
- Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
In the future, you won’t be able to use Reddit without logging in. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman confirmed the impending change in a letter (PDF) to shareholders today about Q3 performance. He said that Reddit… Read more: Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says - More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result
Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as expected Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result - HPE cuts executive status meetings with no-code apps built on monday.com
Enterprises are learning that no-code apps deliver the most value when the people closest to the work build them. As AI agents arrive inside work management platforms, the harder task is getting employees comfortable enough… Read more: HPE cuts executive status meetings with no-code apps built on monday.com - Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report
E-commerce company posts high cloud computing sales but gives a cautious sales forecast for the fourth quarter Amazon offered a mixed picture of its financial health on Thursday in its quarterly earnings report. The e-commerce… Read more: Amazon gives Wall Street mixed financial picture in earnings report - Wabi reels in $55M for its consumer-focused AI assistant
Wabi Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence assistant for consumers, today announced that it has raised $55 million in funding. IVP led the seed round with contributions from Amazon Alexa Fund, Andreessen Horowitz and… Read more: Wabi reels in $55M for its consumer-focused AI assistant - Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
President Donald Trump has declared the imports of foreign-made factory robots to be a national security threat—ordering new US negotiations with trading partners while holding out the possibility of imposing new tariffs on such robot… Read more: Trump declares robot imports a national security threat - Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine
The Pentagon inspector general’s office declined a request from US senators to investigate restrictions recently imposed on the Ukraine military’s use of SpaceX’s satellite network. Ukraine, which uses SpaceX’s Starlink service and the military version… Read more: Pentagon IG refuses to investigate Starlink/Starshield slowdown in Ukraine - Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides
Microsoft is beginning the rollout of a Windows 11 preview update that finally addresses a persistent power user complaint with the operating system: the right-click menu that obliterated years of muscle memory on command locations,… Read more: Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides - Using ChatGPT before a medical appointment? How to get the best support for your health questions
Erin is in her early 40s. She works part time in a demanding job and has two kids in primary school. She feels constantly exhausted, she’s often angry and feels like she can’t think like… Read more: Using ChatGPT before a medical appointment? How to get the best support for your health questions - Frustrated Resident Blasts the Screeching Sound of a Data Center to a County Official During a Council Meeting, Gets Mocked
A fiscal court meeting in Carroll County, Kentucky grew contentious when local residents started playing the sound of a data center to county officials. Spoiler: they didn’t seem to like it. As local news station… Read more: Frustrated Resident Blasts the Screeching Sound of a Data Center to a County Official During a Council Meeting, Gets Mocked - Google admits AI search makes less money, but it’s fixing that with more ads
Google parent Alphabet reported its Q3 financial results on Wednesday afternoon, showing a healthy rise in revenue for the months of July to September. But the company’s stock price has taken a beating, marking one… Read more: Google admits AI search makes less money, but it’s fixing that with more ads - Turning a solar power system into its own backup
Rather than directly converting photons into electricity, concentrated solar energy uses mirrors to turn sunlight into heat, which can then be used to drive traditional generating turbines. Up to about a decade ago, there was… Read more: Turning a solar power system into its own backup - Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO
Donald Trump apparently is so aligned with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang—who has become the president’s key advisor on AI—that he ignored intelligence indicating that Huang was the target of a “Chinese spy plot,” and did… Read more: Report: Trump did nothing with intel that China planted spy close to Nvidia CEO - A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched. - Motion Picture Association runs its legal operations on a CRM built for sales
Legal operations teams are finding that software built for sales pipelines can just as easily run investigations and member communications. As AI agents take on triage work, even nontechnical teams are building those workflows themselves.… Read more: Motion Picture Association runs its legal operations on a CRM built for sales - Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for ‘Up to 4 Weeks’
Archive of Our Own (AO3), a massive repository for fanfiction and creative writing, might be down for as long as a month after going down for “maintenance” on Thursday. The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW),… Read more: Massive Fanfic Site Archive of Our Own Says It’s Going Down for ‘Up to 4 Weeks’ - Continuous close could make accountants everyday business advisors
Continuous close, in which a company’s books are closed every day instead of weeks after month-end, could change how accounting firms serve clients. As artificial intelligence shrinks the lag between a transaction and the advice… Read more: Continuous close could make accountants everyday business advisors - Podcast: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real
We start this week with Jason and Joseph’s article about leaked audio from a private police conference. In that audio, Flock’s CEO made all sorts of wild claims about the backlash to his company not… Read more: Podcast: Flock CEO Says the Backlash Isn’t Real - Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff in Windows, Copilot
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees, including Copilot and Windows staff. Here’s what the workforce changes could mean for enterprise IT teams. The post Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff in Windows, Copilot appeared… Read more: Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Staff in Windows, Copilot - Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face.
Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it’s now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after… Read more: Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face. - Meta Launches Waddle World: An AI Pet That Journals About Your Day
Meta’s Waddle World AI pet app brings journaling to the Philippines. Learn how it works, who can use it, and what its privacy disclosures reveal. The post Meta Launches Waddle World: An AI Pet That… Read more: Meta Launches Waddle World: An AI Pet That Journals About Your Day - Amazon’s New Alexa Lineup: Five Devices, More Features, New Trade-Offs
Amazon’s five new Alexa devices add cameras, sleep sensing, and smart-home features. Compare prices, Alexa+ requirements, compatibility, and privacy controls. The post Amazon’s New Alexa Lineup: Five Devices, More Features, New Trade-Offs appeared first on… Read more: Amazon’s New Alexa Lineup: Five Devices, More Features, New Trade-Offs - Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model
Mistral AI SAS today announced the availability of the open weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the company’s most capable large language model to date, initially released in preview three… Read more: Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model - Proton to Re-Interview Employees on AI Skills as Jobs Hang in Balance
Proton plans to reassess employees’ AI skills in interviews that could affect their jobs, raising questions about AI adoption and workforce evaluations. The post Proton to Re-Interview Employees on AI Skills as Jobs Hang in… Read more: Proton to Re-Interview Employees on AI Skills as Jobs Hang in Balance - Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents
An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers,… Read more: Massive leak exposes 41,000 DHS workers and undercover ICE agents - Amazon Warns Engineers Against AI Productivity Traps in Latest Memo
As concerns grow over AI’s impact on software engineering jobs, Amazon has issued a memo outlining what it expects from its engineers as AI reshapes software development. While acknowledging AI’s capabilities in software engineering and… Read more: Amazon Warns Engineers Against AI Productivity Traps in Latest Memo - Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, had a message for an employee in the company’s security Slack channel who urged the company to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before… Read more: Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning - The ‘Pain in the Ass’ Math That Could Save Vibe Coding From Itself
A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended. - What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?
Using AI for roles from executive assistants to chiefs of staff, companies are boasting about doing more with less, creating tension with their human workers On an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of… Read more: What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents? - Reader Q&A: Send a question to Guardian economics columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty will be online at 2pm GMT (9am EDT) on Friday to answer your questions on the big ideas around economics,… Read more: Reader Q&A: Send a question to Guardian economics columnist Aditya Chakrabortty - BlueCloud Strengthens Global Capabilities for Enterprise Data and AI
Growth in India and Latin America builds on established operations in Eastern Europe and strengthens BlueCloud’s ability to deliver Snowflake and Data + AI solutions at scale. BlueCloud, a Snowflake Elite Services Partner delivering advisory-led… Read more: BlueCloud Strengthens Global Capabilities for Enterprise Data and AI - Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity. - Less than 42 minutes of bright daylight linked to higher dementia risk
Getting more daylight could be linked to a surprisingly powerful benefit for brain health. In a study of more than 87,000 adults, researchers found that higher daytime light exposure was associated with a 16% lower… Read more: Less than 42 minutes of bright daylight linked to higher dementia risk - Einstein’s equations may explain the universe without dark energy
Mathematicians have uncovered what they argue is a fundamental flaw in the standard model of the universe, potentially challenging the need for dark energy. Their calculations suggest that the mathematical framework used to describe cosmic… Read more: Einstein’s equations may explain the universe without dark energy - Gnani AI Launches Prisma v3.0 Speech Recognition Model for 10 Languages
Bengaluru-based Gnani AI has launched Prisma v3.0, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model designed to transcribe multilingual conversations, including speech that switches between Indian languages and English within a sentence. The model supports Hindi, Bengali,… Read more: Gnani AI Launches Prisma v3.0 Speech Recognition Model for 10 Languages - Driverless 18-wheelers are on a few highways, but widespread use is a long way down the road
A self-driving tractor-trailer cruises around a test track in Pittsburgh. AP/Gene J. Puskar Driverless trucks with artificial intelligence on board could dramatically change the landscape of freight shipping. A few companies have begun testing early… Read more: Driverless 18-wheelers are on a few highways, but widespread use is a long way down the road - The UK wants ‘AI sovereignty’ to cut its reliance on foreign tech – here’s how that can be achieved
Pixels Hunter / Shutterstock The UK government wants to grow the country’s native AI industry to reduce its dependence on systems made by foreign companies. In the Budget on October 28, Chancellor John Healey announced… Read more: The UK wants ‘AI sovereignty’ to cut its reliance on foreign tech – here’s how that can be achieved - NASA discovers Jupiter’s invisible shield is more complex than Earth’s
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has discovered that Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system of powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions to defend against the solar wind. The findings reveal major differences between Jupiter and Earth… Read more: NASA discovers Jupiter’s invisible shield is more complex than Earth’s - A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost world where early humans lived
A remarkably preserved elephant tooth dating back nearly 700,000 years has revealed a surprisingly lush prehistoric world where giant elephants and early humans lived side by side. Discovered in northern Israel alongside ancient stone tools,… Read more: A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost world where early humans lived - Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell
The Michigan Senate candidate is calling for public ownership and other reforms, offering a potential antidote to ideological gridlock The Michigan senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, occupies a strange but increasingly common place in… Read more: Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell - Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging
A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of brain aging. Six popular… Read more: Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging - A single brain signal may explain schizophrenia’s most puzzling symptoms
Scientists have identified a weakened brain signal that may connect several seemingly unrelated symptoms of schizophrenia, including sensory processing difficulties, disorganized speech, and greater symptom severity. The surprising discovery could help explain the disorder’s underlying… Read more: A single brain signal may explain schizophrenia’s most puzzling symptoms - AIB Data Centers Names Jason Burnett as Chief Operations Officer
Former Hivelocity and DataBank Executive Will Lead Construction and Operations Appointment Strengthens AIB’s Ability to Deliver Its Contracted Power Capacity of 120 MW and Further Scale Its Data Center Platform AIB Data Centers Inc. (NYSE… Read more: AIB Data Centers Names Jason Burnett as Chief Operations Officer - Mindbreeze and SoftAdvice Unite in Enterprise Intelligence
Mindbreeze, a global leader in AI-powered knowledge management solutions, and SoftAdvice, a consulting and IT services provider in the Benelux region, are combining their expertise in Enterprise Intelligence. Together, the two companies are creating a… Read more: Mindbreeze and SoftAdvice Unite in Enterprise Intelligence - Kindo Announced the Introduction of Deep Hat Sift
New System One decision model learns which events need an LLM and skips the rest, so AI agents can work the busiest data streams without paying to analyze every event Kindo, the run-anywhere AI agent… Read more: Kindo Announced the Introduction of Deep Hat Sift - Articul8 Launches Bivia To Help Enterprise AI Agents Make Decisions
Articul8 has introduced Bivia, a decision-making model designed to help enterprise AI agents evaluate information and make structured decisions across text, images, documents and other data formats. Available through an application programming interface (API), Bivia… Read more: Articul8 Launches Bivia To Help Enterprise AI Agents Make Decisions - Indian IT’s New Workforces Come with a Margin Challenge
More than 20,000 employees have moved from global capability centres (GCCs), enterprise IT subsidiaries and product operations to IT services providers over the past 12 months, estimates Pareekh Jain, CEO of EIIRTrend, a market research… Read more: Indian IT’s New Workforces Come with a Margin Challenge - Anthropic Makes $2.08 in Revenue for Every $1 Spent on Compute — Here’s the Full IPO Story
Anthropic has filed to go public in the US. Its IPO filing offers a closer look at its exponential revenue growth, mounting infrastructure costs, potential losses and concerns over the safety of its AI systems.… Read more: Anthropic Makes $2.08 in Revenue for Every $1 Spent on Compute — Here’s the Full IPO Story - Venttup Raises $3 Million To Expand Precision Manufacturing
Venttup has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha and Unicorn India Ventures to scale production for deep-tech companies and OEMs. The company plans to invest in precision manufacturing,… Read more: Venttup Raises $3 Million To Expand Precision Manufacturing - Solink raises more than $100M to pull business data from security cameras with AI
Video intelligence company Solink Corp. revealed today that it has raised more than $100 million in new funding. Solink started out in Ottawa in 2009 selling cloud video surveillance, and its software now uses artificial… Read more: Solink raises more than $100M to pull business data from security cameras with AI - Crux Labs raises over $6M to improve enterprise agents with human judgment
Crux Labs, an artificial intelligence platform turning enterprise judgment into continuous agent improvement, launched today with over $6 million in funding. Benchstrength and Misneach led the round, with participation from Analog Ventures and Pareto Holdings. The… Read more: Crux Labs raises over $6M to improve enterprise agents with human judgment - Sarvam AI Rolls Out Indus Cowork to 2,500 Maharashtra Govt Officials
Sarvam AI’s Indus Cowork is being rolled out to 2,500 Maharashtra government officials following its launch by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on October 28. The AI productivity platform is designed to help officials draft documents,… Read more: Sarvam AI Rolls Out Indus Cowork to 2,500 Maharashtra Govt Officials - India’s Enterprises are Scaling AI. Is the Infrastructure Ready?
Indian enterprises are investing in artificial intelligence, but deploying AI agents across business operations presents a challenge that goes beyond the models themselves: whether existing digital infrastructure can support them. AI agents need to retrieve… Read more: India’s Enterprises are Scaling AI. Is the Infrastructure Ready? - NVIDIA Launches Open-Weight Transcription Model for 40 Languages
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe on October 28, an open-weight speech model that can transcribe audio in 40 languages, translate speech and identify speakers. Developers can use natural-language instructions to control transcript formatting without retraining… Read more: NVIDIA Launches Open-Weight Transcription Model for 40 Languages - Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings
Human practitioners warn computer-generated offerings lack the empathy and connection central to divination “This journey isn’t just about algorithms or data,” an AI psychic named Urban Mystic recently told me. The chatbot, featuring an AI-generated… Read more: Computerized clairvoyance: psychics push back against AI-generated readings - The AI Slowdown Narrative Doesn’t Reflect Enterprise Reality
While the West debates slowing frontier AI development, enterprises are rushing to adopt the technology across their business processes. But deploying AI at scale remains a challenge, as enterprises struggle to keep pace with rapidly… Read more: The AI Slowdown Narrative Doesn’t Reflect Enterprise Reality - Trust ID Unveils Identity Resolution for Humans and Their AI Agents
Proven at enterprise scale and now available to every business that needs to know who and what is real online. Tracer Labs today opened Trust ID, its enterprise identity platform, to businesses of every size.… Read more: Trust ID Unveils Identity Resolution for Humans and Their AI Agents - Realbotix Announced the Relaunch of Ask Aria Digital AI Avatar
Ask Aria, an AI powered 3D digital avatar, is now available on the Realbotix.com website. Ask Aria delivers expressive conversations and introduces Vinci-powered visual awareness, establishing the foundation for personalized, memory-enabled experiences. Realbotix Corp. (TSX-V:… Read more: Realbotix Announced the Relaunch of Ask Aria Digital AI Avatar - The Economics of Continuous Inference
An AI model may prove its capabilities during evaluation, but the real test begins when users start using it at scale. A benchmark measures model capability under controlled conditions; production serving must meet latency, concurrency,… Read more: The Economics of Continuous Inference - Senators Demand Meta Answer for ‘Pervert Glasses’ Following 404 Media Investigation
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to Meta on Wednesday demanding the company answer for the privacy concerns its smart glasses pose to the public. The letter cites 404… Read more: Senators Demand Meta Answer for ‘Pervert Glasses’ Following 404 Media Investigation - I Gave My Blood to the AI Death Clock
Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me. - Coforge Introduces Autonomous Software Factory to Coordinate AI Agents
Coforge has introduced an Autonomous Software Factory (ASF), which the IT services company said is designed to coordinate AI agents across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), covering coding, testing, validation, code review and quality assurance.… Read more: Coforge Introduces Autonomous Software Factory to Coordinate AI Agents - Adeptia Automate 5.3 Brings Intelligent ETL to Business Teams and AI
Automate 5.3 lets AI agents, and the business teams working alongside them, build and validate data mappings in natural language, cutting mapping time from weeks to minutes and easing the load on scarce technical talent.… Read more: Adeptia Automate 5.3 Brings Intelligent ETL to Business Teams and AI - EQS Group unveils Q by EQS, its intelligence layer for compliance
From contextual answers to configurable agents, Q by EQS opens the way for compliance teams to delegate complex work while retaining oversight and control EQS Group today announced the launch of Q by EQS, an… Read more: EQS Group unveils Q by EQS, its intelligence layer for compliance - Google Announces Gemini 4 Carbon With Focus on Cybersecurity and Coding
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, describing it as its strongest artificial intelligence model, with improved cybersecurity capabilities and the ability to handle complex, long-running tasks. The model is designed to identify software… Read more: Google Announces Gemini 4 Carbon With Focus on Cybersecurity and Coding - SAP India Targets 2 Million People for AI Skilling by 2030
SAP India on October 28 announced plans to expand its artificial intelligence skilling initiatives to equip two million people in India with AI-ready skills by 2030. The initiative forms part of SAP’s global commitment to… Read more: SAP India Targets 2 Million People for AI Skilling by 2030 - Samsung One UI 9 vs ColorOS 17: Which Handles AI, Multitasking, and Privacy Better?
Samsung prioritizes contextual AI, while OPPO adds agents that can organize files. See how One UI 9 and ColorOS 17 differ on privacy and multitasking. The post Samsung One UI 9 vs ColorOS 17: Which… Read more: Samsung One UI 9 vs ColorOS 17: Which Handles AI, Multitasking, and Privacy Better? - Humanoid Robots in 2027: Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Race to Deploy
Which humanoid robots are closest to deployment in 2027? Compare Tesla, Figure AI, Agility Robotics, and other leaders in industrial automation. The post Humanoid Robots in 2027: Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Race to Deploy… Read more: Humanoid Robots in 2027: Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Race to Deploy - HCLTech Launches Nano GCC Model With AWS to Build AI Operations
HCLTech has launched a nano Global Capability Centre (GCC) offering built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), targeting enterprises looking to establish AI-focused operations through smaller, product-centric teams. The offering is part of HCLTech’s GCC 360… Read more: HCLTech Launches Nano GCC Model With AWS to Build AI Operations - ‘You’re Not Doing This AI Stuff,’ Databricks CEO Tells Snowflake
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi took a jab at rival Snowflake over its AI strategy, telling the company to consider buying AI tokens through Databricks after Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy questioned the data software company’s revenue… Read more: ‘You’re Not Doing This AI Stuff,’ Databricks CEO Tells Snowflake - Alphabet Revenue Jumps 25% as Google Cloud Doubles & Search Growth Slows
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported a 25% year-on-year increase in third-quarter revenue to $127.6 billion, driven by strong growth in its cloud business and continued expansion in Search. For the quarter ended September 30, 2026,… Read more: Alphabet Revenue Jumps 25% as Google Cloud Doubles & Search Growth Slows - Sarvam, Krutrim Account for 68% of Indic AI Funding as Sector Raises $687 Million: Tracxn
Indian companies developing artificial intelligence (AI) for the country’s languages have raised $687 million in disclosed equity funding across 80 rounds, according to a Tracxn report released on October 28. The report, Indic AI: Building… Read more: Sarvam, Krutrim Account for 68% of Indic AI Funding as Sector Raises $687 Million: Tracxn - Grok can launch a thousand ships – but this AI remake of the Odyssey can’t make us feel
Grok Imagine a father pretending to be mad because he wants to stay with his son and his family and not go to war. When his son’s life is in danger, he is forced to… Read more: Grok can launch a thousand ships – but this AI remake of the Odyssey can’t make us feel - Microsoft’s Azure Revenue Grows 48% in September Quarter
Microsoft reports a 48% year-on-year increase in Azure revenue in Q1 FY27, driven by demand for cloud computing and AI services. The company’s overall revenue was $92.3 billion for the quarter, up 19% year-on-year. Net… Read more: Microsoft’s Azure Revenue Grows 48% in September Quarter - Scientists discover a hidden oxygen reservoir deep inside Earth
Scientists have discovered that magma deep inside Earth can store surprising amounts of extra oxygen, potentially revealing a hidden contributor to our planet’s oxygen-rich atmosphere. The findings suggest that ancient volcanic eruptions may have helped… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden oxygen reservoir deep inside Earth - Meteors don’t just burn up. What really happens is far more violent
Scientists have uncovered seven surprising stages that space rocks go through as they hurtle toward Earth, revealing that melting and violent fragmentation, rather than simple evaporation, determine their fate. The discovery could help explain why… Read more: Meteors don’t just burn up. What really happens is far more violent - Scientists just broke a textbook rule of physics
Scientists have defied a long-standing rule of laser physics by generating X-rays with much higher energies than conventional theory predicts. The surprising discovery reveals how two electrons working together can overcome a previously accepted limit,… Read more: Scientists just broke a textbook rule of physics - Your blood pressure could be dangerous even when your numbers look normal
Researchers have discovered a small group of brain cells that prevents dangerous blood pressure swings, even when average readings appear normal. The finding reveals a hidden source of cardiovascular risk and could open the door… Read more: Your blood pressure could be dangerous even when your numbers look normal - What would happen if the internet went down?
Lightsaber Collection/Unsplash For many, the internet is feeling less secure these days, thanks to generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools making it easier than ever to exploit hidden security flaws. Last week’s PHP incident is a… Read more: What would happen if the internet went down? - Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has unilaterally passed a rule that will allow specialty pharmacies to sell six specific peptide drugs, overruling scientists at the Food and Drug Administration. The peptides are popular among… Read more: Peptide peddlers cheer as RFK Jr. unilaterally grants access, overruling FDA - As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
The European Union plans to create the first subsea Internet cable directly connecting Europe to Greenland. The Pan-Arctic Cable project could also extend to Canada and eventually link with Japan and South Korea, notably bypassing… Read more: As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland - ULA’s Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th
United Launch Alliance announced Wednesday it plans to return its Vulcan rocket to service on November 13, nine months after a solid rocket booster anomaly threw the company’s 2026 launch schedule into oblivion. The return-to-flight… Read more: ULA’s Vulcan rocket is set to return to flight on Friday the 13th - Google debuts flagship Gemini 4 Carbon model with cybersecurity upgrades
Google LLC today debuted Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier large language model adept at complex programming tasks. The LLM is rolling out just two weeks after the search introduced its previous flagship LLM, Gemini 4… Read more: Google debuts flagship Gemini 4 Carbon model with cybersecurity upgrades - Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can’t use
It’s almost like Google’s got something to prove after taking a break from releasing new frontier AI models earlier this year. Just two weeks after rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, Google has announced Gemini 4… Read more: Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can’t use - Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac
LOS ANGELES—For about five minutes on an extremely crowded showroom floor, I got to take pictures of the new MacBook Pro and test out some of its new features. First impressions: It’s not as much… Read more: Touchscreen MacBook Pro hands-on: OLED looks great on a Mac - The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona
The private space tourism era looked so very promising five years ago. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic had begun flying customers—real people with zero space experience—on suborbital missions. And at about the same time, private… Read more: The last, best hope for space tourism just rolled onto a runway in Arizona - Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state’s total ban on gambling
The Trump administration is trying to stop Utah from enforcing its gambling ban against Kalshi, making Utah the 10th state sued by the US government agency that regulates prediction markets. Utah, which prohibits gambling, sued… Read more: Trump admin sues Utah to save Kalshi from the state’s total ban on gambling - The Hinge on Apple’s Constantly Breaking New Foldable iPhone Was “Built With AI”
The success of Apple’s new folding iPhone Duo hinged on its, well, hinge. But sadly for the multi trillion dollar company, some of the larger, inner screens on its $2,000-plus devices are already cracking, and… Read more: The Hinge on Apple’s Constantly Breaking New Foldable iPhone Was “Built With AI” - Cloudera expands its AI ecosystem with partnerships and packaged blueprints
Cloudera Inc. has announced an expansion of its enterprise artificial intelligence ecosystem, introducing preconfigured AI applications built with Nvidia Corp. technology and expanding partnerships with Neo4j Inc. and Mistral AI SAS. Cloudera said the initiatives… Read more: Cloudera expands its AI ecosystem with partnerships and packaged blueprints - Top AI Safety Researcher Says He’s Stopped Saving for Retirement Because He’s So Sure We’re All Going to Die
In the troubling view of machine learning researcher Nate Soares, AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade. At least, that’s what Soares said during a recent episode of… Read more: Top AI Safety Researcher Says He’s Stopped Saving for Retirement Because He’s So Sure We’re All Going to Die - Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
LOS ANGELES—Apple today announced and gave a first glimpse of its first major MacBook Pro redesign in more than five years. As rumored, it includes an OLED display and, for the first time on macOS,… Read more: Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display - Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
A Florida county that discovered a clump of mysterious unpermitted Flock cameras during a countywide takedown effort won’t investigate who owned the sketchy cameras, which have since disappeared. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that… Read more: Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners - Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden’s win that November. If you ask Google’s AI Mode… Read more: Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections - Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
“Please have at least 125 miles of range left when we pick it up.” That request from the people who look after the Cadillac press cars wasn’t going to be hard to honor. The electric… Read more: Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV - Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
Since debuting in 2019, Amazon’s Echo Studio targeted users who wanted superior audio quality from their Alexa-based smart speaker. The latest Echo Studio adds another less-expected differentiator: an integrated camera. The Echo Studio with Home… Read more: Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too - Netherlands Plans 25,000 Job Cuts as Government Turns to AI
The Netherlands plans 25,000 government job cuts as it explores AI savings. See the 2027 timeline and steps for Dutch and EMEA public-sector IT teams. The post Netherlands Plans 25,000 Job Cuts as Government Turns… Read more: Netherlands Plans 25,000 Job Cuts as Government Turns to AI - Elon Musk-Linked Startup Says Its AI Agents Hacked Anthropic in Just Hours
A months-old cybersecurity startup that was founded by former members of Elon Musk’s disbanded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claims it has hacked the internal systems of frontier AI lab Anthropic. As the Washington Post… Read more: Elon Musk-Linked Startup Says Its AI Agents Hacked Anthropic in Just Hours - I Put a Bunch of AI Agents in Charge of a Fantasy Soccer Team. They’re Not Better Than Humans—Yet
To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways. - Woman Dies After ChatGPT Coached Her to Decrease Dose of Medication Prescribed by Doctor
A family is suing OpenAI over the death of a 31-year-old user in Seattle who died of a seizure after ChatGPT coached her on how to decrease the dose of her epilepsy medication. The lawsuit… Read more: Woman Dies After ChatGPT Coached Her to Decrease Dose of Medication Prescribed by Doctor - Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer
Let’s face it, the mid-December box office will be dominated by Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, but for those seeking fun holiday family fare, Jumanji: Open World opens the very next week on Christmas… Read more: Buckle up for more body-swapping hijinks in Jumanji: Open World trailer
