Fear not, dreary laborer. There will always be back-breaking jobs you can do when your office ones get taken over by obsequious AI models. For one reason or another, plumbing is the profession that AI… Read more: Doctor Reels as Son Becomes Plumber in Age of AI

Generally, when you hear “water use” and “sustainability,” you expect those words to be followed by some bad news. Humanity’s enduring ability to ignore the math of declining water supplies is almost impressive. But there… Read more: A bit of good news: It’s possible to turn around a groundwater crisis

Two teens behind one of the earliest US high school deepfake scandals will be sentenced this week, but the case is unlikely to resolve families’ concerns about the school’s significantly delayed response. Earlier this month,… Read more: As teens await sentencing for nudifying girls, parents aim to sue school

They might be better than gas-powered cars in most conceivable ways, but electric vehicle sales are having an undeniably hard time right now. The cause is no mystery: since January 2025 the US government has… Read more: Republicans in Congress add $250 annual federal EV tax to transport bill

The rise of touchscreen technology has been a boon in many respects, but for people with long fingernails, there can be issues with the capacitive variety since fingernails are non-conductive and thus don’t register on… Read more: Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help

From enhancing international business logistics to freeing up more hospital beds to helping farmers, MIT Professor Dimitris Bertsimas SM ’87, PhD ’88 summarized how his work in operations research has helped drive real-world improvements, while… Read more: On algorithms, life, and learning

Perplexity is moving deeper into health AI with a tool that connects your records, labs, and wearables in one place. The post Perplexity Health Connects Medical Records and Wearables in New AI Push appeared first… Read more: Perplexity Health Connects Medical Records and Wearables in New AI Push

CEO of asset manager says only a few firms and investors may reap rewards from growth in the technology The boom in artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, with only a handful of companies and investors… Read more: AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock’s Larry Fink

Here’s one job we won’t be sorry to see get automated with AI. According to a new scoop from the The Wall Street Journal, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO AI agent… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Secretly Training an AI Agent to Do CEO Job

Google Search is rewriting headlines with AI, raising concerns about accuracy, trust, and publisher control. The post Google’s AI Is Rewriting Headlines — and Publishers Are Taking Notice appeared first on TechRepublic.

Watching people outsource their critical thinking, emotions, and sanity to glitchy “AI” chatbots has been one of the most uniquely terrifying aspects of being a human being in recent years.  While wealthy tech evangelists like… Read more: This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow

In spring 2024, two days after undergoing complex cardiac surgery in the Midlands, a man in his mid-70s unexpectedly deteriorated and died. The hospital referred the death to the coroner’s service, as is protocol when… Read more: AI is beginning to change the business of law

dotshock/Shutterstock.com A workplace wellbeing app might seem like a simple and helpful tool – a mood check-in, some stress management advice, or a chatbot asking how your week has gone. But behind that supportive language,… Read more: Your voice, your typing, your sleep – what workplace wellbeing apps are really analysing

Microsoft’s commitment to shoving its Copilot AI chatbot into every imaginable facet of its widely-used Windows operating system hasn’t gone over well with users. Copilot feels like it’s infiltrated everything, from a dedicated keyboard key… Read more: Microsoft Realizes It’s Epically Screwed Up Windows 11 as Users Rage at Copilot AI Crammed Everywhere

UK authorities believe improving efficiency across national finance operations requires applying AI platforms from vendors like Palantir. The country’s financial regulator, the FCA, has initiated a project leveraging AI to identify illicit activities. The FCA… Read more: Palantir AI to support UK finance operations

This week, Sam talks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna about the marketing ploys of “artificial intelligence,” why ridicule works to keep big tech’s claims in check, and what makes them hopeful for the future.… Read more: Ridicule as Praxis (with Emily Bender and Alex Hanna)

Whether you want to free it or regulate it into submission, one thing is clear: this new technology is moving so fast that we can’t fully grasp it At an 80th birthday party at the… Read more: Do we have to keep talking about AI? The machines are always one step ahead | Zoe Williams

The British de Havilland DH-112 Venom is one of the most iconic combat jets of the Cold War, with a distinctive two-pronged tail design that stretched out far behind the main body of the aircraft… Read more: An Adrenaline Junkie Billionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin

BROOMFIELD, Colorado—One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for more than a month as scientists await the arrival of a pioneering robotic rescue mission. The 21-year-old… Read more: A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it

Industry leaders from Airship, Google Cloud, and top global brands will converge to share practical frameworks for turning Agentic AI strategy into measurable business value. Airship, the mobile-first customer experience platform that delivers measurable results… Read more: Elevate’26 Gathers CX Leaders on Agentic AI, Mobile Innovation

Pipefy, a global leader in AI-driven business process orchestration, today announced that technology sales leader Rodrigo Paiva was named VP of U.S. Sales. With more than 25 years of global sales leadership experience in the… Read more: Pipefy Accelerates 2026 U.S. Presence: Rodrigo Paiva Joins as VP of Sales

As financial institutions accelerate AI adoption across operations and risk management, many are finding that innovation is moving faster than governance, security controls, and regulatory clarity. To help close that gap, SBS CyberSecurity has launched the SBS… Read more: SBS CyberSecurity Debuts AI Peer Group for Financial Risk

New CMEK capability gives regulated enterprises full control over encryption keys for AI-scale vector workloads Zilliz, the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database, today announced the general availability of Customer-Managed Encryption Keys… Read more: Zilliz Cloud Launches Customer-Managed Encryption Keys

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

People often get the environmental impact of food wrong, according to new research. While many assume processed foods are the worst, they tend to overlook the surprisingly high impact of items like nuts and underestimate… Read more: Most people get food’s environmental impact completely wrong, study finds

Scientists have uncovered a hidden “death switch” in the brain that may be driving Alzheimer’s disease—and even found a way to turn it off in mice. The culprit is a toxic pairing of two proteins… Read more: Scientists discover Alzheimer’s hidden “death switch” in the brain

As data center developers queue up to connect to power grids across Europe, network operators are experimenting with novel ways of clearing room for them.

Australians have become increasingly anxious about national security – even before the outbreak of the recent US-Israel war with Iran, according to a new report. The Australian National University’s National Security College surveyed more than… Read more: Politics with Michelle Grattan: Rory Medcalf on Australians’ growing national security fears

What was supposed to be a quick win has become a quagmire, so it now must be reduced to a dopamine hit The war on Iran, even as it spreads and destabilises the Middle East… Read more: Trump’s video game war: AI, memes and a simplistic narrative have flattened the conflict | Nesrine Malik in Iran

A decades-old superconducting mystery just took a surprising turn. Strontium ruthenate, a material that conducts electricity with zero resistance at low temperatures, has long puzzled scientists with hints of an exotic, complex superconducting state. But… Read more: Scientists twisted a mysterious superconductor and got a shocking result

Scientists in Australia have demonstrated a prototype quantum battery that could revolutionize energy storage. By harnessing quantum effects, it can absorb energy in a rapid “super absorption” event, enabling much faster charging than conventional batteries.… Read more: World’s first quantum battery could enable ultra fast charging

Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air. These particles interact in a one-sided, unbalanced way, breaking the usual rules of motion and creating a… Read more: This floating time crystal breaks Newton’s third law of motion

Getty Images During the first world war, the British government was looking for ways to help people stretch their limited food supplies. It found pamphlets from a noted 19th-century herbalist who said rhubarb leaves could… Read more: Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe

As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has been found hallucinating police reports, exposing secure passwords, and digesting confidential emails — prompting security fears as… Read more: Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons

Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain Palantir is to… Read more: Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data

Contract affords AI analytics firm access to trove of data on one of the most important financial centres in the world Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data… Read more: FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain

The 1980s brought us so many terrific films, including director Russell Mulcahy’s sword-and-sorcery fantasy action film Highlander, starring Christopher Lambert as an immortal Scotsman who must battle others like him to the death until just… Read more: There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40

A Starlink train passing through auroras over rural Saskatchewan in November 2025. (Samantha Lawler), CC BY-NC-ND More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how… Read more: A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

Beavers may be unlikely climate heroes, but new research suggests they could play a powerful role in fighting climate change. By building dams and transforming streams into wetlands, these industrious animals dramatically reshape how carbon… Read more: Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks

Scientists have finally cracked how mosquitoes decide where to fly—and it’s not by following each other. Instead, each insect independently reacts to visual cues and carbon dioxide, zeroing in on humans when both signals align.… Read more: Why mosquitoes always find you and how they decide to attack

I had originally planned to write about DeepSeek V4. Since it still hasn’t been released, I used the time to work on something that had been on my list for a while, namely, collecting, organizing,… Read more: A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

We’re all feeling a little anxious about AI imploding the job market. And that “we,” apparently, also extends to AI models. In a new Vanity Fair piece exploring the promises, anxieties, and cultish behavior pulsing… Read more: AI Agent Frets That Its Job Could Be Replaced by AI

More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile—sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with… Read more: Mining the deep ocean

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found the… Read more: Webb Telescope spots “impossible” atmosphere on ancient super Earth

Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, their internal forces compete, causing constant rearrangements that dramatically increase resistance at certain distances. This creates a surprising peak in… Read more: Friction without contact discovered as magnetic forces break a 300-year-old law

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs. This discovery also strengthens the case that humans… Read more: This 67,800-year-old handprint is the oldest art ever found

A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced by outside populations. Centuries later, a stressed group of maize-heavy farmers migrated into the region, facing climate… Read more: Ancient DNA reveals a farming shift that pushed a society to the brink

Antibiotics are accumulating in a major Brazilian river, especially during the dry season when pollution becomes more concentrated. Scientists even detected a banned drug inside fish sold for food, raising concerns about human exposure. A… Read more: Hidden antibiotics in river fish spark new food safety fears

A hidden freshwater system deep beneath the Great Salt Lake has been revealed using airborne electromagnetic surveys. Scientists found that freshwater extends much farther under the lake than expected, reaching depths of up to 4… Read more: A massive freshwater reservoir is hiding under the Great Salt Lake

Researchers, teachers, and mental health professionals alike have spent the past few years reeling as teens and young adults exported their brains to AI chatbots — so it should come as no surprise they’re now… Read more: Gen Z Is Using AI to Have Difficult Relationship Conversations, and the Results Are Massively Cringe

Kaiser pushed back on striking workers’ claims and AI fears, saying it delivers ‘timely, high-quality care to meet members’ needs’ Ilana Marcucci-Morris is worried about the patients she treats and how long it took for… Read more: ‘Thank God they’re still alive’: Kaiser therapists claim its new screening system puts patients at higher risk by delaying their care

Video models have become astonishingly capable. Sora and its peers can generate spatiotemporally coherent video sequences that look photorealistic, maintain object continuity across frames, and respect basic physical constraints. By conventional measures, they’re superhuman at… Read more: Can you *really* train AI to “get” videos just by showing it a million of them?

There plenty of personal reasons not to use AI chatbots as therapists. They’re sycophantic, make for ineffective shrinks, and can be downright dangerous for anyone with preexisting mental illness — and sometimes even for people… Read more: Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI

Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to defrauding music streaming platforms and his fellow musicians out of… Read more: US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI

Anthropic fought against the government’s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans’ data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scale The FBI declares it can conduct mass surveillance without AI, despite Anthropic’s protest.… Read more: How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance – even without AI

Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash One morning last year, Jacobus Louw set out on his daily neighborhood walk to feed… Read more: Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery… Read more: We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what’s it telling us?

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that visited strange new worlds, broke the adorability scale, pigged out, and took in an alien light show. First, scientists sift through thousands of… Read more: Scientists Narrow Down the Hunt for Aliens to 45 Planets

A routine quantum optics technique just revealed an extraordinary secret: entangled light can carry incredibly complex topological structures. Researchers found these hidden patterns reach up to 48 dimensions, offering a vast new “alphabet” for encoding… Read more: Scientists just found a hidden 48-dimensional world in quantum light

Scientists at Harvard have built a miniature device that can twist and tune light in real time. By rotating two stacked photonic crystals and adjusting their spacing with a tiny mechanical system, they can control… Read more: Harvard engineers build chip that can twist and control light in real time

Researchers have discovered that cancer spread isn’t random—it follows a kind of biological “program.” By studying colon tumor cells, they identified gene patterns that signal whether a cancer is likely to metastasize. Their AI model,… Read more: New AI tool predicts cancer spread with surprising accuracy

FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reform When the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT,… Read more: UK government yet to trial OpenAI tech months after signing partnership

Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary… Read more: DOGE goes nuclear: How trump invited silicon valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

Plus: The FBI admits it’s buying phone data to track Americans, Iranian hackers disrupt medical care at Maryland hospitals, and more.

I recorded videos of myself doing laundry, scrambling eggs, and walking around the park in DoorDash’s new Tasks app, where gig workers are paid to train AI.

After a two year closure, the museum doubles its gallery space with a 700-plus object show examining how humans and technology shape each other Right now on the Bowery, a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, two supersized… Read more: ‘On the threshold of a new age’: inside the New Museum’s $82m expansion and landmark new exhibition in New York

The Amazon Prime prank series amplifies the hijinks of workplace dynamics, while showing how people find purpose—and community—in their jobs despite impossible situations.

A rogue AI agent caused a critical security incident at Meta which exposed sensitive users data to people who didn’t have proper authorization, according to reporting from The Information and The Verge, in the latest… Read more: Rogue AI Agent Triggers Emergency at Meta

A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land. With long legs and a lightweight body, it hunted small animals in a… Read more: This crocodile ran like a greyhound across prehistoric Britain 200 million years ago

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed how parts of the planet slowly… Read more: Tectonic shift: Earth was already moving 3.5 billion years ago

Scientists have engineered probiotic bacteria to act as tumor-seeking drug factories. In mice, these bacteria infiltrated tumors and produced a cancer-fighting drug right where it was needed. This targeted approach could make treatments more effective… Read more: Scientists turn probiotic bacteria into tumor-hunting cancer killers

Aging men often lose the Y chromosome in a growing number of their cells—and it may be far more dangerous than once believed. This loss has been linked to heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and shorter… Read more: Men are losing a key chromosome with age and it may be deadly

The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible.

Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences for developers and the organizations that use them. Trivy maintainer… Read more: Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday, that is, when publisher Hachette pulled the book from the… Read more: Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you… Read more: Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

For the fourth time in a little more than a year, the US Space Force needs to send up a new satellite to replenish the military’s GPS navigation network. And once again, the company the… Read more: Once again, ULA can’t deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will… Read more: You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

On Friday, a jury in California determined that Elon Musk had misled investors in Twitter via public statements that depressed the price of the company’s stock ahead of his ultimately successful purchase of it. Because… Read more: Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets

The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market.

Hardware costs for humanoid robots are plummeting, but managing a fleet of these autonomous workers will severely test your enterprise IT infrastructure, security, and budget. The post Humanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper — But Enterprise… Read more: Humanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper — But Enterprise Costs Are Just Getting Started

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna, granting a waiver that lets the broadcast giant go way past the national limit on station ownership. Nexstar said it closed… Read more: Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap

NASA has taken a step forward to moving an undetermined spacecraft of a various size on an indefinite date to a yet-to-be-decided location. Or to put it another way: NASA is seeking to learn more… Read more: NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast “The Diary of a CEO,” apparently takes a vibes-based approach to recruitment, and loves it when potential new hires say they use AI to actually do their jobs.… Read more: CEO Says He’ll Hire Anyone Who Can Vibe Code With AI, Regardless of Actual Skill

Nvidia’s new AI upscaling gaming technology struck gamers as uncanny and off-putting. Developers don’t seem to like it, either, but it could be “the default” in a few years.

A member of an influential federal vaccine advisory panel made a dramatic claim Thursday afternoon that the panel had been disbanded following a temporary block by a federal judge and would be entirely reconstituted—again. But,… Read more: RFK may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip

If teachers thought rampant cheating was the worst way AI would impact their livelihoods, we’ve got some bad news. On social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, Wired reports, teenagers are using AI to create… Read more: Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers

Nvidia GTC 2026 revealed agentic AI, desk supercomputers, and space-based computing, signaling a major shift in how AI is built and deployed. The post Nvidia GTC 2026: 5 Biggest Takeaways From Jensen Huang’s Biggest Show… Read more: Nvidia GTC 2026: 5 Biggest Takeaways From Jensen Huang’s Biggest Show Yet

Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” Reuters said the phone is codenamed Transformer but couldn’t confirm… Read more: Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

Cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com lays off 12% of staff; the latest in a wave of tech company layoffs as AI is integrated The post Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce, Targets Roles That ‘Do Not Adapt’… Read more: Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce, Targets Roles That ‘Do Not Adapt’ to AI

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its storability and simplicity,… Read more: NASA is blowing stuff up to study the explosive potential of methalox rockets

When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on the crater’s… Read more: Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars

Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock Worries about the British economy have long been dominated by one persistent concern – weak productivity. Since the financial crisis of 2008, growth has stagnated, leaving the UK trailing well behind the US,… Read more: Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output

A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing… Read more: Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

The publisher has cancelled the US release of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and withdrawn the UK edition after weeks of online speculation about the novel’s origins Hachette Book Group has withdrawn a horror novel… Read more: Hachette pulls horror novel Shy Girl after suspected AI use

Datavid’s expertise in graph data engineering and knowledge graphs for LLM grounding will further enhance C5i’s capabilities in deploying business-ready generative and agentic AI solutions AI & Analytics company, C5i, today announced the signing of an… Read more: C5i Inks Agreement to Acquire UK-based Datavid

One-pedal driving is not causing Tesla electric vehicles to suddenly accelerate when parked, according to federal regulators. For almost as long as Tesla has been selling cars, it has been hit with sporadic accusations of… Read more: Feds say no need to recall Tesla’s one-pedal driving despite petition

Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters in the US. No major hurricanes made landfall, while the total number of acres burned in wildfires last year—a way of measuring the… Read more: The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather

A little more than a month ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk put down a marker of his intent to saturate low-Earth orbit with up to 1 million satellites. Its purpose? Provide always-on data center services… Read more: Jeff Bezos just announced plans for a third megaconstellation—this one for data centers

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as much… Read more: Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change