
- ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”
In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet.” But what really caught the attention of the company’s most diehard fans was the decision… Read more: ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You” - Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study.
The National Cancer Institute is using federal funds to study whether cancer can be cured by ivermectin, a cheap, off-patent anti-parasitic and deworming drug that fringe medical groups falsely claimed could treat COVID-19 during the… Read more: Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study. - Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI
xAI co-founder Tony Wu abruptly announced his resignation from the company late Monday night, the latest in a string of senior executives to leave the Grok-maker in recent months. In a post on social media,… Read more: Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI - Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious… Read more: Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site - RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees
The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines. - Alphabet Launches Rare 100-Year Bond to Fund Massive AI Push
Alphabet is issuing a rare 100-year sterling bond as it raises about $31 billion in global debt to fund a major AI infrastructure push. The post Alphabet Launches Rare 100-Year Bond to Fund Massive AI… Read more: Alphabet Launches Rare 100-Year Bond to Fund Massive AI Push - 10K Claude Desktop Users Exposed by Zero-Click Vulnerability
A zero-click flaw in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions allows attackers to trigger remote code execution via Google Calendar events. The post 10K Claude Desktop Users Exposed by Zero-Click Vulnerability appeared first on TechRepublic. - Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives easier? That’s the big question explored in an ongoing study by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Haas School… Read more: Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous - Marc Benioff ‘Jokes’ ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media… Read more: Marc Benioff ‘Jokes’ ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S. - Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do
Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a mechanism for verifying PC… Read more: Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do - Google Has a Major Problem With ICE
Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US government’s immigration agencies. As reported by CNBC, over 1,000 “Googlers” have signed onto an open letter demanding… Read more: Google Has a Major Problem With ICE - Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February
Amazon February deals highlight practical tech for work and home, including automation, audio gear, smart displays, and productivity tools. The post Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February appeared first on TechRepublic. - Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter
An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in peril.” The employee, Mrinank Sharma, had led the Claude chatbot maker’s Safeguards Research Team since it was… Read more: Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter - The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design
Vans are something most of us don’t think about much, since we rarely interact with them directly in our day-to-day lives. But the van is an unseen hero that keeps the world moving, delivering packages… Read more: The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design - Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info
Do you feel popular? There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don’t have the best of intentions, but Google has some handy tools to address that, and… Read more: Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info - Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable
Richard M Lee/Shutterstock Supermarket shelves can look full despite the food systems underneath them being under strain. Fruit may be stacked neatly, chilled meat may be in place. It appears that supply chains are functioning… Read more: Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable - Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market
Businesses are using theatrical stunts not for shock alone but to create viral content and drive sales conversations online When Lunos, an AI startup in New York City, was gearing up for launch, its founder… Read more: Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market - Scientists find genes that existed before all life on Earth
Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these rare genes, researchers can… Read more: Scientists find genes that existed before all life on Earth - Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will… Read more: Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment - Scientists uncover the climate shock that reshaped Easter Island
Around 1550, life on Rapa Nui began changing in ways long misunderstood. New research reveals that a severe drought, lasting more than a century, dramatically reduced rainfall on the already water-scarce island, reshaping how people… Read more: Scientists uncover the climate shock that reshaped Easter Island - When immune cells stop fighting cancer and start helping it
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of Geneva found that neutrophils—normally frontline defenders against infection—can be reprogrammed inside tumors to fuel cancer growth… Read more: When immune cells stop fighting cancer and start helping it - Robo.ai, DaBoss.AI Form J.V to Launch Distributed Embodied AI Data Platform
Robo.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AIIO), a Nasdaq-listed company, today announced the execution of a definitive joint venture agreement with DaBoss.AI Inc., an embodied intelligence data technology company based in Silicon Valley. The parties will establish a Robo.ai-controlled joint venture in… Read more: Robo.ai, DaBoss.AI Form J.V to Launch Distributed Embodied AI Data Platform - Coveo Announces Hosted MCP Server to Grow Agentic AI Ecosystem
New interoperability layer for secure AI access to enterprise content connects Coveo to leading large language models, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude Coveo, the leader in AI-Relevance, today announced the launch of the Coveo… Read more: Coveo Announces Hosted MCP Server to Grow Agentic AI Ecosystem - With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
America, it’s time to refamiliarize yourself with Ring. At Sunday’s Super Bowl, Ring advertised “Search Party,” a cute, horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a… Read more: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet - “Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up
At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked out around thirty novels in two decades, along with what was probably several hundred short stories. These… Read more: “Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up - Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed?
Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this year Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we’re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty… Read more: Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed? - Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding
‘Evidence review’ sent by OurFutures Institute to David Pocock and other politicians references studies which do not exist or make opposing findings Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Independent senator… Read more: Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding - After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice
On Friday, a body that advises US judges revised the document it created to help judges grapple with scientific issues. The move came after a group of Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to… Read more: After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice - Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI
Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously and interact with software, data, and services without human instruction), and orienting the technology toward discrete… Read more: Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI - No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI | Samuel Woolley
Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, is nothing new. Still, the marriage of big tech and politics demands we take a stand On a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I… Read more: No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI | Samuel Woolley - SailPoint Sees Rising Demand for Adaptive Identity Security
Enterprises seek a holistic strategy to manage all kinds of identities, including humans, machines, and agents SailPoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIL), a leader in unified identity security for enterprises, is today showcasing how its customers are embracing… Read more: SailPoint Sees Rising Demand for Adaptive Identity Security - Ambience Healthcare Appoints Mike Valli as CRO and Chief Value Officer
Ambience Healthcare, the leading AI platform transforming clinical documentation and revenue integrity, today announced the appointment of Mike Valli as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Chief Value Officer (CVO). In this dual role, Valli will lead Ambience’s… Read more: Ambience Healthcare Appoints Mike Valli as CRO and Chief Value Officer - A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics
A long-standing mystery in spintronics has just been shaken up. A strange electrical effect called unusual magnetoresistance shows up almost everywhere scientists look—even in systems where the leading explanation, spin Hall magnetoresistance, shouldn’t work at… Read more: A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics - Agentic AI in healthcare: How Life Sciences marketing could achieve US$450bn in value by 2028
Agentic AI in healthcare is graduating from answering prompts to autonomously executing complex marketing tasks—and life sciences companies are betting their commercial strategies on it. According to a recent report cited by Capgemini Invent, AI agents could… Read more: Agentic AI in healthcare: How Life Sciences marketing could achieve US$450bn in value by 2028 - Perforce AI Products and Features Achieve ISO 42001 Certification
Reflects growing industry demand for AI that meets ethical, governance, and compliance needs. Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams seeking AI innovation at scale, today announced that several AI products and features within… Read more: Perforce AI Products and Features Achieve ISO 42001 Certification - Telstra to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout
Some jobs will be moved offshore in wake of telco’s $700m joint venture with tech consultancy Accenture Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 200 Telstra jobs are expected… Read more: Telstra to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout - Unchained Labs Explodes into AI-Driven Automation, Launches Stuntman
Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting researchers the right tool for the job, launched Stuntman today, a next-generation automation platform that combines native, natural-language AI with fully flexible hardware to fundamentally change how… Read more: Unchained Labs Explodes into AI-Driven Automation, Launches Stuntman - Wrike Launches AI Agents to Deliver 6 Days of Output in 5
Early adopters report savings of up to 520 hours annually per employee using Wrike’s new purpose-built intelligent agents Wrike, the intelligent work management platform, today moved AI out of the chat window and into the… Read more: Wrike Launches AI Agents to Deliver 6 Days of Output in 5 - Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time
Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying on any external… Read more: Physicists discover what controls the speed of quantum time - AI reads brain MRIs in seconds and flags emergencies
Researchers at the University of Michigan have created an AI system that can interpret brain MRI scans in just seconds, accurately identifying a wide range of neurological conditions and determining which cases need urgent care.… Read more: AI reads brain MRIs in seconds and flags emergencies - OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won’t use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn’t expected to ship until 2027. - 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint
Olympic figure skating looks effortless. Athletes sail across the ice, then soar into the air, spinning like a top, before landing on a single blade just 4-5 millimeters wide. To help figure skaters land quadruple… Read more: 3 Questions: Using AI to help Olympic skaters land a quint - New research reveals humans could have as many as 33 senses
We don’t experience the world through neat, separate senses—everything blends together. Smell, touch, sound, sight, and balance constantly influence one another, shaping how food tastes, objects feel, and even how heavy our bodies seem. Scientists… Read more: New research reveals humans could have as many as 33 senses - Just look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld”
In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next II handheld, which puts Lenovo’s… Read more: Just look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld” - Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall
Google continues to turn the screws on free YouTube users, expanding a test that restricts access to song lyrics on YouTube Music. Users without a premium subscription have found that Google’s streaming music service only… Read more: Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall - No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents
For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents can also gather together on… Read more: No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents - Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs
Discord is facing backlash after announcing that all users will soon be required to verify ages to access adult content by sharing video selfies or uploading government IDs. According to Discord, it’s relying on AI… Read more: Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs - Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says “fake news” will be punished
The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly investigating ABC’s The View in what FCC Democrat Anna Gomez called an attempt to intimidate critics of the Trump administration. “Let’s be clear on what this is. This is… Read more: Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says “fake news” will be punished - The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail
I listened to hours of podcasts about how screen time affects kids of all ages and how parents should manage screen time but I still felt completely unprepared for this challenge when I had a… Read more: The Screen Time Panic Sets Parents Up to Fail - NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution
At the end of January, Washington, DC, saw an extremely unusual event. The MAHA Institute, which was set up to advocate for some of the most profoundly unscientific ideas of our time, hosted leaders of… Read more: NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution - AI isn’t likely to wipe out all farming jobs – but it is changing who bears the risks
Herney/Pixabay The global economy is bracing for major job disruption as artificial intelligence (AI) advances and spreads across industries. Experts have been warning about this shift for years, and fiercely debating whether the benefits of… Read more: AI isn’t likely to wipe out all farming jobs – but it is changing who bears the risks - Can Australia build one of the world’s largest data centres?
The Conversation, CC BY-SA ➡️ Click here to read the full interactive Bronwyn Cumbo receives funding from the Australia Public Policy Challenge Grant for her research investigating possibilities and challenges to establishing New South Wales… Read more: Can Australia build one of the world’s largest data centres? - AI Agents Are Creating Insider Security Threat Blind Spots, Research Finds
AI agents are creating insider security blind spots — and vendors are racing to catch up. The post AI Agents Are Creating Insider Security Threat Blind Spots, Research Finds appeared first on TechRepublic. - Ive and Newson bring old-school charm to Ferrari’s first EV interior
Ferrari has published images of the interior of its forthcoming electric vehicle, which it designed with LoveFrom, the new firm of former Apple star Jony Ive and another legendary designer, Marc Newson. The Italian sports… Read more: Ive and Newson bring old-school charm to Ferrari’s first EV interior - Disclosure Day Super Bowl trailer: Could it be… aliens?
Steven Spielberg directed two of the best alien films of all time: E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now he’s going back to those roots, as it were, with his latest blockbuster film,… Read more: Disclosure Day Super Bowl trailer: Could it be… aliens? - Apple’s Budget iPhone 17e Set to Launch Within Weeks at $599
Bloomberg says Apple’s iPhone 17e is due imminently at $599, adding A19 and MagSafe, as Apple ramps up a busy early-2026 cycle. The post Apple’s Budget iPhone 17e Set to Launch Within Weeks at $599… Read more: Apple’s Budget iPhone 17e Set to Launch Within Weeks at $599 - Put the power of AI directly in your browser with BrowserCoPilot
Write emails in your voice, upload PDFs, and create custom workflows more efficiently — and save hundreds The post Put the power of AI directly in your browser with BrowserCoPilot appeared first on TechRepublic. - Case study: Stability AI
How Stability AI is helping shape Austin’s practical approach to generative AI 💡 For many teams, the challenge is no longer whether to use large AI models, but how to use them responsibly, efficiently, and… Read more: Case study: Stability AI - Workers’ collectives are the bee’s knees | Brief letters
Hive mentality | AI fantasies | Foreign trains | Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Chris Payne’s description of the working of a beehive: shared goals, decentralised decision-making, autonomous workers acting for the collective good and, most of all,… Read more: Workers’ collectives are the bee’s knees | Brief letters - Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped out an extended message in… Read more: Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden? - Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e
Apple’s 2026 has already brought us the AirTag 2 and a new Creator Studio app subscription aimed at independent content creators, but nothing so far for the company’s main product families. That could change soon,… Read more: Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e - Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models. The controlled study… Read more: Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds - OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Meta Made AI the Star of Super Bowl LX
Super Bowl LX tech ads from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others show how AI companies are pushing toward mainstream adoption. The post OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Meta Made AI the Star of Super Bowl LX… Read more: OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Meta Made AI the Star of Super Bowl LX - Briya Appoints Brian Creighton to Boost Growth in AI-Driven Healthcare Data
Briya, the health AI technology company redefining healthcare research, today announced the appointment of Brian Creighton as Executive Director of Client Strategy. The appointment comes as Briya scales its presence in the U.S. to empower… Read more: Briya Appoints Brian Creighton to Boost Growth in AI-Driven Healthcare Data - Teradata Brings Enterprise-Grade AI Agents to Google Cloud Marketplace
Accelerate AI-driven insights with Teradata’s secure, interoperable AI agent—now available on Google Cloud Marketplace Teradata (NYSE: TDC) today announced the availability of its foundational enterprise-grade Data Analyst AI agent on Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling organizations to… Read more: Teradata Brings Enterprise-Grade AI Agents to Google Cloud Marketplace - Pentaho Boosts Data Integration to Power Operational and AI Use Cases
Version 11 makes it easier for enterprises to get more value from data faster and with less risk Pentaho, an industry leading data intelligence and integration platform utilized by 73% of the Fortune 100, today announced… Read more: Pentaho Boosts Data Integration to Power Operational and AI Use Cases - Unpacking the craft of an applied machine learning product manager
A while back, I was reviewing results from a new machine learning (ML) model that looked perfect on paper. Every metric glowed green – accuracy was up, predictions were faster, errors were down. But once the model… Read more: Unpacking the craft of an applied machine learning product manager - ‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests
Push to restart uranium mining in Patagonia has sparked fears about the environmental impact and loss of sovereignty over key resources On an outcrop above the Chubut River, one of the few to cut across… Read more: ‘We’re being turned into an energy colony’: Argentina’s nuclear plan faces backlash over US interests - BullFrog AI to Unveil New Precision AI Capability
New capabilities to be launched on March 25 Unique technology bolsters BullFrog AI’s end-to-end AI intelligence workflow with a scenario-based decision engine Advances current AI decision tools by clearly defining clinical trial strategies and building… Read more: BullFrog AI to Unveil New Precision AI Capability - EU threatens to act over Meta blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp
Firm accused of ‘abusing’ its dominant position for messaging in what appears to be breach of antitrust rules The EU has threatened to take action against the social media company Meta, arguing it has blocked… Read more: EU threatens to act over Meta blocking rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp - Boomi Sees Market Momentum Surge as Enterprises Adopt AI Platform
Integration and automation leader achieves 50% customer growth in just over three years Company now serves 30,000+ customers worldwide, including more than a quarter of the Fortune 500 Boomi powers enterprise-scale AI with 75,000+ agents… Read more: Boomi Sees Market Momentum Surge as Enterprises Adopt AI Platform - Portal26 Announces Breakthrough AI Value Realization Solution
The first-of-its-kind solution harnesses user behavior data to immediately focus organizations on high-value agents, applications and migration, ensuring radical improvements in AI outcomes Portal26, a pioneer of GenAI security solutions in 2023, launched the industry’s… Read more: Portal26 Announces Breakthrough AI Value Realization Solution - This popular diet was linked to a much lower stroke risk
A long-term study found that women who closely followed a Mediterranean diet had a much lower risk of stroke. The strongest benefits were seen in women who ate more plant-based foods, fish, and olive oil… Read more: This popular diet was linked to a much lower stroke risk - Scientists were wrong for decades about DNA knots
Scientists have discovered that DNA behaves in a surprising way when squeezed through tiny nanopores, overturning a long-held assumption in genetics research. What researchers once thought were knots causing messy electrical signals turn out to… Read more: Scientists were wrong for decades about DNA knots - AI Is Here to Replace Nuclear Treaties. Scared Yet?
The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much. - No Company Has Admitted to Replacing Workers With AI in New York
New York state has required companies to disclose if “technological innovation or automation” was the cause of job loss for nearly a year. So far, none has. - Lumen Technologies Appoints Jeff Sharritts as Chief Revenue Officer
Veteran leader to deepen customer relationships, sharpen execution, and scale company’s commercial engine in Lumen’s next phase of transformation Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) today announced that Jeff Sharritts has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief… Read more: Lumen Technologies Appoints Jeff Sharritts as Chief Revenue Officer - Cryptocurrency markets a testbed for AI forecasting models
Cryptocurrency markets have become a high-speed playground where developers optimise the next generation of predictive software. Using real-time data flows and decentralised platforms, scientists develop prediction models that can extend the scope of traditional finance.… Read more: Cryptocurrency markets a testbed for AI forecasting models - Exclusive: Why are Chinese AI models dominating open-source as Western labs step back?
Because Western AI labs won’t—or can’t—anymore. As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google face mounting pressure to restrict their most powerful models, Chinese developers have filled the open-source void with AI explicitly built for what operators need: powerful models… Read more: Exclusive: Why are Chinese AI models dominating open-source as Western labs step back? - What AI can (and can’t) tell us about XRP in ETF-driven markets
For a long time, cryptocurrency prices moved quickly. A headline would hit, sentiment would spike, and charts would react almost immediately. That pattern no longer holds. Today’s market is slow, heavier than before, and shaped… Read more: What AI can (and can’t) tell us about XRP in ETF-driven markets - Goldman Sachs tests autonomous AI agents for process-heavy work
Goldman Sachs is pushing deeper into real use of artificial intelligence inside its operations, moving to systems that can carry out complex tasks on their own. The Wall Street bank is working with AI startup… Read more: Goldman Sachs tests autonomous AI agents for process-heavy work - I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology? Recently, the Rowsons accidentally invented a new… Read more: I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson - This tiny organism refused to die under Mars-like conditions
Baker’s yeast isn’t just useful in the kitchen — it may also be built for space. Researchers found that yeast cells can survive intense shock waves and toxic chemicals similar to those on Mars. The… Read more: This tiny organism refused to die under Mars-like conditions - A legendary golden fabric lost for 2,000 years has been brought back
A legendary golden fabric once worn only by emperors has made an astonishing comeback. Korean scientists have successfully recreated ancient sea silk—a rare, shimmering fiber prized since Roman times—using a humble clam farmed in modern… Read more: A legendary golden fabric lost for 2,000 years has been brought back - Why this rust-like mineral is one of Earth’s best carbon vaults
A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface isn’t uniform — it’s a nanoscale patchwork of positive and negative charges that can… Read more: Why this rust-like mineral is one of Earth’s best carbon vaults - Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned
Forests around the world are quietly transforming, and not for the better. A massive global analysis of more than 31,000 tree species reveals that forests are becoming more uniform, increasingly dominated by fast-growing “sprinter” trees,… Read more: Forests are changing fast and scientists are deeply concerned - Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable
A firm that wants to use a large language model (LLM) to summarize sales reports or triage customer inquiries can choose between hundreds of unique LLMs with dozens of model variations, each with slightly different… Read more: Study: Platforms that rank the latest LLMs can be unreliable - ‘Was I scared going back to China? No’: Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home
He has been jailed, tracked and threatened by China’s government. What was it like pay a visit home? As he publishes a polemic about surveillance and state control, he relives a momentous trip to see… Read more: ‘Was I scared going back to China? No’: Ai Weiwei on AI, western censorship and returning home - Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
Behold, 404 Media’s Super Bowl ad. Yes, we bought a Super Bowl ad. No, we did not spend $8 million. Until now, 404 Media has never done any paid advertising, but we figured why not… Read more: Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad - Scientists finally solve a 100-year-old mystery in the air we breathe
Scientists at the University of Warwick have cracked a long-standing problem in air pollution science: how to predict the movement of irregularly shaped nanoparticles as they drift through the air we breathe. These tiny particles… Read more: Scientists finally solve a 100-year-old mystery in the air we breathe - Scientists turn sunflower oil waste into a powerful bread upgrade
Researchers have found a surprising way to turn sunflower oil waste into a powerful bread upgrade. By replacing part of wheat flour with partially defatted sunflower seed flour, breads became dramatically richer in protein, fiber,… Read more: Scientists turn sunflower oil waste into a powerful bread upgrade - Gut bacteria can sense their environment and it’s key to your health
Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can detect a surprisingly wide range of… Read more: Gut bacteria can sense their environment and it’s key to your health - A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please
Sure, most Americans are glued to their TVs for the today’s Super Bowl and/or the Winter Olympics. But for the non-sports minded, Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer for its forthcoming space odyssey… Read more: A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please - Worried AI means you won’t get a job when you graduate? Here’s what the research says
August De Richelieu/ Pexels The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI “tsunami” wipes out many entry-level roles in coming years. Tasks that… Read more: Worried AI means you won’t get a job when you graduate? Here’s what the research says - When AI goes haywire: the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone
AI-generated images, in response to the prompt: “Draw me a skyscraper and a sliding trombone side-by-side so that I can appreciate their respective sizes” (left by ChatGPT, right by Gemini) CC BY Artificial Intelligence (AI)… Read more: When AI goes haywire: the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone - Jeffrey Epstein Had a Bizarre Obsession With “Improving” Human DNA, and He Was Emailing With Top Scientists About It
Jeffrey Epstein had a bizarre obsession with genetics and “improving” human DNA — and he was corresponding with top scientists to make his fantasies a reality. The newly released documents from the Justice Department shine… Read more: Jeffrey Epstein Had a Bizarre Obsession With “Improving” Human DNA, and He Was Emailing With Top Scientists About It - US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses
While AI is having an impact on the workplace, experts suggest tariffs, overhiring during the pandemic and simply maximising profits may be bigger factors Over the last year, US corporate leaders have often explained layoffs… Read more: US companies accused of ‘AI washing’ in citing artificial intelligence for job losses - SpaceX Gives $1 Million Prize to Literal Nazi Who Has Bragged About His Profound Racism
Elon Musk’s X — formerly known as Twitter and newly acquired by SpaceX — says it will give a million bucks to a proudly self-proclaimed Nazi. On Tuesday, the social media site and Grok-run asylum… Read more: SpaceX Gives $1 Million Prize to Literal Nazi Who Has Bragged About His Profound Racism - Physicists solve a quantum mystery that stumped scientists for decades
Physicists at Heidelberg University have developed a new theory that finally unites two long-standing and seemingly incompatible views of how exotic particles behave inside quantum matter. In some cases, an impurity moves through a sea… Read more: Physicists solve a quantum mystery that stumped scientists for decades - Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal a giant impact reshaped the Moon’s interior
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater, researchers found unusual… Read more: Chang’e-6 lunar samples reveal a giant impact reshaped the Moon’s interior
