If you’re running a frontier AI company, now’s not the time to rest on your laurels. The stakes could hardly be higher: whichever corporation manages to outmaneuver its rivals stands to capture not just enormous… Read more: Nonprofit Research Groups Disturbed to Learn That OpenAI Has Secretly Been Funding Their Work

Few fears have taken hold of the public imagination quite like the specter of AI-driven unemployment. A recent survey by the think tank Data for Progress found that a majority of US voters think AI… Read more: AI Expert Says It’s Time to Stop Freaking Out About AI Taking Our Jobs

Privacy nightmares. Pervert glasses. These are some of the not-so-flattering ways detractors describe Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses. Now, we’re nominating another hellish descriptor into that list: dysmorphia accelerator. On Friday, Meta announced a host of… Read more: We Can’t Even Imagine the Eating Disorders This New Meta Smart Glasses Feature Will Cause

The Cyberspace Administration of China is cracking down on “digital humans,” with incoming regulations that will soon require labeling of AI personalities and ban programs that could harm children or lead to addiction. Those draft… Read more: China Cracking Down on the Types of AI That Are Tearing America Apart

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand revealed how tobacco companies targeted children; now he sees similar marketing by big tech A key whistleblower in the tobacco industry’s landmark trials of the 1990s has been watching big tech’s recent… Read more: ‘I always considered social media evil’: big tobacco whistleblower on tech’s addictive products

Big box chains have proudly embraced artificial intelligence — but don’t expect them to help when their AI assistants charge your card for hallucinated garbage. That trend, in which retail giants force their AI initiatives… Read more: Target Warns That If Its AI Shopping Agent Makes an Expensive Mistake, You’ll Have to Pay for It

A user on Quizlet, an online learning platform, created a public flashcard set in February that appears to have exposed highly confidential information about security procedures in US Customs and Border Protection facilities around Kingsville,… Read more: CBP facility codes sure seem to have leaked via online flashcards

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s replies: has a call for restraint from an authority… Read more: Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

A hidden Roman sanctuary discovered beneath Frankfurt is offering rare clues about ancient rituals, including possible human sacrifice. With major funding secured, scientists are now racing to uncover how this mysterious, multi-god cult site operated.

Researchers have created a nanoscale structure that traps infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometers thick—over 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. By using a unique material with exceptional light-bending properties, they can… Read more: Scientists trap light in a layer 1,000x thinner than hair

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new clue in the mystery of brain aging: a single protein called FTL1. In aging mice, higher levels of this protein weakened connections between brain cells and led to memory… Read more: Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging — and how to stop it

Industry with business model not yet firmly established and investments financed by huge debts is particularly at risk Donald Trump’s most immediate concern in demanding Iran reopen the strait of Hormuz may be rocketing US… Read more: Higher energy costs from Iran war could threaten fragile economics of AI boom | Heather Stewart

Mars may look like a quiet, dusty world, but it’s actually buzzing with hidden electrical activity. Powerful dust storms and swirling dust devils generate static electricity strong enough to spark faint glowing discharges across the… Read more: Mars dust storms are sparking electricity and rewriting the planet’s chemistry

After forgetting the nibbles, refusing my costume requests and emailing GCHQ, ‘Gaskell’ did at least get us to show up Two weeks ago, an AI bot invited me to a party it was organising in… Read more: An AI bot invited me to its party in Manchester. It was a pretty good night

Scientists have taken a major step toward futuristic energy tech by building a working prototype of a quantum battery—one that can charge, store, and release energy using the strange rules of quantum physics instead of… Read more: Scientists built a quantum battery that breaks the rules of charging

A new study reveals that gut bacteria and metabolites may hold the key to detecting serious digestive diseases earlier and more easily. Using AI, scientists found that biomarkers linked to one condition can often predict… Read more: Scientists discover hidden gut signals that could detect cancer early

Modern food systems may look stable on the surface, but they are increasingly dependent on digital systems that can quietly become a major point of failure. Today, food must be “recognized” by databases and automated… Read more: Truckloads of food are being wasted because computers won’t approve them

The Orion spacecraft is now much closer to the Moon than Earth on its 10-day journey into deep space and back, and overall everything is going smashingly well. Things are going so well that, during… Read more: Artemis II is going so well that we’re left to talk about frozen urine

Right-to-repair efforts are gaining headway in the US. A lot of that movement has been led by state legislation in Colorado. Since 2022, Colorado has passed bills giving users the tools, instructions, and legal capabilities… Read more: Tech companies are trying to neuter Colorado’s landmark right-to-repair law

Just weeks after the largest nurses strike in the New York City history, the CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals has a bold vision for a future where AI, not human radiologists, examines and diagnoses… Read more: America’s Largest Hospital System Ready to Start Replacing Radiologists With AI, Its CEO Says

Meme wisdom holds that modern problems require modern solutions, but what peddlers of this internet adage failed to consider is that an antiquated and possibly impractical approach could be loads more fun. We present Grit… Read more: AI Forces College Professor to Get Typewriters for Entire Class

AI company Anthropic suffered a massive leak of the source code to its Claude Code AI assistant earlier this week, triggering a panicked game of cat and mouse as company representatives sent out copyright takedown… Read more: Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users’ Vulgar Language and Deems Them “Negative”

OpenAI unceremoniously killed off its text-to-video AI app Sora last month, bringing an abrupt end to months of brain-melting AI slop. Even what was supposed to be a groundbreaking $1 billion deal with Disney was caught in… Read more: The Real Reason OpenAI Shut Sora Down Is a Warning to Every AI Startup

Saturn’s magnetic field isn’t the smooth, symmetrical shield scientists see around Earth. Instead, it’s noticeably skewed, and researchers now think they understand why. By analyzing years of data from the Cassini spacecraft, scientists found that… Read more: Saturn’s magnetic field is twisted and scientists just figured out why

Asteroid impacts may have helped kick-start life on Earth by creating hot, chemical-rich environments ideal for early biology. These impact-generated hydrothermal systems could have lasted thousands of years—long enough for life’s building blocks to form.… Read more: Meteor impacts may have sparked life on Earth, scientists say

A new pill called baxdrostat is showing strong results in lowering dangerously high blood pressure in people who don’t respond to standard treatments. In a large global trial, patients saw their blood pressure drop by… Read more: Scientists reveal new blood pressure treatment that works when others fail

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing through massive astronomy datasets. What began as a class project quickly turned into a breakthrough when they… Read more: Students found a star from the dawn of the universe drifting into the Milky Way

Dying stars may be wiping out nearby giant planets as they expand into red giants. Astronomers found that these close-in planets become increasingly rare around more evolved stars, suggesting many have already been swallowed. The… Read more: Dying stars are devouring giant planets, astronomers discover

A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise. Researchers have developed a cleaner, more controlled way to build these materials using molten salts and iodine, eliminating the messy chemical… Read more: MXene breakthrough boosts conductivity 160x with perfect atomic order

Astrocytes, once thought to be mere brain “support cells,” are now revealed to be key players in fear memory. Researchers found they actively help form, recall, and weaken fear responses by interacting with neurons in… Read more: These overlooked brain cells may control fear and PTSD

The advent of powerful generative AI tools has supercharged the proliferation of disinformation, with viral and fictional stories making the lives of public figures a living hell. Facebook, in particular, has been overrun with misleading… Read more: William Shatner Says AI Is Spreading Horrific Rumors About Him

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that rolled with it, went out on a limb, gravitationally waved, and spotted relics in our midst. First, hundreds of prehistoric dice sets shed… Read more: Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution

In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build… Read more: Components of A Coding Agent

OpenAI made headlines this year after announcing it was giving up on what one exec categorized as distracting “side quests,” including its Sora text-to-video app, to double down on enterprise and coding, which are lucrative… Read more: AI Is Killing Microsoft

In this article, I want to cover the overall design of coding agents and agent harnesses: what they are, how they work, and how the different pieces fit together in practice. Readers of my Build… Read more: Components of A Coding Agent

Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing supply chain hacking spree, and more.

When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – which is why these images caused such a stir Words can tell a story, but it’s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is… Read more: ‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world

OpenClaw fever is still going strong in tech circles. The open source AI agent, much hyped for “actually doing things,” has been embraced by many programmers to automate parts of their workflow. But could they… Read more: Say a Prayer for This Startup That’s Replacing Its Developers With OpenClaw

President Donald Trump released a budget blueprint on Friday calling for a 23 percent cut to NASA’s budget, two days after the agency launched four astronauts on the first crewed lunar mission in more than… Read more: Trump proposes steep cut to NASA budget as astronauts head for the Moon

As the Artemis II lunar mission moved into its third day on Friday, and with the spacecraft’s big engine firing behind it, the four astronauts on board had a little more downtime. So the four… Read more: As Artemis II zooms to the Moon, everything seems to be going swimmingly

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native American dice… Read more: Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Something’s going on at OpenAI — and it isn’t just the pre-IPO jitters. According to Bloomberg, the company behind ChatGPT is sending not just one, but two top executives away on extended medical leave. The… Read more: Two OpenAI Execs, Including CEO of AGI, Going on Medical Leave

For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the development community by storm. A recently fixed vulnerability provides an… Read more: OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

Donald Trump is facing significant hurdles after declaring, in a series of executive orders last year, that rapid construction of AI data centers was among his top priorities to ensure the US wins the AI… Read more: Trump ignores biggest reasons his AI data center buildout is failing

When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users. On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human… Read more: “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Banks and other firms that want to work on SpaceX’s initial public offering (IPO) are being required to buy subscriptions to the Grok AI service, The New York Times reported today. Elon Musk “is requiring… Read more: Elon Musk insists banks working on SpaceX IPO must buy Grok subscriptions

Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has finally dished on Disney’s reaction to his decision to kill the company’s AI video generator app, Sora — scuttling a billion dollar deal the two giants had planned.  Given the… Read more: Sam Altman Opens Up About Telling CEO of Disney That It Had All Been Smoke and Mirrors

Today, there are 94 nuclear reactors operating in the United States, more than in any other country in the world, and these units collectively provide nearly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. That is a… Read more: Working to advance the nuclear renaissance

Google Vids adds AI avatar controls, custom music, and YouTube publishing, positioning itself as a powerful new competitor in AI video creation. The post Google Vids Just Got a Major AI Upgrade — Here’s What’s… Read more: Google Vids Just Got a Major AI Upgrade — Here’s What’s New

The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for “several weeks.”

A Rome court has ruled that the price hikes Netflix imposed on subscribers in Italy in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2024 were unlawful. The court ordered Netflix to refund affected customers by up to 500… Read more: Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from March 30–April 3. The post AI Breakthroughs, Security Breaches, and Industry Shakeups Define the Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss crypto, journalists using AI, and a cool… Read more: Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed

Addition of Rack-Scale Technology, Systems Expertise and Key Engineering Talent to Accelerate Deployment of Low-Latency, Highly Efficient AI Inference at Scale d-Matrix, the pioneer in low-latency AI inference compute for data centers, today announced the acquisition… Read more: d-Matrix Acquires GigaIO Data Center Business

With the war in the Persian Gulf now more than a month old, the effect on fuel prices is plain to see: On average, they’re up almost a dollar per gallon, or 25 percent, according… Read more: EV adoption in America: Who’s winning, who’s losing?

The world simply wasn’t ready for AI powered tractors. Or perhaps it was Monarch Tractor, the much-hyped company that promised to revolutionize agriculture when it launched these electric-powered autonomous farm machines in 2023, that wasn’t… Read more: AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees in Epic Implosion

OpenAI has struck a deal to acquire TBPN, a technology-focused talk show popular in Silicon Valley, making an unexpected move into broadcasting after pledging to abandon “side quests” and focus on its core business. The… Read more: OpenAI takes on another “side quest,” buys tech-focused talk show TBPN

Body that funds Alan Turing Institute says it should offer better strategy and more value for money The UK’s leading AI research institute has been told to make “significant” changes by its main source of… Read more: UK’s leading AI research institute told to make ‘significant’ changes

The AI industry largely acts as if it’s above lowly copyright laws — unless, of course, those laws happen to be protecting its own interests. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Anthropic is scrambling to… Read more: Anthropic Suddenly Cares Intensely About Intellectual Property After Realizing With Horror That It Accidentally Leaked Claude’s Source Code

Alloy’s platform will now directly integrate Plaid solutions to improve risk management in onboarding and underwriting, making it fast and easy to test and implement new tools to stay ahead of fraud Alloy, a leading identity… Read more: Alloy Partners with Plaid to Expand AI Risk Solutions Access

The new crop of portable jump starters means you’ll never be stuck waiting on a tow. Here are the devices we’d trust.

Integrated time-series, vector, and GPU compute enables production-scale AI by eliminating handoffs across research, backtesting, and live trading workflows KX, a global leader in real-time, time-series, and AI-driven analytics, today announced the general availability of KDB-X,… Read more: KX Delivers GPU-Accelerated Advantage for Real-Time AI in Capital Markets

Algolia, the AI Search and Retrieval platform trusted by more than 18,000 businesses and millions of developers worldwide, today announced the appointment of Stephen Lynch as Chief Executive Officer. Lynch succeeds Bernadette Nixon, who transitioned… Read more: Algolia Announced the Appointment of Stephen Lynch as CEO

A new study reveals that aging lungs may play a major role in why flu and COVID can become so dangerous for older adults. Researchers found that certain lung cells can trigger an exaggerated immune… Read more: Scientists discover why flu and COVID hit older adults so hard

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of shallow, sunlit waters, these microbes may have thrived deep in the ocean, fueled by chemicals delivered… Read more: Strange “elephant skin” rocks reveal ancient life in the dark ocean

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of reality. The mutation disrupts a brain circuit involved in flexible decision-making, causing mice to stick with outdated choices… Read more: A gene mutation may trap the brain in the wrong reality in schizophrenia patients

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey like hutias into… Read more: Ancient bees found nesting inside fossil bones in rare cave discovery

A new gene therapy is giving people born deaf the chance to hear, often within just weeks. In a small but groundbreaking study, researchers delivered a working copy of a key hearing gene directly into… Read more: Deafness reversed: One injection restores hearing in just weeks

A new clinical trial suggests that what people eat could finally offer real relief for Crohn’s disease, a condition that has long lacked clear dietary guidance. Researchers found that a “fasting-mimicking diet” — involving just… Read more: This 5-day diet helped Crohn’s patients feel better fast

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail revealed Megachelicerax cousteaui, the oldest known… Read more: This tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin of spiders

Fast fashion might come with a hidden danger: lead. Researchers testing children’s shirts from multiple retailers found every sample exceeded U.S. safety limits, raising concerns about toxic exposure—especially since young kids often chew on clothing.… Read more: Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing

A new study suggests that one of the most widely used health metrics, BMI, may be getting it wrong for a large portion of the population. By comparing BMI classifications with precise body fat measurements… Read more: Scientists say BMI gets it wrong for over one third of adults

A new concept suggests SpaceX’s Starship could revolutionize a future mission to Uranus, one of the solar system’s most overlooked planets. By refueling in orbit and helping slow the spacecraft on arrival, it could cut… Read more: SpaceX Starship could slash travel time to Uranus in half

The Orion spacecraft successfully fired its main engine for 5 minutes and 50 seconds on Thursday, sending four astronauts on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. For NASA and the Artemis II crew members, this… Read more: Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

Perplexity’s AI search engine encourages users to go deeper with their prompts by engaging in chat sessions that a lawsuit has alleged are often shared in their entirety with Google and Meta without users’ knowledge… Read more: Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode” is a “sham,” lawsuit says

A new breakthrough in wireless technology could dramatically boost internet speeds while cutting energy use—by switching from radio waves to light. Researchers have developed a tiny chip packed with dozens of miniature lasers that can… Read more: Laser-powered wireless hits 360 Gbps and uses half the energy of Wi-Fi

Scientists have discovered a way to make French fries less greasy without ruining their taste. By combining regular frying with microwave heating, they reduce the amount of oil absorbed during cooking. The key lies in… Read more: New microwave frying technique could make french fries much healthier

On Wednesday, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released its numbers on what was built in 2025. And much as we saw in the US, solar power is the primary driver of change. The numbers… Read more: Renewables dominate 2025’s newly installed generating capacity

The cost of high-performance GPUs, typically $8,000 or more, means they are frequently shared among dozens of users in cloud environments. Two new attacks demonstrate how a malicious user can gain full root control of… Read more: New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside bizarre creatures… Read more: New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian

Octopuses are one of the most alien creatures on Earth. The lack of bones makes them amazing shapeshifters, most of them can change color like chameleons, and they pump blue copper-based blood through their bodies… Read more: Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones

OpenAI might be pulling back on video generation, but Google is forging ahead with a major AI update to its Vids editing product. The company’s latest video and audio models are now integrated with the… Read more: Google Vids gets AI upgrade with Veo and Lyria models, directable AI avatars

Starlink operator SpaceX claims that Amazon violated orbital debris requirements by launching satellites into initial altitudes that are too high, increasing the risk of collision with other satellites and spacecraft. SpaceX, which recently reported two… Read more: SpaceX tries to convince FCC that Amazon put satellites into wrong altitude

In this episode, we discuss Iran’s threats to target US tech firms, gear up for the midterm elections, and get a scene report from the Polymarket pop-up bar in DC.

OpenAI’s chief of strategy says acquisition of show will help company engage with public about AI as it evolves OpenAI is wading into the media business by acquiring TBPN, a technology-focused talkshow closely watched by… Read more: OpenAI buys tech talkshow TBPN in push to shape AI narrative

OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show that’s popular among Silicon Valley elites, as it continues to battle its negative public image.

Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco Google has struck a partnership for a natural gas power plant that could… Read more: Google teams up with gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—The first time NASA launched humans toward the Moon, in December 1968, the United States was a deeply fractured nation. The historic flight of three people into the unknown brought a measure… Read more: Why is NASA bothering to go back to the Moon if we’ve already been there?

An Anthropic-backed DMCA effort to remove its recently leaked Claude Code client source code from GitHub this week resulted in the accidental removal of many legitimate forks of its official public code repository. While that… Read more: Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks

When it comes to automotive bragging rights, a good Nürburgring Nordschleife lap time is right up there with the best of them. And today, those bragging rights belong to Ford. The automaker revealed that its… Read more: This Ford is the quickest production car at the Nürburgring, ever

Google’s Gemini AI models have improved by leaps and bounds over the past year, but you can only use Gemini on Google’s terms. The company’s Gemma open-weight models have provided more freedom, but Gemma 3,… Read more: Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license

With the launch of KiloClaw, enterprises now have a tool to enforce governance over autonomous agents and manage shadow AI. While businesses spent the last year securing large language models and formalising vendor agreements, developers… Read more: KiloClaw targets shadow AI with autonomous agent governance

As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.

It’s plain to see that Elon Musk’s ambition of putting data centers in space is a daring and risky undertaking.  Further underscoring the challenges, experts tell Reuters that a previous failed attempt at taking data centers… Read more: There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry

Apple is reportedly testing a smarter iPhone keyboard for iOS 27, with AI-powered word suggestions and improved autocorrect to enhance typing. The post Report: Apple Testing AI-Powered ‘Alternative Words’ Feature for iPhone Keyboard appeared first… Read more: Report: Apple Testing AI-Powered ‘Alternative Words’ Feature for iPhone Keyboard

Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.

Recognized among hundreds of vendors for advancing Continuous AI Red Teaming and Agentic AI security Adversa AI announced today that it has been named “Most Innovative Agentic AI Security” at the Global InfoSec Awards during RSA Conference 2026,… Read more: Adversa AI Wins Award for Innovative Agentic AI Security Platform

A decade ago, it would have been hard to believe that artificial intelligence could do what it can do now. However, it is this same power that introduces a new attack surface that traditional security… Read more: 5 best practices to secure AI systems