
- New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You
Lazy undergrads rejoice. A new AI “homework agent” can supposedly log into your account on the learning management system Canvas and automatically complete your homework and assignments for you — streamlining the laborious, outdated process… Read more: New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You - 7 AI Features in Windows 11 You Should Start Using in 2026
Discover seven practical Windows 11 AI features for 2026, from Copilot and Live Captions translation to Recall, Studio Effects, and photo cleanup tools. The post 7 AI Features in Windows 11 You Should Start Using… Read more: 7 AI Features in Windows 11 You Should Start Using in 2026 - CHAI 3X Annual Growth Reaching $70M ARR & Latest AI Safety Update
Over the past three years, we’ve experienced phenomenal momentum, continuing a 3X annual growth rate to reach $68 million in ARR and achieve a $1.4 billion valuation. With this rapid growth comes an even greater… Read more: CHAI 3X Annual Growth Reaching $70M ARR & Latest AI Safety Update - 7Rivers Completes $5M Series A Funding
7Rivers, a pioneering technology services company that helps customers harness the power of data and AI to deliver real business value, today announced a $5 million Series A investment led by Inoca Capital Partners who… Read more: 7Rivers Completes $5M Series A Funding - UST Named Partner of the Year for Americas in TestMu AI’s 2025 Partner Awards
UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, today announced it has been named the 2025 TestMu AI Partner of the Year – Americas. The organization was honored for its excellence in driving innovation and… Read more: UST Named Partner of the Year for Americas in TestMu AI’s 2025 Partner Awards - Interoperability Isn’t AI-Ready Yet, Despite Heavy Investment, Rhapsody Finds
New survey of 200+ healthcare leaders, finds interoperability maturity continues to lag AI ambition Rhapsody, a global leader in digital health enablement and interoperability, today released its State of Interoperability Report, revealing a persistent gap between healthcare’s… Read more: Interoperability Isn’t AI-Ready Yet, Despite Heavy Investment, Rhapsody Finds - Tavus Announced the Launch Of Phoenix-4
Tavus, the human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, and respond in real time, today launched Phoenix-4, a real-time behavior generation engine that generates emotionally responsive, context-aware human presence in live conversation.… Read more: Tavus Announced the Launch Of Phoenix-4 - Uncanny Valley: AI Researchers’ Resignations, Bots Hiring Humans, Evie Magazine’s Party
This episode of Uncanny Valley covers the people resigning from AI companies and the humans getting hired by AI agents. Plus, we attend a soiree thrown by a conservative women’s magazine. - A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why.
Scientists have resolved a longstanding mystery about the Great Unconformity, a huge gap in the geological record that shows up across the world and has inspired speculation for more than 150 years, reports a study… Read more: A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why. - Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food
AI leaders insist they’ve got humanity’s best interests in mind. If we’re to take them at their word, then we must say: they have a really unfortunate habit of sounding like they have nothing but… Read more: Sam Altman Fumes That It Takes Longer to Train a Human Than an AI, Plus They Eat All That Wasteful Food - The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade
Mazda provided flights from Washington, DC, to San Diego and accommodation so Ars could drive the CX-5. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ENCINITAS, Calif.—Its sales may have been buoyed of late by the… Read more: The 2026 Mazda CX-5, driven: It got bigger; plus, radical tech upgrade - New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI”
Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite… Read more: New Microsoft gaming chief has “no tolerance for bad AI” - McConaughey’s AI Warning Every Actor Must Hear
AI can copy an actor’s voice and likeness in minutes. Matthew McConaughey says protect your identity now, starting with trademarks. The post McConaughey’s AI Warning Every Actor Must Hear appeared first on TechRepublic. - Palantir deals are a threat to our data rights as UK citizens | Letters
This US tech giant should not have been given NHS or Ministry of Defence contracts, writes Stephen Saunders. Plus a letter from Jan Savage For 100 years, the UK government has led us through existential… Read more: Palantir deals are a threat to our data rights as UK citizens | Letters - Fears about AI taking our jobs are understandable – but harmful
Marko Aliaksandr/Shutterstock As a professor of the future of work, the question I get asked most often is whether AI is going to take everyone’s jobs. I hear it from students who worry that their… Read more: Fears about AI taking our jobs are understandable – but harmful - AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works. A series of recent studies… Read more: AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data - Meta’s AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of ‘Spectral Labor’
Last week, Business Insider reported on a Meta patent describing a system that would simulate a user’s social media activity after their death.The patent imagines a world where you’d be able to chat with a… Read more: Meta’s AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of ‘Spectral Labor’ - Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’
OpenAI CEO also downplayed concerns about how much water datacenters require at AI summit in India The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial intelligence… Read more: Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’ - Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia
Scientists at Stanford Medicine have unveiled a bold new kind of “universal” vaccine that could one day protect against everything from COVID-19 and the flu to bacterial pneumonia and even common allergens. Instead of targeting… Read more: Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia - Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had… Read more: Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox - Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years
A century after Erwin Schrödinger sketched out a bold vision for how we perceive color, scientists have finally filled in the missing pieces. A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, saturation,… Read more: Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years - Podcast: Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes)
In this week’s interview, Sam is joined by Harlo Holmes. Harlo is the Chief Security Programs Officer at Freedom of the Press Foundation. She’s a media scholar, software programmer, and activist. Harlo and Sam discuss… Read more: Podcast: Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes) - A hidden force beneath the Atlantic ripped open a 500 kilometer canyon
Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that dwarfs even the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this 500-kilometer stretch of trenches and… Read more: A hidden force beneath the Atlantic ripped open a 500 kilometer canyon - New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says
Ofgem says about 140 proposed projects, driven by AI use, could require more power than current peak demand The amount of power being sought by new datacentre projects in the UK would exceed the country’s… Read more: New datacentres risk doubling UK electricity use, regulator says - Elon Musk Confirms $30K Tesla Cybercab by 2027
Elon Musk confirms Tesla will sell its Cybercab for $30,000 or less by 2027 as production begins in Texas. The post Elon Musk Confirms $30K Tesla Cybercab by 2027 appeared first on TechRepublic. - Review: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic
HBO has another critically acclaimed hit with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, and it deserves every bit of the praise heaped upon it.… Read more: Review: Knight of the Seven Kingdoms brings back that Westeros magic - Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it
While many colleges have guidance on how students should use AI, specific policies tend to vary across professors and fields of study. Jutharat Pinpan/iStock/Getty Images Plus What happens to a college education when a chatbot… Read more: Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it - Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
Could AI algorithms sway the public mood? Paper Trident/iStock via Getty Images When a coupon suddenly appears on your phone as you approach a store, you might find it convenient and even helpful. But the… Read more: Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare - How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, including a CBP officer who was on the scene when another officer shot a U.S. citizen, are using a free walkie talkie app… Read more: How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations - Sony’s AI Music Detector
Sony reportedly built a tool to trace AI songs back to original music and estimate influence. The post Sony’s AI Music Detector appeared first on TechRepublic. - The first cars bold enough to drive themselves
No one knows exactly when the vehicles we drive will finally wrest the steering wheel from us. But the age of the autonomous automobile isn’t some sudden Big Bang. It’s more of a slow crawl,… Read more: The first cars bold enough to drive themselves - Young Mars volcano hides a powerful magma engine beneath the surface
A Martian volcano once thought to be the result of a single eruption turns out to have a much more complex past. Orbital imaging and mineral data show it developed through multiple eruptive phases, all… Read more: Young Mars volcano hides a powerful magma engine beneath the surface - Cleaner wrasse show self awareness in stunning mirror experiments
Cleaner wrasse have revealed a remarkable new side of fish intelligence. Marked with fake parasites, they used mirrors to inspect and remove the spots—far faster than seen in earlier tests. Even more striking, some fish… Read more: Cleaner wrasse show self awareness in stunning mirror experiments - Why the outer solar system is filled with giant cosmic “snowmen”
Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice and rock. For years, scientists wondered how these delicate two-lobed shapes could form without… Read more: Why the outer solar system is filled with giant cosmic “snowmen” - Mastercard’s AI payment demo points to agent-led commerce
A recent demonstration from Mastercard suggests that payment systems may be heading toward a future where software agents, not people, complete purchases. During the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Mastercard showed what it described as… Read more: Mastercard’s AI payment demo points to agent-led commerce - If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?
Amid talk of artificial intelligence taking our jobs, the big unasked question is: how will we be fed? How will we be fed? That’s the biggest question not seriously being addressed amid all this talk… Read more: If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? - How Amul is using AI dairy farming to put 36 million farmers first
AI dairy farming has found its most ambitious deployment yet – not in a Silicon Valley lab nor a European agri-tech campus, but in the villages of Gujarat, India, where 36 lakh (3.6 million) women… Read more: How Amul is using AI dairy farming to put 36 million farmers first - WestFax Launches AI-Powered IDP Platform for Healthcare
WestFax Comprehend Now Available Across All Service Tiers, Automating Medical Document Classification, Data Extraction and Workflow Routing WestFax, a provider of HIPAA-compliant cloud fax and healthcare document exchange solutions, today announced the official launch of… Read more: WestFax Launches AI-Powered IDP Platform for Healthcare - Hitachi bets on industrial expertise to win the physical AI race
Physical AI–the branch of artificial intelligence that controls robots and industrial machinery in the real world–has a hierarchy problem. At the top, OpenAI and Google are scaling multimodal foundation models. In the middle, Nvidia is… Read more: Hitachi bets on industrial expertise to win the physical AI race - A giant blade-crested spinosaurus, the “hell heron,” discovered in the Sahara
Deep in the heart of the Sahara, scientists have uncovered Spinosaurus mirabilis — a spectacular new predator crowned with a massive, scimitar-shaped crest that may once have blazed with color under the desert sun. Discovered… Read more: A giant blade-crested spinosaurus, the “hell heron,” discovered in the Sahara - Grindr tests AI match-making in Australia amid dating app fatigue and safety concerns
New subscription features on app for gay and bisexual men come with a price tag – from $109.99 a month in Australia to $349 in the US Follow our Australia news live blog for latest… Read more: Grindr tests AI match-making in Australia amid dating app fatigue and safety concerns - Satellite imaging is now vital for disaster management. But there are dangerous gaps in our systems
NASA via Getty Images The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a changing climate. They also highlight the now indispensable role of remote… Read more: Satellite imaging is now vital for disaster management. But there are dangerous gaps in our systems - AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for JBS Foods are paralyzed as an $11 million ransomware attack takes out their processing facilities. Some 2.2… Read more: AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains - Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative
Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the tech’s effects on the environment. From today’s vantage point, some of the corporate claims floating around back… Read more: Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative - Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse
Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI surveillance company whose CEO wants to end all crime within the decade by blanketing the country in… Read more: Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse - AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make
An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to make. “I will have 30k to make a fully AI film, what’s the plan?” wrote the filmmaker, Ian Durar, in… Read more: AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make - How AI resurrects racist stereotypes and disinformation — and why fact-checking isn’t enough
By any measure, 2025 is the year artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly shifted the way we work, interact with each other and engage with the world at large. It has also made undeniable the enduring reality… Read more: How AI resurrects racist stereotypes and disinformation — and why fact-checking isn’t enough - Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics
Deep inside a Romanian ice cave, locked away in a 5,000-year-old layer of ice, scientists have uncovered a bacterium with a startling secret: it’s resistant to many modern antibiotics. Despite predating the antibiotic era, this… Read more: Frozen for 5,000 years, this ice cave bacterium resists modern antibiotics - Flea and tick treatments for dogs and cats may be harming wildlife
Flea and tick medications trusted by pet owners worldwide may have an unexpected environmental cost. Scientists found that active ingredients from isoxazoline treatments pass into pet feces, exposing dung-feeding insects to toxic chemicals. These insects… Read more: Flea and tick treatments for dogs and cats may be harming wildlife - Triceratops had a giant nose that may have cooled its massive head
Triceratops’ massive head may have been doing more than just showing off those famous horns. Using CT scans and 3D reconstructions of fossil skulls, researchers uncovered a surprisingly complex nasal system hidden inside its enormous… Read more: Triceratops had a giant nose that may have cooled its massive head - What would happen to the world if computer said yes?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no … Readers reply: what would be the most socially useful way… Read more: What would happen to the world if computer said yes? - In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried
The fast take-up of innovative technology risks creating a ‘two-speed system’, an Independent Schools Australia paper warns Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Once upon a time, school students would… Read more: In some schools, chatbots interrogate students about their work. But the AI revolution has teachers worried - Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct
Exclusive: Police Federation condemns deployment of US firm’s tech to analyse behaviour as ‘automated suspicion’ Scotland Yard is using AI tools supplied by the US tech company Palantir to monitor staff behaviour in an attempt… Read more: Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct - Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere
New research published Thursday bolsters growing concerns that a handful of companies and countries are using the global atmospheric commons as a dumping ground for potentially toxic and climate-altering industrial waste byproducts from loosely regulated… Read more: Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere - Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop
The point of making an apology is that it should be sincere. It also helps if you put some actual effort into making it. A judge in New Zealand is being forced to mull over… Read more: Woman Uses AI to Apologize for Burning Down House, Biting Cop - AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty
Looking at the state of labor in the US, it can be hard to believe that 35 percent of all workers once belonged to a union. That was back in the 1940s, the peak of… Read more: AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty - How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results
You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether. - What is ‘Edge AI’? What does it do and what can be gained from this alternative to cloud computing?
“Edge computing”, which was initially developed to make big data processing faster and more secure, has now been combined with AI to offer a cloud-free solution. Everyday connected appliances from dishwashers to cars or smartphones are… Read more: What is ‘Edge AI’? What does it do and what can be gained from this alternative to cloud computing? - I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself | Annalisa Barbieri
Overdependence on chatbots is a growing problem, and though your boyfriend’s ADHD may be a factor, he needs to find the root of his anxiety My boyfriend of eight years, who is 44, has ADHD… Read more: I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself | Annalisa Barbieri - NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
A day after NASA officials expressed optimism that they could be ready to launch the Artemis II mission around the Moon next month, the space agency’s administrator announced Saturday that a new problem will require… Read more: NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs - Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They’re Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider
Is Hollywood “cooked”? Do video generating AI models mean its “over” for filmmakers? The jury’s out on that. But according to one Hollywood insider, the whole industry is “lying” about how much AI they’re using.… Read more: Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They’re Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider - Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero
There’s a special type of guy who looks at the gig economy — Uber drivers lost in a labyrinthian bureaucracy, Kenyan workers roleplaying as AI romance chatbots — and thinks: what if these people worked… Read more: Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero - It’s Comically Easy to Trick ChatGPT Into Saying Things About People That Are Completely Untrue
It’s bad enough that ChatGPT is prone to making stuff up completely on its own. But it turns out that you can easily trick the AI into peddling ridiculous lies — that you invented —… Read more: It’s Comically Easy to Trick ChatGPT Into Saying Things About People That Are Completely Untrue - Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative
A veteran programmer shared his brutally honest opinions about AI’s role in the workplace, and it’s as much an indictment of the tech as it is of the organizations lazily deploying it. In an X… Read more: Developer’s Honest Assessment of AI at Work Rattles the Official Narrative - Court Having Trouble Assembling Jury for Elon Musk Because People Hate Him So Much
Being one of the most despised men in America does come with a few downsides, it turns out. As Elon Musk is set to stand trial in San Francisco’s federal court for allegedly manipulating Twitter’s… Read more: Court Having Trouble Assembling Jury for Elon Musk Because People Hate Him So Much - Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes
Living at high altitude appears to protect against diabetes, and scientists have finally discovered the reason. When oxygen levels drop, red blood cells switch into a new metabolic mode and absorb large amounts of glucose… Read more: Scientists discover why high altitude protects against diabetes - “Celtic curse” hotspots found in Scotland and Ireland with 1 in 54 at risk
Researchers have mapped the genetic risk of hemochromatosis across the UK and Ireland for the first time, uncovering striking hotspots in north-west Ireland and the Outer Hebrides. In some regions, around one in 60 people… Read more: “Celtic curse” hotspots found in Scotland and Ireland with 1 in 54 at risk - Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components
The AI industry’s obsession with building out enormous data centers to house power-hungry chips has put a major strain on the electronics market. First, the price of graphical processing units (GPUs) started shooting through the… Read more: Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components - Amazon’s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages
Are AI tools reliable enough to be used at in commercial settings? If so, should they be given “autonomy” to make decisions? These are the questions being raised after at least two internet outages at… Read more: Amazon’s Blundering AI Caused Multiple AWS Outages - At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic
Welcome back to the Abstract! This week, we have a very special edition of the newsletter packed with everything I saw and heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting, held… Read more: At the World’s Largest General Science Meeting, Surviving Trump Is the Topic - Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of geologic… Read more: Dinosaur eggshells can reveal the age of other fossils - US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’
Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land When two men knocked on Ida Huddleston’s door last May, they carried a contract worth more than $33m in… Read more: US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’ - Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists
One of the US government’s top scientific research labs is taking steps that could drive away foreign scientists, a shift lawmakers and sources tell WIRED could cost the country valuable expertise and damage the agency’s… Read more: Major government research lab appears to be squeezing out foreign scientists - Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it?
Daphne O. Martschenko and Sam Trejo both want to make the world a better, fairer, more equitable place. But they disagree on whether studying social genomics—elucidating any potential genetic contributions to behaviors ranging from mental… Read more: Have we leapt into commercial genetic testing without understanding it? - NASA’s Hubble spots nearly invisible “ghost galaxy” made of 99% dark matter
Astronomers have uncovered one of the most mysterious galaxies ever found — a dim, ghostly object called CDG-2 that is almost entirely made of dark matter. Located 300 million light-years away in the Perseus galaxy… Read more: NASA’s Hubble spots nearly invisible “ghost galaxy” made of 99% dark matter - James Webb Space Telescope captures strange magnetic forces warping Uranus
For the first time, scientists have mapped Uranus’s upper atmosphere in three dimensions, tracking temperatures and charged particles up to 5,000 kilometers above the clouds. Webb’s sharp vision revealed glowing auroral bands and unexpected dark… Read more: James Webb Space Telescope captures strange magnetic forces warping Uranus - Generative AI analyzes medical data faster than human research teams
Researchers tested whether generative AI could handle complex medical datasets as well as human experts. In some cases, the AI matched or outperformed teams that had spent months building prediction models. By generating usable analytical… Read more: Generative AI analyzes medical data faster than human research teams - Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing
Scientists may have spotted a long-sought triplet superconductor — a material that can transmit both electricity and electron spin with zero resistance. That ability could dramatically stabilize quantum computers while slashing their energy use. Early… Read more: Scientists may have found the holy grail of quantum computing - Common pneumonia bacterium may fuel Alzheimer’s disease
A common bacterium best known for causing pneumonia and sinus infections may also play a surprising role in Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that Chlamydia pneumoniae can invade the retina and brain, where it sparks inflammation,… Read more: Common pneumonia bacterium may fuel Alzheimer’s disease - ‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution
After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue”… Read more: ‘Slow this thing down’: Sanders warns US has no clue about speed and scale of coming AI revolution - OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago
Company behind ChatGPT last year flagged Jesse Van Rootselaar’s account for ‘furtherance of violent activities’ ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has said it considered alerting Canadian police last year about the activities of a person who months later… Read more: OpenAI considered alerting Canadian police about school shooting suspect months ago - OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police
A grim scoop from the Wall Street Journal: an automated review system at OpenAI flagged disturbing conversations that a future mass shooter was having with the company’s flagship AI ChatGPT — but, despite being urged… Read more: OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter’s Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police - Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK
Shortly after Discord announced that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified, the messaging platform faced immediate backlash. One of the major complaints was that Discord planned to… Read more: Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK - MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide
Members of the Make America Health Again movement are in open revolt after founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly backed President Trump’s executive order Wednesday that would increase domestic production of glyphosate—a pesticide the MAHA… Read more: MAHA moms threaten to turn this car around as RFK Jr. flips on pesticide - Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company
Microsoft Executive Vice President for Gaming Phil Spencer announced he will retire after 38 years at Microsoft and 12 years leading the company’s video game efforts. Asha Sharma, an executive currently in charge of Microsoft’s… Read more: Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer steps down after 38 years with company - NASA reports no significant leaks in Artemis II fueling test, eyes March 6 launch
A second fueling test on NASA’s Space Launch System rocket ended Thursday night, giving senior managers enough confidence to move forward with plans to launch four astronauts around the Moon as soon as March 6.… Read more: NASA reports no significant leaks in Artemis II fueling test, eyes March 6 launch - Meta’s flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind
Meta announced today that it will divorce its Horizon Worlds social and gaming service—once promoted as the company’s first major step into the metaverse—from its Quest VR headset platform and digital store. The company says… Read more: Meta’s flagship metaverse service leaves VR behind - FCC asks stations for “pro-America” programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today urged broadcasters to join a “Pledge America Campaign” that Carr established to support President Trump’s “Salute to America 250” project. Carr said in a press release that “I… Read more: FCC asks stations for “pro-America” programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance - OpenAI’s Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe
Stuffing an AI chatbot into a consumer electronics device and turning out with a product people actually want has proven extremely difficult. We’ve come across creepy and widely-hated pendants designed to listen to everything you… Read more: OpenAI’s Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe - Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025
Google used AI-driven review systems to block 1.75 million policy-violating apps and ban 80,000 developer accounts in 2025, expanding Play Store and Android security enforcement. The post Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store… Read more: Google Blocked 1.75M Harmful Apps From Play Store in 2025 - Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block. Earlier this month, the company started laying off its staff as part of what Bloomberg characterized as an… Read more: Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI - With NIH in chaos, its controversial director is taking over CDC, too
Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is now also the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an unusual arrangement that has drawn swift criticism from researchers and… Read more: With NIH in chaos, its controversial director is taking over CDC, too - Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its “lead platform”
For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game’s core console versions. There are some signs that may be starting… Read more: Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its “lead platform” - Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should… Read more: Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Pokémon Red and Green’s GBA remakes are getting re-released on Switch for $20 a pop
For my money, the 2004 Game Boy Advance re-releases of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are still the best versions of the original Pokémon games. They fixed most of the bugs and balance issues present in the originals—partly by also… Read more: Pokémon Red and Green’s GBA remakes are getting re-released on Switch for $20 a pop - It’s outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser
With HBO’s critically acclaimed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gearing up for its season finale on Sunday, it’s time to check in on that other Game of Thrones spinoff: the far darker House of the… Read more: It’s outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser - “Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans
Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to about 1.77 million… Read more: “Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans - Exploring AI in the APAC retail sector
AI in the APAC retail sector is transitioning from analytics and pilots into workflows and daily operations. Dense urban stores, high labour churn, and competitive quick-commerce ecosystems are driving the uptake. A Q4 2025 survey… Read more: Exploring AI in the APAC retail sector - AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit
Narendra Modi’s thirst to supercharge economic growth is matched by US desire to inject AI into world’s biggest democracy India celebrates 80 years of independence from the UK in August 2027. At about that same… Read more: AI hit: India hungry to harness US tech giants’ technology at Delhi summit - The U.S. Military Is Reviving Microbes from 40,000-Year-Old Ice
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists with the U.S. military have revived microbes frozen in Alaskan… Read more: The U.S. Military Is Reviving Microbes from 40,000-Year-Old Ice
