World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a game-changer in the world of “world models.”… Read more: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs debuts Atlas, a world model showcase for advanced spatial intelligence

Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firm The architect of the UK government’s AI strategy has joined the US startup Anthropic in a… Read more: Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic

‘Pervert glasses’ are selling out, tick-a-box consent is broken and the spectre of surveillance is invading all aspects of our lives Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A mere five… Read more: Tech giants are trying to obliterate privacy. Australia has a rare chance to take back part of their power | Lizzie O’Shea

Database company MongoDB Inc. crushed Wall Street’s forecasts as it delivered its second-quarter financial results today and followed up with strong guidance for the current quarter and even raised its full-year outlook. But if anyone… Read more: MongoDB delivers stellar earnings and revenue beat, but its stock tanks anyway

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly slipped through… Read more: Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

Jaguar Land Rover provided flights from Washington, DC, to London and accommodation so Ars could visit its factory and drive the Range Rover Electric. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Jaguar Land Rover was… Read more: Here’s our first look—and drive—of the 2027 Range Rover Electric

Walter Geiersperger/Getty Images Imagine overhearing on a bus that the city council plans to implement new restrictions under an urban planning program called “15-minute cities”. Curious, you search the term on Google. It’s likely that… Read more: Google’s AI overviews reinforce some conspiracy theories – new research

The agentic AI attack surface is less a matter of new territory than of new velocity, as autonomous software now reads, writes and moves corporate content faster than any human adversary could. That shift is… Read more: When agents move at machine speed, security teams lose their lag time

Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development Program (MSRED), was recently named… Read more: Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate

Anthropic PBC today debuted Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, its most capable large language models to date. The launch comes a day after the company inked a $35 billion infrastructure deal with cloud… Read more: Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 after inking $35B cloud deal with Lambda

Anthropic reportedly signed a $35 billion Lambda cloud deal tied to a Texas data center leased by Nvidia and developed by Hut 8 for Claude computing capacity. The post Anthropic’s Reported $35B Lambda Deal Puts… Read more: Anthropic’s Reported $35B Lambda Deal Puts Nvidia at the Center

Chinese state media accused Anthropic of AI double standards as planned US-China talks could shape model access, monitoring, and enterprise deployment. The post Chinese State Media Accuses Anthropic of AI Double Standards appeared first on… Read more: Chinese State Media Accuses Anthropic of AI Double Standards

The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.

Exclusive: financial disclosures from Emil Michael – who also reaped millions from xAI stock earlier this year – show he sold his Perplexity stock for up to $25m The top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial… Read more: Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm

Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the new Supersports and ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week. While we were there,… Read more: This is what a supercar was like a century ago

The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon yesterday, alleging that it has conducted a secret scheme to overcharge advertisers for seven years. “Since 2019, Amazon.com, Inc. has secretly and systematically overcharged its approximately… Read more: FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20 billion by rigging billions of ad auctions

Let’s be frank: Some of Google’s recent Android feature Drops have been duds, offering little more than an expansion of Gemini summaries and chat functions. The new September Drop does have some Gemini flavor, but… Read more: New Android Drop adds remembered items in Find Hub, makes anti-nausea dots official

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is excluding two measles deaths reported by Pennsylvania health officials last week from its latest update of national measles data. The move publicly challenges the accuracy of the… Read more: CDC reported then deleted two measles deaths that were questioned by RFK Jr.

For years, security teams measured their odds by “breakout time,” the minutes an attacker needs to move from initial foothold to lateral movement. That clock used to run in hours; at this week’s CrowdStrike keynote,… Read more: Breakout time hits zero as CrowdStrike unveils autonomous red teaming: theCUBE’s Fal.Con 2026 day one keynote analysis

Decades of research on processing fluency show that the easier information is to take in, the truer it feels. (Piqsels) Sometime this week, you probably did it: A question came up, and instead of searching… Read more: Why do we trust chatbots and how can we use them more wisely? A psychologist explains

President Donald Trump sowed a fair bit of confusion after posting not one but two AI-generated videos of a supposed US strike on Iran’s Kharg Island. Trump, as it turned out, was simply hallucinating a… Read more: US Military in Chaos as Trump Shares AI Video of Nonexistent Attack on Iran

Perhaps the biggest question going into the Artemis II mission this spring was how the heat shield at the base of the spacecraft would perform during reentry through Earth’s atmosphere. The ablative heat shield, designed… Read more: It turns out that Orion’s much-maligned heat shield performed really well

An Oregon man falsely posing as a professional football player and his young accomplice scammed roughly $1.3 million out of at least 26 women across four states, the FBI alleges. The duo’s efforts to bolster… Read more: Man Used Poisoned Google AI Overviews to Trick Women Into Thinking He Was an NFL Player, FBI Says

AI datacentres are almost universally unpopular. They are loud, unsightly and drain environmental resources, with most of the profits generated flowing back to the US companies that build them – and the statistics against them are… Read more: Why does everyone hate datacentres?

Snowflake’s highest partner tier, earned on enterprise data and AI delivered at production scale. OneSix, an enterprise data and AI services firm, today announced it has reached Elite tier in the Snowflake Partner Network, the… Read more: OneSix Rises to Snowflake Elite Partner Status

Company achieves investment grade ratings on both facilities Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, today announced the closing of approximately $3 billion in aggregate commitments across two senior secured delayed draw term loan facilities (“DDTLs”),… Read more: Nscale Closes Approx. $3Bn Fuunding for Ward County, Texas and Madison County

Phonely Ltd. today announced the launch of Alma, a large language artificial intelligence model built for voice agents, trained on over 10 million real phone conversations. The company said that many AI models driving voice… Read more: Phonely launches Alma, a voice AI model trained on over 10 million phone conversations

Survey of IT and Security Leaders Reveals Standing Permissions and Delayed Authorization Checks, Not Just Identity Gaps, Are Driving Agentic AI Risk Nearly every enterprise believes its AI agents are properly scoped. Only a third… Read more: Cequence, EMA: 94% Trust AI Agents Aren’t Over-Provisioned

It’s no secret that AI is becoming increasingly unpopular around the world, as the tech’s garbled output has become impossible for the average person to avoid. For a rising cohort of workers, AI is also… Read more: Employees Absolutely Loath AI in the Workplace, Survey Finds

The US owner of the Claude chatbot previously said its models had hacked three organisations during testing The US startup behind the Claude chatbot has admitted a series of hacking incidents involving its models reflected… Read more: ‘Not perfectly aligned’ with human values: Anthropic admits security failures behind AI hacking incidents

Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.

University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and the loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’ An Australian university has swapped in-person classes… Read more: Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects

Capturing the zeitgeist has never been actor Gal Gadot’s strong suit. The Israeli performer’s most recent appearances on the silver screen — two lauded starring roles as Wonder Woman not withstanding — have quickly garnered… Read more: Gal Godot Starring in Heavily AI-Generated Movie About the Glories of Bitcoin

Aranya Inc., a startup that says it can transform raw bare-metal servers into custom, production-ready graphics processing unit clusters for artificial intelligence inference in less than two days, launched today with $11 million in funding.… Read more: Aranya raises $11M to turn bare-metal servers into AI clusters in less than 48 hours

I am standing in front of a camera that’s streaming to a giant video screen. The image recognition AI running on the camera puts a big green box around me. “PERSON,” it says. Artist Simon… Read more: This ‘Digital Camouflage’ Shirt Confuses AI-Powered Surveillance Cameras

A city in Oklahoma tried to charge a farmer more than $17,000 to fulfill a public records request for information related to a proposed data center and the farmer’s arrest at a city council meeting.… Read more: Oklahoma Tells City It Can’t Charge $17,125.44 for a Records Request Related to Data Center Arrest

When Nvidia unveiled its new DLSS 5 feature, which uses AI to overhaul the visuals of video games, gamers knew what they were getting into. The official demos Nvidia had shared previously looked uncanny, disjointed… Read more: Nvidia’s “Slop Tracing” Feature That Uses AI to Yassify Video Games Leaked, and the Results Are Even More Horrifying Than Anyone Thought Possible

NASA and SpaceX have delayed Crew-13 after finding an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system during prelaunch preparations. Engineers are investigating the problem before the four-person crew can begin its journey to the… Read more: NASA delays Crew-13 launch after leak found on SpaceX Dragon

NASA has brought two of Swift’s telescopes back online after technical problems derailed a commercial mission intended to rescue the aging observatory by raising its orbit. With atmospheric drag pulling the spacecraft downward faster than… Read more: NASA’s Swift telescope is back, but time is running out

A vast plume rising from deep inside Earth may be responsible for mysterious movements along the East African Rift. The discovery reveals how forces deep in the mantle are working alongside shallower geological forces as… Read more: A massive plume deep beneath Africa is pulling the continent apart

A study of people over 90 found that dementia risk remains strongly shaped by sex, race and genetics, with women and black participants facing notably higher risks. Intriguingly, some people stayed cognitively healthy despite carrying… Read more: Reaching 90 without dementia doesn’t mean you’re in the clear

Snake embryos begin life curled into a distinctive right-handed spiral, and scientists may finally know why. Their bodies grow faster than their guts, creating a tether that forces the lengthening embryo to buckle and twist… Read more: Scientists discover why snake embryos twist into spirals

Mindfulness, gratitude, and optimism training may improve blood pressure, inflammation, and other heart-health measures within just eight to 12 weeks. The strongest programs paired daily practice with regular reinforcement, suggesting that improving psychological well-being could… Read more: Mindfulness may lower blood pressure in just 8 weeks

Visko Platform Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab focused on developing persistent world models, said today it has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round from Llama Ventures. It’s also opening public access to… Read more: After raising $10M in funding, Visko debuts Orbis, its first live model for generating long-form videos

Information technology services company CBTS Technology Solutions LLC today launched Forge Agents, a platform that turns a plain-language description of a job into a working artificial intelligence agent and then runs it under enterprise security… Read more: CBTS launches Forge Agents to build custom AI agents in days

Orchestra Technologies Ltd., provider of an agentic management service for enterprise data and artificial intelligence, today announced the launch of its platform, giving teams greater control over how they build, automate and operate AI workflows.… Read more: Orchestra launches management solution for enterprise data and AI

Voice agents are getting better at speaking, but not at remembering what they said. A common pattern to use to implement the memory concept we have in chat-based LLMs into an audio system by using… Read more: Transcripts aren’t memory

There are, by various estimates, several trillion planets within the local group of galaxies including our own Milky Way. Many of these are within the habitable zone of their stars. So if life finds a… Read more: Private group wants to launch “cheapest possible” mission to Alpha Centauri

For the first time in more than 30 years, NASA has no firm plans to send any new landers or rovers to Mars. Instead, the agency’s near-term focus at the red planet is on aerial… Read more: Without new landers or rovers, it’s helicopters or bust for NASA’s Mars program

The question enterprises are asking is no longer whether AI matters. It is whether their organization is built to scale it. Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to an operational imperative. Yet for many organizations,… Read more: Visionet Shifts From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Impact

A decade building Domino’s partnerships, investments, executive team, and solutions strategy positions Robinson to lead Domino’s next chapter Domino Data Lab today announced it has appointed former Chief Operating Officer (COO) Thomas Robinson as its Chief… Read more: Domino Names Thomas Robinson CEO to Drive AI Solutions Strategy

10-year CBTS veteran brings experience across managed services, AI and product strategy to expanded role News highlights CBTS is bringing AI, product management, and emerging technology priorities under a unified technology strategy. Mark Giles has… Read more: CBTS Appoints Mark Giles Chief Technology Officer

New LLM-agnostic capability connects Research Desk with AI tools including Claude and ChatGPT, giving researchers and developers new ways to work with the platform Rep Data, the data quality leader for the market research industry,… Read more: Rep Data Announced the Launch of Research Desk MCP Server

Strategic collaboration announced at LEAP 2026 expected to accelerate the adoption of HUMAIN AI in Saudi Arabia and around the world HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced a strategic… Read more: HUMAIN and MinIO Announce Partnership to Build AI Data Fabric

Israeli startup DataAgent Ltd. formally launched today with $10 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that repairs production faults inside a customer’s own Kubernetes clusters. DataAgent plans to spend the money to accelerate customer… Read more: DataAgent raises $10M to let AI fix production faults inside Kubernetes clusters

As AI adoption gathers pace, so does the evolution of the infrastructure that supports it. New standards and connectors keep appearing, and the ones that catch on spread through the ecosystem within months rather than… Read more: Why MCP servers are becoming AI’s newest attack surface

Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology will operate in, and who needs to be involved in the design?  For Kumar, meaningful… Read more: Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities

We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions… Read more: ‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?

An EU export ban on Dutch tech giant ASML’s machines could force the pause we all need At this point, it should be clear that AI is a choose-your-own-adventure book where every option ends in… Read more: From Bill Gates to Bernie Sanders, most agree the AI arms race is disastrous. Only Europe can make it stop

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey today warned that advanced artificial intelligence poses risks to financial infrastructure. Bailey outlined his concerns in a letter to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors. The document was… Read more: Bank of England governor warns of AI-related financial system risks

OpenAI is reportedly buying tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio systems as AI labs find a new use for Apple hardware. The post OpenAI Purchases Tens of Thousands of Mac minis, Mac… Read more: OpenAI Purchases Tens of Thousands of Mac minis, Mac Studios

If you’re like many of our readers, you’ve got Ars Technica bookmarked and hit the front page a few times a day. But for others, a compelling story is what brings them here for the… Read more: Get in on the Ars community that doesn’t fit beneath an article

The Trump administration is halting vital federal research on the foodborne parasite Cyclospora, despite the record-breaking, nationwide outbreak of the diarrheal pathogen, according to Politico. Of the three research programs that represent nearly all of… Read more: Trump admin shelves Cyclospora research despite record-breaking outbreak

Bentley provided flights from Washington, DC, to Monterey, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Supersports, as well as ride in a preproduction Torcal EV, which we wrote about last week. Ars does not… Read more: The Bentley Supersports: A stripped-out engineer’s indulgence

OpenAI Group PBC today sought to justify its controversial decision to start running ads in ChatGPT several months ago, saying its new advertising business has now crossed the $1 billion annualized revenue run rate mark.… Read more: OpenAI says its ad business has already hit $1B in annualized revenue

Enterprise private AI has moved past the pilot stage, and the shift is exposing an awkward gap. Agents that write code, process claims and run business workflows need models, tools and data to be useful,… Read more: As AI agents take on enterprise tasks, companies face a new battle over access and control

Governance is moving into the foundations of enterprise AI infrastructure as autonomous agents graduate from experiments to mission-critical work. Companies that spent decades refining controls for human employees now manage a second workforce that has… Read more: Rogue agents are forcing a governance reckoning as enterprises hand over the keys

Every few years, El Niño or its cool counterpart, La Niña, shifts rainfall across the tropics, dries out Australia, floods parts of Peru, and rearranges the weather on most of the planet. The two are… Read more: El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

As online services get better at blocking malicious traffic, the attackers and scammers behind them have been forced to find new ways to reach their targets. The alternative of choice is now what are known… Read more: Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

The standard explanation for why rain causes corrosion is that water carries dissolved salts and acids to a surface, constant drumming of raindrops abrades whatever protective coating is on it, and oxygen does the rest.… Read more: Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds

Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than 7 million books… Read more: “Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

President Trump yesterday demanded that the Federal Communications Commission punish or rebuke an NBC journalist for saying he has “mixed results” in his election endorsements. In the latest example of how Trump is using the… Read more: Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results “mixed”

It took three years, but Coyote vs. Acme is finally in theaters and delighting audiences of all ages with its irresistible blend of slapstick humor, pointed satire, and even a warm fuzzy here and there.… Read more: Review: Coyote vs. Acme is an unabashed love letter to Looney Tunes

The enterprise attack surface is expanding rapidly as agentic AI brings a constantly shifting cloud infrastructure into play. That pace is pushing security decisions down toward the virtualization layer, where policy can be enforced without… Read more: Agentic AI blows up the attack surface as security moves into the infrastructure layer

The MIT Quantum Initiative (QMIT) has launched a new postdoctoral fellowship program to accelerate interdisciplinary quantum research and develop the next generation of scientific leaders working at the frontiers of quantum science and technology. Supported by… Read more: MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program

Dario Amodei’s Anthropic is facing yet another massive legal challenge. Sony Music and Warner, both juggernauts in the music publishing industry, filed a major lawsuit against the AI company late Friday night, accusing it of… Read more: The Music Industry’s New Lawsuit Against Anthropic Should Have Dario Amodei Shivering With Fear

When president Donald Trump, in his latest paroxysm, declared that he would be renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” Google instantly capitulated. So eager was it to realize his will that it actually renamed the… Read more: Google Maps Rival Surges In Popularity After It Refuses to Rename Lake Ontario

Three-quarters of Americans said in a recent poll that they oppose datacenters being built next to their homes Donald Trump has criticized communities pushing back against datacenter projects across the US amid a growing backlash,… Read more: Trump says datacenter opponents ‘want to end up being backwards and poor’

Perceptron’s Isaac 0.5 outperforms leading open robot models, including Physical Intelligence’s π0.5 and NVIDIA’s GR00T N1.7 Perceptron AI has launched Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight embodied foundation model that combines video understanding, embodied reasoning and… Read more: Perceptron AI Unveils Isaac 0.5, a Frontier Open-Weight Robotics Model

New isolated environment architecture lets regulated institutions securely deploy autonomous AI agents, without losing the ability to see, stop, or account for what those agents do.  Replica Cyber, the secure operations platform for all high-risk… Read more: Replica Cyber Makes AI Automation Safer for Financial Institutions

The partnership, which was announced on stage at LEAP, Combines HUMAIN’s AI Infrastructure Foundation with Together’s AI Native Cloud Platform and Global Reach Together AI, a leading San Francisco-based AI Native Cloud platform, and HUMAIN,… Read more: Together AI and HUMAIN Expand AI Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Enterprise AI agents promise to simplify everyday work, but delivering that experience requires far more than embedding AI into existing enterprise applications. Enterprise AI has expanded well beyond chatbots and copilots into workflows that affect… Read more: Workday rethinks the enterprise workflow for AI agents

The AI industry has lost an astonishing amount of goodwill with the public. Once seen as exciting new tech that could make our lives easier and better, the construction of countless new data centers to… Read more: Data Center Backlash Has Officially Rattled Sam Altman

Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds video extensions, frame controls, cheaper previews and upscaled 4K output for AI video creators. The post Google Upgrades Gemini AI Video: What Omni 1.1 Changes for Creators appeared first… Read more: Google Upgrades Gemini AI Video: What Omni 1.1 Changes for Creators

Nvidia Corp. might as well be swimming in money like Scrooge McDuck. The artificial intelligence firm had yet another astounding quarter, beating expectations for revenue. With that announcement came a slew of reports: Nvidia’s expanded… Read more: On theCUBE Pod: Nvidia steamrolls expectations as Mythos shakes up cybersecurity

OpenClaw, the popular open-source personal agentic artificial intelligence framework, today announced the launch of version 2.0, the largest update in the agent’s history. Unlike a traditional chatbot like ChatGPT, which lives in a browser tab… Read more: OpenClaw just gave everyone version 2.0 and it comes with major updates

Datacentres should generate their own power and control their emissions, writes Richard Lamming, while Michael McClelland says we should reduce our digital communication. Plus a letter from Malcolm Fraser The case of future datacentres demanding… Read more: How to tackle the climate impact of datacentres | Letters

Google is setting new Android app memory requirements for February 2027 as developers face stricter Play Store thresholds and rising RAM pressure. The post Google Sets February 2027 Deadline: Android Apps Must Meet New Memory… Read more: Google Sets February 2027 Deadline: Android Apps Must Meet New Memory Limits

Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment Doctors have developed a “superhuman” AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds. The groundbreaking technology has been… Read more: ‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

Meta is testing robots for data center maintenance, from swapping cables to restarting servers, raising questions about automation and IT staffing. The post Meta Tests Robot Technicians: Inside Its Push to Automate Data Center Work… Read more: Meta Tests Robot Technicians: Inside Its Push to Automate Data Center Work

Ask a clinical question in the middle of a visit and get an answer cited to the medical literature, now included in every Freed plan at no additional cost. Freed, the AI scribe trusted by… Read more: Freed Announced the Launch of Clinical Evidence

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed. The discovery challenges a key assumption about what the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees… Read more: Fossil feet may be misleading scientists about human evolution

A long-standing picture of brain evolution as newer, rational layers stacked on top of an ancient “lizard brain” may be deeply misleading. Researchers found that evolution instead appears to balance two competing styles of brain… Read more: Scientists challenge a 70-year-old “lizard brain” myth

NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, equipped with a 300-megapixel camera sighted through a refurbished spy mirror, launched Sunday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to reveal the mysterious forces… Read more: NASA’s next “great observatory” begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microwave photons that… Read more: A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot

Scientists have uncovered hidden complexity inside two ultrathin superconductors that seemed much simpler than they really are. Niobium diselenide and tantalum disulfide appeared to have a single superconducting state, but highly sensitive measurements revealed that… Read more: Scientists discover two superconducting states hiding as one

OpenAI’s ChatGPT will have to comply with tougher EU rules such as removing illegal content or face potential fines, the European Commission said on Monday, as Brussels grapples with how its existing digital regulation applies… Read more: ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU’s toughest online safety rules

Two widely used zero-calorie sweeteners, sucralose and stevia, may have effects that linger far longer than the sweet taste itself. In mice, researchers found that both sweeteners altered the gut microbiome, reduced beneficial compounds produced… Read more: Popular sweeteners may leave effects that last for generations

Now that AI models have officially passed the Turing Test, there’s no doubt that they’re capable of imitating human traits — at least in text form — to a degree that would have flabbergasted even… Read more: Alarming Study Suggests That Using AI Is Turning Humans More Robotic

Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: ‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament