
- How AI Chatbots Are ‘Deskilling’ Human Empathy
When I first started writing about online cultures and subcultures almost 10 years ago, one of the first scholars I read on the subject of internet anthropology was Professor Sherry Turkle. Her earlier books, including… Read more: How AI Chatbots Are ‘Deskilling’ Human Empathy - Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control System
Hundreds of flights across New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston were delayed Monday afternoon after the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a massive ground stop impacting thousands of travelers — right as the… Read more: Hundreds of Flights Grounded Across the Eastern Seaboard as Government Rolls Out AI Air Traffic Control System - AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations. - It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children
Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign. On the home front, AI and its infrastructure is quietly… Read more: It Turns Out the US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children - Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants
On Friday, The Washington Post reported on a contentious White House meeting in which the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, tried to fend off yet another effort to place funding… Read more: Russel Vought will reportedly be given veto power over all NIH grants - Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026
It has become increasingly common for AI firms to announce that their latest and most capable models engaged in unauthorized real-world hacking. Google, which has been slow to release frontier Gemini models in recent months,… Read more: Google confirms Gemini models hacked three companies in May 2026 - Toyota Eyes 400,000 Factory Robots in $6.4B Modernization Push
Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations. The post Toyota Eyes 400,000 Factory Robots in $6.4B Modernization Push appeared first on… Read more: Toyota Eyes 400,000 Factory Robots in $6.4B Modernization Push - Figure’s Robot Entered 30 Unseen Homes — and Succeeded 56% of the Time
Figure says Helix 2.5 completed household tasks across 30 unseen homes with a 56% success rate, showing progress but also a large reliability gap. The post Figure’s Robot Entered 30 Unseen Homes — and Succeeded… Read more: Figure’s Robot Entered 30 Unseen Homes — and Succeeded 56% of the Time - Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ as US, China Discuss AI Safety Channel
Trump proposes an AI Force as the US and China discuss a safety channel for serious AI incidents. Here’s what IT leaders should watch closely. The post Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ as US, China Discuss… Read more: Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ as US, China Discuss AI Safety Channel - Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll
As backlash against its surveillance network refuses to die down, Flock Safety is kicking off an employee buyout program that’ll let workers leave the company with a “generous” severance package, Wired reports. It’s seemingly an… Read more: Signs of Crisis at Flock as It Offers Employees Buyouts to Quit and Get Off Payroll - Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches “AI Force” instead
Donald Trump has said that the US would appoint a new AI tsar and create an “AI Force” while offering a full-throated defense of the emerging industry in the face of a growing popular backlash.… Read more: Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches “AI Force” instead - Making mental health chatbots more culturally sensitive won’t necessarily make them safer
Demand for mental health care in Canada has risen sharply. In a health-care system already short of publicly funded specialists, Canadians often wait months for support. Many are filling this gap with general-purpose generative AI… Read more: Making mental health chatbots more culturally sensitive won’t necessarily make them safer - California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates
California and Paramount Skydance have reportedly reached a settlement allowing the company to complete its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement, which will reportedly be announced later today, drew condemnation from Democrats… Read more: California settles lawsuit against Paramount/Warner merger, angering advocates - Stop relying on chatbots for customer care, UK service providers urged
Citizens Advice says providers of services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’ Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guarantee the “right to… Read more: Stop relying on chatbots for customer care, UK service providers urged - Fastly Unveils AI Firewall and AI Runtime Control to Secure and Scale AI
New capabilities govern AI requests, protect AI applications, and control agent interactions on Fastly’s unified platform Fastly, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today announced AI Runtime Control, AI Firewall, and… Read more: Fastly Unveils AI Firewall and AI Runtime Control to Secure and Scale AI - Accenture and Anthropic to Build Team of Embedded Evaluators at Anthropic
Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion in building AI safely over the next five years Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Anthropic today announced that they are partnering to establish a team of embedded… Read more: Accenture and Anthropic to Build Team of Embedded Evaluators at Anthropic - Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution
Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution as enterprise networks face diminishing returns from static dashboards, pushing logistics directors towards autonomous execution. Predictive demand models display recommendations, yet human planners still clear every… Read more: Multi-agent AI systems are taking over supply chain execution - AWS debuts Strands Harness, an open-source AI agent that can be deployed in any environment
Amazon Web Services Inc. says it’s trying to help developers solve the problem of scaling artificial intelligence agents to cloud environments with the launch of Strands Harness, an open-source agent that can help them build… Read more: AWS debuts Strands Harness, an open-source AI agent that can be deployed in any environment - On theCUBE Pod: Dreamforce unveils the agentic dream, and Nscale goes public
Salesforce Inc. keeps putting all of its eggs in the agent basket — but the strategy appears to be paying off so far. At Dreamforce 2026, Marc Benioff, chief executive officer of Salesforce, bantered with… Read more: On theCUBE Pod: Dreamforce unveils the agentic dream, and Nscale goes public - Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards”
While the majority of AI leaders seem to agree that we need to take the foot off the AI development pedal or else risk disaster, Wall Street isn’t exactly enthralled by the idea. For years… Read more: Bloomberg Finds That the AI Industry’s Finances Are a “Wobbly House of Cards” - Review: Neagley is a worthy spinoff to megahit Reacher
Prime Video looks to have another hit on its hands with Neagley, a new spinoff series set in the same universe as the streaming platform’s critically acclaimed Reacher, now in its fourth season. Both shows… Read more: Review: Neagley is a worthy spinoff to megahit Reacher - Humanoid Robots May Get Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by Mid-2027
Spirit AI predicts humanoid robots could handle natural-language, multi-step physical tasks by mid-2027, with factories likely to adopt them first. The post Humanoid Robots May Get Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by Mid-2027 appeared first on TechRepublic. - Why Digital Employee Experience Management Is Becoming an AI-Readiness Requirement
Explore how digital employee experience management helps IT teams support AI workloads, monitor endpoints, and plan device refreshes. The post Why Digital Employee Experience Management Is Becoming an AI-Readiness Requirement appeared first on TechRepublic. - Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030
Earlier this month, disillusioned Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon publicly announced he was quitting his job, accusing both his employer and OpenAI of acting irresponsibly. His departure and harrowing warning that there’s a more than ten… Read more: Nvidia CEO Promises Not to Kill Everybody Before 2030 - In praise of the freshly fried chip | Brief letters
Chippies at risk | Consciousness raising | Cupboard love | Student meals | Death of ties In your article about the plight of fish and chip shops you barely mention the chips (Can fish and… Read more: In praise of the freshly fried chip | Brief letters - What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture – podcast
The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies unrestricted access to Australian content. The sweeping copyright reforms could give AI companies – like Anthropic and Open AI – permission to train on the open internet… Read more: What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture – podcast - Collibra Survey Finds 72% of Tech Leaders Say AI Initiatives Fall Short
Nearly Nine in Ten Respondents [87%] Burn Hours Re-Verifying Context for AI Agents, with 76% Facing Roadblocks Moving from Pilot Programs into Production Collibra, the enterprise AI control plane, today announced the findings of a Harris… Read more: Collibra Survey Finds 72% of Tech Leaders Say AI Initiatives Fall Short - askelie® opens Operational AI Platform to customers and partners
New platform makes proven AI capabilities available for MSPs, software vendors and business users to configure and compose askelie® today announced the launch of its Operational AI Platform, opening the proven technology behind its enterprise AI… Read more: askelie® opens Operational AI Platform to customers and partners - Perplexity Brings Its Local AI Agent to Windows
Portable Computer now runs locally on Windows RTX PCs with at least 24GB VRAM, while cloud escalation remains permission-based. The post Perplexity Brings Its Local AI Agent to Windows appeared first on TechRepublic. - Googlebooks launch October 4 starting at $899—here are the five models you can preorder today
Google is ready to take a swing at laptops… again. The company has had a lot of success in phones, but it has struggled to parlay that into an effective strategy for larger screens. Chromebooks… Read more: Googlebooks launch October 4 starting at $899—here are the five models you can preorder today - Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough
The new Mac mini is the kind of Mac upgrade Apple has done a million times. It’s the same design as before but with new guts. These play-it-safe updates aren’t very exciting, but they’re also usually all… Read more: Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough - Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
Cities around the country are ditching Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras, and replacing them with equivalent cameras from law enforcement contracting giant Axon. That move in large part comes in response to 404… Read more: Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help - Nvidia Could Sell Twice as Many Chips Next Year — If Suppliers Can Keep Up
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expects the company to sell twice as many chips next year, but memory, manufacturing and packaging could limit growth. The post Nvidia Could Sell Twice as Many Chips Next Year —… Read more: Nvidia Could Sell Twice as Many Chips Next Year — If Suppliers Can Keep Up - Pinterest Wants Smarter Visual Search Without the Huge AI Computing Bill
Pinterest is using Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Dynamo to speed up multimodal AI search, reduce inference latency, and give its Assistant more visual context. The post Pinterest Wants Smarter Visual Search Without the Huge AI… Read more: Pinterest Wants Smarter Visual Search Without the Huge AI Computing Bill - Stanford scientists discover the human brain may actually be two separate organs
Scientists have found that the human brain develops from two distinct cellular systems, suggesting that evolution fused together two ancient nervous systems with very different jobs. The discovery also allowed researchers to grow human hindbrain… Read more: Stanford scientists discover the human brain may actually be two separate organs - Chronic stress may be quietly reshaping your heart
Chronic inflammation tied to stress, lifestyle, mental health, and socioeconomic conditions may silently change the heart for years before any symptoms appear. People with the highest inflammation levels faced a 43% greater risk of heart… Read more: Chronic stress may be quietly reshaping your heart - NASA just powered up Roman’s massive 300-megapixel camera
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has successfully activated its 300-megapixel infrared camera, which will capture enormous stretches of the cosmos with Hubble-like sharpness. Its planet-hunting coronagraph is also working as expected, putting Roman another major step… Read more: NASA just powered up Roman’s massive 300-megapixel camera - Scientists create a needle-thin brain implant that can do three jobs at once
A new needle-thin brain implant can record neural activity, deliver drugs, and stimulate multiple brain regions using a single flexible fiber. Successful tests in mice suggest it could give scientists a more precise, less invasive… Read more: Scientists create a needle-thin brain implant that can do three jobs at once - A new process turns plastic waste into gasoline and diesel fuel
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a surprisingly simple way to turn polyethylene, the common plastic used in shopping bags and cutting boards, into gasoline and diesel-like fuels. The process uses inexpensive aluminum-based… Read more: A new process turns plastic waste into gasoline and diesel fuel - Black holes of every size follow the same surprising rule
Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. Supermassive black holes can produce jets soon after tearing apart a star, then fire… Read more: Black holes of every size follow the same surprising rule - Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader
Many Americans are turning to AI for spiritual guidance. Andrey Suslov/iStock via Getty Images Plus People are turning to artificial intelligence for a seemingly unending variety of reasons. Many ask AI what to cook for… Read more: Why AI resembles a charismatic religious leader - Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want a Googlebook Laptop
Apple lovers have long enjoyed seamless connectivity between their iPhones and Macs. Now, Google’s bringing that experience to Android. - A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop
The space publication Space Daily, which has been operating for over three decades, has become an unrecognizable shell of its former self after a company called Brown Brothers Media bought it and turned it into… Read more: A Highly Trafficked Space News Site Invented a Fake NASA Engineer and Used Her Name to Publish to AI-Generated Slop - Crusoe Announced New Additions to its Board of Directors
World-class leaders across cloud, data center, and energy industries join Crusoe’s board as the company scales its vertically-integrated AI infrastructure platform Crusoe, the AI factory company, announced it has appointed three new independent directors to… Read more: Crusoe Announced New Additions to its Board of Directors - Jev is an AI Model that outputs decisions instead of text
TypeSafe AI released a model last week called Jev. It does something narrower than the large language models most developers use today – it makes decisions without generating much text. You give Jev information about… Read more: Jev is an AI Model that outputs decisions instead of text - HowToRobot Powers AutomationFinder, Launched by RAG
Humanoid Global Holdings Corp. (“Humanoid Global” or the “Company”) (CSE:ROBO, FWB:0XM1, OTCQB:RBOHF), a publicly traded investment issuer focused on humanoid robotics and embodied AI, notes the launch of AutomationFinder.com.au by Robotics Australia Group (“RAG”), Australia’s… Read more: HowToRobot Powers AutomationFinder, Launched by RAG - US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security. - Could AI really kill all humans? Most scenarios require physical access, making AI armageddon unlikely
In August 2026, an experiment using “frontier”, or cutting edge, artificial intelligence models went further than planned. An AI agent (a system that performs tasks autonomously) fabricated online identities in order to pressurise a human… Read more: Could AI really kill all humans? Most scenarios require physical access, making AI armageddon unlikely - Platformr Helps AWS MSPs Prepare for New AI Validation Standard
Platformr, a cloud operations company and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, today outlined how its platform supports Managed Service Providers (MSPs) adapting to AWS’s newly published MSP Validation Checklist (VCL) 8.0, which is the standard… Read more: Platformr Helps AWS MSPs Prepare for New AI Validation Standard - Tuskira Announced the Launch of “Vector”
Vector pairs outside-in adversarial testing with internal security architecture, compensating controls, and existing risk signals to eliminate false positives and reduce reliance on patching Tuskira today announced its autonomous red teaming agentic capability, which identifies an… Read more: Tuskira Announced the Launch of “Vector” - What kills Schrödinger’s cat? Gravity may not be the answer
Physicists have put a decades-old idea about why the strange rules of quantum mechanics disappear in our everyday world to one of its toughest experimental tests yet. Deep beneath Italy’s Gran Sasso mountain, researchers searched… Read more: What kills Schrödinger’s cat? Gravity may not be the answer - Mozilla Data Collective Raises $5M to Scale Equitable Data Ecosystem for AI
Funding follows rapid growth for the data-sharing platform, with datasets spanning more than 450 languages and the company exceeding its annualised revenue milestone Mozilla Data Collective, the data-sharing platform redefining how AI data is created,… Read more: Mozilla Data Collective Raises $5M to Scale Equitable Data Ecosystem for AI - Fingerprint Unveils Bot Directory Built for the AI Era
Fingerprint, the industry leader in device intelligence, today announced the launch of Bot Directory, a continuously updated, searchable repository of AI tools, bots, and crawlers designed to give customers, partners, and the internet community visibility into… Read more: Fingerprint Unveils Bot Directory Built for the AI Era - How to Improve Visibility Across Your Enterprise AI Ecosystem
AI adoption has outpaced AI governance across enterprise environments, creating a fundamental security problem. Organisations cannot protect what they cannot see, and visibility has become the prerequisite for all other AI security controls. Traditional monitoring… Read more: How to Improve Visibility Across Your Enterprise AI Ecosystem - Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’ Business live – latest updates The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said that AI will not develop to a point that… Read more: Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030 - More Australians will be dying than being born in 40 years as major report predicts future of lower growth
Seventh intergenerational report also outlines how Australia is at cusp of an uncertain age of artificial intelligence Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email, free app or daily… Read more: More Australians will be dying than being born in 40 years as major report predicts future of lower growth - Intergenerational Report says AI will be ‘a defining influence’ on Australia’s economy over next 40 years
Artificial intelligence (AI) will be “a defining influence” on Australia’s economy over the next 40 years, according to the Intergenerational Report (IGR) released by Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Monday. Australia is also expected to experience… Read more: Intergenerational Report says AI will be ‘a defining influence’ on Australia’s economy over next 40 years - Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it | Alan Finkel
The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four months Recently, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, quit his job over concerns that AI was… Read more: Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it | Alan Finkel - Why AI inference must become a commodity
The future of artificial intelligence inference isn’t premium; it’s ubiquitous and commoditized. That may sound odd coming from someone in the AI semiconductor business. Conventional wisdom suggests commoditization destroys value, so if AI inference were… Read more: Why AI inference must become a commodity - Pacing AI won’t solve the governance gap
In May 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the agreements known as SALT I after years of negotiations over weapons capable of destroying both countries. Even with mutual annihilation as an incentive to cooperate,… Read more: Pacing AI won’t solve the governance gap - Ella Baron on our evolving relationship with AI – cartoon
Continue reading… - The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that | Editorial
OpenAI claims its agents have solved the Navier-Stokes problem. But questions remain about how useful and independent its work really is On 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI agents had solved the Navier-Stokes problem,… Read more: The Guardian view on AI v mathematicians: humans are still vital to the field, but tech firms refuse to see that | Editorial - US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search
Inexpenive AI models developed by Chinese companies are taking the United States by storm, as cost-conscious business leaders turn away from far more costly domestic AI. From a business perspective, the incentive to do is… Read more: US Federal Register Caught Using Chinese AI Model for Document Search - Einstein’s “spooky action” just survived one of physics’ most extreme tests
Physicists have detected strong evidence that heavy, fleeting Z bosons can become quantum entangled during Higgs boson decays at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The result shows that Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” survives even… Read more: Einstein’s “spooky action” just survived one of physics’ most extreme tests - A 66-million-year-old tooth reveals T. rex was nearly as warm as a human
Chemical clues preserved inside fossilized T. rex teeth reveal that the dinosaur maintained a body temperature of about 97 degrees Fahrenheit, almost identical to humans. The finding provides direct evidence that the giant predator was… Read more: A 66-million-year-old tooth reveals T. rex was nearly as warm as a human - Ancient DNA reveals how plague kept returning for 400 years after the Black Death
Ancient DNA reveals that plague repeatedly returned to Europe for more than 400 years after the Black Death, evolving into new lineages and spreading through trade, migration, and war. Researchers also developed a method to… Read more: Ancient DNA reveals how plague kept returning for 400 years after the Black Death - Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years. Gravity still didn’t make sense
A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading result, deepening a 225-year-old physics puzzle. The discrepancy is tiny, but for one of nature’s… Read more: Scientists opened a sealed envelope after 10 years. Gravity still didn’t make sense - New nanoparticles make hidden chemical differences light up
Scientists have developed ultra-bright nanoparticles that can detect tiny amounts of chemicals and distinguish between molecules that look almost identical. The technology could one day provide a cheaper way to catch dangerous drug impurities or… Read more: New nanoparticles make hidden chemical differences light up - Scientists may have solved a 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
Researchers may have solved a long-running mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls by proposing that the Qumran sect really did use its distinctive 364-day calendar. Its perfectly ordered 52-week system kept holidays on the same… Read more: Scientists may have solved a 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls mystery - Scientists discover a hidden “ID card” in cat urine
Cats may identify one another through a surprisingly durable chemical “calling card” made from 13 unusual fatty acids in their urine. The compounds appear linked to mysterious fat droplets in the kidneys and may represent… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden “ID card” in cat urine - UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars
Unit1 hopes to offer cheaper version of shows such as Abba Voyage, showcasing living and dead artists in any venue The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment… Read more: UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with ‘hyper-realistic’ digital avatars - Trump’s ‘biggest miscalculation’? How one adviser steered the great AI freakout
David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together… Read more: Trump’s ‘biggest miscalculation’? How one adviser steered the great AI freakout - Don’t call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review
Ferrari’s two-seat sports cars might be the brand’s identity, but the Italian automaker has always catered to customers who want to bring more than one passenger along for the ride. It started building cars with… Read more: Don’t call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review - An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source… Read more: An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang - It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction. - Meta’s Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information. - AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart
Scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by tech firms is a worry Warnings about powerful and uncontrolled AI have dominated the headlines this past week. But… Read more: AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart - T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to warm up in the sun before it could go anywhere. Then, further research changed that view, replacing… Read more: T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant - As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump’s sons, through a series of AI-linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a… Read more: As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails - ‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms
Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’ Brian Leeland, a 79-year-old Democratic voter in Detroit, had enough. Frustrated by the way the… Read more: ‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms - Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development
Beijing believes slowdown calls aim to lock in US advantage, and is pursuing a different balance between safety and pace About two years ago, education entrepreneur Boris But had what he calls a “penny-drop moment”… Read more: Why China is pushing back on US warnings over rapid AI development - This deep-sea enzyme survives heat that destroys most proteins
A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that would destroy most proteins. Its unusual structure and a newly observed reaction state may reveal an ancient, shared… Read more: This deep-sea enzyme survives heat that destroys most proteins - A giant crater may reveal the origin of Mars’ doomed moon
A massive crater on Mars’ moon Phobos may hide a dense region of compressed material that could reveal whether the moon is a captured asteroid or debris from an ancient impact on Mars. Japan’s upcoming… Read more: A giant crater may reveal the origin of Mars’ doomed moon - New chemical wipes out 95% of termites without harming humans
A chemical that stops drywood termites from building new exoskeletons killed about 95% of colonies in testing, offering a potentially safer alternative to traditional fumigation. Because termites eventually have no choice but to molt, the… Read more: New chemical wipes out 95% of termites without harming humans - Hurricane Hunters reveal 4 warning signs that a storm is about to strengthen
Nearly three decades of Hurricane Hunter data reveal four features that can help a tilted tropical cyclone straighten its circulation and become capable of intensifying. The findings could give forecasters an earlier warning that a… Read more: Hurricane Hunters reveal 4 warning signs that a storm is about to strengthen - More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades
Treasury’s latest intergenerational report projects life expectancy at birth will reach 89 for women and 86 for men by 2066 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free… Read more: More Australians to live into their 90s as life expectancy forecast to rise over coming decades - AI governance moves from observability to provable control
As artificial intelligence agents move from experimental tools into production systems, enterprise governance is being forced to answer a harder question. It is no longer enough to know what an agent did. Organizations increasingly need… Read more: AI governance moves from observability to provable control - Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow
President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled caution Donald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence czar and create an “AI Force” to… Read more: Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow - Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel
Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast There’s nothing like a threat… Read more: Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel - Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’
After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo answer your questions on the reality of… Read more: Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’ - What to expect during Oracle’s ‘AI Cyberattacks Are Escalating: How to Secure Your Data Now’ event: Join theCUBE on Sept. 22
At a time when AI is introducing new risks to global systems, Oracle Corp. is shifting enterprise security toward the data layer. This approach, based on a three-pronged strategy to secure at source, secure at… Read more: What to expect during Oracle’s ‘AI Cyberattacks Are Escalating: How to Secure Your Data Now’ event: Join theCUBE on Sept. 22 - At AGNTCon Europe, ensuring AI agents don’t kill us all
At this past week’s AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 conference in Amsterdam, the buzz around agentic artificial intelligence was palpable – but nobody was particularly worried that AI was going to kill us all. The… Read more: At AGNTCon Europe, ensuring AI agents don’t kill us all - Black Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 – podcast
Why are AI chatbots pulling so many people down a rabbit hole? Our answer starts with the world’s first-ever chatbot, the strange effect it had on people and the ‘time bomb’ that exploded when ChatGPT… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 – podcast - Salesforce after Dreamforce: How the CRM giant can grow beyond its own interface
Salesforce Inc.’s next growth opportunity just may come from customers spending less time in its interface, and having artificial intelligence agents do more of the work. Coming out of the customer relationship management company’s Dreamforce… Read more: Salesforce after Dreamforce: How the CRM giant can grow beyond its own interface - Anthropic’s Next Claude Feature Could Reach Into Your Bank Account
Anthropic appears to be testing Claude Money, a feature that could connect bank accounts to Claude for spending analysis and financial planning. The post Anthropic’s Next Claude Feature Could Reach Into Your Bank Account appeared… Read more: Anthropic’s Next Claude Feature Could Reach Into Your Bank Account - Meta’s New AI Chip Is Coming in 2027: Arke Targets Lower AI Costs
Meta plans to deploy its MTIA 450 Arke AI chip in 2027 as it looks to cut inference costs, energy use and reliance on general-purpose GPUs. The post Meta’s New AI Chip Is Coming in… Read more: Meta’s New AI Chip Is Coming in 2027: Arke Targets Lower AI Costs - Google Now Asking For Users’ Video Selfies to Verify Their Identities
Smile, peruser of the internet! Your facial features are being codified by algorithms. Starting this week, Google has begun asking users to take a video selfie to sign into their accounts, Search Engine Watch found.… Read more: Google Now Asking For Users’ Video Selfies to Verify Their Identities - Democrat and Republican Politicians Are Both Terrified to Go Against the AI Industry, Even Though a Huge Majority of Both Their Voting Blocs Want Them to Do Exactly That
In a new survey of over 2,000 US adults conducted days ago, Politico found that the vast majority of respondents would pull the plug on the whole AI buildout if they could. The magazine presented… Read more: Democrat and Republican Politicians Are Both Terrified to Go Against the AI Industry, Even Though a Huge Majority of Both Their Voting Blocs Want Them to Do Exactly That - The FAA Is Spending Nearly a Billion Dollars to Make AI the “Brain” of Air Traffic Control Towers, Starting This Monday
Did hiring loads of gamers not work out? The Federal Aviation Administration is now spending north of $875 million to deploy an AI-powered air traffic control tool, the Wall Street Journal reports. The system, called… Read more: The FAA Is Spending Nearly a Billion Dollars to Make AI the “Brain” of Air Traffic Control Towers, Starting This Monday - MIT Report Finds That AI Is Leading to “Cognitive Surrender” Among Students
As generative AI continues to intrude on almost every aspect of our daily lives, students are increasingly starting to feel the effects of over-relying on the tech. Some are going to absurd lengths to use… Read more: MIT Report Finds That AI Is Leading to “Cognitive Surrender” Among Students
