
- Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that the way vaporized materials cool can dramatically change… Read more: Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout - Former officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest
Christi Hill and male police officer misidentified in Vickrum Digwa case on AI platforms including Grok UK politics live – latest updates A former police officer has been forced to flee to a safe space… Read more: Former officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest - This Is How Trump Finally Signed the AI Executive Order
After shelving the original executive order last month, Donald Trump finally got on board Monday night. - Venus will disappear behind the Moon in a rare June sky event
June’s night sky delivers several must-see events, starting with a close encounter between Venus and Jupiter after sunset. Mercury joins the pair to form a rare three-planet lineup, while the Moon puts on a special… Read more: Venus will disappear behind the Moon in a rare June sky event - State of Florida Sues OpenAI, Saying Sam Altman Showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life”
Florida has become the first state in the union to sue ChatGPT producer OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. In a landmark lawsuit filed by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the state accused the entity… Read more: State of Florida Sues OpenAI, Saying Sam Altman Showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life” - Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort… Read more: Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search - ZeroDrift Raises $10M Seed Round to Build the Compliance Firewall for AI
The first platform to enforce compliance on every AI-generated message, voice call, and video before it is sent ZeroDrift, the compliance firewall for AI, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $10 million seed round.… Read more: ZeroDrift Raises $10M Seed Round to Build the Compliance Firewall for AI - Gusto Launches Cofounder, an AI Teammate Purpose-Built for Small Business
Cofounder is one of the first agentic interfaces for small businesses that knows a business’ team, payroll, compliance tasks and more before even getting started Gusto, the leading partner for small businesses, today announced the… Read more: Gusto Launches Cofounder, an AI Teammate Purpose-Built for Small Business - Amazon’s AI-Generated Animated Series Canceled After Relentless Derision
At first, it felt a bit like Emmy-winning writer director Jorge Gutierrez had been living under a rock. On May 27, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series, dubbed “Punky Duck,” as part… Read more: Amazon’s AI-Generated Animated Series Canceled After Relentless Derision - Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI SearchThe moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort… Read more: Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
- New discovery upends an 80-year-old theory of turbulence
Researchers discovered a way to reverse the direction of energy flow in turbulence, challenging a theory that has stood for more than 80 years. The finding could open new possibilities for controlling ocean currents, improving… Read more: New discovery upends an 80-year-old theory of turbulence - Scientists reverse anxiety by fixing a tiny brain circuit
A newly identified group of amygdala neurons appears to play a central role in anxiety and social behavior. Restoring normal activity in this tiny brain circuit reversed anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a… Read more: Scientists reverse anxiety by fixing a tiny brain circuit - This new diabetes pill burns fat without the downsides of Ozempic
Scientists have developed an experimental diabetes and obesity pill that works in a completely different way from drugs like Ozempic. Rather than reducing hunger, it activates metabolism in skeletal muscle, helping lower blood sugar and… Read more: This new diabetes pill burns fat without the downsides of Ozempic - AI offers promise for agriculture, but smallholder farmers risk being left behind
Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing population. At the same time, productivity is uneven. For… Read more: AI offers promise for agriculture, but smallholder farmers risk being left behind - Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness
Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended… Read more: Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness - Thousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in England
DfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’ Disability campaigners have called on the government to halt plans to cut funding for specialist… Read more: Thousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in England - Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards
The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’ Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company… Read more: Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards - Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars
For decades, scientists have understood that plants can release volatile organic compounds—essentially airborne chemical signals—to attract the natural enemies of the things that eat them, like caterpillars. What we didn’t know was exactly how a… Read more: Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars - How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI
Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across… Read more: How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI - Pain shouldn’t be judged with a lie detector test – here’s why
Peopleimages/Shutterstock.com In 2006, Carl Koch sued his employer for damages after burn injuries during a workplace accident that left him with chronic pain. The employer accused him of malingering, so the judge admitted a neuroscientist… Read more: Pain shouldn’t be judged with a lie detector test – here’s why - Nvidia’s RTX Spark Laptops Look Hell-Bent on Disruption
The company’s RTX Spark chips might finally turn the “AI PC” into reality. - Future AI weapons such as drones should have moral code, says former UK spy chief
Software could make ethically superior decisions to humans in high-pressure moments, claims ex-GCHQ head David Omand Drones will need to be programmed with moral guidelines as AI-driven decision making reduces human involvement in autonomous warfare,… Read more: Future AI weapons such as drones should have moral code, says former UK spy chief - Can autonomous AI-powered killer drones take morality onboard?
While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? The question is becoming… Read more: Can autonomous AI-powered killer drones take morality onboard? - How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin’s launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.
A former NASA engineer named John Muratore sat on console as launch director in early September 2016 as propellant flowed onto a Falcon 9 rocket in Florida. Ahead of a planned launch two days later,… Read more: How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin’s launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets. - Chatbot teddies for three-year-olds? Why AI toys are risky for kids
Cottonbro Studio/Pexels ChattyBear, a soft, brown-furred teddy bear, begins every conversation with a jubilant, “Hello, my buddy!” No longer the province of the imagination, ChattyBear is part of a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI)… Read more: Chatbot teddies for three-year-olds? Why AI toys are risky for kids - What’s Worth More Than Cash in San Francisco Real Estate? Anthropic Stock
Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup. - Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D
Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip arrived this week with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than the first generation, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured… Read more: Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D - Laurel, Dayshape Help Firms Improve Revenue and Efficiency
New partnership connects AI-powered resource planning with automated time capture as firms struggle with visibility into capacity, profitability and delivery risk Laurel, the work intelligence platform for professional services, and Dayshape, the AI-powered resource management… Read more: Laurel, Dayshape Help Firms Improve Revenue and Efficiency - Walmart’s AI workflows meet the realities of the balance sheet
Walmart has reportedly begun limiting employees’ use of an internal AI assistant called Code Puppy after demands placed on the LLM backing the tool were higher than expected. Employees of Walmart were encouraged to use… Read more: Walmart’s AI workflows meet the realities of the balance sheet - Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices
Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling. - Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs | Arwa Mahdawi
Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech… Read more: Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs | Arwa Mahdawi - As the tech mega-IPO race hots up, has OpenAI missed its moment?
With rivals racing to market to raise ‘eye-popping sums’, the spotlight is now on the AI sector’s one-time ‘poster child’ A year is a long time in AI. Just 12 months ago, Sam Altman was… Read more: As the tech mega-IPO race hots up, has OpenAI missed its moment? - Trident Digital Tech Holdings Launches TDTHAI Across Asia-Pacific
TDTHAI establishes the foundation for enterprise AI deployment across Asia-Pacific while supporting Trident’s expanding digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital identity, and automation ecosystem Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: TDTH) (“Trident” or the “Company”), a Singapore-headquartered… Read more: Trident Digital Tech Holdings Launches TDTHAI Across Asia-Pacific - Trustero Announces AI-Powered Playbooks
Trustero expands its AI-native GRC platform with Playbooks and MetricStream integration, offering qualified users a complimentary Proof-of-Concept. Trustero AI, the leader in AI-powered GRC automation, today announced AI-powered Playbooks coincident with an integration with MetricStream, delivering Continuous… Read more: Trustero Announces AI-Powered Playbooks - Apiphani Names David McDougall CRO to Lead Commercial Expansion
30-year enterprise technology revenue executive joins Managed Intelligence Provider as market demand for Agentic Day-2 support accelerates. Apiphani, Inc. today announced the appointment of David McDougall as Chief Revenue Officer. McDougall brings 30 years of enterprise technology… Read more: Apiphani Names David McDougall CRO to Lead Commercial Expansion - Weaver Launches as the AI-Native Systems Integrator
A joint venture between Tquila and You.com, Weaver delivers production AI on a fixed fee. Financial model in two to three weeks. Working system in six to twelve. Weaver launched today with one conviction: most… Read more: Weaver Launches as the AI-Native Systems Integrator - UK media groups given power to opt out of Google AI search summaries
Watchdog says ‘publishers will now have effective tools to prevent content being used to power AI features in search’ Business live – latest updates Publishers will be able to opt out of their content being… Read more: UK media groups given power to opt out of Google AI search summaries - Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats
Cisco unveiled Cloud Control, Live Protect, and Hybrid Mesh Firewall at Cisco Live to help enterprises manage AI-era IT and security operations. The post Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats appeared first… Read more: Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats - Zoom Introduces ‘ZoomMate,’ an AI Teammate for Post-Meeting Work
ZoomMate aims to turn meeting conversations into AI-powered workflows, giving IT leaders new questions around governance, automation, and ROI. The post Zoom Introduces ‘ZoomMate,’ an AI Teammate for Post-Meeting Work appeared first on TechRepublic. - Australia’s economy slows as households tighten their belts, while AI investment surges
Australia’s economy grew by 0.3% in the first three months of 2026, slowing from 0.9% growth at the end of 2025, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. Over the year to March,… Read more: Australia’s economy slows as households tighten their belts, while AI investment surges - How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know
Daniele Levis Pelusi/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-SA Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come… Read more: How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know - MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts
To accelerate and refine decision-making in a fast-paced, global marketplace, enterprises may deploy generative artificial intelligence models to help summarize and interpret the charts that often fill market summaries and financial reports. But even the… Read more: MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts - ‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making?
It should have taken years, but Ash Koosha made a drama about Iran’s anti-government protests in weeks – and now it’s the first AI-made movie to screen at a major film festival. It could transform… Read more: ‘The CGI would have cost millions. I spent $2,000.’ Is Dreams of Violets AI slop – or the future of film-making? - Chip, chip … boom? South Korea tech makers join the trillion-dollar club but some fear a short-circuit looms
South Korea’s Kospi stock market has hit record highs thanks to AI, but experts urge caution over boom-bust cycles and a heavy reliance on two chipmakers South Korea has leapfrogged India to become the world’s… Read more: Chip, chip … boom? South Korea tech makers join the trillion-dollar club but some fear a short-circuit looms - Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’
Sydney Morning Herald removes piece by Cath Ellis, despite Western Sydney University saying her use of AI was ‘appropriate’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app… Read more: Sydney academic used AI to write SMH opinion piece urging students to avoid using tech to ‘cut corners’ - Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI
Google has quietly been offering to buy access to code written by developers who have released Android apps on the Play Store in order to help the company train its AI coding tools, 404 Media… Read more: Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI - Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers
Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. There’s Microsoft… Read more: Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers - Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items
Male bowerbirds are notorious for their complex mating rituals. They build intricate tunnels out of twigs—the bowers from which they get their name—and then decorate them with random colorful items gleaned from the environment. When… Read more: Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items - Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches
Mathematicians warned against rising tech industry influence in a declaration describing the many challenges that AI poses to mathematics research. The timing of the declaration comes two weeks after OpenAI publicized one of its AI… Read more: Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches - Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center
In December, the Trump administration abruptly announced it would shut down the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a Boulder, Colorado-based facility that helps researchers perform studies of weather, climate, atmospheric chemistry, and more. The… Read more: Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center - If I had a hammer… it might actually be a rhino tooth
One way archaeologists learn how ancient people, including Neanderthals, did things is to attempt to do those things themselves, a process called experimental archaeology. Normally, that involves making stone tools, butchering deer, or distilling birch… Read more: If I had a hammer… it might actually be a rhino tooth - Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
A lawsuit against Amazon is seeking financial damages for millions of Americans whose faces may have been recorded by Ring cameras since the Familiar Faces feature was rolled out late last year. Plaintiff Charles Sigwalt… Read more: Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says - Microsoft’s Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps
Microsoft has been deeply committed to the growth of generative AI technology in recent years through its now-fragmented partnership with OpenAI. At Build 2026, the company remains all-in on AI, and it’s looking toward the… Read more: Microsoft’s Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps - From cloning romance authors to YouTube piracy, AI is transforming audiobooks
Miguelangel Perez/Unsplash News on AI and audiobooks is coming thick and fast. Australia-based audiobook producer Bolinda recently announced it will create a “bespoke” AI clone of romance bestseller Barbara Cartland’s voice, in partnership with her… Read more: From cloning romance authors to YouTube piracy, AI is transforming audiobooks - Film Community Aghast as Martin Scorsese Extolls AI Startup, Says He Now Uses AI for Storyboards
The film community is in meltdown after acclaimed director Martin Scorsese promoted a new AI startup called Black Forest Labs, saying that he’s already using its tech to help plan his movies. Scorsese revealed this… Read more: Film Community Aghast as Martin Scorsese Extolls AI Startup, Says He Now Uses AI for Storyboards - Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned. “Three phases… Read more: Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal - Anthropic IPO filing marks AI maturing into enterprise utility
Anthropic’s IPO filing marks the maturation of generative AI from a research-heavy venture phase into a stabilised enterprise utility. Model developers operating in private markets have prioritised rapid iteration and maximum compute performance over predictable… Read more: Anthropic IPO filing marks AI maturing into enterprise utility - In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability
The race to field China’s first reusable launch vehicle is far less predictable than a similar competition that played out in the United States a decade ago. There was never any real question of which… Read more: In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability - Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible
Here at Ars, we’ve taken pleasure in reporting on versions of Doom that run on everything from wireless earbuds and printers to Windows’ notepad.exe and even inside Doom itself. So when we hear that a… Read more: Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible - Number of suspected Ebola cases falls by hundreds as testing ramps up
The estimated size of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has fallen by hundreds of cases as outbreak response efforts have ramped up and increased testing has ruled out illnesses. On… Read more: Number of suspected Ebola cases falls by hundreds as testing ramps up - The truth lies in the past in Silo S3 trailer
In April, we got a short teaser for the third season of Silo, the critically acclaimed Apple TV series based on the trilogy by novelist Hugh Howey, which hinted at a mysterious origin story dating… Read more: The truth lies in the past in Silo S3 trailer - Meet Microsoft Scout, Your AI Coworker That Never Logs Off
Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks. - Google announces deepfake call detection for Android, new AirDrop device support
We’re expecting Android 17 to begin rolling out later this month, but first, Google has a batch of updates for the wider Android device ecosystem. As usual, some of the new features are limited to… Read more: Google announces deepfake call detection for Android, new AirDrop device support - SpaceX IPO Filing Ties AI Growth to Water Access
SpaceX’s amended IPO filing adds water access to the risks around its AI data center buildout, putting another physical constraint around its growth plans. The post SpaceX IPO Filing Ties AI Growth to Water Access… Read more: SpaceX IPO Filing Ties AI Growth to Water Access - Trust3 AI Integrates With Snowflake to Strengthen Enterprise AI
Trust3 AI today announced an integration with the Snowflake AI Data Cloud designed to strengthen governance for enterprise AI agents, improve access control for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and enable trusted interaction with Snowflake… Read more: Trust3 AI Integrates With Snowflake to Strengthen Enterprise AI - Fake Claude Code Installers Deliver Credential-Stealing Malware
Fake Claude Code install sites are pushing malware that steals API keys, developer credentials, crypto wallets, and other sensitive data. The post Fake Claude Code Installers Deliver Credential-Stealing Malware appeared first on TechRepublic. - Dataiku Welcomes Maxwell Long as President and Chief Revenue Officer
Veteran enterprise software executive who led go-to-market through Smartsheet’s $8.4 billion acquisition, joins Dataiku as the company continues to expand its enterprise AI platform and scale beyond $350 million in ARR Dataiku, the Platform for… Read more: Dataiku Welcomes Maxwell Long as President and Chief Revenue Officer - Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
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 - Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline
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 - Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
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. - Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares
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 - 5 questions AI agent vendors hope you don’t ask
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 - Trump signs executive order seeking early access to new AI releases
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 - BeyondTrust Expands ISRA with Human, Non-Human, and AI Identities Framework
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 - Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don’t Care About Safety or Reliability
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 - This blood-feeding fly sacrifices its sight after finding a host
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 single protein may be holding back CAR T cancer therapy
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 - Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up
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 - Trump’s DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions
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 - Democrats are at a huge crossroads in California governor’s race | Normon Solomon
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 - Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
📄 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 - Powerful AI is making facial recognition better at identifying you
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 - Will the AI economy create a permanent underclass?
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? - Anthropic surges as OpenAI struggles to keep up
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 - GitHub Copilot users see token-based price hikes
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 - insightsoftware and TimeXtender Launch New Jet Analytics Cloud Platform
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 - New light-powered chip could accelerate AI and quantum computing
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 - New hydrogen breakthrough turns waste heat into clean fuel
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 - Your brain starts making social decisions before you do
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 - 6 things to fix before RLHF turns your biases into features
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 - A stellar “Rosetta stone” reveals the source of mysterious cosmic signals
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: A leadership solution or another management fad?
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? - How will AI sycophancy change us? Early signs are not encouraging | Arwa Mahdawi
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 - AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it
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 Appoints Renowned AI Pioneer Dr. Julia Hirschberg to BOD
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 - The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation
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 Showcases Resilient Edge AI Platforms at COMPUTEX 2026
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 - Google owner Alphabet to sell $80bn in stock to fund AI spending spree
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 Launches Automation Intelligence API and AI Assistant Detection
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 - Florida lawsuit accuses OpenAI of ignoring safety warnings and putting children at risk
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
