A major new study finds that living in pesticide-heavy environments could raise cancer risk by up to 150%, even when the chemicals are considered “safe” on their own. The research suggests these mixtures may silently… Read more: Pesticide exposure linked to 150% higher cancer risk in major study

Results show higher usage among parents, Gen Z, and millennials Many Americans are turning to AI tools for medical information, but there are conflicting views about the trustworthiness of the results. More than three in… Read more: Survey: More Than 3 in 5 Americans Use AI for Health Info but Check Accuracy

The companies of Schwarz Group Commit $600M (€500M) in Structured Financing to Further Accelerate Germany-Canada Sovereign AI Venture Cohere and Aleph Alpha, two trusted sovereign AI providers for governments and regulated industries, today announce their… Read more: Cohere, Aleph Alpha Unite to Build Sovereign AI Powerhouse

A bizarre, cyclops-like creature from nearly 600 million years ago may hold the key to how your eyes—and even your sleep cycle—evolved. Scientists have discovered that all vertebrates, including humans, trace their vision back to… Read more: The shocking origin of human eyes traces back to an ancient “cyclops”

As enterprises accelerate AI agent deployments into production workflows, the attack surface has fragmented across AI Agent gateways, AI runtimes, AI frameworks, AI deployment platforms, and AI Agent toolkits, leaving 79% of enterprises with limited or… Read more: Akto Partners with Langchain, Portkey, TrueFoundry, Arcade, and LiteLLM

Research reveals a plateau in AI trust; identifies autonomous systems as the primary security hurdle for 2027 Lineaje, the full-lifecycle, autonomous management software supply chain security company, today released findings from its third annual on-site… Read more: Survey: 89% Trust AI Code Security Despite Limited Visibility

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news Shares in athletic apparel and footwear company Adidas have jumped by almost 1.75% in early trading after three of its athletes shone at the London Marathon… Read more: Oil at three-week high as US-Iran peace talks stall; China blocks Meta’s takeover of AI agent Manus – business live

New $500M program aims to help over 1,000 SMEs adopt AI — with early users already showing 24% higher productivity Canada’s small- and medium-sized business owners (SMEs) are missing out on the AI advantage. Only… Read more: BDC Launches LIFT: Getting Canadian SMEs off the AI sidelines

Musk’s lawsuit accuses Altman of fraud, while OpenAI says that Musk is ‘motivated by jealousy’ A lawsuit between two of Silicon Valley’s biggest tycoons goes to trial Monday in California, the culmination of a years-long… Read more: Elon Musk and Sam Altman face off in court over OpenAI’s founding mission

Due to the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, it is estimated that data centers will consume up to 12 percent of total U.S. electricity by 2028, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Improving data center… Read more: A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out By Chang Che. Read by Vincent Lai Continue reading…

. Paramount+ unveiled a new teaser for the upcoming fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at CCXP in Mexico City over the weekend. (Some spoilers for prior seasons below.) The third season of Strange… Read more: Strange New Worlds S4 teaser strikes a more serious tone

If your spider-sense is tingling, perhaps it’s because Prime Video released the official full trailer for its upcoming live action series, Spider-Noir, at CCXPMX26 in Mexico City over the weekend. As it did with the… Read more: Prime Video drops full trailer for Spider-Noir

A recent survey found that millions of Americans are asking AI chatbots for medical advice, often instead of consulting human doctors. That’s despite researchers continuing to find severe flaws plaguing large language model-based tools that… Read more: Top Medical Journal Publishes Searing Article Warning Against Medical AI

The famous mezcal “worm” has long puzzled scientists, but DNA testing has finally cracked the case. Researchers found that all sampled larvae were actually agave redworm moth caterpillars—not a mix of species as once believed.… Read more: Mezcal worm in a bottle DNA test reveals a surprise

The advent of large language model-based writing tools have given lazy or unconfident writers incredible new shortcuts that can spit out everything from glossy work emails to crispy school papers. The problem, of course, is… Read more: New Browser Plugin Adds Typos to Your AI-Generated Emails to Make Them Look Real

As if air travel in the United States wasn’t cursed enough, the Trump Administration wants to ease the burden of air traffic scheduling with the help of some private-market AI solutions. US Department of Transportation… Read more: America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

Amid a rapid, AI-driven technology boom and all the changes it’s entailed, mental health issues due to social isolation have been on the rise. Researchers in social and clinical psychology have documented this shift and… Read more: How principles of self-compassion help fight loneliness in the age of AI

AI isn’t all chatbots and meme generators. According to a new study published in the journal Science, it can also serve as a fountain of misinformation — and all it takes is for someone to… Read more: Experts Warn of AI Swarms Hijacking Democracy With Fake Citizens

Some employers are reluctant to cut workers’ hours but pay them the same – but it just might be the future of work We keep hearing that the four-day workweek is the future. So why… Read more: Bosses don’t like the sound of a ‘four-day workweek’. Maybe it’s time to rebrand it

Switching from one smartphone to another is mostly a smooth procedure. You log into your accounts and your apps, preferences, and contacts should sync to the new hardware. But in the world of robotics, swapping… Read more: New robotic control software avoids jamming their joints

First, they learned how to play tennis on two feet. Then, they came for our half-marathon world record. Now, robots are set to overtake us in the sport of table tennis as well. In a… Read more: New AI-Powered Robot Can Destroy Human Champions at Ping Pong

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African groups—especially the highly distinct Nama… Read more: DNA research just rewrote the origin of human species

Dinosaur DNA may still be out of reach, but scientists are uncovering something almost as exciting—ancient blood vessels hidden inside fossilized bones. In a massive Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Scotty, researchers discovered a network of preserved… Read more: Blood vessels found in T. rex bones are rewriting dinosaur science

The advent of generative AI continues to undermine the very concept of copyright, from entire books shamelessly ripping off authors to tasteless AI slop depicting beloved characters going viral on social media. The sin is… Read more: Devious New AI Tool “Clones” Software So That the Original Creator Doesn’t Hold a Copyright Over the New Version

The new courtroom gotcha? Check whether your opponent left in brainless AI hallucinations, and tattle on them to the judge. This is precisely how the prestigious Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, which boasts… Read more: Prestigious Wall Street Law Firm Humiliated When Its AI Use Is Discovered in Court

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower. The… Read more: UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

For ages, wall lizards coexisted in three distinct color types, each with its own strategy for survival. Now, a powerful green variant is taking over. These dominant “Hulk” lizards are outcompeting the others, causing yellow… Read more: Aggressive “hulk” lizards are wiping out millions of years of evolution

Fish oil has long been praised as brain-boosting, but new research suggests the story may be more complicated. Scientists found that in people with repeated mild head injuries, a key omega-3 fatty acid in fish… Read more: Fish oil may be hurting your brain, new study finds

While emerging technology is banned from the Palme d’Or, an upstart movement is gaining investment and attention In Cannes’ darkened screening rooms, the supposed future of cinema flickered into life this week and it was… Read more: Cannes AI film festival raises eyebrows – and questions about future

Workers across the US have had it with the prognostications of AI taking over the world. And their unions — or what’s left of them, anyway — are taking notice. Last week, the leaders of… Read more: Unions Attack AI for Menacing Human Jobs

Before seedlings can photosynthesize, they depend on fatty acids—and on peroxisomes to process them. Researchers discovered that the protein PEX11 not only helps these structures divide but also controls their size during early growth. When… Read more: Scientists just found what keeps plant cells from growing out of control

Ancient Earth once buzzed with enormous dragonfly-like insects, and scientists long thought high oxygen levels made their size possible. A new study overturns that idea, revealing insect flight muscles weren’t constrained by oxygen after all.… Read more: Giant prehistoric insects didn’t need high oxygen after all, study finds

Giant, fearsome octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas, according to new research that flips the script on their evolutionary past. By uncovering exquisitely preserved fossil jaws hidden inside rock, scientists revealed that early… Read more: Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago

In the chaotic first moments after the Big Bang, ripples in spacetime may have done more than just echo through the cosmos—they could have helped create dark matter itself. New research suggests that faint, ancient… Read more: Gravitational waves may have created dark matter in the early universe

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped inside a nucleus. This exotic state may reveal how mass is generated, suggesting that particles… Read more: This exotic particle could finally explain why matter has mass

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a surprisingly simple setup based on liquid crystals. Instead of relying on complex nanotechnology, the team used… Read more: New “optical tornado” technology could transform quantum communication

A gut bacterium may be quietly fueling depression through an unexpected chemical twist. Researchers found that when Morganella morganii interacts with a common pollutant, it produces a molecule that triggers inflammation—something strongly linked to depression.… Read more: Harvard scientists link gut bacteria to depression through hidden inflammation trigger

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent is gradually breaking apart. This “necking” process marks an advanced stage of rifting that could eventually… Read more: Scientists just discovered Africa is closer to breaking apart than we thought

Met says AI software unearthed rule-breaking ranging from work-from-home violations to suspected corruption The Metropolitan police have launched investigations into hundreds of officers after using an AI tool built by the controversial tech company Palantir… Read more: Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool

There’s a new link in the food chain of tech startups. Founders are realizing that they can make an extra buck by selling off the digital remains of their dead companies in the form of… Read more: Your Former Employer Is Selling Your Slacks and Emails to Train AI

Amid Tesla’s disappointing first quarter earnings report, a one-sentence disclosure tucked into the financial statement is raising more questions than answers. First spotted by Business Insider, the brief passage pointed to Tesla’s acquisition of a… Read more: Tesla Quietly Buys Mysterious $2 Billion Entity

With the circumlunar flight of Artemis II, and the prospect of landing astronauts on the lunar surface within a few years, humanity is preempting an era where the imprint of visiting the Moon would be… Read more: Artemis II broke Fred Haise’s distance record, but he is happy to pass it on

bWelcome back to the Abstract! Here are the stories this week that battled rivals, devoured sharks, solved riddles, and left fingerprints in the sky. First, scientists chronicle the victories of a jousting champion unlike any… Read more: A Mysterious Golden Orb Was Discovered Under the Sea. We Finally Know What It Is.

It took just a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trump’s immigration… Read more: Palantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”

As AI erases the bottom rungs of the corporate ladder, some gen Z workers skip the entry level to become their own CEOs When Ashley Terrell graduated from the University of Hawaii in 2024, she… Read more: Facing AI and a tough job market, gen Z turns to entrepreneurship: ‘I have to prove myself’

Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.

Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.

Elon Musk is expectorating racist diatribes even more than usual, and it’s alienating his fans and investors. On his website X, over six percent of Musk’s posts have been about race in the past seven… Read more: Elon Musk Fans Increasingly Disgusted by His Toxic Outbursts

The US Space Force released a list Friday of a dozen companies working on Space-Based Interceptors for the Pentagon’s Golden Dome initiative, a multilayer defense system to shield US territory from drones and ballistic, hypersonic,… Read more: This is who’s developing Golden Dome’s orbital interceptors—if they’re ever built

Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports. The investment follows Amazon’s $5 billion initial investment in Anthropic… Read more: Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

DeepSeek launches V4 AI model with Huawei chip support, offering lower costs and intensifying global AI competition. The post DeepSeek Drops Cheaper V4 AI as Huawei Jumps In appeared first on TechRepublic.

Move creates conflict between state and administration as Trump seeks federal framework over states handling issue Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The US justice department… Read more: US justice department steps in on behalf of xAI in Colorado regulation case

Moderna’s mRNA-based combination vaccine against both flu and COVID-19 has gotten the green light in Europe—but it continues to be shelved in the US, where it was developed. This week, the European Commission authorized Moderna… Read more: Europe—not US—first to authorize Moderna’s combo mRNA flu-COVID vaccine

Janet Mills says moratorium would’ve been ‘appropriate’ if it didn’t interfere with ongoing datacenter project in Maine The Democratic governor of Maine on Friday vetoed a bill that would have made it the first US… Read more: Democratic Maine governor vetoes first US state freeze on new datacenters

Hollywood has been “cooked” for years now, according to AI fanatics, yet movies still remain largely human-made, and nothing even close to an AI-generated blockbuster has hit the silver screen. Even certain filmmakers have also… Read more: Three Years Ago Today, “Avengers” Director Joe Russo Predicted There Would Be a Fully AI-Generated Movie Within Two Years

Those who suffered through chickenpox as kids likely remember the agony of its itchy rash. Oven mitts or snow gloves may have been used to prevent you from inadvertently clawing your skin off, while dips… Read more: In rare chickenpox case, itchy blisters mushroom into large, rubbery nodules

Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu,… Read more: Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

The Federal Communications Commission clarified this week that its sweeping ban on foreign-made consumer routers also affects portable hotspot devices. The FCC added a new section to an FAQ titled, “Is my device a consumer-grade… Read more: FCC: Router ban includes portable hotspots, but not phones with hotspot features

It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese streaming service known for its massive library of Asian films and TV shows, is anticipating that AI… Read more: Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly disappear. No one had ever collected… Read more: MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from April 20–24. The post AI Upgrades, Security Breaches, and Corporate Shakeups Define the Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Selling smartphones used to be easy—everyone wanted one, and every new phone was a lot better than the one that came before. Things are different now that smartphones are mature products. Plenty of manufacturers have… Read more: Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and massive, predatory sharks. For decades, the paleontological consensus was that this was the age of vertebrates; anything without… Read more: Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs

A US Army soldier was arrested for insider trading after being accused of making prediction-market wagers on the timing of the military’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke made… Read more: Soldier won $410K in Polymarket bets on timing of Maduro capture, US alleges

Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.”

To stop automation waste, enterprises must deploy interaction infrastructure that physically governs how independent AI agents operate. AI agents now populate corporate networks, reasoning through tasks and executing decisions with increasing autonomy. Yet, when these… Read more: Why AI agents need interaction infrastructure

The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been directly involved in the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, an effort that’s been implicated in numerous deaths.… Read more: Palantir’s Employees Are in Crisis

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Tim Cook, Meta layoffs, and a very… Read more: Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store

A 40-year-old man was arrested after using artificial intelligence to generate a fake image of a runaway wolf that South Korean authorities said obstructed an urgent investigation, the BBC reported. AI-generated image of Neukgu. After… Read more: Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf

Revised figures increase fears about how the energy-intensive sites could worsen the climate emergency The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon… Read more: Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from its land. When a tech startup approached Tribal leaders asking them to sign a nondisclosure agreement… Read more: Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say

As domestic sales slow manufacturers are investing in AI and seeking growth in technology and in overseas markets At the world’s biggest car fair, which opened in Beijing on Friday, there were hundreds of manufacturers,… Read more: ‘Look, no hands’: China chases the driverless dream at Beijing car show

The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have spent the last year trying to defang the Endangered Species Act, the country’s bedrock conservation law. But one of the most aggressive and far-reaching attempts just faced a… Read more: Trump administration attempt to gut Endangered Species Act hits roadblock

Apple CEO Tim Cook announced this week that he’s stepping down from his position in September and handing the reins to John Ternus, currently the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering and a 25-year… Read more: Six things I’ll remember when I think about Tim Cook’s version of Apple

The golden oyster mushroom may be a culinary hit, but it’s becoming an ecological problem. Scientists warn it’s spreading quickly through U.S. forests, where it outcompetes native fungi and reduces biodiversity. In just a decade,… Read more: Scientists warn about golden oyster mushrooms sold in Florida markets

A new chapter in the Bugatti story begins today. Twenty-eight years after bringing the storied luxury brand back from the dead, Volkswagen Group no longer counts Bugatti among its stable of brands. Porsche, which became… Read more: As electric aspirations fade, Porsche sells its stake in Bugatti

A mysterious cosmic explosion has astronomers buzzing, as a strange event may hint at an entirely new kind of stellar cataclysm. After detecting ripples in space-time, scientists spotted a fast-fading red glow that initially looked… Read more: Astronomers may have found a strange new kind of cosmic explosion

Scientists are grappling with a cosmic mystery: why does the Universe behave differently on massive scales compared to our own solar system? While distant galaxies reveal clear signs of something bending the rules of gravity—often… Read more: NASA scientist says a “fifth force” may be hiding in our solar system

For a decade, NASA promoted the idea of building a space station around the Moon known as the Lunar Gateway. It touted the facility as both a platform for exploring the lunar environment and testing… Read more: Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway’s primary modules are corroded

Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.

I’ve spent twenty years moving between corporate work and startups, and what keeps drawing me back is a timeless question: how do we use knowledge, and how do we build tools that help us think… Read more: Agentic AI: The pathway architecture to GenAI

Earlier this week, I wrote an article about startups that are spending money on AI compute (tokens on tools like Claude and OpenAI’s products) rather than hiring human employees. There are all sorts of ways… Read more: The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It’s Affecting the Entire Economy)

An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of AI tokens they use. The trend, ribbingly dubbed “tokenmaxxing,” has sparked discourse for symbolizing the Silicon Valley’s… Read more: The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down

That new, unapologetically derivative open world game or umpteenth shooter sequel you’re currently addicted to? It was almost certainly made with a little help from AI, according to Google Cloud’s global director for games Jack… Read more: Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI

Are you sure you could tell if an AI chatbot were trying to sell you something? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from… Read more: You probably wouldn’t notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses

Seed round led by F-Prime, with participation from General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners. General Catalyst previously led the pre-seed round. Almanac Health, a research-validated clinical AI platform and evidence-based clinical decision support company founded… Read more: Almanac Health Raises $10M for Safe, Research-Backed Clinical AI

Unify Prometheus metrics with logs and traces, without rewriting queries or rebuilding pipelines Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the Search AI Company, today announced native Prometheus support, including direct ingestion via Remote Write and full PromQL support in… Read more: Elastic Adds Native Prometheus and PromQL Support to Elastic Observability

Revenue tripled year to date after growing 4x last year, driven by enterprise AI adoption Omni, the AI Analytics platform, today announced its Series C funding round raising $120M at a $1.5B valuation, led by… Read more: Omni Secures Series C at $1.5B Valuation for AI Analytics

Welcome to Edition 8.38 of the Rocket Report! The big news this week concerned the third launch of the New Glenn rocket. The first 15 minutes of the flight were exhilarating for Blue Origin, seeing… Read more: Rocket Report: Artemis III rocket getting ready; SpaceX is now an AI company

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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