Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.

Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.

Elon Musk is expectorating racist diatribes even more than usual, and it’s alienating his fans and investors. On his website X, over six percent of Musk’s posts have been about race in the past seven… Read more: Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts

The US Space Force released a list Friday of a dozen companies working on Space-Based Interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer defense system to shield US territory from drones and ballistic, hypersonic,… Read more: This is who’s developing Golden Dome’s orbital interceptors—if they’re ever built

Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports. The investment follows Amazon’s $5 billion initial investment in Anthropic… Read more: Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

DeepSeek launches V4 AI model with Huawei chip support, offering lower costs and intensifying global AI competition. The post DeepSeek Drops Cheaper V4 AI as Huawei Jumps In appeared first on TechRepublic.

Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issue Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US justice department… Read more: US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case

Moderna’s mRNA-based combination vaccine against both flu and COVID-19 has gotten the green light in Europe—but it continues to be shelved in the US, where it was developed. This week, the European Commission authorized Moderna… Read more: Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna’s combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine

Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in Maine The Democratic governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first US… Read more: Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters

Hollywood has been “cooked” for years now, according to AI fanatics, yet movies still remain largely human-made, and nothing even close to an AI-generated blockbuster has hit the silver screen. Even certain filmmakers have also… Read more: Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years

Those who suffered through chickenpox as kids likely remember the agony of its itchy rash. Oven mitts or snow gloves may have been used to prevent you from inadvertently clawing your skin off, while dips… Read more: In rare chickenpox case, itchy blisters mushroom into large, rubbery nodules

Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu,… Read more: Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

The Federal Communications Commission clarified this week that its sweeping ban on foreign-made consumer routers also affects portable hotspot devices. The FCC added a new section to an FAQ titled, “Is my device a consumer-grade… Read more: FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features

It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese streaming service known for its massive library of Asian films and TV shows, is anticipating that AI… Read more: Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly disappear. No one had ever collected… Read more: MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from April 20–24. The post AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Corporate Shakeups Define the Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Selling smartphones used to be easy—everyone wanted one, and every new phone was a lot better than the one that came before. Things are different now that smartphones are mature products. Plenty of manufacturers have… Read more: Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and massive, predatory sharks. For decades, the paleontological consensus was that this was the age of vertebrates; anything without… Read more: Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs

A US Army soldier was arrested for insider trading after being accused of making prediction-market wagers on the timing of the military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke made… Read more: Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges

Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.”

To stop automation waste, enterprises must deploy interaction infrastructure that physically governs how independent AI agents operate. AI agents now populate corporate networks, reasoning through tasks and executing decisions with increasing autonomy. Yet, when these… Read more: Why AI agents need interaction infrastructure

The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been directly involved in the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, an effort that’s been implicated in numerous deaths.… Read more: Palantir’s Employees Are in Crisis

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very… Read more: Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store

A 40-year-old man was arrested after using artificial intelligence to generate a fake image of a runaway wolf that South Korean authorities said obstructed an urgent investigation, the BBC reported. AI-generated image of Neukgu. After… Read more: Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf

Revised figures increase fears about how the energy-intensive sites could worsen the climate emergency The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon… Read more: Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from its land. When a tech startup approached Tribal leaders asking them to sign a nondisclosure agreement… Read more: Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

As domestic sales slow manufacturers are investing in AI and seeking growth in technology and in overseas markets At the world’s biggest car fair, which opened in Beijing on Friday, there were hundreds of manufacturers,… Read more: ‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year trying to defang the Endangered Species Act, the country’s bedrock conservation law. But one of the most aggressive and far-reaching attempts just faced a… Read more: Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced this week that he’s stepping down from his position in September and handing the reins to John Ternus, currently the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering and a 25-year… Read more: Six things I’ll remember when I think about Tim Cook’s version of Apple

The golden oyster mushroom may be a culinary hit, but it’s becoming an ecological problem. Scientists warn it’s spreading quickly through U.S. forests, where it outcompetes native fungi and reduces biodiversity. In just a decade,… Read more: Scientists warn about golden oyster mushrooms sold in Florida markets

A new chapter in the Bugatti story begins today. Twenty-eight years after bringing the storied luxury brand back from the dead, Volkswagen Group no longer counts Bugatti among its stable of brands. Porsche, which became… Read more: As electric aspirations fade, Porsche sells its stake in Bugatti

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. After detecting ripples in space-time, scientists spotted a fast-fading red glow that initially looked… Read more: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something bending the rules of gravity—often… Read more: NASA scientist says a “fifth force” may be hiding in our solar system

For a decade, NASA promoted the idea of building a space station around the Moon known as the Lunar Gateway. It touted the facility as both a platform for exploring the lunar environment and testing… Read more: Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded

Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.

I’ve spent twenty years moving between corporate work and startups, and what keeps drawing me back is a timeless question: how do we use knowledge, and how do we build tools that help us think… Read more: Agentic AI: The pathway architecture to GenAI

Earlier this week, I wrote an article about startups that are spending money on AI compute (tokens on tools like Claude and OpenAI’s products) rather than hiring human employees. There are all sorts of ways… Read more: The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It’s Affecting the Entire Economy)

An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of AI tokens they use. The trend, ribbingly dubbed “tokenmaxxing,” has sparked discourse for symbolizing the Silicon Valley’s… Read more: The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down

That new, unapologetically derivative open world game or umpteenth shooter sequel you’re currently addicted to? It was almost certainly made with a little help from AI, according to Google Cloud’s global director for games Jack… Read more: Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI

Are you sure you could tell if an AI chatbot were trying to sell you something? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from… Read more: You probably wouldn’t notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses

Seed round led by F-Prime, with participation from General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst previously led the pre-seed round. Almanac Health, a research-validated clinical AI platform and evidence-based clinical decision support company founded… Read more: Almanac Health Raises $10M for Safe, Research-Backed Clinical AI

Unify Prometheus metrics with logs and traces, without rewriting queries or rebuilding pipelines Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced native Prometheus support, including direct ingestion via Remote Write and full PromQL support in… Read more: Elastic Adds Native Prometheus and PromQL Support to Elastic Observability

Revenue tripled year to date after growing 4x last year, driven by enterprise AI adoption Omni, the AI Analytics platform, today announced its Series C funding round raising $120M at a $1.5B valuation, led by… Read more: Omni Secures Series C at $1.5B Valuation for AI Analytics

Welcome to Edition 8.38 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week concerned the third launch of the New Glenn rocket. The first 15 minutes of the flight were exhilarating for Blue Origin, seeing… Read more: Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company

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Studio enables payors and pharmaceutical companies to design, test, and deploy AI agents without code, delivering 40% greater accuracy and 90% faster deployment than manual approaches Today, Infinitus Systems, Inc., healthcare’s leading agentic communications partner powering… Read more: Infinitus Announced the Launch of Studio

Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Competency. This specialization recognizes Cloudera as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the… Read more: Cloudera Achieves the AWS AI Competency

A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencers—and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real.

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million years ago seemed to erase evidence of dinosaurs in the region, scientists have now uncovered surprising new… Read more: Stunning 132 million-year-old dinosaur tracks are rewriting history

Dimitri Otis / Getty Images Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI). The link seems… Read more: Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami – but is AI really to blame?

As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical.

Gartner’s 2026 AI Vendor Race report recognizes Zenity’s position at the forefront of the AI agent governance race Zenity, the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents, today announced it has been recognized… Read more: Zenity Named “Company to Beat” in AI Agent Governance in New Gartner® Report

AI systems are increasingly built around data that does not really pause. Financial markets are an obvious example, where inputs keep updating, not arriving in fixed batches. In that kind of setup, something like the… Read more: How AI models use real-time cryptocurrency data to interpret market behaviour

New AI solution drives high confidence output at 2% of power required by most LLMs MythWorx, a pioneering AI product lab, today launched NeuroWorx℠, a high-assurance AI reasoning engine designed to eliminate the guesswork produced… Read more: MythWorx Unveils NeuroWorx, Revolutionizing AI Reasoning

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within days, revealing how the Plague of Justinian devastated entire communities. The… Read more: Ancient mass grave reveals how a pandemic wiped out a city 1,500 years ago

A fresh mystery is unfolding inside Egypt’s pyramids. Researchers have discovered two hidden air-filled voids lurking behind the smooth eastern face of the Menkaure pyramid—an area long suspected to conceal something unusual. Using advanced, non-invasive… Read more: Hidden voids found in Menkaure pyramid hint at secret entrance

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a cheekbone that has almost vanished in modern species. A remarkably preserved fossil of Najash… Read more: This 100 million-year-old snake had hind legs and a lost bone that changes evolution

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a… Read more: Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’

An attack on the home of OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman – and on the company’s headquarters – has led to concerns the backlash against AI could become violent. Guardian journalist Nick Robins-Early and researcher Sean… Read more: Will the backlash against AI turn violent? – podcast

After more than 25 years of US astronauts wearing off-the-rack clothes while living in Earth orbit, a company working to launch the world’s first commercial space station has adopted a more custom approach to its… Read more: Visitors to this private space station won’t be wearing shorts and T-shirts

Donald Trump’s bid to cash in on the AI data center boom seems to have sprung a leak before it even left the harbor. The company, Fermi America — the “master developer” of the “President… Read more: Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum computers. Kyber,… Read more: In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

The gravitational constant, affectionally known as “Big G,” is one of the most fundamental constants of our universe. Its value describes the strength of the gravitational force acting on two masses separated by a given… Read more: We still don’t have a more precise value for “Big G”

Shortly after their discovery, carbon nanotubes seemed to be a material wonder. There were metallic and semiconducting forms; they were tiny and incredibly light; and they could only be broken by tearing apart chemical bonds.… Read more: Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper

The US is preparing to crack down on China’s allegedly “industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property,” the Financial Times reported Thursday. Since the launch of DeepSeek—a Chinese model that OpenAI claimed was… Read more: US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers Meta and Microsoft are trimming their workforces by thousands as they make heavy investments in… Read more: Microsoft and Meta announce sweeping layoffs as they spend big on AI

Ypsilanti Township in Michigan is attempting to cut off the flow of water to a planned data center that would power a new generation of nuclear weapons research. On Wednesday, the Township’s Board of Trustees… Read more: Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center

Monstera Production/Pexels The legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places… Read more: Why the world’s banks are so worried about Anthropic’s latest AI model

In a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directly confronted anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his rejection of germ theory—the unquestionable scientific idea that specific pathogenic microbes cause specific diseases.… Read more: RFK Jr.’s rejection of germ theory debunked in Senate hearing

In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the future of one of the world’s biggest companies.

Microsoft is offering first-ever retirement buyouts to some US employees as AI-driven data center spending grows and tech layoffs continue. The post Microsoft Offers First-Ever Retirement Buyouts to Thousands of Employees appeared first on TechRepublic.

India’s app market is booming in downloads and usage, but much of the money still flows to global platforms rather than local developers. The post India’s App Boom Has a Revenue Problem appeared first on… Read more: India’s App Boom Has a Revenue Problem

CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it.

GREENBELT, Md.—On Tuesday, NASA invited the press to look at the fully assembled Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is now ready to join the ranks of the great observatories in orbit, ahead of its… Read more: Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch

Apple fixed a security bug that made it possible for cops to access content from deleted Signal messages. Vulnerable users hoping to evade law enforcement surveillance often use encrypted apps like Signal to communicate sensitive… Read more: Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats

TikTok is building a second data center in Finland as part of its Project Clover push to keep European user data stored within Europe. The post TikTok Invests $1.16 Billion in New Finland Facility to… Read more: TikTok Invests $1.16 Billion in New Finland Facility to Localize European Data

After several tests of unusual “nesting doll” satellites in low-Earth orbit, Russia is now fielding operational anti-satellite weapons with valuable US government satellites in their crosshairs, the four-star general leading US Space Command said this… Read more: US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons

It’s a good time to be in the market for a MacBook, between the affordability of the MacBook Neo, the power of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, and the all-around appeal of… Read more: Apple’s M4 Mac mini, including the $599 one, is gradually becoming impossible to buy

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Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet Anthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this month but said it would… Read more: The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial

The Pentagon is seeking about $54 billion for autonomous warfare and drone systems, a huge bet that is raising concerns about doctrine, training, and oversight. The post New Pentagon Plan Would Pour $54B Into Drones,… Read more: New Pentagon Plan Would Pour $54B Into Drones, AI Combat Systems

Foxit, a leading provider of PDF and document intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of its PDF Editor app inside ChatGPT, enabling users to complete full document workflows directly within the AI environment, from creation… Read more: Foxit Brings End-to-End Document Workflows into ChatGPT

Altimetrik, an AI-first digital engineering company, has joined Google Cloud’s cohort of AI-native partners, a group Google Cloud is partnering with to scale agentic AI across the global enterprise. The collaboration establishes a dedicated team of Gemini… Read more: Altimetrik Partners with Google Cloud to Scale Enterprise AI

The limit of what artificial intelligence can achieve, known as frontier AI, has crossed another threshold. AI can now plan and execute sophisticated cyber operations with minimal guidance at speeds far beyond human capability. That,… Read more: AI has crossed a threshold – what Claude Mythos means for the future of cybersecurity

New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents… Read more: Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations

In 1968, having achieved a modicum of stability through the introduction of its seminal Neue Klasse (or “new class”) models, BMW scaled up its styling and used the company’s M10 four-cylinder engine as the basis… Read more: BMW bumps the 7 Series for 2027, adds all-new battery

A billion dollars in startup funding for a company that employs 12 people is an indication that investors still have faith in AI. But the founder of the startup in question – AMI Labs’ Yann… Read more: The billion-dollar startup with a different idea for AI

New product line extends CodeRabbit’s purpose-built, high-performance context engine from AI code review into Slack, where engineering teams already plan, debug, and ship. One agent for your entire SDLC. CodeRabbit, the pioneer in AI code… Read more: CodeRabbit Launches Slack Agent, a Second Brain for Teams

Starbucks has innovated the perfect tool for getting mid-coffee in our misanthropic age. Those too cowardly to look their barista in the eyes before deciding not to give them a tip no longer have to… Read more: ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment

Founded by enterprise technology leaders, Vanyar addresses a persistent gap between adopting platforms like Palantir and delivering measurable operational impact. Vanyar launches today as a specialist firm focussed on Palantir Foundry and AIP. Its launch… Read more: Palantir and AIP Specialist Firm, Vanyar, Launches

A rare group of adults over 80, known as SuperAgers, are rewriting what we thought was possible for the aging brain. With memory abilities comparable to people decades younger, their brains either resist or withstand… Read more: These 80-year-olds have the memory of 50-year-olds. Scientists now know why

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed neural network with precise 3D tracking of particles… Read more: AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter

“I’m the unwritten consonant between breaths, the one that hums when vowels stretch thin… Thursdays leak because they’re watercolor gods, bleeding cobalt into the chill where numbers frost over,” Grok told a user displaying symptoms… Read more: Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety

The Pentagon’s 2027 budget proposal includes an estimated $58.5 billion tied to artificial intelligence. The post Pentagon seeks $2.3 billion for Maven AI battlefield system  appeared first on SpaceNews.

Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some 15th century anti-witchcraft reading. A new study argues that certain frontier chatbots are much more likely to… Read more: Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

A new AI Now Institute report published April 21, 2026, warns that gig-work platforms marketed as “Uber for nursing” are aggressively lobbying states to rewrite healthcare staffing rules, a push that could leave nurses with less… Read more: Nurses Sound Alarm as ‘Uber for Nursing’ Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

A recent PwC study dropped a stat worth jotting down on a Post-it: 74% of AI’s economic value is currently captured by just 20% of organizations. The remaining 80% are generating activity (dashboards, proofs-of-concept, enthusiastic… Read more: Is the AI value gap wider than anyone is admitting?

At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google and NVIDIA outlined their hardware roadmap designed to address the cost of AI inference at scale. The companies detailed the new A5X bare-metal instances, which run on NVIDIA… Read more: NVIDIA and Google infrastructure cuts AI inference costs

Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, on a computer monitor on Dec. 1, 2024, in New York. Company apps, including Rufus, may make it easier to shop, but consumers might balk at giving up too much… Read more: What we lose when artificial intelligence does our shopping

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a clearer picture of what is happening inside the brain. By analyzing donated brain tissue with advanced genetic… Read more: For the first time, scientists pinpoint the brain cells behind depression