A key protein involved in fat metabolism has been found to do more than scientists once thought. Instead of just releasing fat, it helps maintain healthy fat tissue and balance in the body. When it’s… Read more: Surprising obesity discovery rewrites decades of fat metabolism science

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new layer of complexity in Cannabis, identifying dozens of previously unknown compounds—including the first-ever evidence of rare molecules called flavoalkaloids in its leaves. These compounds, prized for their potential health… Read more: Don’t toss cannabis leaves: Scientists found rare compounds with medical potential

Kidney stones are notoriously painful—and frustratingly common, with many people facing repeat episodes. A massive new study tested whether a high-tech hydration program—complete with smart water bottles, reminders, coaching, and even financial incentives—could help people… Read more: Why drinking more water didn’t prevent kidney stones

We are in a world where robots compete against humans and while perfect scores might be impressive, they are also dull It hurts to miss an unmarked shot in basketball. And it certainly seemed to… Read more: Robo athletes miss the point of sport – there is no drama without emotion | Emma John

UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces Women in public life are facing growing and increasingly sophisticated forms of online violence, the… Read more: UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence

People describe awkward and unnatural process as survey finds nearly half of job seekers have been interviewed by AI Nearly half (47%) of UK job seekers have had an AI interview, research from the hiring… Read more: ‘Completely horrible’: UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews

When she was a child, MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt would spend summers on her grandparents’ farm in rural Alabama outside Birmingham. The practical and cultural differences between farm and city life became more pronounced by… Read more: Improving understanding with language

The human brain remains one of the most fascinating and perplexing mysteries in medicine. Scientists still struggle to match neurological activity with brain function and detect problems early, slowing efforts to treat neurological disorders and… Read more: Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep

Messages presented at trial reveal how Zilis, the mother of four of Musk’s children, acted as an intermediary between him and OpenAI.

From watching too much Nordic noir, I have learned the key lessons to Scandinavian safety: Stay out of the deep woods, avoid all “rustic villagers,” flee every solstice or equinox ritual, and run screaming from… Read more: US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold

In a series of social media posts Thursday, President Trump withdrew his nomination of Make America Health Again influencer Casey Means to be surgeon general, lashed out at Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) for Means’ stalled… Read more: Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general

Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.

In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Meta… Read more: Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe compromises inside data centers… Read more: The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Elon Musk seems tired and cranky. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in a four-week trial stemming from his lawsuit alleging that OpenAI abandoned its mission and should be blocked from… Read more: Elon Musk’s 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial

If you believe official Russian reports, the country’s northern spaceport has come under attack from drones on multiple occasions in the last few months. The drones did not succeed in striking the spaceport, but the… Read more: Russia cloaks launch schedule after spaceport falls in Ukraine’s sights

fStop Images – Epoxydude/Getty I hope this article finds you well. Did that make you cringe, ever so slightly? In the decades since the very first email was sent in 1971, the technology has become… Read more: ‘Just looping you in’: why letting AI write our emails might actually create more work

Andy Craddock/Unpslash You’ve probably seen it on social media before: a paragraph of scrambled text that looks like nonsense at first glance, yet somehow you can read it with surprising ease. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch… Read more: Sramcbled wrods: the real reason you can still read jumbled text

Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions of dollars alongside its now-CEO Sam Altman. Now in 2026, he’s suing to unwind the entire project… Read more: Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court

China’s new clampdown on drone sales and even the storage of drone components within the capital of Beijing stands out in a country that effectively built the global market for affordable commercial drones. The unprecedented… Read more: Beijing bans drone sales even as rest of world buys Chinese drones

The Resident Evil film franchise has grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide since the first film debuted in 2002, but an attempt to reboot it a few years ago floundered. Sony Pictures is trying again, this… Read more: Stranded traveler gets more than he bargained for in Resident Evil teaser

Earlier this week, Blue Origin posted a job opportunity for a “senior manager” to oversee tank fabrication for “Quattro,” and the description contained some intriguing information. “As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians,… Read more: Blue Origin certainly has ambitious launch targets for New Glenn

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading… Read more: Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids

Green checkmark will appear on artist profiles to signal they meet the platform’s standard for authenticity Spotify on Thursday unveiled a new verification system designed to help listeners distinguish human musicians from AI-generated content, as… Read more: Spotify rolls out ‘Verified’ badge to distinguish human artists from AI

Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever conceived of. In this unfortunate category, Amazon’s new feature for generating mini-podcast segments that shill for products… Read more: Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly

OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s developers included strongly-worded instructions for its coding tool, Codex, that specifically proscribe any talk of the troublesome… Read more: OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins

AWS expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI tools for supply chain, hiring, customer service, and healthcare workflows, with humans still in control. The post AWS Expands Amazon Connect Into AI Tools for Hiring, Healthcare,… Read more: AWS Expands Amazon Connect Into AI Tools for Hiring, Healthcare, and Supply Chains

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large.

The AI boom is worsening a global memory chip shortage, which Samsung predicts will continue into 2027 Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported record quarterly profit driven by a 49-fold jump in chip income, saying it… Read more: Samsung reports record quarterly profit as chip income jumps almost 50-fold

Researchers say results mark a ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’ From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it… Read more: AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses

OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks.

While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it’s standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors’ models.

Since the introduction of wings to racing cars halfway through the 1960s, airflow has been everything in racing. Until that point, the focus was on making a car as slippery as possible; less drag meant… Read more: In motorsport, there’s nowhere to hide as AI becomes new CFD tool

After some uncertainty—and a little drama—the Trump administration is appealing a ruling by a judge last month that temporarily halted anti-vaccine changes Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy had implemented at the Centers for Disease Control and… Read more: RFK Jr. appeals ruling that wiped out his vaccine advisory panel

Little love has been lost between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The two billionaires have been openly feuding for many years now, despite founding OpenAI together over a decade ago. Musk left the organization in… Read more: If OpenAI Loses This Trial, It Could Effectively Be Eliminated in Its Current Form

LG is currently engaged in exploratory discussions with NVIDIA concerning physical AI, data centres, and mobility. Following a meeting in Seoul between LG CEO Ryu Jae-cheol and Madison Huang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for… Read more: What LG and NVIDIA’s talks reveal about the future of physical AI

Trial continues after heated back and forth during OpenAI’s cross-examination of the Tesla CEO on Wednesday Elon Musk’s court case against Sam Altman continues on Thursday, after a day of contentious exchanges during OpenAI’s cross-examination… Read more: Musk faces third day of questioning in contentious trial over OpenAI’s founding

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further… Read more: Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

The Complier is the hardest boss to reach in the extraction shooter Marathon. To even have the chance to fight it, you need to have cleared six vaults—increasingly elaborate puzzle rooms—in the Cryo Archive, Marathon’s… Read more: People Are Selling Kills of Marathon’s Hardest Boss on eBay

It seems like only yesterday that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was learning Mandarin while pushing staffers to read Xi Jinping’s tome “The Governance of China” — all in a failed bid to get Facebook inside… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Shot Down by China, Again

We are stuck in a deluge of meaningless content that threatens human creativity. Here’s a simple way to mitigate its harms As the US midterm elections approach, voters are voicing concern about AI. According to… Read more: It’s time to tax AI slop | Mike Pepi

Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon. But to hear Google tell it, generative AI is the future, and the company’s products have to change to keep up with the… Read more: The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ plans to upend childhood vaccination requirements continues to be thwarted by his fellow Republicans. Just minutes into a special session on Tuesday, Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced that the Republican-led chamber… Read more: Florida Republicans reject plan to weaken childhood vaccine requirements

Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield… Read more: Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones

More than half of “long-shot” bets on military action made on Polymarket are successful, according to a new report that suggests prediction markets could pose a bigger threat than previously recognised to the security of… Read more: More than half of all “long shot” bets on Polymarket pay off

Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the… Read more: City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children’s Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

The SF-based startup, founded by former NVIDIA, Cohere, and DeepMind researchers, is working to close a widening security gap as companies race to put autonomous agents into production General Analysis, a company building security infrastructure… Read more: General Analysis Raises $10M in Seed Funding to Secure Agentic AI

For thirty years, the most important aspect of product management has been the development of graphical user interfaces. We have learned how to capture the focus of users using visual hierarchy and remove friction from… Read more: The rise of agent experience (AX)

iboss Demonstrates Strong Performance in Cloud Access Security Broker, Highlighting Innovation in AI-Powered CASB and GenAI Data Protection  iboss, the leader in AI-powered Zero Trust SASE, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader… Read more: iboss Named as a Leader and Outperformer in the GigaOm Radar Report for CASB

APIs and MCPs are often mentioned in the same breath as ways that systems can exchange information, but they are designed differently and have different purposes. This article hopes to explain the differences and how… Read more: A guide to APIs, MCPs, and MCP Gateways

Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against a group of men that alleges they used the women’s photos to make AI porn influencers, then offered online courses showing others how to do it.

DNSid: A durable, governable identifier that binds every AI agent to verifiable ownership, enabling secure interoperability across organizations with a persistent, verifiable identity 75% of businesses say that security, compliance, and auditability are the most… Read more: Identity Digital Announced the Launch of Neutral

Artificial intelligence is transforming our world and financial services are no exception. AI is reshaping the personal banking sector but where does it currently stand on gender parity, transparency and fairness? When someone applies for… Read more: Overcoming the algorithmic gender bias in AI-driven personal finance

Every cloud beat. Every capex forecast rose. That is the two-sentence summary of the biggest earnings day of 2026, and it tells you almost everything you need to know about where Big Tech’s AI infrastructure… Read more: Big Tech just proved AI infrastructure spending works. Then it raised the bill anyway

Australia’s financial regulator has warned financial firms that AI agent governance and assurance practices are poorly governed. The warning comes as banks and superannuation trustees expand AI in internal and customer-facing operations. The Australian Prudential… Read more: AI agent governance takes focus as regulators flag control gaps

AI workloads have outgrown the clouds built for the last era. DigitalOcean’s AI-Native Cloud brings agents, data, inference, cloud primitives, and cloud infrastructure together in one integrated stack, helping builders start fast, scale production workloads,… Read more: DigitalOcean Unveils AI-Native Cloud Built for the Inference Era

Selected as an AI-native Gemini Enterprise partner in AI Solutions and Practices, AuxoAI to accelerate production-grade agentic AI system deployment for global enterprises AuxoAI, a company making AI real for enterprises with production AI systems,… Read more: AuxoAI Partners with Google Cloud to Drive Enterprise AI Transformation

ELAI a leader in Artificial Intelligence, headquartered in Rome, Italy, announces its expansion into North America and the appointment of Kjersten Moody as CEO of North America. Moody is the former Global Chief Data Officer… Read more: ELAI Expands into the U.S., Appoints Kjersten Moody as CEO, North America

The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing malpractice.”

Sequoia Capital leads the round with Andrew Reed joining Parallel’s board Parallel Web Systems, the infrastructure powering how AI agents access and use the open web, today announced that it has raised a $100 million… Read more: Parallel Raises at $2 Bn Valuation to Scale Web Infrastructure for Agents

For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into separate parts like memory and attention. A recent AI model called Centaur seemed to… Read more: This AI knew the answers but didn’t understand the questions

A major review of 217 trials shows that aerobic exercise is the most effective option for managing knee osteoarthritis. Activities like walking, cycling, and swimming outperformed other exercise types in reducing pain and improving movement.… Read more: Scientists reveal the best exercise for knee arthritis pain relief

Scientists have pulled off a first: teleporting a photon’s state between two separate quantum dots. This was done over a 270-meter open-air link, proving quantum information can travel between independent devices. The achievement marks a… Read more: A photon was teleported across 270 meters in stunning quantum breakthrough

Investment in agentic AI is projected to rise 38% in the next year, but organizational readiness – not technology – is the primary barrier to scale Genpact (NYSE: G), an agentic and advanced technology solutions company,… Read more: Genpact-HFS: 92% Say Agentic AI Will Transform Business Operations

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced seismic imaging, they found the Juan de Fuca plate splitting into fragments as it sinks beneath… Read more: Earth is splitting open beneath the Pacific Northwest, scientists say

The body’s “killer” T cells don’t just attack—they strike with astonishing precision, forming a tiny, highly organized contact zone that lets them destroy dangerous cells without harming their neighbors. Now, scientists have captured this process… Read more: First-ever 3D view shows how killer T cells destroy cancer

Scientists have finally cracked one of the biggest mysteries in the senses: how smell is organized. By mapping millions of neurons in mice, researchers discovered that smell receptors in the nose aren’t random at all—they’re… Read more: A hidden map in your nose could explain how smell works

Alejandro Quintanar/Pexels What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date? We might be about… Read more: Evolvable AI: are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly. That when something goes wrong… Read more: I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

Elon Musk says Tesla’s Optimus robot could launch next year, with production starting in 2026 and a major scale-up planned by 2027. The post Tesla Optimus Robot Launch Timeline Targets 2027 Scale appeared first on… Read more: Tesla Optimus Robot Launch Timeline Targets 2027 Scale

Amazon layoffs are hitting workers across several states as Fresh closures, AI investments, and post-pandemic restructuring reshape its workforce. The post Amazon Layoffs Hit Thousands Across Multiple States as Fresh Stores Close appeared first on… Read more: Amazon Layoffs Hit Thousands Across Multiple States as Fresh Stores Close

US senator holds panel with leading Chinese scientists and warns of risks to society unless new technology is regulated The US senator Bernie Sanders espoused the importance of international cooperation in regulating AI at a… Read more: Bernie Sanders urges international cooperation to halt AI’s ‘runaway train’

Tensions flared on the third day of trial in Musk v. Altman as OpenAI’s lawyers cross-examined Musk.

In today’s hospitals and clinics, a dermatologist may use an artificial intelligence model for classifying skin lesions to assess if the lesion is at risk of developing into a cancer or if it is benign.… Read more: Solving the “Whac-a-mole dilemma”: A smarter way to debias AI vision models

PocketOS was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database… Read more: Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless… Read more: OpenAI Codex system prompt includes explicit directive to “never talk about goblins”

Disney will have the law on its side in its fight against the unusual broadcast license review ordered yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission, legal experts say. In 1996, Congress made it a lot harder… Read more: ABC can beat Trump FCC’s license threat if owner Disney is willing to fight

Robinhood fixed an account-creation flaw that hackers abused to send convincing phishing emails from its own system to some users over the weekend. The post Hackers Abuse Robinhood Signup Process to Deliver Phishing Emails appeared… Read more: Hackers Abuse Robinhood Signup Process to Deliver Phishing Emails

Amazon is bringing OpenAI’s models and Codex to AWS after Microsoft’s shift away from exclusivity, giving cloud customers more ways to use AI tools. The post AWS to Resell OpenAI Products After Microsoft Loses Exclusive… Read more: AWS to Resell OpenAI Products After Microsoft Loses Exclusive License

Actor and presenter broke his hip, right leg, pelvis and ribs when he gave a talk at CogX festival at O2 Arena in 2023 Stephen Fry is suing two companies that organised a tech conference… Read more: Stephen Fry sues tech conference organisers for £100,000 over fall from stage

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their personal data.

“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really ready,” one police official told federal regulators last month.

Yesterday, OpenAI published a balmy blog post on its “commitment to community safety.” Taking a reassuring tone, the post walks readers through a series of unobjectionable commitments. It declares that “mass shootings, threats against public… Read more: OpenAI Just Published an Absolutely Bizarre Blog Post

SAS expands Viya with governed AI agents, copilots, and new governance tools aimed at helping enterprises manage shadow AI and build trust in automation. The post SAS Launches AI Governance Tools to Tame Agentic AI… Read more: SAS Launches AI Governance Tools to Tame Agentic AI in the Enterprise

Apple reportedly plans new AI editing tools for Photos in iOS 27, including image expansion, spatial photo reframing, and smarter enhancements. The post New Apple Rumor: iOS 27 Could Add AI Editing Tools to Photos… Read more: New Apple Rumor: iOS 27 Could Add AI Editing Tools to Photos

Motorola is crazy about foldables. With each passing year, the company has beefed up its folding phone lineup, and in 2026, there will be four devices launching on May 21. At the top end is… Read more: Motorola reveals 2026 Razr lineup with modest upgrades and higher prices

A data center developer has paused all Middle East project investments after one of its facilities was damaged by an Iranian missile or drone attack. The decision comes as the Iran war is forcing Silicon… Read more: Drone strikes on data centers spook Big Tech, halting Middle East projects

In an order denying Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for a new trial, a judge accused the disgraced FTX founder of wasting precious court resources on wild conspiracies. To the judge, the motion seemed like a last-ditch… Read more: New Sam Bankman-Fried trial would be huge waste of court’s time, judge says

Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and… Read more: Howdy’s dated $3/month ad-free streaming service said to have 1M subscribers

Altman faces off against Musk, his OpenAI co-founder, in second day of high-stakes lawsuit After a dramatic first day of opening statements and testimony from Elon Musk in his case against Sam Altman and OpenAI,… Read more: Sam Altman tries to fend off Elon Musk’s attacks on OpenAI in court battle

There’s a specter haunting the United States. Americans may not have noticed it, but it’s sure noticed them: the emergent panopticon of AI facial-recognition cameras, automatic license plate readers, AI smart glasses, police fusion centers,… Read more: AI Spy Cameras Suddenly Blanketing America

With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.

I/ONX High Performance Compute (HPC), a leading provider of heterogeneous AI systems, today announced the appointment of Steven Eliuk as Chief Executive Officer. Eliuk joins I/ONX to lead the commercial scaling of Symphony, a platform designed to eliminate… Read more: I/ONX Appoints Former IBM Executive Steven Eliuk as CEO

Even before the Trump administration went to war against DEI and attempts to address historical discrimination, diversity efforts in the US were controversial. A pivotal moment came in 2023, when the Supreme Court ruled that… Read more: Professional school grads from diverse classes get higher salaries

Kiji Privacy Proxy enables enterprises to harness external AI services without exposing personally identifiable information, removing a critical barrier to AI adoption With enterprises racing to operationalize generative AI, a new and urgent question has… Read more: Dataiku Launches Open-Source Privacy Layer

Whether you’re a gamer trying to play recent AAA titles at high resolutions and maxed-out settings or an AI enthusiast trying to run models locally, we’ve reached the point where a GPU with 8GB of… Read more: Nvidia fixes the 8GB RAM problem with one of its GPUs—if you can pay for it

Healthcare and life sciences leaders are advancing AI with caution—fragmentation, capability gaps, and execution challenges are slowing enterprise-wide impact AI is already embedded across healthcare and life sciences. Most organizations are deploying it, and confidence… Read more: HTEC Research: Only 1 in 3 Healthcare Organizations is Ready to Scale AI

Days before thousands of researchers, academics, and human rights experts were set to convene in Lusaka, Zambia, the government of Zambia announced it was postponing RightsCon, one the largest and most important digital human rights… Read more: World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly ‘Postponed’

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that ChatGPT maker OpenAI had missed its internal targets of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year — and that’s… Read more: Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI

A controversial bill in Colorado that would have undone some repair protections in the state has failed. The bill had been the target of right-to-repair advocates, who saw it as a bellwether for how tech… Read more: Attempt to repeal Colorado’s right-to-repair law fails