Slate Auto may be one of the most interesting companies in the American automotive industry right now. Based in Warsaw, Indiana, the startup is taking a completely different approach to building an electric pickup truck.… Read more: Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup

The chief executive of Blue Origin, whose large New Glenn rocket exploded spectacularly less than a week ago at the company’s launch site in Florida, vowed Monday night that the company would launch again before… Read more: Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline

Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.

While gamers beg for cheaper GPUs, and consumers at large yearn for affordable devices amid constant chip shortages, Nvidia is giving the people what they really want: laptops primarily designed for running AI agents. On… Read more: Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares

Every vendor pitch right now involves an agent completing a 12-step workflow flawlessly in a sandboxed environment with clean data and zero edge cases.  The demo always works.  Production, as every practitioner already knows, is… Read more: 5 questions AI agent vendors hope you don’t ask

Under new rules, tech companies will be asked to share AI models with government for review before public release Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a voluntary framework for the federal government to… Read more: Trump signs executive order seeking early access to new AI releases

New five-pillar framework helps organizations rapidly identify areas of concern, and the most impactful risk reduction actions New AI Security pillar surfaces data, tool use, and secrets exposure across enterprise environments, and risks often invisible… Read more: BeyondTrust Expands ISRA with Human, Non-Human, and AI Identities Framework

A new paper from researchers at Microsoft, Nvidia, and University of California Riverside found that AI agents with access to a computer, or computer-use agents (CUAs), will often take weird and dangerous actions in an… Read more: Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don’t Care About Safety or Reliability

Deer keds rely on flight and vision to find a host, but everything changes once they land. After shedding their wings forever, these parasites reduce the activity of key vision-related genes by about half. Scientists… Read more: This blood-feeding fly sacrifices its sight after finding a host

A newly identified protein may be one of the biggest obstacles holding CAR T-cell therapy back. Researchers found that NFIL3 causes these engineered immune cells to become exhausted and lose their cancer-fighting power over time.… Read more: A single protein may be holding back CAR T cancer therapy

Getting around space, as it turns out, is kind of a big deal. On Tuesday, Impulse Space, a company dedicated to improving space mobility, announced it has raised $500 million in Series D funding. Since… Read more: Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up

Federal energy efficiency rebate programs will no longer cover a switch from fossil fuels to electricity for heating, according to long-awaited guidance from the Department of Energy. The department published an update on how it… Read more: Trump’s DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions

If Tom Steyer wins, that could send positive shockwaves through the Democratic party The next governor of deep-blue California will almost certainly be a Democrat. But what kind of Democrat? The establishment favorite for overseeing… Read more: Democrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon Solomon

📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support… Read more: Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS

Palestinian workers cross into Israel at gates that use facial recognition. AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner If you are fortunate enough to have a ticket to an event at Madison Square Garden in New York – say,… Read more: Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you

From India and Africa to Europe, countries not yet in the AI supply chain risk mass job losses, losing the tax revenue needed to deal with the tech’s fallout Business live – AI to drive… Read more: Will the AI economy create a permanent underclass?

Stock market filing illustrates AI company’s meteoric rise, while California’s tech billionaires pour cash into elections Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. This week in… Read more: Anthropic surges as OpenAI struggles to keep up

Since its announcement in April this year, the proposed changes to billing methods on GitHub Copilot were a source of much speculation: how much more or less would a pay-a-you-use AI cost an organisation or… Read more: GitHub Copilot users see token-based price hikes

Expanded partnership delivers AI-ready data foundation with native Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and Power BI integration insightsoftware, the most comprehensive provider of solutions for the Office of the CFO, expands its partnership with TimeXtender to introduce… Read more: insightsoftware and TimeXtender Launch New Jet Analytics Cloud Platform

Scientists have created a tiny chip that can generate, steer, and read light-based information all in one device, marking a major leap toward ultra-fast, energy-efficient computing. The breakthrough uses atomically thin materials and nanoscale structures… Read more: New light-powered chip could accelerate AI and quantum computing

A breakthrough hydrogen-production method could make clean fuel far cheaper and easier to generate. Researchers at the University of Birmingham developed a perovskite-based catalyst that splits water into hydrogen at much lower temperatures than existing… Read more: New hydrogen breakthrough turns waste heat into clean fuel

Researchers found that social behavior begins in the brain before it becomes visible as movement. In zebrafish, a coordinated pattern of activity spread across the brain several seconds before the animals approached another fish. A… Read more: Your brain starts making social decisions before you do

Here is a sentence that should give any ML team pause: The model you are trying to align is also the model generating the data you are using to align it.  Congratulations, you have built… Read more: 6 things to fix before RLHF turns your biases into features

Astronomers have finally cracked the mystery behind a strange class of repeating cosmic signals that has baffled scientists for years. Using Australia’s ASKAP radio telescope, researchers traced the bursts to a rare stellar duo in… Read more: A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals

Chief Purpose Officers: Do firms really need them? For decades, the shareholder primacy model dominated corporate strategy, often displacing explicit discussions of broader organizational purpose. Today, in a world shaped by AI, economic uncertainty, and… Read more: Chief Purpose Officers: A leadership solution or another management fad?

Constant validation and flattery from AI chatbots poses a serious risk to society and our shared grasp of reality Do you ever get the feeling that the people running the world are delulu? That the… Read more: How will AI sycophancy change us? Early signs are not encouraging | Arwa Mahdawi

Opera makers have always engaged with the latest inventions while also preserving historic crafts. I believe it’s possible to look both forwards and backwards in this fast-evolving landscape The disquiet and distrust surrounding artificial intelligence… Read more: AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it

Fusemachines Inc. (NASDAQ: FUSE), a leading provider of enterprise AI products and services, today announced the appointment of Dr. Julia Hirschberg, one of the world’s most distinguished artificial intelligence researchers and educators, to its Board of Directors. Dr.… Read more: Fusemachines Appoints Renowned AI Pioneer Dr. Julia Hirschberg to BOD

Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure out if there’s anything left to piece back together.

IEI Integration Corp. (IEI) announced its COMPUTEX 2026 lineup (TaiNEX 2, Booth #P0114). Under the theme “Resilient Edge AI Platforms: The Backbone for AI Deployment,” IEI highlights how AI computing, real-time control, and cyber-resilient infrastructure are… Read more: IEI Showcases Resilient Edge AI Platforms at COMPUTEX 2026

One of largest equity fundraisings ever includes $10bn share sale to US investment group Berkshire Hathaway Business live – latest updates Google’s parent company Alphabet has said it plans to raise up to $80bn (£59bn)… Read more: Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree

Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence, today launched the preview release of AI Assistant Detection and the Automation Intelligence API, delivering the market’s most comprehensive identification layer for AI traffic. AI Assistant Detection provides businesses… Read more: Fingerprint Launches Automation Intelligence API and AI Assistant Detection

State sues maker of ChatGPT and CEO Sam Altman, alleging company ‘allowed a dangerous product to reach millions’ Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman, on Monday… Read more: Florida lawsuit accuses OpenAI of ignoring safety warnings and putting children at risk

Following the introduction of its “Future Landing” vision, GIGABYTE Technology, a global leader in high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, brings that vision to life at COMPUTEX 2026 through a comprehensive showcase of systems, software, and real-world deployments… Read more: GIGABYTE Showcases Full-Stack AI Infrastructure at COMPUTEX 2026

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market Troy Hooper, co-head of equity capital markets for the Americas at the financial intelligence provider… Read more: Alphabet to raise $80bn from share sales to fund AI spending splurge – business live

In today’s newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerful Good morning. The Peter Mandelson… Read more: Tuesday briefing: Palantir’s rise – and why so many oppose its role in the British state

The US state of Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the tech giant and its CEO put profit over public safety with its flagship artificial intelligence (AI) product, ChatGPT. The… Read more: ‘Utter disregard for the risk to human life’: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many GitHub Copilot users are… Read more: AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Breach confirmed by Meta raises concerns about how safe it is to rely on AI for key security measures such as passwords Hackers used Meta’s AI-powered support chatbot to infiltrate high-profile Instagram accounts, the company… Read more: Hackers trick Meta AI support bot to infiltrate Obama White House Instagram account

Official Red Hat NPM accounts have been compromised and used to push a malicious worm that spreads from machine to machine, where it pilfers sensitive credentials in hopes of stealing yet more confidential data, researchers… Read more: Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

Dell, Asus, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, and Gigabyte are among the PC makers that are designing systems around Nvidia’s RTX Spark, Nvidia’s new Arm-based chip for Windows PCs. But the flagship RTX Spark PC may… Read more: Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra looks like its first true MacBook Pro competitor

Meta’s AI support chatbot proved unusually helpful to hackers looking to steal and resell notable Instagram accounts—the hackers simply asking the bot to change the accounts’ associated email addresses while using VPN to mask their… Read more: Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts

The global health organization Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced Monday that it will “urgently accelerate development” of three vaccine candidates against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV), pledging a little over $60 million in the effort… Read more: Moderna gets $50 million to develop mRNA Ebola vaccine against Bundibugyo

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through… Read more: Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights

In March, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced a new Meta AI support assistant feature on both Facebook and Instagram, providing users with a way to “resolve account problems” and help in taking down any offending impersonator… Read more: Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking

Last summer, Wisconsin comedian Charlie Berens started getting messages from people in his state about plans for a major datacenter in their community. When Berens dug in, he was shocked to discover the impact the… Read more: Can you stop AI datacenters? Comedian Charlie Berens thinks so – Stateside with Kai and Carter

A San Francisco robotics startup is being taken to court by an Airbnb host who claims the company’s “robotic prototype testing” caused extensive damage to his home. In the lawsuit filed on May 26, 2026,… Read more: Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble

When we met Sterling Anderson in 2024, he was the chief product officer of Aurora, the self-driving startup he cofounded in 2016 after several years at Tesla. Just over a year ago, though, Anderson decamped… Read more: From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM’s development

On Monday, Florida became the first state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT’s allegedly dangerous design. In a complaint filed in state court, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier accused OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of… Read more: Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders

The American Medical Association came out swinging this weekend at an executive order President Trump signed Friday that reaffirms intentions to model US childhood vaccine recommendations after those of Denmark—a country with universal healthcare, less… Read more: Doctors blast Trump for doubling down on vaccine policy modeled after Denmark

Acer’s Swift Air 14 starts at $699 with Intel Core Series 3 chips, AI features, long battery claims, and an ultraportable design. The post Acer’s New $699 Laptop Is a Budget-Friendly Swing at Apple’s MacBook… Read more: Acer’s New $699 Laptop Is a Budget-Friendly Swing at Apple’s MacBook Neo

Nvidia and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark Windows PCs built for local AI agents, with systems expected from major PC makers this fall. The post Nvidia, Microsoft Launch RTX Spark PCs for AI Agents appeared first… Read more: Nvidia, Microsoft Launch RTX Spark PCs for AI Agents

SoftBank plans to build 5 GW of AI data center capacity in France, but the first phase will not arrive until 2031. The post SoftBank Plans €75B AI Data Center Buildout in France appeared first… Read more: SoftBank Plans €75B AI Data Center Buildout in France

If you want a barometer of American political concerns you could do worse than checking what spam accounts are turning into AI-generated slop on Facebook. There are now hundreds of pages with names like “Life… Read more: AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents obtained by 404 Media through… Read more: We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything

Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims… Read more: Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

Amazon has shut down an internal company leaderboard which ranked employees based on how much they used AI tools at work. Amazon’s official announcement said that it ended the leaderboard because it had accomplished its… Read more: Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

The AI giant behind Claude submitted paperwork on Monday that would take it public, just a couple of weeks after SpaceX’s splashy IPO announcement.

Financial stakes of AI race rise as Elon Musk’s SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic are slated to go public this year Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering on the US stock market, the… Read more: Anthropic confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market

Ever regret picking up everyone’s tab after getting the check? Something like that is probably going through the mind of the CFO of an unnamed company which reportedly racked up half a billion dollars in… Read more: Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month

One of the benefits of building an AMD PC is that AMD has historically supported its processor sockets for longer than Intel does, allowing the same motherboard (and RAM kit, if you want) to power… Read more: AMD extends Socket AM5 support through at least 2029; AM4 refuses to die

These days, Nvidia primarily sells AI data center products, and its traditional consumer devices feel like more of a side project. But the company occasionally still releases something designed for consumers. After a couple of… Read more: Nvidia RTX Spark comes to Windows PCs with Arm CPU, RTX GPU, and unified memory

When the Steam Deck OLED launched three years ago, we were glad to see that the new, more brilliant screen fixed the biggest flaw of Valve’s original handheld hardware. So we’re unsurprisingly excited about today’s… Read more: Asus gives the ROX Xbox Ally the OLED screen it deserves

Gives businesses and financial institutions the structure to approve, verify, and rely on agent-driven business processes Blue Language Labs today emerged from stealth to introduce the coordination layer for AI agents that do real business.… Read more: Blue Language Labs Launches AI Agent Coordination Platform

TV personality and businessman Kevin O’Leary is looking to construct a mammoth data center facility more than twice the size of Manhattan in Utah’s broader Salt Lake City region. As Slate reports, the megalomaniac plans… Read more: Neighbors Horrified by Data Center Twice the Size of Manhattan

Intel plans to ship an AI chip by the end of this year that uses cheaper memory and cooling technology than rival offerings from Nvidia and AMD, as the US chipmaker seeks to capitalize on… Read more: Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options

A major mouse study found that some inherited traits are passed down through epigenetic changes that break the classic rules of genetics. Researchers discovered hundreds of cases where these chemical DNA marks behaved unexpectedly, including… Read more: Scientists discover inherited traits that break Mendel’s Laws of genetics

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday newsroom work across Africa. It has entered quietly through routine tasks such as transcription, headline writing, translation and content preparation. In southern Africa, where AI adoption is… Read more: AI and journalism in southern Africa: editors are using it but balanced with human expertise and editorial judgement

Kitchen sponges release microplastics as they wear down during everyday use, with some sponge types shedding far more than others. Researchers estimated that millions of households could collectively release hundreds of tons of microplastics annually.

Every pixel in this image has a unique color. Douglas Goodwin A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this shimmer collapses into one… Read more: Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years. OpenAI gave several… Read more: An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far more than all previous missions combined. It will look deep into unexplored parts of the Milky Way, helping scientists… Read more: NASA’s Roman telescope could reveal 100,000 hidden worlds

Weave (NYSE: WEAV), a leading AI-powered patient communications and payments platform purpose-built for healthcare practices, today announced the advancement of its AI capabilities with Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. By combining Weave’s deep expertise… Read more: Weave Launches AI Receptionist for Modern Healthcare Practices

A stunning spiral galaxy called Messier 88 is racing through the crowded Virgo Cluster on a journey that will dramatically reshape its future. At its heart lies a supermassive black hole about 100 million times… Read more: Hubble captures M88 on a perilous journey that could change it forever

Partnership enables interoperable data to accelerate scalable AI adoption across Southeast Asia InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve critical scalability, interoperability, and speed problems, today announced a new partnership with 59stVentures to… Read more: InterSystems and 59stVentures Advance AI-Ready Data Ecosystems Across ASEAN

NASA’s futuristic X-59 jet is about to face its biggest challenge yet: breaking the sound barrier for the first time. After a successful series of test flights that pushed the aircraft to near-supersonic speeds, engineers… Read more: NASA’s X-59 is about to break the sound barrier for the first time

The roots of AI in rightwing ideology is examined in Valerie Veatch’s enjoyable doc, including an array of colourful, often crazed, figures Director Valerie Veatch made her name with documentaries such as Love Child (about… Read more: Ghost in the Machine review – entertaining AI polemic dives into its dark history in race politics and eugenics

A long-overlooked organ may hold surprising clues to healthy aging and cancer survival. Researchers at Mass General Brigham used AI to analyze CT scans from tens of thousands of adults and found that people with… Read more: The forgotten organ that could predict how long you live

Dozens of people have complained to the Federal Trade Commission about Norse Atlantic Airways’ tech-first customer service operation. Some said they lost thousands of dollars.

Long-standing industry leader appointed CEO of the UK’s preeminent data centre platform, engineered for AI. During his tenure, Spencer has successfully led the company’s go-to-market strategy, securing significant customer wins across the cloud, AI, and enterprise… Read more: Kao Data Appoints Spencer Lamb as Chief Executive Officer

A Google Cloud survey found that 90% of developers are already integrating AI into their daily work, and on Steam, 7,818 titles disclosed AI use in 2025 alone, a 681% increase over the previous year.… Read more: AI in video game development: How artificial intelligence is reshaping the industry

Automation is becoming a bigger part of how financial markets are approached, and forex trading is one area where this is becoming easier to notice. As the tech world improves, more traders are looking for… Read more: The future of automated trading with the best forex robot reviews

Endless swiping has left a generation of singles burned out. But get real: dating assistants and AI-aided chats will never recreate the friction of real romance After years of shrinking usage and tumbling stock prices,… Read more: The dating apps that failed to deliver the joys of sex and romance now offer AI as cupid. No thanks | Tatum Hunter

Healthcare technology veteran and former BCG Partner to lead Aidoc’s next phase of global enterprise growth Aidoc, a global leader in clinical AI, today announced the appointment of Christopher Young as Chief Growth Officer. Young… Read more: Aidoc Appoints Christopher Young as Chief Growth Officer

A remarkable crystal called molybdenum oxychloride could help make futuristic technologies like smart contact lenses and ultrathin AR glasses a reality. Scientists have created the first detailed experimental map of its optical properties, revealing the… Read more: This strange crystal acts like metal and glass at the same time

AI DLC Insights and Cloud & AI Cost Management give engineering leaders the answer to their biggest AI question: what are we spending on AI, and where is the ROI? Harness, the AI Software Delivery… Read more: Harness Unveils Two Products for Complete Visibility Into AI ROI

As AI spending hits $2.6 trillion, CloudZero gives finance, IT, and engineering a shared system to connect every AI dollar to the business outcome it produces. CloudZero, The AI ROI Company, today launched the financial… Read more: CloudZero Announced the Launch of the Financial Control Plane for AI

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities A coalition of more than a hundred refugee children’s organisations has said controversial plans to use… Read more: Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

For ease and speed, we are degrading our ability to connect and to organise our societies. We must assert our trust in humans over machines Here is a nightmare scenario for you. You are writing… Read more: AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment | Nesrine Malik

Angry parents aren’t the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teacher’s union in the United States, has now launched a major campaign calling on… Read more: Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI

A surprising new discovery suggests that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world’s oceans. Scientists found evidence that bacteria in the guts of marine fish work alongside their… Read more: The ocean’s health may depend on a tiny microbe inside fish

Researchers have developed a compact quantum detector that makes terahertz radiation much easier to detect. A specially designed metasurface funnels incoming energy into tiny active regions, greatly strengthening the electrical signal produced. The approach boosted… Read more: A quantum metasurface breakthrough could finally close the terahertz gap

Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evaporate water while automatically moving salt deposits away from the… Read more: New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine

Great apes appear to build friendships much like humans do. By studying grooming behavior, researchers discovered that chimpanzees and bonobos form close inner circles along with wider networks of weaker social connections. Chimpanzees focus on… Read more: Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds

From digital twins to models ‘sculpted’ by programmers, generative AI has been popping up all over the fashion industry. When an Australian e-commerce retailer started using AI-generated models to sell products, lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman… Read more: This model is not a real person: how AI is shaking up fashion – video

When it comes to AI’s place in the classroom — and its role in education broadly — some professors are at the end of their rope. The not quite all-knowing but incredibly adept at bullsh*tting… Read more: Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

AI companies have long relied on armies of data labelers, whose job it is to annotate, tag and classify text, images and videos to train AI models. It’s not exactly a flashy occupation, with some… Read more: AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog

A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a… Read more: Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong? | Eduardo Porter

Scientists have uncovered a surprising navigation system in pigeons: iron-filled immune cells in the liver that may act like tiny magnetic sensors. Birds deprived of these cells struggled to find their way home under overcast… Read more: The secret to pigeons’ incredible navigation was hiding in their liver

On April 10, 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to social media to announce that his company was preparing to launch an exciting new feature. “A few times a year I wake up early and… Read more: Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?