Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what… Read more: Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time” information… Read more: FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”

Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone.

As of July 1, at 12:01 am UTC—or June 30 at 8:01 pm ET—people seeking access to Plex’s media server features through a one-time purchase will have to pay $750. That’s three times the current… Read more: Plex’s 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription

There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some with reusable boosters, led by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9. So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary… Read more: “I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

Prime Video has released one last trailer for its upcoming live action series, Spider-Noir, starring Nicolas Cage, and once again it’s been released in two formats: one in black and white (below) and another in… Read more: Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain

Justin Solomon, associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has been appointed associate dean of engineering education in the MIT School of Engineering, effective July 1. In this new… Read more: Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education

Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other sensitive CISA assets” exposed in a… Read more: In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

In a few short years, we’ve gone from easily identifying AI content that featured superfluous fingers to images and videos that look shockingly realistic. How can we know what’s real in the age of AI?… Read more: Google’s SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google’s Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term “scientist in the loop,” meaning researchers are regularly applying… Read more: Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked furore over the… Read more: ‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize

On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

An app that allows users to deepfake their appearance in realtime has predictably resulted in a streamer making nonconsensual and potentially defamatory content. Specifically, the streamer made himself look like Mr. Beast and said “I… Read more: Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves ‘Touching Little Boys’

At last year’s I/O event, Google was still talking about the 2.5 branch of Gemini, and what a difference a year makes. We’ve gone through the 3.0 and 3.1 families since then, and now it’s… Read more: Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5.Flash and a do-anything model called Omni

A revised charter document for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influential vaccine advisory committee has been withdrawn by the Health Department over an administrative error, according to a notice published in the Federal… Read more: RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks

Recognized as a Leader across Product, Innovation, and Market Leadership categories Highlighted for advanced JIT and ephemeral access, AI agent governance, cross-domain privilege graph, mature session monitoring, and extensive identity and DevOps integrations Recognition reinforces… Read more: BeyondTrust Named PAM Leader by KuppingerCole for Sixth Year

Penguin Solutions, Inc. (“Penguin Solutions” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PENG), the AI Factory Platform company, today announced that David Heard, President of Network Infrastructure at Nokia, has been appointed to Penguin Solutions’ board of directors, effective… Read more: Penguin Solutions Appoints David Heard to Board of Directors

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links.… Read more: Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.

Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.

Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.

Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence, the tech giant is mandating more than 7,000 workers must move… Read more: Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’

Truth in the age of AI, indeed. A buzzy new book called “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality” contains more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes,” a review by The New York… Read more: Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations

“Build a civilization to stand the test of time.” That was the promise on the box of Sid Meier’s Civilization, the first in a long-running strategy game franchise that has evolved over 35 years and… Read more: Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time

The 119th Congress might be one of the most dysfunctional and least productive legislative sessions in the 250-year history of the United States, but it seems there’s one thing it can agree on: Electric vehicles… Read more: EV drivers will pay $130 a year under Congress’ 2026 transportation bill

Almost exactly two years ago, we were gawking at prototypes of 1,000 Hz monitors and wondering who really needed a display that could support such ludicrously smooth frame rates. Now that those prototypes are starting… Read more: The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?

Schools can compromise children’s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire Bessant It was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are… Read more: Dangers of putting pupils’ images on school websites | Letters

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a formerly beloved public figure eviscerates their own reputation via a years-long ego-driven crash out, eventually losing their sense of perspective in such spectacular fashion that they… Read more: Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed by Jesus Christ

A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand… Read more: Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers

A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal… Read more: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest

Walking the dog: a US service member patrols with a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 prototype at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Tech. Sgt. Cory Payne / US Air Force The third in a series… Read more: Fears of helping the enemy are blocking international agreements on AI in weapons systems

A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal… Read more: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest

The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely and totally flunked the assignment. As local outlet AZFamily reported,… Read more: Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

Nearly 48,000 workers are threatening an 18-day walkout amid fears of global memory chip shortages South Korean memory chip maker Samsung Electronics is facing its worst-ever strike, with nearly 48,000 workers threatening to walk off… Read more: What are Samsung union workers demanding and how might a strike play out?

Three gardens at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show have found themselves mired in controversy rather than the more usual mud. This year’s show gardens include one designed by Matt Keightley, who has used Spacelift,… Read more: Six tech-free tips from history for designing your garden

The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.

Scientists have uncovered remarkable new details about Bronze Age life in Central Europe by studying rare burials untouched by cremation. The research reveals communities experimenting with new foods, burial rituals, and cultural connections while largely… Read more: Rare graves reveal a lost world of Bronze Age Europe hidden for 3,000 years

Scientists spent decades chasing signs of a mysterious new force hidden inside the muon, one of nature’s strangest particles. But after years of supercomputer calculations, researchers discovered the apparent anomaly was likely a calculation error… Read more: Scientists were wrong about this “rule-breaking” particle

Iran claims it will charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables that run beneath the contested Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. The war has already halted multiple projects and led to the… Read more: Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

As part of its plan to develop a private space station, Vast Space built and then launched a small demonstration spacecraft in early November. This vehicle then completed dozens of test objectives with flying colors… Read more: In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites

The guy who sued 27 women, one man, and several platforms after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney… Read more: Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI

AI models can pose questions and follow up on them, but the answers they solicit may be limited in scope and depth. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool… Read more: AI interviewers can’t connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning

Shipper new ARR surges 52% year over year as enterprise logistics leaders deepen commitment to the Decision Intelligence Platform project44, the Decision Intelligence Platform for the modern supply chain, today announced Q1 FY27 results: 34%… Read more: project44 Boosts ARR With AI Agent and TMS Expansion

Approach combines advanced automation, continuous monitoring, and security practices to increase efficiency and reliability in the delivery of complex system AI/R Compass UOL, a subsidiary of AI/R—a technology company specialized in Agentic AI Engineering— continues… Read more: AWS Recognizes AI/R Compass UOL for DevOps Excellence

Prolific Inventor and Veteran Engineering Executive with 300+ Patents Joins Token to Lead the TokenCore Platform as Biometric Identity Assurance Becomes the Defining Security Priority of the AI Era. Token, the next-generation biometric identity assurance… Read more: Token Names Daniel K. Van Ostrand Head of Engineering and Product

Here’s a question for you: what if the model you’ve been evaluating has been evaluating you right back?  A recent study published on arXiv found that LLMs systematically alter their linguistic behavior depending on whether,… Read more: Is your AI is evaluating you?

As resistance to data centers grows, Musk and others are painting a rosy picture. But the US must institute protections As Americans grow increasingly worried that AI will wipe out millions of jobs and create… Read more: Billionaires are trying to lull us into AI complacency. Don’t let them | Steven Greenhouse

Our research has uncovered young entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and Pakistan using AI tools to make deeply objectionable content – and money Niamh McIntyre is a senior reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism Scroll… Read more: Who’s behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI slop about the UK? The answer might lie in south Asia | Niamh McIntyre

The hedge fund billionaire turned gubernatorial candidate wants to tax California’s ultrawealthy, regulate AI, and keep Silicon Valley happy at the same time. Good luck with that.

President Trump flew to Beijing, brought Jensen Huang along at the last minute, and left two days later, telling reporters that “something could happen” on chip exports. Nothing did. Not a single Nvidia H200 has… Read more: The Nvidia H200 China deal survived the Trump-Xi summit–just not in the way anyone expected

London-headquartered bank will reduce back-office jobs and aims to move some workers to new roles Business live – latest updates Standard Chartered plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs over the next four years as… Read more: Standard Chartered to cut more than 7,000 jobs as it steps up AI use

Independent senator warns budget reform could drive tech investment offshore, as PM thanks startups for ‘very flattering’ images Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has laughed off an… Read more: Pocock urges CGT changes as Albanese laughs off AI meme campaign

Launched fully open-sourced, HRM-Text delivers advanced reasoning and strong language capabilities with 1/1000 of the training tokens required by leading models, enabling deeper multi-step problem solving with far less compute Sapient Intelligence, an AGI research… Read more: Sapient Intelligence launches HRM-Text

Researchers at Penn have created a hybrid light-matter particle that could dramatically speed up AI computing while using far less energy. The breakthrough may help replace some electronic computing processes with ultra-efficient light-based technology.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now aiming for an earlier launch in September 2026. Designed to explore dark matter, dark energy, and distant exoplanets, the telescope will capture massive, ultra-detailed surveys of the… Read more: NASA’s powerful Roman Space Telescope is about to transform astronomy

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy. Instead of assuming strings existed from… Read more: String theory suddenly emerged from simple physics rules

Black holes crashing together may be revealing clues about dark matter hidden across the universe. Physicists created a new model predicting how dark matter could subtly distort gravitational waves produced during black hole mergers. When… Read more: A strange ripple in spacetime could be the first fingerprint of dark matter

On Monday, a nine-member federal jury in Oakland, California took less than two hours to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman. Crucially, the jury did not rule on the… Read more: Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS), global provider of AI-ready, hyperscale and large enterprise data centres, today announced the appointment of Fumi Takei as Vice President and Head of Japan. In this role, Takei will… Read more: Colt DCS appoints Fumi Takei as Vice President and Head of Japan

Wikimedia, Canva, The Conversation, CC BY-NC In recent months, celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Matthew McConaughey and Jeremy Clarkson have turned to trademark law to protect aspects of their identity associated with their brands. It’s… Read more: Can you trademark identity? The new legal strategy celebrities are using against AI

Although visitors to an event like TechEx North America will always want to see the cutting edge front and centre stage, the nuance and detail brought to the show by the speakers and exhibitors mean… Read more: AI is a matter of power, infrastructure and security: TechEx North America

Scientists have uncovered a hidden “sugar code” on the surface of human cells that could transform how diseases are detected. Using an advanced imaging technique called Glycan Atlasing, researchers at the Max Planck Institute mapped… Read more: Hidden sugar patterns on human cells could reveal cancer early

Tracker of attitudes towards artificial intelligence also finds almost half of the public would prefer to avoid it One in three university students think AI will wipe out jobs so rapidly it will trigger civil… Read more: Third of university students in Great Britain think AI job losses will cause social unrest, poll finds

An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on… Read more: Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

The Ebola outbreak first reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday has seemingly escalated quickly into a large, uncontrolled multinational outbreak. As of May 17, there were 10 confirmed cases, 336 suspected… Read more: Ebola outbreak: WHO declares emergency, US restricts travel, American infected

Sports Illustrated deleted an author — and his entire archive of articles — from its website following allegations of AI plagiarism. Last week, the sports news site Sportico published an article featuring an original analysis… Read more: Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism

NASA released a much-anticipated contract solicitation for a Mars-orbiting spacecraft late last week, kicking off what is sure to be a hotly contested and potentially controversial procurement. At issue is $700 million, already appropriated by… Read more: One Mars spacecraft, two senators, and a cloud of questions

Venti Views/Unsplah, FAL The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has adjusted the eligibility criteria for films vying for Oscars from 2027 onward. Films featuring actors generated by artificial intelligence (AI) are now ineligible,… Read more: Most mainstream films already use AI. The new Oscars rules won’t stop that

Joyce Hankins / Unsplash The pre-print website arXiv has announced that researchers who put their names to papers which included errors clearly generated by artificial intelligence (AI) will face a year-long ban and ongoing restrictions.… Read more: A key science publishing platform is cracking down on AI slop

The pope’s encyclical will address ‘the protection of the human person in the age of AI’, the Vatican says In the first major text of his papacy, Pope Leo will address the rapid rise of… Read more: Pope Leo to issue text on human dignity and AI with Anthropic co-founder

Many gadgets marketed as being “smart” make me wonder if they would be better off dumb. Some examples are smart TVs that insist on sending your activities to businesses to track you, smart fridges that… Read more: The Dory Sign is E ink, smart screen simplicity at its finest

Lanterns, the new DC Universe series coming to HBO Max, dropped a surprising teaser in March that swapped the usual superhero hijinks for gritty realism more in the vein of True Detectives and Slow Horses. Personally,… Read more: Guy Gardner makes a cameo in new Lanterns teaser

Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been… Read more: Pompeii victim ID’d as a likely doctor

Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after… Read more: Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant, according to… Read more: The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

A thousand years ago, the ancestors of today’s Barkindji people carefully buried a dingo (or garli, in the Barkindji language) in a mound of shells. Archaeologists recently studied the burial in what’s now New South… Read more: Australian Aboriginals cared for a dingo’s grave for decades

A planned University of Washington study would’ve had preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of everything in the classroom, including the young children they were instructing, and use that footage to train AI… Read more: Parents Explode in Fury at School’s Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI

Apple is rumored to have more than 15 products planned for fall, including a foldable iPhone, new Macs, AirPods, Watches, and smart-home devices. The post Apple’s Fall Lineup Could Include Foldable iPhone, New Macs appeared… Read more: Apple’s Fall Lineup Could Include Foldable iPhone, New Macs

US export-control cases show how Nvidia chips and other restricted tech are allegedly diverted to China and Russia through shell firms and intermediaries. The post Banned Nvidia AI Chips Keep Reaching China Despite US Crackdown… Read more: Banned Nvidia AI Chips Keep Reaching China Despite US Crackdown

Apple’s reported Siri revamp may add auto-deleting AI chats as the company prepares a privacy-focused software push at WWDC 2026. The post Apple’s Siri Revamp May Add Auto-Deleting Chats appeared first on TechRepublic.

OpenAI CEO and president found not liable for breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startup A jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman in the culmination of a long and bitter legal battle… Read more: Jury hands victory to Sam Altman and OpenAI in battle with Elon Musk

The nine-member panel took only two hours to return a verdict in favor of OpenAI on Monday, which the judge quickly adopted as her own final decision.

A bulk of Americans really hate AI — and many AI CEOs can’t quite grasp why. There’s a serious mismatch between public sentiment and corporate excitement over AI. Companies continue to AI-wash layoffs and jam the… Read more: AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology

Ofcom to update codes of practice amid rise in ‘revenge porn’ and AI-generated deepfakes targeting women and girls Social media, messaging platforms and online forums that publish intimate image abuse – often intended to humiliate… Read more: Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse

Life imitates AI art. Plastic surgeons say that more patients are coming in and asking to look like an AI-generated version of themselves with cartoonishly unrealistic features, in the latest grim sign of how the… Read more: People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI-Generated

When Windows 11 launched in 2021, we mostly liked its refreshed look—the rounded corners and menus with just a hint of translucency were a nice change from the flat colors and hard corners of the… Read more: Five years later, Windows 11 brings back much-missed taskbar options (and more)

Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software are being inundated with low-quality reports generated by AI, forcing some to suspend the programs altogether. Businesses that run “bug bounty” schemes have long relied… Read more: Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the week-long “Aviation Challenge” program at Space Camp, in Huntsville, Alabama. “For the first time, I got behind the controls of an airplane when… Read more: Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.

The march of time, and what counts for progress in the automotive industry, has not been particularly kind to the driving enthusiast. Our vehicles have gotten bigger and heavier. Touch-sensitive panels and screens replaced buttons.… Read more: BMW sends off the 6th-gen M3 CS with a manual gearbox, rear-wheel drive

Registration form informs patients that if they do not wish AI to be used, they will need their referring doctor to refer them to a different service provider Get our breaking news email, free app… Read more: Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don’t consent to AI note-taking

Being a straight-A student doesn’t mean what it used to. Today, widely available AI chatbots make cheating on your homework and churning out entire essays easier than ever. If students don’t outright ask an AI… Read more: Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay

Pew research shows Americans are more worried than excited about AI as graduates voiced fears over jobs A former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was met with students’ boos at a university commencement address in Arizona… Read more: Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement

University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models.… Read more: Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

As you scroll around the web, how often to you think about the physical infrastructure—the miles of cables, acres of land—that makes up the internet? This is where real power lies, and there are ways… Read more: Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris

The struggling footwear company Allbirds, which announced in April 2026 that it was rebranding into an AI company, may be one of the most recent notable examples of ‘AI washing.’ Business Wire Across corporate earnings… Read more: Companies are hyping AI the same way they talked up sustainability, but there are ways to fix that

The volume of social media posts makes content moderation challenging – especially when it comes to more subtle hate speech. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images This article includes examples of antisemitic hate speech.… Read more: Uncovering coded antisemitism online takes both human expertise and AI automation

Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something. A joint investigation by The Florida Trib and the KCRW podcast Question Everything found that a so-called… Read more: An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes

These days, one would be forgiven for forgetting that SpaceX is, at its core, a rocket company. Consider the company’s mega deals over the last year. SpaceX paid $17 billion—more than it has spent developing… Read more: The US space enterprise is desperately waiting for Starship—will it finally deliver?