
- You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong
From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things that go viral. - InfraPartners, Phaidra Partner to Optimize AI Data Centers
Collaboration combines InfraPartners’ prefabricated AI data center solutions with Phaidra’s agentic technology to unlock greater productivity and speed across the design, build and operations of AI factories InfraPartners, a leader in prefabricated, fungible AI data… Read more: InfraPartners, Phaidra Partner to Optimize AI Data Centers - If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders
From space to telecommunications, the US has a long history of fostering technology for the public good. These AI models could be aligned to democratic values, not corporate profits OpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each… Read more: If the markets reject OpenAI and Anthropic, the US should nationalize them | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders - AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?
The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come. The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white… Read more: AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage? - Multi-tier storage rewrites the economics of AI inference
As inference becomes the dominant workload in AI infrastructure, multi-tier storage architectures are emerging as a key method for cost control and enhanced performance. These architectures combine flash, object storage and disk-based capacity tiers, enabling… Read more: Multi-tier storage rewrites the economics of AI inference - Real-time tax compliance puts agentic AI accuracy to the test
AI-powered tax compliance has to meet a standard that many artificial intelligence applications don’t: The answers must be exactly right. While large language models can generate unpredictable results, tax calculations require accuracy, speed and reliability… Read more: Real-time tax compliance puts agentic AI accuracy to the test - Snowflake moves enterprise AI beyond fragmented data pipelines
Data interoperability is quickly becoming a practical requirement for companies trying to move artificial intelligence into production. Picking the right model or adding computing capacity is only part of the job. Companies also need reliable… Read more: Snowflake moves enterprise AI beyond fragmented data pipelines - Anthropic to start watermarking Claude-generated text, images
Anthropic PBC has announced plans to embed an invisible watermark in text and images generated by Claude. The Register reported the change today, citing a help desk article published on Monday. It applies to the… Read more: Anthropic to start watermarking Claude-generated text, images - Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users
Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone today in a blog… Read more: Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users - Personalized AI startup River AI raises $1.1B from consortium backed by Nvidia, AMD
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source artificial intelligence models, has raised $1.1 billion in early-stage funding. The company stated in today’s announcement that it received the capital over two rounds, a… Read more: Personalized AI startup River AI raises $1.1B from consortium backed by Nvidia, AMD - Snowflake moves enterprise AI beyond fragmented data pipelines
Data interoperability is quickly becoming a practical requirement for companies trying to move artificial intelligence into production. Picking the right model or adding computing capacity is only part of the job. Companies also need reliable… Read more: Snowflake moves enterprise AI beyond fragmented data pipelines - Survey: AI Expands Attack Surfaces, M2M Security Is Blind Spot
The 2026 State of Secure AI Access report reveals security leaders are under near-universal pressure to deploy AI, yet just 15% are confident their current tools can protect it — with non-human identity and machine… Read more: Survey: AI Expands Attack Surfaces, M2M Security Is Blind Spot - Workiva: 1 in 4 Executives Say AI Errors Reached Boards
Although 84% of executives are at least somewhat confident in AI output without human review, only 11% believe their data quality is sufficient for AI use Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK), a leading, audit-ready platform for trust,… Read more: Workiva: 1 in 4 Executives Say AI Errors Reached Boards - Stardog Announced the Appointment of Alan Gibson as CRO
Proven Revenue Leader to Accelerate Growth and Global Go-to-Market Execution Stardog, a leader in enterprise knowledge graph and semantic AI solutions, today announced the appointment of Alan Gibson as Chief Revenue Officer. Gibson brings more than… Read more: Stardog Announced the Appointment of Alan Gibson as CRO - Valeris™ Appoints Adam Miller as Chief Technology and AI Officer
Valeris, which partners with life sciences companies to bring technology, data, and AI-driven insight to every stage of the patient journey, today announced the appointment of Adam Miller as Chief Technology and AI Officer, an… Read more: Valeris™ Appoints Adam Miller as Chief Technology and AI Officer - Trump wants Big Pharma to split MMR vaccine; Big Pharma thinks it’s idiotic
Backlash to Trump’s vaccine order on Monday has been swift and sharp, with various public health and medical organizations and independent experts calling it “dangerous,” “unscientific,” “false and misleading,” “so wrong,” and saying it is… Read more: Trump wants Big Pharma to split MMR vaccine; Big Pharma thinks it’s idiotic - DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
On Monday, passengers aboard Delta flight 591 going from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly spoofed the onboard Wi-Fi, raising the attention of federal law enforcement. The incident came one day after the DEF CON security… Read more: DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight - Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
Google’s Chrome browser has added a new feature that could go a long way in preventing a form of account takeover that’s grown increasingly common as users adopt two-factor authentication, passkeys, and similar protections. The… Read more: Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers - Russian drones found near vital European offshore gas site, get blown up
Romanian army divers used explosives to destroy two Russian-made drones found floating in the Black Sea near Romania’s largest natural gas project, according to the NATO member country’s defense minister. Defense Minister Radu Miruță posted… Read more: Russian drones found near vital European offshore gas site, get blown up - Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
Google has been all-in with Gemini for the last several years, and despite some animosity online, the bet is paying off. CEO Sundar Pichai announced today that Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users… Read more: Gemini becomes Google’s fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users - Meta can’t stop states’ $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial
Meta and TikTok tried to defeat thousands of social media addiction lawsuits in one fell swoop, but an appeals court rejected the attempt in a ruling issued yesterday. First up among the lawsuits is a… Read more: Meta can’t stop states’ $1.4 trillion lawsuit from going to trial - Ninth Circuit Dismisses Meta, TikTok Appeals in Social Media Addiction Cases
The Ninth Circuit dismissed Meta and TikTok’s early appeals, keeping thousands of social media addiction lawsuits moving through lower courts. The post Ninth Circuit Dismisses Meta, TikTok Appeals in Social Media Addiction Cases appeared first… Read more: Ninth Circuit Dismisses Meta, TikTok Appeals in Social Media Addiction Cases - Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots
It’s no secret that doctors across the world are using AI tools to do stuff from taking notes to looking up questions. But what about the next generation of doctors still in training? According to… Read more: Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots - Used EV buying guide: The $30,000 edition
A strange thing is happening in the used EV market. Supply is up thanks to an ever-increasing stream of ex-lease cars reaching the market, and yet prices have been going up as well. As a… Read more: Used EV buying guide: The $30,000 edition - Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains
In light of plummeting public support for its widespread automatic license plate readers, surveillance company Flock has lost dozens of contracts with cities across the US. The company even drew up plans to use the… Read more: Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains - Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office
Over 30 student activists came together on Monday afternoon to occupy the Gallup Building in Washington DC, home to a public-facing lobbying office belonging to ChatGPT developer OpenAI. Once inside the lobby, the demonstrators unfurled… Read more: Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office - A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
In 2018, 20,000 Google employees worldwide made headlines when they staged a walkout to protest how the company had handled sexual misconduct allegations against key corporate executives, among other grievances. One of the organizers was… Read more: A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals - Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse
Global warming is leading to more extremely hot weather. There is perhaps no more obvious consequence of climate change. But changing how we analyze this problem can still help scientists think about it in a… Read more: Tracking extreme heat by the hour makes climate change seem even worse - Less than 2.5% of Taylor Farms’ recalled lettuce went to Taco Bells
Though shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell restaurants has been a prime suspect in an explosive outbreak of the diarrheal parasite Cyclospora, a new report from the Food and Drug Administration finally reveals where all… Read more: Less than 2.5% of Taylor Farms’ recalled lettuce went to Taco Bells - The Guardian view on AI money in US politics: not the way to hold an urgent democratic debate | Editorial
Amid public concern over the impact of new technology, Silicon Valley’s use of its wealth to influence specific election races is an unwelcome development As the huge societal ramifications of artificial intelligence have become clear,… Read more: The Guardian view on AI money in US politics: not the way to hold an urgent democratic debate | Editorial - BMC Named Gartner Leader for Third Year in Service Automation
Positioned highest for Ability to Execute BMC, the automation company for the AI era, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms (SOAP) [1].… Read more: BMC Named Gartner Leader for Third Year in Service Automation - 5C Secures USD $1.4 Bn+ to Power North America’s AI Infrastructure
New USD $605 million Brookfield-led financing accelerates the development of Gigascale AI campuses across the continent. 5C Group, a developer, builder and operator of large-scale AI data center campuses, today announced the closing of USD… Read more: 5C Secures USD $1.4 Bn+ to Power North America’s AI Infrastructure - Token Wins Gold in 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for IAM
Receives industry recognition as identity assurance becomes the defining security priority of the AI era. Token, the biometric identity assurance company, has been named a Gold Award recipient in the Identity Access Management category of the 2026… Read more: Token Wins Gold in 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards for IAM - Kyndryl inks agreement to purchase Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC
Planned acquisition to strengthen Kyndryl’s ability to serve U.S. healthcare organizations across applications, infrastructure and AI Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission‑critical enterprise technology services, today announced its intent to acquire Healthcare IT Leaders,… Read more: Kyndryl inks agreement to purchase Healthcare IT Leaders, LLC - No Bosses: Ancient Engineering Marvel Was Built Without Rulers, Study Suggests
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Ancient people of Colombia used collective labor to build a massive… Read more: No Bosses: Ancient Engineering Marvel Was Built Without Rulers, Study Suggests - This Tool Makes AI Copy Sound Human, and It’s Only $79 for Life
UmanWrite gives you a full AI-backed toolbox to transform AI-generated text into human-sounding copy in moments. The post This Tool Makes AI Copy Sound Human, and It’s Only $79 for Life appeared first on TechRepublic. - Japan’s Akita AI Data Center Now Estimated at $12.6B
Mubadala could back Akita’s $12.6 billion AI data center, a project that could add major Japan-based AI capacity if its power plans hold up. The post Japan’s Akita AI Data Center Now Estimated at $12.6B… Read more: Japan’s Akita AI Data Center Now Estimated at $12.6B - Humanoid Robot Shipments Surge 272% as Chinese Vendors Capture 97% Share
Humanoid robot shipments surged 272% as Chinese vendors captured 97% of shipments, led by AGIBOT and Unitree amid growing workplace adoption. The post Humanoid Robot Shipments Surge 272% as Chinese Vendors Capture 97% Share appeared… Read more: Humanoid Robot Shipments Surge 272% as Chinese Vendors Capture 97% Share - Singapore Raises 2026 Growth Forecast as AI Exports Surge
Singapore raised its 2026 growth forecast to 4.5%–5.5% as surging AI demand boosts electronics exports and manufacturing. The post Singapore Raises 2026 Growth Forecast as AI Exports Surge appeared first on TechRepublic. - Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of AI
Since its earliest days, Google’s homepage has been iconic in its simplicity: a central text box and a big button labeled “Search.” That’s now changing. As anticipated, many users are reporting that the “Search” button… Read more: Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of AI - Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn’t filling empty Democratic seat
The Federal Communications Commission has been shorthanded throughout President Trump’s second term, but it’s about to get a new commissioner. Unsurprisingly, Trump is breaking a historical norm with a nomination that would give Republicans a… Read more: Trump to give Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, isn’t filling empty Democratic seat - Data Infrastructure Summit Virtual Summit | May 2026
Catch on every session from Data Infrastructure Summit, with sessions from the likes of USBank, Betterworks, Meta, ServiceNow and more. - The memory wall: Why your GPUs are sitting idle
As generative AI shifts from training to enterprise-scale inference, a hidden bottleneck is putting ROI at risk. GPUs offer immense computational power, but they’re frequently constrained by memory limitations. According to Penguin Solutions, this can… Read more: The memory wall: Why your GPUs are sitting idle - Nature has spent billions of years fighting bacteria – AI could help us learn its secrets
E coli has a new enemy – designed by AI. Saiful52/Shutterstock.com Tiny viruses that infect bacteria could one day help us tackle infections that antibiotics can no longer treat. But first, scientists need to understand… Read more: Nature has spent billions of years fighting bacteria – AI could help us learn its secrets - ‘Everything about me is good in his eyes’: the women in China choosing AI boyfriends over human men
In her new documentary Replica, film-maker Chouwa Liang taps into her own experience of finding love with artificial intelligence and makes contact with other women like her Sign up for a weekly email featuring our… Read more: ‘Everything about me is good in his eyes’: the women in China choosing AI boyfriends over human men - New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate
Imagine that you share a ride to work with the same colleague most mornings. As it passes by a license plate reader, the camera records the car, which can be linked through vehicle records to… Read more: New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate - Thanks for registering
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German AI researcher and hedge fund manager Leopold Aschenbrenner became the poster child for the hubris of an AI-obsessed Wall Street last month. Some $35 billion of investors’ money, in the form of leveraged bets… Read more: AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots - Hikino AI Announced the Launch of RAV
As the IT Channel goes agentic, RAV gives Value-Added Resellers (VARs) the System of Action to run revenue end-to-end; Clutch Solutions live in production Hikino AI today announced the general availability of RAV, the IT VAR… Read more: Hikino AI Announced the Launch of RAV - Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or low water. One of the dominant players in the space, Amazon Web Services, has its heart set… Read more: Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States - John Sullivan Named as New Chief Technology Officer at Render Networks
Technology transformation leader with experience spanning startups to leading global organizations joins Render to help scale the engineering organization supporting the company’s AI-first future Render Networks, the system of execution for critical infrastructure, today named… Read more: John Sullivan Named as New Chief Technology Officer at Render Networks - Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT
As if the practice of homeschooling wasn’t fraught enough already, parents are now bragging about using large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT to school their kids. A number of viral videos show the alarmingly cavalier… Read more: Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT - Scientists have designed a functioning virus from scratch using AI – what you need to know
ART-ur/Shutterstock.com Artificial intelligence has designed viruses that can infect bacteria and reproduce – a first that shows AI is beginning to do more than analyse the genetic code of living things. It can write new… Read more: Scientists have designed a functioning virus from scratch using AI – what you need to know - Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Research Gold, a site that advertises services for advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts , including systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number… Read more: Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI - Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people and block them from some playlists
Music streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers Spotify is to label AI artists and exclude them from algorithm recommendations as part of… Read more: Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people and block them from some playlists - New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn’t know about passkeys
Last week a researcher outlined what he said was a “novel attack surface” in passkeys, the new authentication paradigm that offers a more secure alternative over password-based methods. In fact, the attacks demonstrated in the… Read more: New Pass-ta-key attack reveals all the things we didn’t know about passkeys - A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call
Researchers say it took fewer than 20 prompts for a public AI tool to find a flaw (now fixed) allowing anyone on a Zoom call to hijack another participants’ device. - Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning
Also: Google executives jump ship in race for AI dominance Hello, TechScape readers! Danielle Abril, editor of the Guardian’s Reworked series on AI and the future of work, filling in for Blake Montgomery this week.… Read more: Meta faces expensive child safety reckoning - A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models. - A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner ThoughtsResearchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicates that some Chinese AI may be trained on leading US models.
- Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery
Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS artificial intelligence tools across drug discovery, including AI agents for target identification, therapy design, and research workflows. Under the agreement announced recently, AWS will become Novo Nordisk’s… Read more: Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery - AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. - Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell
A recent letter signed by 1,367 researchers and engineers at frontier AI labs – mainly OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Deepmind – points to a dangerous moment It is fashionable in certain circles to dismiss the… Read more: Experts are warning: our AI arms race is putting humanity at risk | Stuart Russell - Anthropic Partners With Zaelab for Enterprise AI Delivery
Zaelab today announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic to help enterprises turn AI pilots into production-ready solutions deployed across the business. Every enterprise has access to powerful AI models; competitive advantage comes from the ability… Read more: Anthropic Partners With Zaelab for Enterprise AI Delivery - Navan Partners with DataVisor to Strengthen Fraud Protection
DataVisor, the leading AI-powered fraud and risk platform, today announced a partnership with Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, to strengthen real-time fraud detection across Navan’s platform. As Navan continues… Read more: Navan Partners with DataVisor to Strengthen Fraud Protection - Ragic Wins Two Stevie Awards for AI Innovatio
Cloud database platform recognized for breakthrough approach to AI agent deployment and enterprise application development Ragic, the no-code database builder with built-in AI that allows its users to build their own custom business systems with… Read more: Ragic Wins Two Stevie Awards for AI Innovatio - PerfectServe Launches AI-Powered Intelligent Voice Answering
AI answering service draws on 30 years of clinical workflow expertise and features the first application of Sloane, PerfectServe’s virtual AI agent Most answering services can tell a practice that a call happened. They can’t… Read more: PerfectServe Launches AI-Powered Intelligent Voice Answering - AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’
Study finds technology could boost recoverable oil and gas reserves by 5% and cut cost of deepwater projects by 10% AI-driven productivity gains enable more planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels than they avoid from renewables,… Read more: AI ‘will do more to boost fossil fuel production than green energy’ - AI Is Helping Solve the Intricate Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia
Recent findings provide one of the most detailed pictures to date of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, opening up new avenues for research into the disorder. - How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline
Artificial intelligence is giving security researchers new ways to examine code, trace unusual behaviour and identify flaws that conventional tools may overlook. The pressure is particularly visible around Zero-day vulnerabilities, a recent Minimus analysis considers how… Read more: How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline - ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform, according to newly published procurement records. The data is to help,… Read more: ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir - Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat
Social media scuttlebutt about Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht failing to assist stranded boaters off the coast of Alaska was partly corroborated by ship-tracking data—and eventually prompted responses from both the US Coast Guard and… Read more: Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat - Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution
Amazon’s artificial intelligence ambitions will soon be partly fueled by a natural gas-burning power plant in Texas that “could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States,” The New York Times… Read more: Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution - Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds
Following its announcement in March, game developer Cold Iron Studios has shut down the servers for the cloud version of Aliens: Fireteam Elite on the Nintendo Switch. The game originally cost $30 (or $60 for… Read more: Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds - Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist
President Trump signed an executive order Monday that makes sweeping, unilateral changes to federal vaccine recommendations. The order aims to reduce the number of lifesaving vaccines all children are recommended to get—from 18 to 11—while… Read more: Trump signs bonkers order that cuts vaccines, promotes ones that don’t exist - With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has announced its intention to focus on open-weight large language models. Additionally, the company announced the release of an open model called Muse Glimmer and a promise to open the weights for Muse Spark… Read more: With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy - Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement
By now, any serious gamer is familiar with a favorite title becoming unplayable after a centralized online server gets shut down, or being unable to purchase and download a digitally delisted, critically acclaimed title from… Read more: Ars Live: Ross Scott discusses the Stop Killing Games movement - Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans… Read more: Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model - Scam.ai Announced the Launch of Halo
Scam.ai, the company building state-of-the-art AI to detect deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, today announced the launch of Halo, a real-time, on-device deepfake detection model for video meetings, developed in close collaboration with Qualcomm. Video-call impersonation… Read more: Scam.ai Announced the Launch of Halo - Education ministers are worried about technology use in schools. Should they be?
Thirdman/ Pexels Australia’s education ministers are increasingly asking if there is too much screen time in schools. Phones are already banned or restricted in every public school around the country. And Victoria has announced that… Read more: Education ministers are worried about technology use in schools. Should they be? - Complaints about online platforms often go nowhere. AI could actually be part of the solution
Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images You know the feeling. Your account is suspended, your refund request is refused, or you’re still being charged for a cancelled subscription. So you go to the company’s website… Read more: Complaints about online platforms often go nowhere. AI could actually be part of the solution - What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow’s guide is an outdated map, lacking answers
A “centaur” is a human helped by a machine: the person sets the direction, the machine supplies the horsepower, and together they are better than either one alone. Tech activist Cory Doctorow’s nightmare is the… Read more: What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow’s guide is an outdated map, lacking answers - Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future. Called “The Future is for Everyone,” it’s so breathlessly optimistic about the technology that it ends up… Read more: Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting - With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren’t as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, since… Read more: With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios - Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
A new day has dawned in the Play Store, and it’s one that Google tried very hard to avoid. The first third-party app store has arrived in Google Play as a result of the long-running… Read more: Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store - Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
SteamOS is continuing its slow march to fuller support on a wider variety of non-Valve hardware. This weekend’s release of the SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta includes “initial gamepad support” for a few recent gaming handhelds and… Read more: Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware - Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
Amid a massive Cyclospora outbreak linked to its iceberg lettuce, Taylor Farms is now recalling products containing jalapeños, which were linked last week to a large, multi-state Salmonella outbreak. On Sunday, August 9, Taylor Farms… Read more: Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak - Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.
Talk of the affordability crisis may be penetrating corporate boardrooms. Hot on the heels of the name and starting price for Ford’s new affordable electric truck, news leaked today that the sub-$30,000 Fathom isn’t the… Read more: Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way. - Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity
Progressive US senator urges Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to ‘stop building machines that humans cannot control’ Senator Bernie Sanders has called on Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic executives to halt their development of artificial intelligence, warning… Read more: Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to ‘pause AI development’ in interest of humanity - SK hynix Approves $38 Billion Memory Expansion as AI Demand Strains Supply
SK hynix approved about $38.1 billion for two memory fabs, but new HBM and NAND capacity may not ease AI-driven supply pressure until 2029. The post SK hynix Approves $38 Billion Memory Expansion as AI… Read more: SK hynix Approves $38 Billion Memory Expansion as AI Demand Strains Supply - Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US Grid Data Shows
AI power demand is surging, but the grid problem emerging in US data is more local and complicated than a nationwide electricity shortage. The post Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US… Read more: Will AI Data Centers Overwhelm the Power Grid? What US Grid Data Shows - USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with AI surveillance firm Palantir to monetize “actionable intelligence” on its audience. According to USA Today CEO Mike… Read more: USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir - Sigma Signs Agreement with AWS to Accelerate AI Apps, Agents, and Analytics
Multi-year agreement deepens Sigma’s relationship with AWS, expanding joint go-to-market, co-selling, and availability in AWS Marketplace to help enterprises build and scale on governed cloud data. Sigma, the layer to build and scale analytics, apps,… Read more: Sigma Signs Agreement with AWS to Accelerate AI Apps, Agents, and Analytics - Firebird Opens Region’s Largest AI Factory and Announces Global Expansion
Firebird launches one of the world’s fastest-deployed NVIDIA DSX AI factories, accelerating its global expansion across emerging markets. NVIDIA’s investment will accelerate Firebird’s expansion of AI infrastructure across emerging markets. Firebird’s three-phase expansion in Armenia plans… Read more: Firebird Opens Region’s Largest AI Factory and Announces Global Expansion - Eldridge Announced the Acquisition of Ownership Stake in AI Firm Sudolabs
Companies form strategic partnership to help enterprises deploy AI at scale Eldridge today announced it has acquired a significant stake in Sudolabs, a provider of custom agentic AI systems and consulting services for enterprise clients.… Read more: Eldridge Announced the Acquisition of Ownership Stake in AI Firm Sudolabs - ACL Digital, Hubbl Partner to Accelerate AI for Salesforce
The partnership pairs ACL Digital’s enterprise engineering depth with Hubbl’s AI-powered Salesforce intelligence to turn insight into impact in days. ACL Digital, part of the ALTEN Group, a trusted AI-led Digital Enterprise & Systems Engineering… Read more: ACL Digital, Hubbl Partner to Accelerate AI for Salesforce - Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp
Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners. As 404 Media reports, the controversial company drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber… Read more: Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp - ‘You’re a 4 out of 10’: the troubling rise of AI appearance ratings
New Africa/Shutterstock A teenager joins an online video chat. Within seconds, artificial intelligence analyses their face and gives them a score out of ten for “attractiveness”. They are compared in real time with another user… Read more: ‘You’re a 4 out of 10’: the troubling rise of AI appearance ratings - 6 mistakes AI leaders keep making with agentic deployments
The gap between ambition and infrastructure Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to get canceled by the end of 2027, a June 2025 prediction driven by rising costs, murky business value, and thin… Read more: 6 mistakes AI leaders keep making with agentic deployments - A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average… Read more: A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
