it’s the robots convincing us that we’re great and everything is totally fine All the best science fiction movies… Read more: The return of Westworld is perfect timing for the flattery-oriented age of AI - I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?
Apparently anyone can vibe code anything these days. So Claude and I tried to make a database for tracking the petty grievances of the masses. - TD SYNNEX Selected as a HPE Global Distribution Partner
HPE’s unified global distribution model enables TD SYNNEX to deliver greater consistency and scale for partners worldwide TD SYNNEX (NYSE:SNX), a leading global distributor and solutions aggregator for the IT ecosystem, today announced it has… Read more: TD SYNNEX Selected as a HPE Global Distribution Partner - Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes
Amazon has introduced Alexa for Shopping, combining its Rufus shopping chatbot with Alexa+ across its app, website, and Echo Show devices. The assistant can answer product questions, compare items, track prices, and support shopping reminders.… Read more: Amazon launches Alexa for Shopping as Rufus moves behind the scenes - Scientists think they’ve cracked the mystery of human right-handedness
A new study suggests humans became overwhelmingly right-handed because of two major evolutionary shifts: walking on two legs and developing much larger brains. Researchers found that as human ancestors evolved, their right-hand preference steadily intensified… Read more: Scientists think they’ve cracked the mystery of human right-handedness - Plant believed extinct for 60 years suddenly reappears
A random photo snapped in the Australian outback has led to the rediscovery of a plant thought extinct for nearly 60 years — proving that ordinary people with smartphones are quietly transforming science. After bird… Read more: Plant believed extinct for 60 years suddenly reappears - BluSky AI Inc. Launches Regulation A+ to Expand U.S. AI Infrastructure
BluSky AI Inc., a next-generation AI infrastructure company architecting a distributed neocloud network purpose-built for large-scale model training and inference computing, today announced the launch of its Regulation A+ offering. This new investment campaign is… Read more: BluSky AI Inc. Launches Regulation A+ to Expand U.S. AI Infrastructure - Airia Announced the Launch of Form Review Step
New capability addresses the gap between AI-extracted data and production-ready outputs for contract workflows Airia, the unified platform that gives IT leaders control over every AI tool, model, and agent in their organization, today announced… Read more: Airia Announced the Launch of Form Review Step - Majority of SMBs remain in early stages of AI maturity, study says
SMBs need practical solutions over hype to bridge the gap between AI readiness and reality Nearly 70% of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) still remain in the experimental or opportunistic stages of AI maturity, despite growing investment and… Read more: Majority of SMBs remain in early stages of AI maturity, study says - Mili Ranks No. 1 in 2026 T3 AI Meeting Solutions Survey
Mili scored 8.69 out of 10 in the category’s first year of tracking, with the report noting Mili is strongest with the largest RIAs. Mili, an agentic AI platform for wealth advisors, earned the highest… Read more: Mili Ranks No. 1 in 2026 T3 AI Meeting Solutions Survey - AI reveals the invisible magnetic chaos wasting energy inside electric motors
Electric vehicles are pushing scientists to tackle one of the biggest hidden energy drains inside electric motors: magnetic energy loss. Now, researchers in Japan have developed a powerful AI-driven physics model that can peer into… Read more: AI reveals the invisible magnetic chaos wasting energy inside electric motors - Scientists just unlocked a cheaper way to make clean hydrogen fuel
Researchers have developed a durable new catalyst that produces clean hydrogen without relying on expensive platinum metals. The breakthrough could make renewable hydrogen fuel cheaper, more efficient, and easier to scale for real-world energy use. - The “impossible” LED that could change everything
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have achieved what was once considered impossible by electrically powering insulating nanoparticles to create a completely new kind of LED. Using tiny organic “molecular antennas,” the team found a… Read more: The “impossible” LED that could change everything - Businesses need more than generic chatbots to benefit from AI. Will this budget help?
Laura Ockel/Unsplash This month’s federal budget made a familiar promise: artificial intelligence (AI) will help lift Australia’s productivity. But for many Australian firms, especially small and medium-sized businesses, “using AI” still means experimenting with a… Read more: Businesses need more than generic chatbots to benefit from AI. Will this budget help? - More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity
Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets More than 100 new datacentres in the UK plan to burn gas to generate electricity, some potentially… Read more: More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity - Ancient lost ocean may have built Central Asia’s dinosaur-era mountains
Scientists have uncovered evidence that the vanished Tethys Ocean may have sculpted Central Asia’s mountainous landscape during the dinosaur era. Using decades of geological data, researchers found that distant tectonic activity linked to the ancient… Read more: Ancient lost ocean may have built Central Asia’s dinosaur-era mountains - Quantum ghost imaging works using only sunlight in stunning new experiment
Scientists have achieved something that once sounded almost impossible: using ordinary sunlight to create quantum-linked photon pairs, a phenomenon normally dependent on precise laboratory lasers. By building a sun-tracking system that funnels sunlight through optical… Read more: Quantum ghost imaging works using only sunlight in stunning new experiment - The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must push harder on illegal content | Editorial
Jess Phillips’s frustration about online safety highlights the alarming reluctance to confront big tech The £950,000 fine imposed by Ofcom on a US-based suicide forum that is implicated in over 160 UK deaths marks an… Read more: The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must push harder on illegal content | Editorial - Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty
Journalist Simone Stolzoff in a new book explores why modern life makes not knowing harder – and how to learn to live with it Simone Stolzoff describes himself as “naturally an uncertain person” inclined to… Read more: Rowing through the fog: how to increase your tolerance for uncertainty - Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents
Employees haven’t been shy about pushing back against AI in the workplace. In a clear disconnect, bosses are often gung-ho about the tech, while their underlings are more aware that it often spits out confident-sounding… Read more: Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents - Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice with breakthrough nanotechnology
A new nanotechnology treatment reversed Alzheimer’s symptoms in mice by restoring the brain’s natural cleanup system. The specially engineered nanoparticles helped clear toxic amyloid proteins from the brain and repair the blood-brain barrier, which normally… Read more: Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s in mice with breakthrough nanotechnology - Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents
Woe is the c-suite. After heedlessly embracing AI tech at the expense of their workers, some bosses are now whining to The Wall Street Journal that their companies are being overrun by out-of-control AI agents.… Read more: Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents - A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease
At age 49, Jan Janisch-Hanzlik’s multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to carry… Read more: A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease - ‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters
Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin Last summer, journalist turned comedian Charlie Berens started getting social media messages… Read more: ‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters - Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find
The 19th century German economist Karl Marx identified a basic tension in human labor: squeeze workers too hard, and they’ll eventually start fighting back. It’s a contradiction capitalists have spent untold billions of dollars and… Read more: Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find - Scientists reversed memory loss by recharging the brain’s tiny engines
Researchers have shown for the first time that malfunctioning mitochondria — the cell’s energy generators — may directly cause cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases. By creating a new tool that temporarily boosts mitochondrial activity in… Read more: Scientists reversed memory loss by recharging the brain’s tiny engines - The real reason exercise makes you stronger isn’t what you think
Exercise may be training your brain just as much as your body. Researchers discovered that certain brain cells stay highly active even after a workout ends, and those lingering signals appear to help the body… Read more: The real reason exercise makes you stronger isn’t what you think - Lost 1,200-year-old manuscript contains the first English poem
A long-lost manuscript discovered in Rome has revealed one of the oldest surviving versions of the very first known poem written in English. Hidden for decades and once believed lost, the 1,200-year-old manuscript contains Caedmon’s… Read more: Lost 1,200-year-old manuscript contains the first English poem - Stunning 150-million-year-old stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution
A spectacular dinosaur discovery in Spain is giving scientists a rare new look inside the world of stegosaurs. Paleontologists uncovered the best-preserved stegosaur skull ever found in Europe, belonging to the iconic plated dinosaur Dacentrurus… Read more: Stunning 150-million-year-old stegosaur skull rewrites dinosaur evolution - Tech founders use AI-generated images to poke fun at Anthony Albanese in protest against tax changes
‘He’s having a great time with his new 47% equity,’ one entrepreneur jokes, warning that some startups may leave Australia behind Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Tech entrepreneurs have… Read more: Tech founders use AI-generated images to poke fun at Anthony Albanese in protest against tax changes - AI Evaluation is Becoming an Exciting Standalone Discipline
Introduction Throughout my academic career, I worked on various problems surrounding the robustness of deep learning models. Until a few years ago, these topics had their own niches within the academic but also industrial community.… Read more: AI Evaluation is Becoming an Exciting Standalone Discipline - Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work
On the surface, companies across nearly every industry seem to be gobbling up AI contracts. Yet under the hood, employees increasingly complain that AI results in more stress while saving no time whatsoever on productive… Read more: Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work - Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation
Is your dentist upselling you on something? Does your old filling really need to be replaced, and is that tooth decay really bad enough to warrant new work? Such suspicions have probably crossed your mind… Read more: Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation - John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow
Succession of pointless AI-generated snippets does nothing for film about the artist’s final interview, which took place on the day of his murder Coming just after his superb feature The Christophers, Steven Soderbergh has now… Read more: John Lennon: The Last Interview review – Soderbergh imagines there’s no people with bland AI clipshow - What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAI A nine-person jury is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s allegations of “stealing a charity”… Read more: What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman - Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
If you’ve been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that your doctor was using an AI scribe: software that listens into the conversation, transcribing it and structuring… Read more: Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients - Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark side of AI: its impact on cishet relationship dynamics. Variations on the format typically depict a woman… Read more: Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI - Scientists discover hidden “brakes” that stop massive earthquakes
A mysterious underwater fault near Ecuador has been producing nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every five to six years, baffling scientists for decades. Researchers now believe the fault contains hidden “brake zones” where seawater and… Read more: Scientists discover hidden “brakes” that stop massive earthquakes - Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic “ape-to-human” progression and paints human… Read more: Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins - Scientists find hidden brain nutrient deficit that may fuel anxiety
A major analysis of brain scans found that people with anxiety disorders have noticeably lower levels of choline, a nutrient crucial for healthy brain function. The strongest evidence appeared in the prefrontal cortex, the region… Read more: Scientists find hidden brain nutrient deficit that may fuel anxiety - First-ever direct image of the cosmic web reveals the Universe’s hidden highways
Astronomers have revealed the sharpest image ever captured of a filament in the cosmic web — the enormous hidden structure connecting galaxies across the Universe. The glowing strand stretches 3 million light-years and links two… Read more: First-ever direct image of the cosmic web reveals the Universe’s hidden highways - The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets
For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the… Read more: The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets - Scientists Discover Strange New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that were long in the tooth, trapped in the lattice, unearthed in Thailand, and entombed in post-apocalyptic waters. First, scientists discover that even Neanderthals… Read more: Scientists Discover Strange New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast - Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a programmer realizes he’s living in an invisible cage, mediated by algorithms that keep him going through the dull motions of life — and he’ll stop at… Read more: Programmer Breaks Out of the Matrix - Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention
After a short family break, I am excited to be back and catching up on a busy few weeks of open-weight LLM releases. The thing that stood out to me is how much newer architectures… Read more: Recent Developments in LLM Architectures: KV Sharing, mHC, and Compressed Attention - Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi
The centers are diverting much-needed resources from regular people. Local resistance has the industry playing defense Back in 2016, Marco Gutiérrez, the Mexican-born founder of Latinos for Trump, issued an ominous warning to the US.… Read more: Pity the poor AI data centers facing ‘discrimination’ | Arwa Mahdawi - These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome
You know when you’re in a noisy bar, trying to have a conversation, but you’re missing every other word because of the nonstop din? Okay, maybe this one is just for those of us who… Read more: These Smart Glasses That Show Captions of What Everyone’s Saying Without a Creepy Spy Camera Actually Seem Pretty Awesome - Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies
As the AI boom trundles along, the data centers powering it have quickly become unwelcome neighbors across the country. Opponents point to a great range of alleged ills associated with the facilities — from their… Read more: Residents Say Data Centers Are Radiating Bizarre Frequencies - Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex
“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association. - Review: Good Omens finale sticks the landing
It’s been a three-year wait, but Prime Video finally released the series finale for Good Omens: a 90-minute single episode that sought to wrap everything up in a neat little bow. Verdict: Truncating the final… Read more: Review: Good Omens finale sticks the landing - US hantavirus case was false positive; outbreak cases drop from 11 to 10
In a press briefing Friday, officials for the World Health Organization announced that the case count of the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius in the South Atlantic has shrunk from 11 cases… Read more: US hantavirus case was false positive; outbreak cases drop from 11 to 10 - Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
After several authors and class members raised objections to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement over its widespread book piracy to train AI, a federal judge has delayed final approvals of the settlement. On Thursday, US District… Read more: Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval - Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots
Russian universities are promising free tuition and up to $70,000 to students who are willing to serve as drone pilots in the Russian military for a year—all while claiming students can avoid the risk of… Read more: Russia pressures university students to become wartime drone pilots - Tech Companies to Discuss Iran’s Future During ‘Private Conference’ at Uber HQ
A who’s who of the Iranian diaspora will meet at Uber HQ on Saturday to discuss tech and the future of Iran, according to an email about the event viewed by 404 Media. The guest… Read more: Tech Companies to Discuss Iran’s Future During ‘Private Conference’ at Uber HQ - Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app
Weather-monitoring company AcuRite is forcing device owners to use a new companion app on May 30, frustrating some long-time customers. AcuRite, which sells devices such as weather stations, indoor thermometers, and rain gauges, began emailing… Read more: Weather-monitoring firm hangs dark cloud over customers’ heads by forcing new app - Solar power production undercut by coal pollution
Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities in the coal produce a lot of sulfur dioxide aerosols, as well… Read more: Solar power production undercut by coal pollution
