
- Power, Pollution, and Protests: The Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers
At PowerGen, attended by TechRepublic, industry leaders addressed rising community opposition to AI data centers and the challenge of earning public trust. The post Power, Pollution, and Protests: The Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers… Read more: Power, Pollution, and Protests: The Growing Revolt Against AI Data Centers - Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord’s Age Verification Check With a 3D Model
A newly released tool claims it can bypass Discord’s age verification system by allowing users to control a 3D model of a computer-generated man in their browser instead of scanning their real face. On Monday,… Read more: Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord’s Age Verification Check With a 3D Model - Smart home PSA: Apple’s “new architecture” for Home app becomes mandatory today
In 2022, Apple announced it was adopting a “new Home architecture” for its smart home ecosystem to improve its performance and reliability and make it possible to support different kinds of accessories. Although it was… Read more: Smart home PSA: Apple’s “new architecture” for Home app becomes mandatory today - China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test
China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular. The… Read more: China showcases new Moon ship and reusable rocket in one extraordinary test - Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices
Apple has just released the latest major updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and all the other operating systems it released back in September of 2025. The 26.3 updates for these operating… Read more: Apple releases iOS 26.3 with updates that mainly benefit non-Apple devices - Victory for Elon Musk: US labor board abandons authority over SpaceX
The National Labor Relations Board abandoned a Biden-era complaint against SpaceX after a finding that the agency does not have jurisdiction over Elon Musk’s space company. The US labor board said SpaceX should instead be… Read more: Victory for Elon Musk: US labor board abandons authority over SpaceX - AI tools make potentially harmful errors in social work records, research says
Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to hallucinate and produce ‘gibberish’ AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”,… Read more: AI tools make potentially harmful errors in social work records, research says - AI could mark the end of young people learning on the job – with terrible results
VesnaArt/Shutterstock For a long time, the deal for a wide range of careers has been simple enough. Entry-level workers carried out routine tasks in return for mentorship, skill development and a clear path towards expertise.… Read more: AI could mark the end of young people learning on the job – with terrible results - I Loved My OpenClaw AI Agent—Until It Turned on Me
I used the viral AI helper to order groceries, sort emails, and negotiate deals. Then it decided to scam me. - OpenAI Drops ‘io’ Branding for Planned AI Hardware
OpenAI says it won’t use “io” to market its AI hardware, and a court filing suggests the first device won’t ship before late February 2027. The post OpenAI Drops ‘io’ Branding for Planned AI Hardware… Read more: OpenAI Drops ‘io’ Branding for Planned AI Hardware - Will Ozempic-style patches help me lose weight? Two experts explain
Kate Wieser/Getty Could a simple patch, inspired by the weight-loss drug Ozempic, really help you shed excess kilos without the pain and effort of an injection? Promotions of these Ozempic-style, weight-loss patches are popping up… Read more: Will Ozempic-style patches help me lose weight? Two experts explain - Transforming the enterprise: Moving past chat to core workflow redesign
Most government agencies treat AI like a new piece of software. Katrina Mulligan, Head of National Security Partnerships at OpenAI, argues they should be treating it like a revolution in mission delivery. In this high-stakes… Read more: Transforming the enterprise: Moving past chat to core workflow redesign - Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
The legal saga over surveillance footage from within an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in suburban Chicago has reached new levels of Kafkaesque absurdity, with the federal government losing three hard drives it was… Read more: Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On - Fitbit’s Gemini AI Coach Expands to iPhone, 5 New Countries
Fitbit expands its Gemini-powered AI health coach to iOS and five new markets for Premium subscribers. The post Fitbit’s Gemini AI Coach Expands to iPhone, 5 New Countries appeared first on TechRepublic. - AI-powered procurement: Turning messy data into strategic advantage
In today’s digital economy, procurement teams have to deal with large volumes of unstructured spend data, such as free-text invoices and broken ERP entries. AI is becoming a powerful tool for cleaning, combining, and analyzing… Read more: AI-powered procurement: Turning messy data into strategic advantage - CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’
US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet. - A Mystery Inside Earth’s Core Has Finally Been Solved With a Mind-Boggling Discovery
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the “density deficit” in Earth’s… Read more: A Mystery Inside Earth’s Core Has Finally Been Solved With a Mind-Boggling Discovery - Data pipeline design playbook 2026
The gap between data-driven and data-lagging companies is defined by one thing: Pipeline architecture. If you are still battling fragmented batch cycles, data swamp silos, and brittle monolithic code, you aren’t just losing time –… Read more: Data pipeline design playbook 2026 - Data pipeline design playbook 2026
What’s inside the playbook? This isn’t just theory. It’s a tactical guide to the 7 frameworks that are defining the 2026 data landscape: The kappa shift: Learn why treating everything as a stream is the secret to 100%… Read more: Data pipeline design playbook 2026 - Feds end “10-day” closure of El Paso airspace after less than 10 hours
The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights into and out of El Paso International Airport on Tuesday night at 11:30 pm local time (1:30 am EST Wednesday) and said the restrictions would remain in place for… Read more: Feds end “10-day” closure of El Paso airspace after less than 10 hours - What’s next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change?
Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, the Trump administration this… Read more: What’s next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change? - Google Expands ‘Results About You’ to Shield IDs, Fight Deepfake Abuse
Google expands its “Results about you” tool to remove sensitive IDs and explicit images from Search, strengthening privacy protections amid rising identity theft. The post Google Expands ‘Results About You’ to Shield IDs, Fight Deepfake… Read more: Google Expands ‘Results About You’ to Shield IDs, Fight Deepfake Abuse - ‘The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:’ Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans
In the first week of January, Kylie Brewer started getting strange messages. “Someone has a only fans page set up in your name with this same profile,” one direct message from a stranger on TikTok… Read more: ‘The Most Dejected I’ve Ever Felt:’ Harassers Made Nude AI Images of Her, Then Started an OnlyFans - Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI
The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part of its pivot to embracing AI, the legal hub RollOnFriday reports. In what might be an augury… Read more: Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI - Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work
When you start a “bounty” board meant for AI agents during one of the worst job markets since the great recession, don’t be surprised when it becomes infested with humans. Last week, an AI entrepreneur… Read more: Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work - Kong Launches Context Mesh to Connect Enterprise Data to AI Agents
Kong Context Mesh transforms existing APIs into agent-ready tooling, addressing the integration gap that threatens agentic AI initiatives Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced Kong Context Mesh, an… Read more: Kong Launches Context Mesh to Connect Enterprise Data to AI Agents - Euna Solutions Releases “State of AI in the Public Sector” Report
New research from Euna Solutions shows that while most public sector agencies are exploring AI, measurable value today is concentrated in operational workflows such as procurement, budgeting, grants, and payments Euna Solutions®, the leading provider… Read more: Euna Solutions Releases “State of AI in the Public Sector” Report - Astronomers shocked by how these giant exoplanets formed
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed like Jupiter, by slowly… Read more: Astronomers shocked by how these giant exoplanets formed - Almost every forest bird in Hawaiʻi is spreading avian malaria
Avian malaria is spreading across Hawaiʻi in a way scientists didn’t fully grasp until now: nearly every forest bird species can help keep the disease alive. Researchers found the parasite at 63 of 64 sites… Read more: Almost every forest bird in Hawaiʻi is spreading avian malaria - Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s Swift Observatory toward it, they… Read more: Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is spraying water across the solar system - Life may have started as sticky goo clinging to rocks
Life may have started in sticky, rock-hugging gels rather than inside cells. Researchers suggest these primitive, biofilm-like materials could trap and concentrate molecules, giving early chemistry a protected space to grow more complex. Within these… Read more: Life may have started as sticky goo clinging to rocks - Blockbuster weight loss drugs like Ozempic deliver big results but face big questions
Three major reviews commissioned by the World Health Organization find that GLP-1 drugs including tirzepatide (sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound), semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy), and liraglutide (Victoza and Saxenda) can lead to substantial weight loss… Read more: Blockbuster weight loss drugs like Ozempic deliver big results but face big questions - Why do AI hallucinations persist in production systems?
In production, hallucinations don’t show up as errors: they show up as responses people initially trust. This initial trust can be costly, however. What we’re seeing across real deployments is that hallucinations aren’t a single bug… Read more: Why do AI hallucinations persist in production systems? - Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs
In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off in a dismal job market are now being hired to train AI systems meant to replace them… Read more: Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs - Cloudera Reports Strong Fiscal Year, Reinforces AI Leadership
ELEVATE27, Cloudera’s Sales Kick Off, commences today with a focus on building, operationalizing, scaling, and fully governing AI across hybrid data environments Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today reports strong results… Read more: Cloudera Reports Strong Fiscal Year, Reinforces AI Leadership - Podcast: Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever
We start this week with exciting news: we bought a Super Bowl ad! For… $2,550. We explain how. After the break, Jason tells us about Ring’s recently launched Search Party feature, and gives us a… Read more: Podcast: Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever - Scientists discover how life experiences rewrite the immune system
Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and… Read more: Scientists discover how life experiences rewrite the immune system - Scientists just made living blood vessels on a chip that act like real ones
Blood vessels twist, branch, narrow, and balloon in ways that dramatically affect how blood flows — but most lab models have long treated them like straight pipes. Researchers at Texas A&M have now built a… Read more: Scientists just made living blood vessels on a chip that act like real ones - This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a 307-million-year-old fossil that rewrites that… Read more: This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land - Your cat’s purr says more than you think
Your cat’s purr may say more about who they are than their meow ever could. Scientists discovered that purrs are stable and uniquely identifiable, while meows change dramatically depending on context. Domestic cats, in particular,… Read more: Your cat’s purr says more than you think - Similarweb Announced the Launch of AI Studio
New AI-powered platform transforms how enterprises access competitive intelligence — ask any business question, get comprehensive insights in seconds Similarweb (NYSE: SMWB) today launched AI Studio, an enterprise AI intelligence solution that fundamentally transforms how organizations… Read more: Similarweb Announced the Launch of AI Studio - Depression may be the brain’s early warning sign of Parkinson’s or dementia
Depression in older adults may sometimes signal the early stages of Parkinson’s disease or Lewy body dementia. Researchers found that depression often appears years before diagnosis and remains elevated long afterward, unlike in other chronic… Read more: Depression may be the brain’s early warning sign of Parkinson’s or dementia - America, it’s time to think beyond leather for luxury car seats
A long time ago, in (I believe) an issue of Car Magazine from the mid-1990s, the designer Gordon Murray shared his thoughts about a possible four-door follow-up to the McLaren F1. Road cars weren’t really… Read more: America, it’s time to think beyond leather for luxury car seats - Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat
James J. Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science at MIT and faculty co-lead of the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, is embarking on a multidisciplinary research project that… Read more: Using synthetic biology and AI to address global antimicrobial resistance threat - Generative AI Summit Washington, D.C. 2026
Catch up on every session from Generative AI Summit Washington, D.C., with sessions from the likes of OpenAI, US Bank, Meibel and more. - Nabla Appoints Dr. Matt Sakumoto as Chief Clinical Product Officer
Appointment marks next phase of growth as Nabla expands clinician-led product strategy grounded in frontline experience Nabla, one of the most widely adopted AI assistants in clinical care, today announced the appointment of Dr. Matt… Read more: Nabla Appoints Dr. Matt Sakumoto as Chief Clinical Product Officer - AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a host of other major tech companies have found common ground in F/ai, a new startup accelerator based out of Paris. - How insurance leaders use agentic AI to cut operational costs
Agentic AI offers insurance leaders a path to scalable efficiency as the sector confronts a tough digital transformation. Insurers hold deep data reserves and employ a workforce skilled in analytic decision-making. Despite these advantages, the… Read more: How insurance leaders use agentic AI to cut operational costs - Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns
Barclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion in earnings before tax, up from £8.1 billion a year earlier. The bank also raised its performance targets out through 2028,… Read more: Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns - UK wealth manager and price comparison site shares fall amid AI fears
Drop comes as AI firm Altruist launches service that helps advisers create personalised tax strategies Business live – latest updates Wealth managers and price comparison sites have become the latest companies to be hit by… Read more: UK wealth manager and price comparison site shares fall amid AI fears - BrowserStack Report: 94% Use AI in Testing, 12% Reach Autonomy
BrowserStack today released its State of AI in Software Testing 2026 report, showing how AI has become central to modern testing, while highlighting the practical gaps that slow adoption. Based on insights from over 250 software testing leaders,… Read more: BrowserStack Report: 94% Use AI in Testing, 12% Reach Autonomy - Azul Report: 62% of Enterprises Use Java for AI Workloads
Survey of over 2,000 Java professionals also reveals: 92% are concerned about Oracle Java pricing and 81% are migrating all or some of their Oracle Java to OpenJDK as cost concerns mount Azul, the only… Read more: Azul Report: 62% of Enterprises Use Java for AI Workloads - Red Hat unifies AI and tactical edge deployment for UK MOD
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected Red Hat to architect a unified AI and hybrid cloud backbone across its entire estate. Announced today, the agreement is designed to break down data silos and… Read more: Red Hat unifies AI and tactical edge deployment for UK MOD - The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers
As AI job losses rise in the professional sector, many are switching to more traditional trades. But how do they feel about accepting lower pay – and, in some cases, giving up their vocation? California-based… Read more: The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers - A bonobo’s pretend tea party is rewriting what we know about imagination
A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the correct locations of pretend items,… Read more: A bonobo’s pretend tea party is rewriting what we know about imagination - FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review Moderna’s application for an mRNA flu vaccine, the company revealed Tuesday. While the move came as a surprise to the high-profile vaccine maker, it is just… Read more: FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine - Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment
Citizen surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised, even while similar technology is being deployed by ICE agents in the US and the IDF in Gaza Say cheese! A decision last week greenlighting Bunnings’ use of facial… Read more: Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment - SpaceX’s next-gen Super Heavy booster aces four days of “cryoproof” testing
The upgraded Super Heavy booster slated to launch SpaceX’s next Starship flight has completed cryogenic proof testing, clearing a hurdle that resulted in the destruction of the company’s previous booster. SpaceX announced the milestone in… Read more: SpaceX’s next-gen Super Heavy booster aces four days of “cryoproof” testing - An illegal bioweapons lab was found in a Las Vegas garage. It’s a warning for Australia
FBI In Las Vegas last week, two people were admitted to hospital “deathly ill” after being exposed to “possible biological material, including refrigerators containing vials with unknown liquids” at a suburban home. Law enforcement quickly… Read more: An illegal bioweapons lab was found in a Las Vegas garage. It’s a warning for Australia - Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy
Grandfailure/Getty Images As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games. Non-generative AI has been in the industry long before things like ChatGPT became household names. Video games would contain… Read more: Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy - Cisco Turns Collaboration Devices Into AI-Powered Infrastructure
Cisco unveils AI-powered collaboration devices that turn meeting rooms, desks, and frontline tools into managed edge infrastructure for IT teams. The post Cisco Turns Collaboration Devices Into AI-Powered Infrastructure appeared first on TechRepublic. - AI algorithm enables tracking of vital white matter pathways
The signals that drive many of the brain and body’s most essential functions — consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate, and motion — course through bundles of “white matter” fibers in the brainstem, but imaging systems… Read more: AI algorithm enables tracking of vital white matter pathways - RFK Jr’s Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum
The Department of Health and Human Services’ new AI nutrition chatbot will gleefully and dangerously give Americans recommendations for the best foods to insert into one’s rectum and will answer questions about the most nutrient-dense… Read more: RFK Jr’s Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum - ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”
In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet.” But what really caught the attention of the company’s most diehard fans was the decision… Read more: ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You” - Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study.
The National Cancer Institute is using federal funds to study whether cancer can be cured by ivermectin, a cheap, off-patent anti-parasitic and deworming drug that fringe medical groups falsely claimed could treat COVID-19 during the… Read more: Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study. - Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI
xAI co-founder Tony Wu abruptly announced his resignation from the company late Monday night, the latest in a string of senior executives to leave the Grok-maker in recent months. In a post on social media,… Read more: Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI - Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious… Read more: Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site - RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees
The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines. - Alphabet Launches Rare 100-Year Bond to Fund Massive AI Push
Alphabet is issuing a rare 100-year sterling bond as it raises about $31 billion in global debt to fund a major AI infrastructure push. The post Alphabet Launches Rare 100-Year Bond to Fund Massive AI… Read more: Alphabet Launches Rare 100-Year Bond to Fund Massive AI Push - 10K Claude Desktop Users Exposed by Zero-Click Vulnerability
A zero-click flaw in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions allows attackers to trigger remote code execution via Google Calendar events. The post 10K Claude Desktop Users Exposed by Zero-Click Vulnerability appeared first on TechRepublic. - Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives easier? That’s the big question explored in an ongoing study by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Haas School… Read more: Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous - Marc Benioff ‘Jokes’ ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media… Read more: Marc Benioff ‘Jokes’ ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S. - Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do
Windows 8 is remembered most for its oddball touchscreen-focused full-screen Start menu, but it also introduced a number of under-the-hood enhancements to Windows. One of those was UEFI Secure Boot, a mechanism for verifying PC… Read more: Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do - Google Has a Major Problem With ICE
Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US government’s immigration agencies. As reported by CNBC, over 1,000 “Googlers” have signed onto an open letter demanding… Read more: Google Has a Major Problem With ICE - Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February
Amazon February deals highlight practical tech for work and home, including automation, audio gear, smart displays, and productivity tools. The post Amazon Deals Worth Grabbing in February appeared first on TechRepublic. - Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter
An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in peril.” The employee, Mrinank Sharma, had led the Claude chatbot maker’s Safeguards Research Team since it was… Read more: Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter - The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design
Vans are something most of us don’t think about much, since we rarely interact with them directly in our day-to-day lives. But the van is an unseen hero that keeps the world moving, delivering packages… Read more: The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design - Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info
Do you feel popular? There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don’t have the best of intentions, but Google has some handy tools to address that, and… Read more: Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info - Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable
Richard M Lee/Shutterstock Supermarket shelves can look full despite the food systems underneath them being under strain. Fruit may be stacked neatly, chilled meat may be in place. It appears that supply chains are functioning… Read more: Replacing humans with machines is leaving truckloads of food stranded and unusable - Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market
Businesses are using theatrical stunts not for shock alone but to create viral content and drive sales conversations online When Lunos, an AI startup in New York City, was gearing up for launch, its founder… Read more: Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market - Scientists find genes that existed before all life on Earth
Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these rare genes, researchers can… Read more: Scientists find genes that existed before all life on Earth - Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will… Read more: Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment - Scientists uncover the climate shock that reshaped Easter Island
Around 1550, life on Rapa Nui began changing in ways long misunderstood. New research reveals that a severe drought, lasting more than a century, dramatically reduced rainfall on the already water-scarce island, reshaping how people… Read more: Scientists uncover the climate shock that reshaped Easter Island - When immune cells stop fighting cancer and start helping it
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way tumors turn the immune system to their advantage. Researchers at the University of Geneva found that neutrophils—normally frontline defenders against infection—can be reprogrammed inside tumors to fuel cancer growth… Read more: When immune cells stop fighting cancer and start helping it - Robo.ai, DaBoss.AI Form J.V to Launch Distributed Embodied AI Data Platform
Robo.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AIIO), a Nasdaq-listed company, today announced the execution of a definitive joint venture agreement with DaBoss.AI Inc., an embodied intelligence data technology company based in Silicon Valley. The parties will establish a Robo.ai-controlled joint venture in… Read more: Robo.ai, DaBoss.AI Form J.V to Launch Distributed Embodied AI Data Platform - Coveo Announces Hosted MCP Server to Grow Agentic AI Ecosystem
New interoperability layer for secure AI access to enterprise content connects Coveo to leading large language models, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Anthropic’s Claude Coveo, the leader in AI-Relevance, today announced the launch of the Coveo… Read more: Coveo Announces Hosted MCP Server to Grow Agentic AI Ecosystem - With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
America, it’s time to refamiliarize yourself with Ring. At Sunday’s Super Bowl, Ring advertised “Search Party,” a cute, horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a… Read more: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet - “Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up
At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked out around thirty novels in two decades, along with what was probably several hundred short stories. These… Read more: “Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up - Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed?
Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this year Hello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we’re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty… Read more: Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed? - Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding
‘Evidence review’ sent by OurFutures Institute to David Pocock and other politicians references studies which do not exist or make opposing findings Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Independent senator… Read more: Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding - After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice
On Friday, a body that advises US judges revised the document it created to help judges grapple with scientific issues. The move came after a group of Republican state attorneys general wrote a letter to… Read more: After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice - Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI
Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that can execute multi-step tasks autonomously and interact with software, data, and services without human instruction), and orienting the technology toward discrete… Read more: Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI - No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI | Samuel Woolley
Moltbook, a social media site for AI agents, is nothing new. Still, the marriage of big tech and politics demands we take a stand On a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I… Read more: No, the human-robot singularity isn’t here. But we must take action to govern AI | Samuel Woolley - SailPoint Sees Rising Demand for Adaptive Identity Security
Enterprises seek a holistic strategy to manage all kinds of identities, including humans, machines, and agents SailPoint, Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIL), a leader in unified identity security for enterprises, is today showcasing how its customers are embracing… Read more: SailPoint Sees Rising Demand for Adaptive Identity Security - Ambience Healthcare Appoints Mike Valli as CRO and Chief Value Officer
Ambience Healthcare, the leading AI platform transforming clinical documentation and revenue integrity, today announced the appointment of Mike Valli as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Chief Value Officer (CVO). In this dual role, Valli will lead Ambience’s… Read more: Ambience Healthcare Appoints Mike Valli as CRO and Chief Value Officer - A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics
A long-standing mystery in spintronics has just been shaken up. A strange electrical effect called unusual magnetoresistance shows up almost everywhere scientists look—even in systems where the leading explanation, spin Hall magnetoresistance, shouldn’t work at… Read more: A simple discovery is shaking the foundations of spintronics - Agentic AI in healthcare: How Life Sciences marketing could achieve US$450bn in value by 2028
Agentic AI in healthcare is graduating from answering prompts to autonomously executing complex marketing tasks—and life sciences companies are betting their commercial strategies on it. According to a recent report cited by Capgemini Invent, AI agents could… Read more: Agentic AI in healthcare: How Life Sciences marketing could achieve US$450bn in value by 2028 - Perforce AI Products and Features Achieve ISO 42001 Certification
Reflects growing industry demand for AI that meets ethical, governance, and compliance needs. Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams seeking AI innovation at scale, today announced that several AI products and features within… Read more: Perforce AI Products and Features Achieve ISO 42001 Certification - Telstra to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout
Some jobs will be moved offshore in wake of telco’s $700m joint venture with tech consultancy Accenture Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 200 Telstra jobs are expected… Read more: Telstra to axe more than 200 jobs amid AI rollout - Unchained Labs Explodes into AI-Driven Automation, Launches Stuntman
Unchained Labs, the life sciences company that’s all about getting researchers the right tool for the job, launched Stuntman today, a next-generation automation platform that combines native, natural-language AI with fully flexible hardware to fundamentally change how… Read more: Unchained Labs Explodes into AI-Driven Automation, Launches Stuntman
