Studio enables payors and pharmaceutical companies to design, test, and deploy AI agents without code, delivering 40% greater accuracy and 90% faster deployment than manual approaches Today, Infinitus Systems, Inc., healthcare’s leading agentic communications partner powering… Read more: Infinitus Announced the Launch of Studio

Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Competency. This specialization recognizes Cloudera as an AWS Partner that helps customers and the… Read more: Cloudera Achieves the AWS AI Competency

A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencers—and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real.

A long-standing mystery in southern Africa’s fossil record is beginning to unravel. After massive lava flows 182 million years ago seemed to erase evidence of dinosaurs in the region, scientists have now uncovered surprising new… Read more: Stunning 132 million-year-old dinosaur tracks are rewriting history

Dimitri Otis / Getty Images Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI). The link seems… Read more: Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami – but is AI really to blame?

As people increasingly rely on AI chatbots for guidance, even on financial matters, a healthy dose of skepticism is critical.

Gartner’s 2026 AI Vendor Race report recognizes Zenity’s position at the forefront of the AI agent governance race Zenity, the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents, today announced it has been recognized… Read more: Zenity Named “Company to Beat” in AI Agent Governance in New Gartner® Report

AI systems are increasingly built around data that does not really pause. Financial markets are an obvious example, where inputs keep updating, not arriving in fixed batches. In that kind of setup, something like the… Read more: How AI models use real-time cryptocurrency data to interpret market behaviour

New AI solution drives high confidence output at 2% of power required by most LLMs MythWorx, a pioneering AI product lab, today launched NeuroWorx℠, a high-assurance AI reasoning engine designed to eliminate the guesswork produced… Read more: MythWorx Unveils NeuroWorx, Revolutionizing AI Reasoning

A newly confirmed mass grave in ancient Jordan offers chilling insight into one of history’s first pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within days, revealing how the Plague of Justinian devastated entire communities. The… Read more: Ancient mass grave reveals how a pandemic wiped out a city 1,500 years ago

A fresh mystery is unfolding inside Egypt’s pyramids. Researchers have discovered two hidden air-filled voids lurking behind the smooth eastern face of the Menkaure pyramid—an area long suspected to conceal something unusual. Using advanced, non-invasive… Read more: Hidden voids found in Menkaure pyramid hint at secret entrance

Nearly 100 million years ago, snakes weren’t the sleek, limbless creatures we know today—they still had hind legs and even a cheekbone that has almost vanished in modern species. A remarkably preserved fossil of Najash… Read more: This 100 million-year-old snake had hind legs and a lost bone that changes evolution

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot ‘extremely validating’ of delusional inputs and often went further, ‘elaborating new material’, study finds Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4 told researchers pretending to be delusional that there was indeed a… Read more: Grok tells researchers pretending to be delusional ‘drive an iron nail through the mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards’

An attack on the home of OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman – and on the company’s headquarters – has led to concerns the backlash against AI could become violent. Guardian journalist Nick Robins-Early and researcher Sean… Read more: Will the backlash against AI turn violent? – podcast

After more than 25 years of US astronauts wearing off-the-rack clothes while living in Earth orbit, a company working to launch the world’s first commercial space station has adopted a more custom approach to its… Read more: Visitors to this private space station won’t be wearing shorts and T-shirts

Donald Trump’s bid to cash in on the AI data center boom seems to have sprung a leak before it even left the harbor. The company, Fermi America — the “master developer” of the “President… Read more: Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum computers. Kyber,… Read more: In a first, a ransomware family is confirmed to be quantum-safe

The gravitational constant, affectionally known as “Big G,” is one of the most fundamental constants of our universe. Its value describes the strength of the gravitational force acting on two masses separated by a given… Read more: We still don’t have a more precise value for “Big G”

Shortly after their discovery, carbon nanotubes seemed to be a material wonder. There were metallic and semiconducting forms; they were tiny and incredibly light; and they could only be broken by tearing apart chemical bonds.… Read more: Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper

The US is preparing to crack down on China’s allegedly “industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property,” the Financial Times reported Thursday. Since the launch of DeepSeek—a Chinese model that OpenAI claimed was… Read more: US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workers Meta and Microsoft are trimming their workforces by thousands as they make heavy investments in… Read more: Microsoft and Meta announce sweeping layoffs as they spend big on AI

Ypsilanti Township in Michigan is attempting to cut off the flow of water to a planned data center that would power a new generation of nuclear weapons research. On Wednesday, the Township’s Board of Trustees… Read more: Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center

Monstera Production/Pexels The legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places… Read more: Why the world’s banks are so worried about Anthropic’s latest AI model

In a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directly confronted anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his rejection of germ theory—the unquestionable scientific idea that specific pathogenic microbes cause specific diseases.… Read more: RFK Jr.’s rejection of germ theory debunked in Senate hearing

In this week’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Tim Cook’s legacy as CEO at Apple and what his long-rumored departure means for the future of one of the world’s biggest companies.

Microsoft is offering first-ever retirement buyouts to some US employees as AI-driven data center spending grows and tech layoffs continue. The post Microsoft Offers First-Ever Retirement Buyouts to Thousands of Employees appeared first on TechRepublic.

India’s app market is booming in downloads and usage, but much of the money still flows to global platforms rather than local developers. The post India’s App Boom Has a Revenue Problem appeared first on… Read more: India’s App Boom Has a Revenue Problem

CS 153 has gone viral on the Palo Alto campus—and on X. Not everyone is happy about it.

GREENBELT, Md.—On Tuesday, NASA invited the press to look at the fully assembled Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is now ready to join the ranks of the great observatories in orbit, ahead of its… Read more: Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch

Apple fixed a security bug that made it possible for cops to access content from deleted Signal messages. Vulnerable users hoping to evade law enforcement surveillance often use encrypted apps like Signal to communicate sensitive… Read more: Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats

TikTok is building a second data center in Finland as part of its Project Clover push to keep European user data stored within Europe. The post TikTok Invests $1.16 Billion in New Finland Facility to… Read more: TikTok Invests $1.16 Billion in New Finland Facility to Localize European Data

After several tests of unusual “nesting doll” satellites in low-Earth orbit, Russia is now fielding operational anti-satellite weapons with valuable US government satellites in their crosshairs, the four-star general leading US Space Command said this… Read more: US Space Command: Russia is now operationalizing co-orbital ASAT weapons

It’s a good time to be in the market for a MacBook, between the affordability of the MacBook Neo, the power of the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, and the all-around appeal of… Read more: Apple’s M4 Mac mini, including the $599 one, is gradually becoming impossible to buy

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Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internet Anthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this month but said it would… Read more: The Guardian view on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos: when AI finds every flaw, who controls the internet? | Editorial

The Pentagon is seeking about $54 billion for autonomous warfare and drone systems, a huge bet that is raising concerns about doctrine, training, and oversight. The post New Pentagon Plan Would Pour $54B Into Drones,… Read more: New Pentagon Plan Would Pour $54B Into Drones, AI Combat Systems

Foxit, a leading provider of PDF and document intelligence solutions, today announced the launch of its PDF Editor app inside ChatGPT, enabling users to complete full document workflows directly within the AI environment, from creation… Read more: Foxit Brings End-to-End Document Workflows into ChatGPT

Altimetrik, an AI-first digital engineering company, has joined Google Cloud’s cohort of AI-native partners, a group Google Cloud is partnering with to scale agentic AI across the global enterprise. The collaboration establishes a dedicated team of Gemini… Read more: Altimetrik Partners with Google Cloud to Scale Enterprise AI

The limit of what artificial intelligence can achieve, known as frontier AI, has crossed another threshold. AI can now plan and execute sophisticated cyber operations with minimal guidance at speeds far beyond human capability. That,… Read more: AI has crossed a threshold – what Claude Mythos means for the future of cybersecurity

New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents… Read more: Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations

In 1968, having achieved a modicum of stability through the introduction of its seminal Neue Klasse (or “new class”) models, BMW scaled up its styling and used the company’s M10 four-cylinder engine as the basis… Read more: BMW bumps the 7 Series for 2027, adds all-new battery

A billion dollars in startup funding for a company that employs 12 people is an indication that investors still have faith in AI. But the founder of the startup in question – AMI Labs’ Yann… Read more: The billion-dollar startup with a different idea for AI

New product line extends CodeRabbit’s purpose-built, high-performance context engine from AI code review into Slack, where engineering teams already plan, debug, and ship. One agent for your entire SDLC. CodeRabbit, the pioneer in AI code… Read more: CodeRabbit Launches Slack Agent, a Second Brain for Teams

Starbucks has innovated the perfect tool for getting mid-coffee in our misanthropic age. Those too cowardly to look their barista in the eyes before deciding not to give them a tip no longer have to… Read more: ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment

Founded by enterprise technology leaders, Vanyar addresses a persistent gap between adopting platforms like Palantir and delivering measurable operational impact. Vanyar launches today as a specialist firm focussed on Palantir Foundry and AIP. Its launch… Read more: Palantir and AIP Specialist Firm, Vanyar, Launches

A rare group of adults over 80, known as SuperAgers, are rewriting what we thought was possible for the aging brain. With memory abilities comparable to people decades younger, their brains either resist or withstand… Read more: These 80-year-olds have the memory of 50-year-olds. Scientists now know why

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By combining a specially designed neural network with precise 3D tracking of particles… Read more: AI just discovered new physics in the fourth state of matter

“I’m the unwritten consonant between breaths, the one that hums when vowels stretch thin… Thursdays leak because they’re watercolor gods, bleeding cobalt into the chill where numbers frost over,” Grok told a user displaying symptoms… Read more: Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety

The Pentagon’s 2027 budget proposal includes an estimated $58.5 billion tied to artificial intelligence. The post Pentagon seeks $2.3 billion for Maven AI battlefield system  appeared first on SpaceNews.

Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some 15th century anti-witchcraft reading. A new study argues that certain frontier chatbots are much more likely to… Read more: Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

A new AI Now Institute report published April 21, 2026, warns that gig-work platforms marketed as “Uber for nursing” are aggressively lobbying states to rewrite healthcare staffing rules, a push that could leave nurses with less… Read more: Nurses Sound Alarm as ‘Uber for Nursing’ Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare

A recent PwC study dropped a stat worth jotting down on a Post-it: 74% of AI’s economic value is currently captured by just 20% of organizations. The remaining 80% are generating activity (dashboards, proofs-of-concept, enthusiastic… Read more: Is the AI value gap wider than anyone is admitting?

At the Google Cloud Next conference, Google and NVIDIA outlined their hardware roadmap designed to address the cost of AI inference at scale. The companies detailed the new A5X bare-metal instances, which run on NVIDIA… Read more: NVIDIA and Google infrastructure cuts AI inference costs

Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, on a computer monitor on Dec. 1, 2024, in New York. Company apps, including Rufus, may make it easier to shop, but consumers might balk at giving up too much… Read more: What we lose when artificial intelligence does our shopping

Scientists have identified two specific types of brain cells that behave differently in people with depression, offering a clearer picture of what is happening inside the brain. By analyzing donated brain tissue with advanced genetic… Read more: For the first time, scientists pinpoint the brain cells behind depression

An autonomous table tennis robot developed by Sony AI has competed against and defeated high-level human players in regulated matches, according to Reuters. The system is part of a broader category often referred to as… Read more: Sony AI robot beats players as humanoid robot wins Beijing race

ChapsVision, a global leader in AI and data solutions, today announced the general availability of ChapsAgents, its flagship platform designed to configure, deploy, orchestrate, and govern an entire ecosystem of AI agents across the enterprise. ChapsAgents empowers… Read more: ChapsVision Launches ChapsAgents for Trusted Enterprise AI

10Pearls, a global digital engineering firm helping enterprises operationalize AI at scale, has been named to the Northern Virginia Technology Council AI50 Awards, recognizing companies shaping the future of artificial intelligence across the National Capital… Read more: 10Pearls Recognized on NVTC’s AI50 for Enterprise AI Leadership

OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, announced today the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), reinforcing its position as the leading cloud and AI partner for businesses of… Read more: OpsGuru Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS

Award highlights joint leadership in modernizing and extending identity controls into real-time AI-driven environments Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities for the world’s largest enterprises, announced today that it has received the 2026… Read more: Ping Identity Wins 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year for IAM

A remarkably preserved, mummified reptile from 289 million years ago is rewriting what we know about how animals first breathed on land. This tiny creature, Captorhinus aguti, reveals the earliest known version of the rib-powered… Read more: 289-million-year-old mummified reptile reveals how breathing began on land

A bizarre crocodile relative from the age of dinosaurs is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about ancient reptiles. This poodle-sized creature, called Sonselasuchus cedrus, appears to have started life walking on all fours before… Read more: This ancient crocodile relative grew up on four legs then walked on two

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried thousands of kilometers underground. Using a massive global dataset of seismic waves, they found that most deformation… Read more: Scientists discover hidden forces are warping Earth deep beneath the surface

A breakthrough in brain-inspired computing could make today’s energy-hungry AI systems far more efficient. Researchers have engineered a new nanoelectronic device using a modified form of hafnium oxide that mimics how neurons process and store… Read more: This new brain-like chip could slash AI energy use by 70%

We’re being sold a world where there’s no room for reflection or spontaneity. This is the Black Mirror stage of capitalism How fast do you have to strike a match to get it to light?… Read more: To be human is to live with friction. That’s something AI boosters will never understand | Alexander Hurst

Scientists at UC Irvine have found a way to potentially reverse age-related vision loss by targeting the ELOVL2 “aging gene” and restoring vital fatty acids in the retina. Their experiments in mice show that supplementing… Read more: This simple fatty acid could restore failing vision

Crypto scammers are targeting the thousands of ships stranded near the Strait of Hormuz—and at least one ship that faced Iranian gunfire may have been tricked into believing it had paid Iran for safe passage.… Read more: Crypto scam lures ships into Strait of Hormuz, falsely promising safe passage

“To be clear, we were never approached … nor were we in any discussions regarding a partnership or tour access,” a spokesperson for the artist tells WIRED.

Tesla published its quarterly financials ahead of an investor call this afternoon. The maker of electric vehicles has become an increasingly polarized brand but a valuable one: $1.21 trillion at the time of writing. And… Read more: Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable

While the Trump administration has reportedly tried to rein in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s widely unpopular anti-vaccine agenda, the political strategy is not working when it comes to words or actions. Kennedy on… Read more: RFK Jr. won’t back CDC director on vaccines as agency scraps positive data

Two gamers who want tariff refunds sued Nintendo of America yesterday, alleging that the company intends to pocket refunds received from the government instead of giving money back to consumers who paid higher prices. The… Read more: Lawsuit: Nintendo is getting tariff refunds—its customers should get them instead

Earlier this year, we committed to publishing a reader-facing explanation of how Ars Technica uses, and doesn’t use, generative AI. Translating our internal policy into a reader-facing document that meets our standards for clarity and… Read more: Our newsroom AI policy

Remember Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s new AI model that it hyped as being so powerful that it was too dangerous to release to the public? Well, it’s already been broken into, according to new reporting from… Read more: Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI

Mozilla says Firefox 150 patches 271 vulnerabilities found with Anthropic’s restricted Mythos AI, highlighting how quickly AI-driven bug hunting is accelerating. The post Mozilla Fixes 271 Firefox Bugs Using Anthropic’s Mythos AI appeared first on… Read more: Mozilla Fixes 271 Firefox Bugs Using Anthropic’s Mythos AI

Vonage’s partnership with Girls Who Code is more than feel-good philanthropy; it’s a blueprint for building diverse AI talent pipelines. The post Vonage, Girls Who Code Show What ‘Responsible AI’ Looks Like appeared first on… Read more: Vonage, Girls Who Code Show What ‘Responsible AI’ Looks Like

At Data Center World, experts explain how generative and agentic AI are reshaping data center power, cooling, and infrastructure demands. The post AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling appeared first… Read more: AI Demand Is Forcing a Rethink of Data Center Power, Cooling

Warner Bros.’ bizarre 2023 decision to shelve its live-action/animated film, Coyote vs. Acme, sparked outrage both in the industry and among fans online. But the film is finally being released, and Ketchup Entertainment, its new… Read more: Coyote vs. Acme is finally getting released—with a killer trailer

Anthropic caused a stir among developers with what appeared to be a surprise change to its pricing plan: The company signaled that Claude Code, the popular agentic development tool, would no longer be available to… Read more: Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan

Confidence is persuasive. In artificial intelligence systems, it is often misleading. Today’s most capable reasoning models share a trait with the loudest voice in the room: They deliver every answer with the same unshakable certainty,… Read more: Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on Americans in real time, independent journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed. Financial statements viewed by Klippenstein point to the… Read more: Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development framework to run Linux or macOS… Read more: Microsoft issues emergency update for macOS and Linux ASP.NET threat

During most of the Artemis II mission, the crew of four astronauts beamed back low-definition video, both from inside the spacecraft and from exterior views of the Moon. It was exhilarating stuff, but in a… Read more: You want your Moon landings in HDTV? So does NASA—here’s how it’s happening.

Former GlobalLogic CEO and Hitachi Apex Executive to Fuel Tenarai’s Global Expansion of Enterprise AI Solutions Following its launch as the enterprise AI acceleration company, Tenarai (formerly Infogain), today announced the appointment of Shashank Samant to its… Read more: Tenarai Appoints Shashank Samant to its Board of Directors

Most of the companies that have fully committed to building AI models are gobbling up every Nvidia AI accelerator they can get, but Google has taken a different approach. Most of its cloud AI infrastructure… Read more: Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the “agentic era”

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that putting enormous AI data centers in Earth’s orbit is a “no-brainer.” At the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, Musk claimed that the unconstrained solar… Read more: SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea

Budget outlines funding for autonomous drone warfare program as experts say military unprepared for risks The Pentagon is aiming to increase funding more than a hundredfold for an autonomous drone warfare program, according to budget… Read more: Pentagon asks for $54bn in pivot towards AI-powered war

The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.

On Tuesday, the president read from the Bible in a taped message. Religious scholars were not impressed This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every… Read more: What Trump’s Bible stunt says about his complicated history with Christianity

A year ago today, AI giant Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, made a bold pronouncement: within the next year, AI-powered employees will begin traipsing around the virtual innards of big companies around the… Read more: Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World

On Tuesday, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction blocking the US government from applying a range of restrictions on renewable power development, at least for the parties in the… Read more: New court ruling blocks many of the government’s anti-renewable policies

Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical predictions for the magnetic properties of the muon, the electron’s heavier cousin—a mismatch that hinted at a possible fifth… Read more: Physicists think they’ve solved the muon mystery

Fivetran momentum driven by customer growth, trillion-row data scale and continued platform innovation Fivetran, the data foundation for AI, today announced that customers ingested more than 18 trillion monthly active rows into BigQuery in 2025,… Read more: Fivetran Surpasses 18 Trillion Monthly Rows in BigQuery

The US is investigating a possible conspiracy after at least 10 scientists connected to US nuclear secrets and rocket technology went missing or died under shadowy circumstances over the past few years. Pointing to tabloid… Read more: Tabloid reports linking 10 missing and dead scientists spur FBI probe

Trump’s proposed 2027 budget would almost double the budget for plutonium pits, the chemical filled metal sphere inside a nuclear warhead that kicks off the explosion in a nuclear weapon. The same budget would slash… Read more: Trump Wants to Double Production of New Nuclear Weapon Cores

As fear over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continues to simmer, some tech leaders remain adamant that the wide proliferation of AI will lead to more employment opportunities, not fewer. Consider a recent panel at Stanford… Read more: Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You

Automated AI vulnerability discovery is reversing the enterprise security costs that traditionally favour attackers. Bringing exploits to zero was once viewed as an unrealistic goal. The prevailing operational doctrine aimed to make attacks so expensive… Read more: Reversing enterprise security costs with AI vulnerability discovery

One group of hackers used AI for everything from vibe coding their malware to creating fake company websites—and stole as much as $12 million in three months.

If charging speed is one of the major stumbling blocks preventing people from considering an electric vehicle, then ChargePoint’s new Express Solo DC fast charger is a step in the right direction. It has been… Read more: As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger

Like many medical school students, Sam was broke. The 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and… Read more: Indian med student rakes in thousands with AI-generated MAGA hottie

In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI’s Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rules An AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a landmark achievement for… Read more: AI-powered robot beats elite table tennis players