
- Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
Waymo has sharply increased its lobbying spending as it seeks to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services, intensifying its battle with rival Uber over the future of robotaxis. The… Read more: Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber - Politics hits data centers, OpenAI falls behind Anthropic and now AI is too big to fail… quietly
Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond. Really? Really. Even the GOP is worried that opposition to AI data centers… Read more: Politics hits data centers, OpenAI falls behind Anthropic and now AI is too big to fail… quietly - Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss three years of 404 Media. JASON: Tomorrow… Read more: Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections - Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Are Terrified of the Backlash Against AI Data Centers
As the backlash against data centers mounts, American political strategists are scrambling to balance immense public sentiment against the facilities with their obligation to big business. In the Republican Party’s Senate campaign arm, a recently… Read more: Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Are Terrified of the Backlash Against AI Data Centers - EDB Adds Postgres-Proven Disaster Recovery to WarehousePG
For banks and regulated enterprises running analytics around the clock, a warehouse recovery measured in days is a business risk. EDB Postgres® AI for WarehousePG brings it down to minutes and lets enterprises keep control over… Read more: EDB Adds Postgres-Proven Disaster Recovery to WarehousePG - The importance of teaching students what AI can’t do
Emile Bernard’s ‘Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour’ (1888). Art Media/The Print Collector via Getty Images It’s disconcerting to envision human thought becoming redundant or deemed inferior due to advancements in artificial intelligence. But for all… Read more: The importance of teaching students what AI can’t do - Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays
For decades, scientists have puzzled over why certain atomic nuclei unexpectedly produce large numbers of low-energy gamma rays. A new experiment traced the effect to magnetic changes inside the nucleus, where protons and neutrons effectively… Read more: Hidden magnetism inside atoms may explain mysterious gamma rays - A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together
Two very different types of quantum particles may be able to form stable droplets that hold themselves together, challenging decades of conventional thinking. The prediction could soon be tested experimentally and may reveal an unexpectedly… Read more: A strange new quantum droplet can hold itself together - 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals ancient waterproofing secrets
Scientists analyzing a 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck found that its hull was coated with pine tar and, in one area, a mixture of tar and beeswax. Pollen trapped in those ancient coatings acted like a geographic… Read more: 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals ancient waterproofing secrets - Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss
Welcome to Edition 9.07 of the Rocket Report! China’s workhorse Long March rocket family appears to be rebounding quickly from a rare launch failure August 10. Chinese officials have not publicly released any information on… Read more: Rocket Report: SpaceX makes its mark on the Moon; ULA names new boss - As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
Can you tell when someone nearby is wearing Meta AI glasses? As millions of people buy into the smart glasses fad each year, the odds are increasing that you could be secretly recorded while simply… Read more: As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings - This weight-loss hormone may protect the liver even without weight loss
A hormone already known for curbing appetite and supporting weight loss may have a surprising second job: protecting the liver from inflammation and scarring. Researchers at McMaster University found that GDF15 activates a previously unknown… Read more: This weight-loss hormone may protect the liver even without weight loss - Scientists catch a hidden electronic state forming in just 30 femtoseconds
Scientists watched a light-triggered hidden state form inside a material in only 30 femtoseconds, revealing a step that had never been seen before. The material first entered a fleeting electronic state in which its bonds… Read more: Scientists catch a hidden electronic state forming in just 30 femtoseconds - Ema AI Names Jonathan Feldman as Head of Revenue, Partnerships and Solutions
Organization taps experienced go-to-market leader to expand partner-led adoption of its AI employees in global organizations Ema, the leading enterprise platform for agentic AI Employees, today announced that Jonathan Feldman has joined the company as… Read more: Ema AI Names Jonathan Feldman as Head of Revenue, Partnerships and Solutions - BlueRock for AI Builders to Help Citizen Developers Across the Enterprise
New offering gives organizations the tools, resources, and infrastructure to support a new generation of AI builders in every department. BlueRock, an agentic operations company that helps enterprises securely deploy and scale AI systems, today… Read more: BlueRock for AI Builders to Help Citizen Developers Across the Enterprise - SAS, AWS bring new insights to AI Enterprise Conference 2026
Leaders from both companies to discuss AI, trust and governance alongside breaking research SAS, a global leader in data and AI, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) will join forces at the AI Enterprise Conference to tackle the… Read more: SAS, AWS bring new insights to AI Enterprise Conference 2026 - Jason Arday and the new politics of plagiarism
Cambridge professor Jason Arday was found dead at his home in London on Aug. 14, 2026, days after he resigned from his position amid accusations of plagiarism, which he had denied. Nordin Catic/Getty Images After… Read more: Jason Arday and the new politics of plagiarism - Historian Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ | Politics Weekly America
Less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war and… datacentres. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash… Read more: Historian Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ | Politics Weekly America - Veeam Named Champion in Omdia’s 2026 Global Backup Leadership Matrix
Veeam recognized in the highest category for its strong partner ecosystem, leadership, portfolio competitiveness and market performance Veeam® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced it has been named a Champion – the highest… Read more: Veeam Named Champion in Omdia’s 2026 Global Backup Leadership Matrix - Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York
Exclusive: Planning documents show datacentre in north Ockendon will be incompatible with UK net zero targets A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, equivalent to… Read more: Proposed London datacentre will have annual carbon footprint of 27,000 flights to New York - I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage
I understand the pressure on AI companies to rush forward. But employees are right to be concerned Last month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government… Read more: I worked at OpenAI. Here’s how tech companies can prepare for a slowdown | Miles Brundage - How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript
In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption… Read more: How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript - Upstage AI Announced the Launch of Solar Pro 4
SP4 Delivers the Behavioral Reliability Production Agents Require at a Fraction of Frontier-Model Cost — Surpassing 80 Billion Tokens in Three Days on OpenRouter Upstage AI, an enterprise AI company, announced the launch of Solar… Read more: Upstage AI Announced the Launch of Solar Pro 4 - HaystackID features Case Insight and Launches TRACE Suite at ILTACON 2026
Company also to share a significantly enhanced CaseBot offering and AI-enabled cyber services advancements and demonstrate GenAI-powered privacy and DSAR solutions as legal technology professionals gather in Nashville HaystackID®, a trusted partner focused on managing… Read more: HaystackID features Case Insight and Launches TRACE Suite at ILTACON 2026 - The Single English County Saying No to Palantir
The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a better job itself. - Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast
With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this… Read more: Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast - Google’s attempt to buy Spirit Airlines’ data might come unstuck
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence researchers had been salivating at the prospect of getting their hands on a trove of business data acquired from the defunct airline Spirit Airlines Inc. in an auction, but the proposed… Read more: Google’s attempt to buy Spirit Airlines’ data might come unstuck - Astromech raises $20M to build a biological operating system that can forecast evolutionary change
An artificial intelligence startup called Astromech that’s developing models that can predict biological change has raised $20 million in funding, lifting its valuation to $3.8 billion. The round was led by biotechnology investor Bob Nelsen… Read more: Astromech raises $20M to build a biological operating system that can forecast evolutionary change - Broadcom reportedly seeking up to $100B in debt financing for AI chip deal
Broadcom Inc. is reportedly seeking to borrow up to $100 billion as part of a new artificial intelligence chip financing deal. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the debt is intended to support the… Read more: Broadcom reportedly seeking up to $100B in debt financing for AI chip deal - They survived 9/11; 25 years later, their bonds remain unbroken
September 11, 2001, will be remembered as one of the darkest days in American history. As the 25th anniversary approaches, National Geographic, in collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, is marking the occasion with… Read more: They survived 9/11; 25 years later, their bonds remain unbroken - Europe cancels planned upgrades for Ariane 6 rocket
In the two years since it made a largely successful debut, Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket has launched eight missions, all of which reached orbit safely. The large, expendable rocket has a capacity of more than… Read more: Europe cancels planned upgrades for Ariane 6 rocket - US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban
A leading US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots and robot dogs now plans to produce its own robots at a facility on Long Island, New York. The business pivot comes amid the US… Read more: US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban - Report: Anthropic hopes to surpass SpaceX’s record IPO raise when it finally floats
Anthropic PBC is privately hoping its upcoming initial public offering will match or even surpass the size of SpaceX Corp.’s record-breaking IPO as it doubles down on its bid to go public ahead of rival… Read more: Report: Anthropic hopes to surpass SpaceX’s record IPO raise when it finally floats - Twin1 AI raises $20M to put an AI twin behind every knowledge worker
Twin1 AI Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding to build artificial intelligence-powered digital twins that carry an individual professional’s expertise across their organization. The San Mateo, California-based startup pairs each worker with… Read more: Twin1 AI raises $20M to put an AI twin behind every knowledge worker - AI workload optimization startup Callosum raises $100M
London-based artificial intelligence startup Callosum Ltd. today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding. Atomico led the seed investment with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the U.K. Sovereign AI Fund. The deal follows… Read more: AI workload optimization startup Callosum raises $100M - Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People
There are a litany of reasons to distrust Google’s AI Overviews, which now appear at the top of its search results above links to actual websites. The algorithmically generated answers, which pull from various sources… Read more: Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People - Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids
Despite making changes last fall to help block adults from messaging unknown children, Roblox is still failing to stop adults from creeping on kids in other ways, Australia’s eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, said on… Read more: Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids - Supermicro alliance tackles the storage bottlenecks holding back enterprise AI
The conversation around storage modernization used to revolve around capacity. Today, the dialogue centers on the role of storage as a strategic requirement for AI readiness. This doesn’t mean that storage’s transformation is simple. Many organizations… Read more: Supermicro alliance tackles the storage bottlenecks holding back enterprise AI - OpenAI Halts AI Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging
OpenAI says that it’s slowing down development and release of new models due to security and alignment concerns. The ChatGPT maker announced the decision in a Tuesday blog post, citing two events as drivers of… Read more: OpenAI Halts AI Training on Advanced Model as It Detects Dark Signs Emerging - Paving the way for greener ammonia production
Ammonia is one of the most important chemicals produced in the world, ranking second only to sulfuric acid in the total volume produced each year. It is used mostly to make fertilizer, which is essential… Read more: Paving the way for greener ammonia production - Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get Why You Hate AI
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it. - ‘Darth Vader’ Wants Flock in San Diego
During the public comment portion of a recent San Diego city council meeting, the council called for the next comment to take the podium: “Darth Vader?” As he approached the microphone in his black helmet… Read more: ‘Darth Vader’ Wants Flock in San Diego - Bulletproof Achieves Microsoft 365 Copilot Advanced Specialization
Distinction reinforces Bulletproof’s leadership in helping organizations securely adopt and scale AI with Microsoft technologies. Bulletproof today announced it has attained the Copilot Advanced Specialization in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, further differentiating Bulletproof among… Read more: Bulletproof Achieves Microsoft 365 Copilot Advanced Specialization - Artizent Earns AWS AI Services Competency
Artizent, a global enterprise engineering company focused on cloud, data, software, quality engineering, and AI-enabled transformation for enterprises, announced that it has achieved the AWS AI Services Competency in the Agentic AI Consulting Services category.… Read more: Artizent Earns AWS AI Services Competency - Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects
Adobe Inc. today announced the general availability of audio capabilities in Firefly, the company’s all-in-one creative AI tool suite, allowing users to produce music, speech, and sound effects for their projects. In June, the company… Read more: Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects - Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open
Salesforce Inc. today introduced Slack Code, a new way to interact with coding agents in chat, with the whole team in the loop so everyone can see what’s happening at the conversational level. Coding agents… Read more: Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open - Flock Says It’s “Taking a Break” From Responding to Media Requests
Flock is starting to feel the heat — or at least its PR team is. Last week, its CEO Garrett Langley offered a simpering public apology for abuses of its mass surveillance network after a… Read more: Flock Says It’s “Taking a Break” From Responding to Media Requests - Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces
When someone uploads a photo to the people-search tool ClarityCheck, the website has a clear message: “Your reverse image search is private and secure.” New research, though, shows that the website left more than 9 million image… Read more: Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces - SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
Elon Musk’s talk about maintaining a million-strong AI data center satellite megaconstellation may not exactly be practical or economical, but it might be unique. It’s about the closest we’ve come to confronting a scheme that… Read more: SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste - Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90
A couple of years ago, Genesis showed us its unique take on the luxury electric SUV with the Neolum concept. The brand’s designers know how to draw a handsome shape, particularly using an SUV’s proportions,… Read more: Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90 - Your AI agent’s skills are lying to you about why they work
Every team that ships agent “skills” has the same story. Drop in a folder of structured knowledge, watch the success rate climb, and assume the agent finally learned something. But a new paper suggests that… Read more: Your AI agent’s skills are lying to you about why they work - Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on Fire TV — No Prime Required
Amazon is rolling out Alexa+ at no additional cost to eligible US Fire TV owners, even without Prime. The move expands access to Amazon’s AI assistant while reserving some advanced features and Echo device access… Read more: Amazon Makes Alexa+ Free on Fire TV — No Prime Required - One Tool Lets You Manage Every Reply, Post, and DM on X for Life, $50
One browser extension drafts your X replies and posts, tracks the accounts you follow, and schedules them. The post One Tool Lets You Manage Every Reply, Post, and DM on X for Life, $50 appeared… Read more: One Tool Lets You Manage Every Reply, Post, and DM on X for Life, $50 - How to Quiz Yourself With ChatGPT and Check the Answers
A better ChatGPT quiz starts with a tighter prompt, a clear difficulty level, and independent checks when the answer actually matters. The post How to Quiz Yourself With ChatGPT and Check the Answers appeared first… Read more: How to Quiz Yourself With ChatGPT and Check the Answers - Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities
Amazon plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to nearly 500 cities and towns across the US by the end of 2026. That build-out amounts to six times the number of locations Prime… Read more: Amazon’s Prime Air autonomous drones to reach 500 US cities - Piracy fears prompt calls for ban on Meta smart glasses in UK cinemas
Trade body says local chains would have to balance concerns with potential benefits provided by AI-enabled technology Cinemas across the UK are considering banning customers from wearing Meta’s smart glasses, amid fears they could be… Read more: Piracy fears prompt calls for ban on Meta smart glasses in UK cinemas - Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user’s inbox. Now, a… Read more: Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted - Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six month moratorium on “major electric utility infrastructure” on Tuesday night. The moratorium is a delaying tactic, the latest in the Township’s long fight to stop the construction of… Read more: Township Fights Nuclear Weapons Data Center By Passing a Moratorium on Electrical Infrastructure - Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X
I can clearly remember the first time I saw a deepfake. I was waiting for the train on my way to the Vice office in 2017 when I got a Twitter DM from someone who… Read more: Subtlefakes: Slightly Altered Nonconsensual AI Images Are Taking Over X - Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety
A massive trial is underway in California, where state attorneys general are holding Meta’s feet to the fire for its role in fueling a children’s mental health crisis. According to the testimony of former Meta… Read more: Whistleblower Says Mark Zuckerberg Is Only Pretending to Care About Child Safety - This total solar eclipse looked strangely golden — here’s why
Spain’s total solar eclipse delivered an unexpected sight: a corona glowing gold instead of its usual pearly white. Because the Sun was setting, its light passed through more atmosphere, while smoke from nearby wildfires filtered… Read more: This total solar eclipse looked strangely golden — here’s why - A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater
A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured detailed images showing bright and dark streaks… Read more: A SpaceX rocket smashed into the Moon — NASA just revealed the crater - Scientists crushed diamond beyond Neptune-like pressures—and solved a 20-year mystery
Extreme experiments have revealed how diamond behaves at crushing pressures beyond those inside Neptune and Uranus, resolving a decades-old conflict between theory and observation. The results could help scientists boost fusion energy output while revealing… Read more: Scientists crushed diamond beyond Neptune-like pressures—and solved a 20-year mystery - Scientists say the human family tree may need a major rewrite
The human family tree may be due for a major rewrite. Researchers argue that Australopithecus and Paranthropus should be folded into the genus Homo because new fossils have blurred many of the traits once used… Read more: Scientists say the human family tree may need a major rewrite - Schizophrenia’s lost brain connections follow a surprising pattern
Specialized brain scans reveal that schizophrenia is linked to widespread loss of the synapses that connect brain cells, with the left side of the brain hit especially hard. The damage follows a surprisingly organized pattern… Read more: Schizophrenia’s lost brain connections follow a surprising pattern - 10 questions every AI leader should be able to answer in 2027
Ask any AI leader for their roadmap and the slides arrive within minutes, usually with a slide titled “vision” and a logo cloud nobody quite remembers approving. Ask what happens the moment an agent makes… Read more: 10 questions every AI leader should be able to answer in 2027 - AI Agents Advance Faster Than Enterprise Data Is Ready for Them
Interim findings from the third annual Modern Data Survey show nearly 6 in 10 organizations are piloting or running AI agents, while fewer than 1 in 10 say the data feeding their AI is production-ready.… Read more: AI Agents Advance Faster Than Enterprise Data Is Ready for Them - Weaver Announced the Launch of Free AI ROI Index
New benchmark draws on 3 million enterprise users and 100,000 deployed agents to compare orgs with more than 1,500 peers, finding major gap between having an AI plan and having the people capable of executing… Read more: Weaver Announced the Launch of Free AI ROI Index - Patients in Yorkshire complain AI GP receptionist cannot understand accent
Healthwatch Rotherham says Emma AI system’s failure to grasp local ‘twangs’ is leaving people frustrated Patients in a South Yorkshire town are frustrated by AI GP receptionists not understanding their “broad accents”, a health watchdog… Read more: Patients in Yorkshire complain AI GP receptionist cannot understand accent - UiPath Announced the Introduction of UiPath Maestro Flow
New orchestration capability lets builders use any coding agent to build, run, and govern complete business processes—no rewrite required to ship UiPath, Inc. (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in business orchestration and automation, today announced… Read more: UiPath Announced the Introduction of UiPath Maestro Flow - Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single interface. The deal adds model selection and routing to Stripe’s existing work around AI… Read more: Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands - Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in October 2017 and, days later, created a ministerial post to run it, making… Read more: Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide - A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations
Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served… Read more: A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations - HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector
Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a… Read more: HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector - AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law
AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit file, that developer has to sign a contract accepting a fixed set of… Read more: AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law - Oakley Capital Invests in Graphwise to Advance Trusted Enterprise AI
The investment will accelerate the growth of the leading provider of AI knowledge platforms as companies seek to scale up AI cost-effectively Graphwise, the leading Graph AI provider, today announced that Oakley Capital (“Oakley”), a… Read more: Oakley Capital Invests in Graphwise to Advance Trusted Enterprise AI - It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well
For most of modern history, technology sought to imitate humans. Humans increasingly seek to imitate technology Two faces that appeared on my Instagram feed in recent months gave me pause. One belonged to John Travolta… Read more: It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well - Researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub
The brain has a remarkably flexible system for handling uncertainty and changing situations. Researchers found that the frontoparietal cortex constantly shifts how it communicates with other brain regions depending on what information is needed to… Read more: Researchers reveal deeper workings of brain’s information hub - MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material
MIT physicists found that two electronic phases inside the same quantum material emerge through surprisingly different mechanisms—one smoothly and the other in expanding pockets resembling growing ice crystals. The discovery could help explain how exotic… Read more: MIT physicists discover electrons rebuilding like ice inside a quantum material - GOP urges top AI firms to do something about the toxic image of data centers
As artificial intelligence data centers continue to proliferate across Ohio and public opposition grows, Axios reported today that the GOP’s Senate campaign arm has privately warned AI companies that they need to do something about… Read more: GOP urges top AI firms to do something about the toxic image of data centers - AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions
SDI Productions/Getty In the United States, leading HR software company Workday is currently facing a lawsuit over its use of job screening tools powered by AI which allegedly discriminated against applicants based on factors such… Read more: AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions - Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding
Veeda AI, a startup led by a team of former Nvidia Corp. researcher and renowned computer scientist Sanja Fidler, has taken its bow on the main stage after raising $90 million in a seed funding… Read more: Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding - NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced Wednesday they are giving up on a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray telescope before it falls out of orbit. The rescue satellite, named Link, launched July 3… Read more: NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory - UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students’ math skills
Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behind A math professor at the University of California, Berkeley, criticizing a “severe” math… Read more: UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed about students’ math skills - Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026
Amazon wants to grow its Prime Air delivery drone service sixfold to reach nearly 500 cities and towns across the United States by the end of 2026. The planned expansions from Amazon and its rivals… Read more: Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026 - Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal
Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reported numbers do not… Read more: Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal - The AI inference race moves beyond GPUs to reshape data center infrastructure
AI inference infrastructure is becoming a system-level challenge as organizations move generative and agentic applications into production. Graphics processing unit performance remains essential, but storage latency, network bandwidth, data movement and power consumption increasingly determine… Read more: The AI inference race moves beyond GPUs to reshape data center infrastructure - Layered data architecture turns enterprise data into a system of intelligence
The knowledge graph is fast becoming a foundational layer for enterprise AI, as organizations race to turn scattered data into answers that leaders can trust. As IT stacks that went cloud-native now go AI-native, a… Read more: Layered data architecture turns enterprise data into a system of intelligence - The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket
It has been a little more than a month since China recovered an orbital-class rocket booster for the first time. A second launch operator accomplished a similar feat Tuesday in another sign of China’s growing… Read more: The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket - FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though fiber networks have routinely offered… Read more: FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies - Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data
Last Friday, Google won an auction to acquire a huge amount of Spirit Airlines data. The data doesn’t include personal information or customer data, but instead nearly covers the airline’s entire employment and workplace record.… Read more: Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data - Some parents want to see primary schools go ‘device free’. There could be unintended consequences
RDNE Stock Project/ Pexels Some Australian parents are pushing for a return to “pen-and-paper learning” amid concerns about children’s attention spans and academic achievement. An online petition calling for primary schools to be “device free”… Read more: Some parents want to see primary schools go ‘device free’. There could be unintended consequences - Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
A BIOS update for the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series processors is bricking the systems, multiple users have reported online. Framework started shipping pre-built Ryzen 7040-based Framework Laptop 13 computers and compatible motherboards… Read more: Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops - European Central Bank Warns That AI Crash Is Looming
While talk of an AI investment bubble usually centers around the designs of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the implications reach far beyond the borders of the United States. On Monday, an analysis published by… Read more: European Central Bank Warns That AI Crash Is Looming - Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?
People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy? “I’ve had one person who told… Read more: Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure? - Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
We start this week with Emanuel’s big story about Amazon buying, and destroying, masses of books to train AI. After the break we talk about a couple of wild cases where people are using AI.… Read more: Podcast: Amazon is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI - I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool. - Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds
🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Microbes from Earth could survive on parts of the Moon for… Read more: Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds - ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure
After years of horrendous scandals, OpenAI has seemingly admitted that ChatGPT wasn’t safe for teenage users. On Tuesday, the Sam Altman-led company rolled out an alternate version of the bot called “ChatGPT for Teens,” which… Read more: ChatGPT for Teens Is an Immediate, Dismal Failure - Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA
President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, a top conservative policy aide, as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, according to multiple media reports. Overton is currently the deputy director of… Read more: Trump expected to pick conservative policy wonk Heidi Overton to lead FDA
