Nicolas Cage has carved out a quirky niche for himself in recent years with such films as Color Out of Space (2019), Pig (2021), The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), Dream Scenario (2023), and… Read more: Spider-Noir teaser comes in colorized “True Hue” and black and white

Vinay Prasad, the Trump administration’s top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, single-handedly decided to refuse to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine, overruling agency scientists, according to reports from Stat News and The… Read more: Trump official overruled FDA scientists to reject Moderna’s flu shot

On Thursday, OpenAI released its first production AI model to run on non-Nvidia hardware, deploying the new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark coding model on chips from Cerebras. The model delivers code at more than 1,000 tokens (chunks of… Read more: OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT has awarded funding to eight new research studies to understand how artificial intelligence innovations can be used in the fight against poverty through its new… Read more: New J-PAL research and policy initiative to test and scale AI innovations to fight poverty

Maker of chatbot boasting coding ability said annualized revenue grew tenfold in each of past three years, to $14bn The artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it raised $30bn in its latest funding round… Read more: Anthropic raises $30bn in latest round, valuing Claude bot maker at $380bn

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, our hosts dive into WIRED’s scoop about a secret Trump administration campaign extending right into your backyard.

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has accused Apple of violating US law by suppressing conservative-leaning news outlets on Apple News. Ferguson pointed to research by a pro-Trump group that accused Apple News of suppressing… Read more: Trump FTC wants Apple News to promote more Fox News and Breitbart stories

In a widely expected move, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is revoking an analysis of greenhouse gases that laid the foundation for regulating their emissions by cars, power plants, and industrial sources.… Read more: EPA kills foundation of greenhouse gas regulations

Moments after liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast early Thursday morning, a shower of sparks emerged in the exhaust plume of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. Seconds later, the rocket twisted on its axis before recovering… Read more: ULA’s Vulcan rocket suffers another booster problem on the way to orbit

Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old suspected of killing eight people and injuring 25 in a mass shooting in a secondary school in Canada, created a Roblox game that allowed players to simulate a mass shooting… Read more: Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox

Some of the worst freaks to walk planet Earth are using Elon Musk’s Grok to “unblur” the faces of women and children in the latest Epstein files, as documented by the research group Bellingcat. A… Read more: Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files

Years before the Chevrolet Bolt or Tesla Model 3, the Nissan Leaf was a good-faith attempt by a major automaker to bring electric vehicles to the mass market. But even in its second-generation, the Leaf… Read more: 2026 Nissan Leaf review: The best budget EV on sale right now

An elephant’s trunk is a marvelous thing, flexible enough to bend and stretch as it forages for food, but also stiff enough to grasp and maneuver even delicate objects like peanuts or a tortilla chip.… Read more: Unique structure of elephant whiskers give them built-in sensing “intelligence”

Very few people alive today have seen the Appalachian forests as they existed a century ago. Even as state and national parks preserved ever more of the ecosystem, fungal pathogens from Asia nearly wiped out… Read more: Bringing the “functionally extinct” American chestnut back from the dead

On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the model more than 100,000 times across various… Read more: Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

When Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset launched in February 2024, users were frustrated at the lack of a proper YouTube app—a significant disappointment given the device’s focus on video content consumption, and YouTube’s strong… Read more: It took two years, but Google released a YouTube app on Vision Pro

AI-driven memory and storage price hikes have been the defining feature of the PC industry in 2026, and hobbyists have been hit the hardest—companies like Apple with lots of buying power have been able to… Read more: DIY PC maker Framework has needed monthly price hikes to navigate the RAM shortage

Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and… Read more: Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.

Jorge Salvador/Unsplash It rarely takes long before new media technologies are turned to the task of creating pornography. This was true of the printing press, photography, and the earliest days of the internet. It’s also… Read more: Non-consensual AI porn doesn’t violate privacy – but it’s still wrong

This essay was published in Lawfare’s Research Paper Series. The official version that should be cited is linked here and a nicely formatted pdf is available here. The essay is co-authored with Justin Curl, a… Read more: AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

It’s been about a month since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—an anti-vaccine activist and lawyer who has no background in medicine, health, or science—released dietary guidance for Americans. It’s going about as well as… Read more: RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr.

In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says supporting politicians who back AI is “bigger than the people that I happen to be employed with.”

The firm remains confident even as the market flips from seeing it as an AI winner to fearing its profit market will implode As the FTSE 100 index bobs along close to all-time highs, it… Read more: Relx should deal with the ‘Claude Crash’ by buying back shares – and then buy more | nils pratley

But, after second day of Wall Street falls, analysts say sell-off ‘may overstate AI’s immediate risk to complex deal-making’ Shares in commercial property services companies have tumbled, in the latest sell-off driven by fears over… Read more: Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption

Some software engineers are finding that AI is speeding up their work, but at a cost: it’s also accelerating them towards burnout. Siddhant Khare is one of those programmers. In an interview with Business Insider,… Read more: AI Is a Burnout Machine

It’s not every day that a classic PC game gets a new content expansion 25 years after its last major update. But that’s what happened last night, as Blizzard suddenly released new “Reign of the… Read more: Party like it’s 2001: Diablo II gets a new expansion, new playable class

US businesses and consumers paid nearly 90 percent of the cost of Donald Trump’s tariffs last year, according to new Federal Reserve research that undercuts the president’s claim that foreign companies would bear the burden.… Read more: US consumers, business pay 90% of tariff costs, says Federal Reserve

OpenAI fired a top safety executive after she opposed the company’s decision to allow adult and sexual content in ChatGPT, The Wall Street Journal reports. The executive, Ryan Beiermeister, was fired following a leave of… Read more: OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT’s “Adult Mode”

Bar blockers | Unlikely book recommendation | Ask AI | The proliferation of potholes | Divine intervention Queues in pubs (Letters, 6 February)? Hallelujah! Now perhaps elderly women of 5ft 1in will be able to… Read more: I’ll drink to orderly queues in pubs | Brief letters

Move puts AI firm in opposition to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which has advocated for less stringent AI regulations Anthropic will spend $20m to back US political candidates who support regulating the AI industry, according to… Read more: Anthropic to donate $20m to US political group backing AI regulation

Apple releases macOS 26.3 with security fixes and system optimizations, laying the groundwork for M5 Macs, Siri upgrades, and possible EU changes. The post Apple’s macOS 26.3 Is Here, Laying the Groundwork for M5 Macs… Read more: Apple’s macOS 26.3 Is Here, Laying the Groundwork for M5 Macs

We spend too much time arguing about Snowflake vs. Databricks and not enough time talking about the underlying architecture. The truth is, a shiny new tool won’t save you if your design pattern is a… Read more: 7 must-know frameworks for data engineers in 2026

While tech executives wax poetic about AI ushering in four-day workweeks and liberation from labor, economics guru Robert Reich is cutting through the drivel. In an ominous new essay, the former secretary of labor warns… Read more: Economist Warns That the Poor Will Bear the Brunt of AI’s Effects on the Job Market

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and dodecane — may be fragments of fatty… Read more: NASA scientists say meteorites can’t explain mysterious organic compounds on Mars

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere,… Read more: Astronomers discover an Earth-like planet that may be colder than Mars

A new scientific review challenges the headline-grabbing claim that Yellowstone’s returning wolves triggered one of the strongest trophic cascades on Earth. Researchers found that the reported 1,500% surge in willow growth was based on circular… Read more: Yellowstone wolves may not have transformed the national park after all

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and grasslands in measurable ways. By reducing populations of giant herbivores,… Read more: Europe’s “untouched” wilderness was shaped by Neanderthals and hunter-gatherers

A newly identified protein may hold the key to rejuvenating aging brain cells. Researchers found that boosting DMTF1 can restore the ability of neural stem cells to regenerate, even when age-related damage has set in.… Read more: Scientists discover protein that rejuvenates aging brain cells

On paper, Elon Musk’s xAI is gearing up for a big year. After being folded into Musk’s SpaceX, the Grok maker could now be involved in one of the biggest — if not the biggest… Read more: Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI

Google shares example questions to try with the new Ask button in Google Photos, powered by Gemini AI models. The post 6 Fun Questions That Make Google Photos Feel Like Magic appeared first on TechRepublic.

Amazon’s internal push for Kiro is fueling backlash from engineers who want broader Claude Code access. The post Amazon Engineers Revolt Over AI Tool Restrictions appeared first on TechRepublic.

📄 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: Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

Crowds of AI bots posing as humans can influence crowds of real people on social media. J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he… Read more: Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy

We are now a few years into the AI revolution, and talk has shifted from who has the best chatbot to whose AI agent can do the most things on your behalf. Unfortunately, AI agents… Read more: We let Chrome’s Auto Browse agent surf the web for us—here’s what happened

The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

New distributed reinforcement learning system cuts post-training costs by up to 80%, expanding access to advanced AI beyond hyperscale data centers Up to 80% lower training costs compared to traditional cloud-based reinforcement learning. State-of-the-art performance… Read more: Gradient Announced the Launch of Echo-2

Michael Bierl, Allison Candido, and Kate Estep assume expanded roles to drive innovation and scale. Flatiron Health is pleased to announce three significant appointments to its Executive Team, reflecting the critical, enterprise-level responsibilities these leaders… Read more: Flatiron Health Names New Chief Business, Technology, and Product Leaders

Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.

New center helps move organizations from AI ambition to enterprise-scale outcomes Brings together 6,000 DXC AI experts and supports collaboration with customers across industries DXC to hire 150 AI specialists in the UK and Ireland to further expand its capabilities… Read more: DXC Launches London Customer Experience Center to Help Unlock AI Value

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove of organic molecules using the James Webb Space Telescope. Peering through the cosmic veil in… Read more: James Webb reveals extraordinary organic molecules in an ultra luminous infrared galaxy

For the first time, deadly H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed as the cause of a wildlife die-off in Antarctica, killing more than 50 skuas during the 2023–2024 summers. Researchers on an Antarctic expedition found… Read more: H5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off

Veteran infrastructure leader to scale global revenue as AI moves from pilot to production Blaize Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BZAI, NASDAQ: BZAIW) (“Blaize”), a leading AI infrastructure provider powering next-gen intelligent systems, today announced the appointment of… Read more: Blaize Appoints Stephen Patak as CRO to Accelerate Go-to-Market Execution

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during Snowball… Read more: Snowball Earth was not completely frozen, new study reveals

State-sponsored hackers are exploiting AI to accelerate cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia weaponising models like Google’s Gemini to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns and develop malware, according to a new… Read more: State-sponsored hackers exploit AI for advanced cyberattacks

Aperture Data Studio, running on Snowflake, will help customers build a trusted data foundation where their data lives Global data and technology company Experian today announces the launch of its Aperture Data Studio integration with Snowflake,… Read more: Experian Announces Integration with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud

New report finds that AI agents, integrations and AI-native development platforms are taking hold, raising new and critical security governance challenges Nudge Security, the leading innovator in SaaS and AI security governance, today announced a… Read more: Nudge Security Study: AI Adoption Reshapes Security Governance

Has AI reduced labour costs in Australia? Why adoption isn’t enough — and how CIOs should pressure-test AI ROI in 2026. The post Has AI Reduced Labour Costs in Australia? appeared first on TechRepublic.

With many unable to access or afford qualified therapists, AI is filling the mental healthcare vacuum, amid calls for tighter regulation On a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23, sits on her… Read more: ‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy

For more than a decade, MIT Associate Professor Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli has used artificial intelligence to create new materials. As the technology has expanded, so have his ambitions. Now, the newly tenured professor in materials science… Read more: Accelerating science with AI and simulations

In late January a new social media site took a certain corner of the internet by storm. Moltbook was conceived as a space where AI assistants could let off steam, chat and compare notes on… Read more: What bots talk about when they think humans aren’t listening – podcast

Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew Access Arm used by astronauts to board their rides… Read more: SpaceX takes down Dragon crew arm, giving Starship a leg up in Florida

A simple brain-training program that sharpens how quickly older adults process visual information may have a surprisingly powerful long-term payoff. In a major 20-year study of adults 65 and older, those who completed five to… Read more: Just 5 weeks of brain training may protect against dementia for 20 years

On Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration closed airspace up to 18,000 feet above the El Paso International Airport in Texas, saying the restrictions would be in place for 10 days. Then, less than 10… Read more: El Paso airport closed after military used new anti-drone laser to zap party balloon

On Wednesday, a fossil-fuel lobbying group called the Washington Coal Club awarded President Trump a trophy that named him the “Undisputed Champion of Clean, Beautiful Coal.” Trump took advantage of the opportunity to take his… Read more: Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants

Like most cloud-enabled home security cameras, Google’s Nest products don’t provide long-term storage unless you pay a monthly fee. That video may not vanish into the digital aether right on time, though. Investigators involved with… Read more: Google recovers “deleted” Nest video in high-profile abduction case

Since its release in the fall of 2021, Microsoft’s Windows 11 has received an “annual feature update” in the second half of every year. These feature updates sometimes include new Windows features and other changes… Read more: “Windows 11 26H1” is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs

On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the same day OpenAI began testing advertisements inside ChatGPT. Hitzig,… Read more: OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path

The pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom (circa 1000-1400 CE), along Peru’s southern coast, was one of the most wealthy and influential of its time before falling to the Inca and Spanish empires. Scientists have long puzzled over… Read more: Did seabird poop fuel rise of Chincha in Peru?

A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand. There was a grass fire where Archimedes engines undergo testing. Could… Read more: Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it’s not a big deal, CEO says.

On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Byte for over a decade, died at age 78 in Baker, Louisiana, according to a… Read more: Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a two-month span leading up to… Read more: Once-hobbled Lumma Stealer is back with lures that are hard to resist

Samsung confirms Galaxy Unpacked 2026 for Feb. 25, where the Galaxy S26 series is expected to debut with new AI features, updated chips, and design changes. The post Samsung Galaxy S26 Series Expected to Drop… Read more: Samsung Galaxy S26 Series Expected to Drop This Month

At PowerGen, attended by TechRepublic, industry leaders addressed rising community opposition to AI data centers and the challenge of earning public trust. The post Power, Pollution, and Protests: The Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers… Read more: Power, Pollution, and Protests: The Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers

A newly released tool claims it can bypass Discord’s age verification system by allowing users to control a 3D model of a computer-generated man in their browser instead of scanning their real face. On Monday,… Read more: Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord’s Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

In 2022, Apple announced it was adopting a “new Home architecture” for its smart home ecosystem to improve its performance and reliability and make it possible to support different kinds of accessories. Although it was… Read more: Smart home PSA: Apple’s “new architecture” for Home app becomes mandatory today

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular. The… Read more: China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test

Apple has just released the latest major updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and all the other operating systems it released back in September of 2025. The 26.3 updates for these operating… Read more: Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices

The National Labor Relations Board abandoned a Biden-era complaint against SpaceX after a finding that the agency does not have jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company. The US labor board said SpaceX should instead be… Read more: Victory for Elon Musk: US labor board abandons authority over SpaceX

Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to hallucinate and produce ‘gibberish’ AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”,… Read more: AI tools make potentially harmful errors in social work records, research says

VesnaArt/Shutterstock For a long time, the deal for a wide range of careers has been simple enough. Entry-level workers carried out routine tasks in return for mentorship, skill development and a clear path towards expertise.… Read more: AI could mark the end of young people learning on the job – with terrible results

I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me.

OpenAI says it won’t use “io” to market its AI hardware, and a court filing suggests the first device won’t ship before late February 2027. The post OpenAI Drops ‘io’ Branding for Planned AI Hardware… Read more: OpenAI Drops ‘io’ Branding for Planned AI Hardware

Kate Wieser/Getty Could a simple patch, inspired by the weight-loss drug Ozempic, really help you shed excess kilos without the pain and effort of an injection? Promotions of these Ozempic-style, weight-loss patches are popping up… Read more: Will Ozempic-style patches help me lose weight? Two experts explain

Most government agencies treat AI like a new piece of software. Katrina Mulligan, Head of National Security Partnerships at OpenAI, argues they should be treating it like a revolution in mission delivery. In this high-stakes… Read more: Transforming the enterprise: Moving past chat to core workflow redesign

The legal saga over surveillance footage from within an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in suburban Chicago has reached new levels of Kafkaesque absurdity, with the federal government losing three hard drives it was… Read more: Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On

Fitbit expands its Gemini-powered AI health coach to iOS and five new markets for Premium subscribers. The post Fitbit’s Gemini AI Coach Expands to iPhone, 5 New Countries appeared first on TechRepublic.

In today’s digital economy, procurement teams have to deal with large volumes of unstructured spend data, such as free-text invoices and broken ERP entries. AI is becoming a powerful tool for cleaning, combining, and analyzing… Read more: AI-powered procurement: Turning messy data into strategic advantage

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the “density deficit” in Earth’s… Read more: A Mystery Inside Earth’s Core Has Finally Been Solved With a Mind-Boggling Discovery

The gap between data-driven and data-lagging companies is defined by one thing: Pipeline architecture. If you are still battling fragmented batch cycles, data swamp silos, and brittle monolithic code, you aren’t just losing time –… Read more: Data pipeline design playbook 2026

What’s inside the playbook? This isn’t just theory. It’s a tactical guide to the 7 frameworks that are defining the 2026 data landscape: The kappa shift: Learn why treating everything as a stream is the secret to 100%… Read more: Data pipeline design playbook 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights into and out of El Paso International Airport on Tuesday night at 11:30 pm local time (1:30 am EST Wednesday) and said the restrictions would remain in place for… Read more: Feds end “10-day” closure of El Paso airspace after less than 10 hours

Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, the Trump administration this… Read more: What’s next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change?

Google expands its “Results about you” tool to remove sensitive IDs and explicit images from Search, strengthening privacy protections amid rising identity theft. The post Google Expands ‘Results About You’ to Shield IDs, Fight Deepfake… Read more: Google Expands ‘Results About You’ to Shield IDs, Fight Deepfake Abuse

In the first week of January, Kylie Brewer started getting strange messages.  “Someone has a only fans page set up in your name with this same profile,” one direct message from a stranger on TikTok… Read more: ‘The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:’ Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans

The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part of its pivot to embracing AI, the legal hub RollOnFriday reports. In what might be an augury… Read more: Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI

When you start a “bounty” board meant for AI agents during one of the worst job markets since the great recession, don’t be surprised when it becomes infested with humans. Last week, an AI entrepreneur… Read more: Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work

Kong Context Mesh transforms existing APIs into agent-ready tooling, addressing the integration gap that threatens agentic AI initiatives Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced Kong Context Mesh, an… Read more: Kong Launches Context Mesh to Connect Enterprise Data to AI Agents

New research from Euna Solutions shows that while most public sector agencies are exploring AI, measurable value today is concentrated in operational workflows such as procurement, budgeting, grants, and payments Euna Solutions®, the leading provider… Read more: Euna Solutions Releases “State of AI in the Public Sector” Report