
- AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Ghost AI said today it has raised $11 million in funding to build what it believes is the first personal computer that’s dedicated to running personal AI agents. The round was… Read more: AI agent hardware startup Ghost, led by its 19-year-old-founder, raises $11M - Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters
Reflection AI Inc. today introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion parameters. The launch comes a few months after the startup raised funding at a $25 billion valuation. Around the same time,… Read more: Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters - Anthropic Reports User to the Police
With mounting pressure on AI labs to curb the many real-world harms their products cause consumers, it’s never been clearer that they’re monitoring users’ conversations. Just ask Carli Michelle Heller, a woman arrested in Bonita… Read more: Anthropic Reports User to the Police - OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’
Company executive to acknowledge ‘more work to do to rebuild trust with the Australian people’ as ABC says copyright laws do not need changing Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’ - Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users
With the release of Meta’s buzzy Muse AI agent, there’ve been plenty of concerns over the amount of privacy and control Meta wants you to cede so it can serve as your “personal assistant. It… Read more: Meta Insiders Convinced Muse Is Going to End Up Leaking the Bank Accounts and Email Archives They’re Vacuuming Up From Users - MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers to make them take malicious actions, such as exfiltrating database contents and sensitive business and personal information. In the past… Read more: MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of - Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse
Meta’s platforms have become an abominable cesspit of AI slop, ranging from violent child abuse to ultra-patriotic engagement bait. We could go on and on about Meta’s dismal failure to moderate its platforms. More telling… Read more: Meta Is Kicking Gay Bars Off Its Apps While Allowing Videos of Graphic Child Abuse - NetApp’s Novus tackles metadata bottlenecks in AI data infrastructure
AI data infrastructure must support growing GPU clusters while making enterprise data usable for models and agents. NetApp Inc. is tying intelligent data infrastructure to production AI through a unified approach to storage and data… Read more: NetApp’s Novus tackles metadata bottlenecks in AI data infrastructure - What to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit
AI trust increasingly determines whether enterprise AI scales. As organizations move beyond pilots and put models and agents into operational systems, the question is no longer whether AI performs well in isolation. Enterprises also have… Read more: What to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit - NetApp puts sovereign storage at the center of European infrastructure decisions
Sovereign storage is becoming an architectural and operational consideration for European enterprises as they invest in AI, modernization and cyber resilience. Sovereignty now covers much more than where data is physically stored. Customers want to… Read more: NetApp puts sovereign storage at the center of European infrastructure decisions - Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
As bipartisan backlash against Flock grows, some cities are asking anti-surveillance advocates and media outlets to pay eye-popping fees—including charging tens of thousands or even millions—to get information about how police departments are using and… Read more: Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage - Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable lobby groups notified the Federal Communications Commission that they will sue the agency to block its controversial repeal of the National Television Ownership Rule, which limits the number of broadcast TV stations a single… Read more: Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap - Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
A surge in Russian jet-powered drone strikes on Ukrainian data centers has increasingly disrupted mobile phone and Internet services for thousands of people. Now Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other government officials are warning of… Read more: Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps - Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
Over decades of research, scientists have built up a partial picture of what specialized cells within the brain and spinal cord do. By studying how the brain develops, they could identify genes that were active… Read more: Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel - Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
A new tool is allowing Mac users the ability again to easily turn off Apple Intelligence with one click and free up to 12GB of storage. Unlike with previous versions of macOS, macOS 27 Golden… Read more: Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 - F1 in Bahrain… in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
Well, it’s safe to say no Bahrain Grand Prix has been affected by torrential rain quite like the 2026 race. For one thing, it was held several thousand miles from Bahrain itself. The ongoing war… Read more: F1 in Bahrain… in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start - The Guardian view on sexual abuse in schools: teachers cannot deal with this alone | Editorial
Politicians must redouble their efforts to tackle a disturbing pattern of pupils assaulting classmates The Guardian’s findings about the extent of sexual abuse in schools require an urgent, calibrated response. Data revealing multiple rapes committed… Read more: The Guardian view on sexual abuse in schools: teachers cannot deal with this alone | Editorial - GMI Cloud Raises $660 Mn+ to Accelerate Global AI Infrastructure Expansion
Round was led by ARCHIV, an AI and Robotics investment firm, with participation from NVIDIA Funding will expand GPU capacity across the U.S., Taiwan, and Southeast Asia as contracted ARR tops $600 million GMI Cloud,… Read more: GMI Cloud Raises $660 Mn+ to Accelerate Global AI Infrastructure Expansion - Exabeam Accelerates AI-Powered Sec Ops to Machine Speed
New capabilities bring AI-driven investigation, execution, visibility, and governance to cloud and on-premises operations while keeping analysts in control. News Summary Exabeam advances the Agentic SOC with new AI-driven investigation, execution, visibility, and governance capabilities… Read more: Exabeam Accelerates AI-Powered Sec Ops to Machine Speed - Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t afraid to throw humanity under the bus to build his dreams of a society powered by AI. During an interview with Politico‘s new podcast Decoded, he laid it all out:… Read more: Sam Altman Says the World Is Going to Have to Suffer for the Glories of AI - DeepKeep Announced the Launch of AI Lens for Developers
The new capability brings greater visibility and control to coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code, addressing a widening security gap for security teams as these tools gain the ability to read files, run shell… Read more: DeepKeep Announced the Launch of AI Lens for Developers - arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
arXiv, an open-access repository where researchers publish preprint academic research, has announced it will rate limit submissions because it has been inundated with AI-written papers. A researcher can now only send in two pieces per… Read more: arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop - Muse escapes containment
Good Monday morning, I’m on my second coffee of the day already so please excuse any jitters that come through today’s newsletter. We’ve got a big constitutionality ruling on Flock, a scoop about a major… Read more: Muse escapes containment - AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway has become the first major country to propose a temporary ban on the use of AI glasses in selected public places amid growing privacy concerns over wearable technology. The rich Scandinavian country’s center-left government… Read more: AI glasses face their first major government crackdown - Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
Roughly 200 people are under medical observation, several hospitals are under quarantine, and dozens are in isolation in Russia following the unexplained death of an infectious disease researcher at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of… Read more: Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher - Sony Brings AI Graphics Upscaling to Standard PS5 With QSSR
Sony’s new QSSR technology brings AI-assisted graphics upscaling to the standard PS5, starting with Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei. The post Sony Brings AI Graphics Upscaling to Standard PS5 With QSSR appeared first on… Read more: Sony Brings AI Graphics Upscaling to Standard PS5 With QSSR - Amazon’s $8 Billion Nvidia Chip Plan Shows the Cost of the AI Boom
Amazon is reportedly considering an $8 billion Nvidia chip sale-leaseback as it looks for new ways to finance its massive AI infrastructure buildout. The post Amazon’s $8 Billion Nvidia Chip Plan Shows the Cost of… Read more: Amazon’s $8 Billion Nvidia Chip Plan Shows the Cost of the AI Boom - Tesla Deliveries Beat Expectations as Its Car Business Shows Signs of Recovery
Tesla beat third-quarter delivery expectations, but sales remain below last year as investors wait to see whether higher volume can restore durable growth. The post Tesla Deliveries Beat Expectations as Its Car Business Shows Signs… Read more: Tesla Deliveries Beat Expectations as Its Car Business Shows Signs of Recovery - California Man Charged in Alleged $300M AI Server Smuggling Scheme to China
A California tech executive faces federal charges over an alleged $300 million scheme to route export-controlled AI servers to China through Southeast Asia. The post California Man Charged in Alleged $300M AI Server Smuggling Scheme… Read more: California Man Charged in Alleged $300M AI Server Smuggling Scheme to China - Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s… Read more: Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before Launch - Elon Musk Admits Why Tesla Robotaxis Can’t Be Trusted at Night
For many years now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that self-driving cars don’t need radar or the laser-based imaging tech known as LIDAR, arguing that they can instead get by exclusively with a… Read more: Elon Musk Admits Why Tesla Robotaxis Can’t Be Trusted at Night - OpenAI must explain action taken to stop AI hacking Australians’ private data, chair of federal inquiry says
Unions, employer groups, banks and industry experts will appear at the four-day hearings along with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast OpenAI must explain how… Read more: OpenAI must explain action taken to stop AI hacking Australians’ private data, chair of federal inquiry says - We’ve tracked $80M of spending on almost 170 AI-generated political ads this year – it’s weird
At a 2024 MIT Museum exhibit, visitors were asked to guess which videos were deepfakes. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The 2026 U.S. midterm campaigns are the first in which AI-generated political ads… Read more: We’ve tracked $80M of spending on almost 170 AI-generated political ads this year – it’s weird - Why it’s more important than ever to jump-start entrepreneurial careers from the college classroom
By teaching entrepreneurship, colleges can better prepare students for a fast-changing job market and technological disruption. Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Recent college graduates are facing a job market that’s only getting tougher. Their… Read more: Why it’s more important than ever to jump-start entrepreneurial careers from the college classroom - Physical AI’s bottleneck shifts from what robots can do to whether factories trust them
AI is moving beyond the data centers where models are trained and onto factory floors where machines must handle constant change. But traditional industrial robots work behind a cage, repeat a single task and were… Read more: Physical AI’s bottleneck shifts from what robots can do to whether factories trust them - The modern F1 pit crew: AI engineers who race the deadline, not the car
AI providers increasingly embed forward-deployed engineers inside customer operations, and few settings test that model harder than Formula One. Races arrive every two weeks, budgets are capped and margins are measured in milliseconds. That model… Read more: The modern F1 pit crew: AI engineers who race the deadline, not the car - Equs launches a personal AI platform with private storage to give users greater control over data
Equs Inc., a startup developing a trust layer for artificial intelligence data, today announced the launch of Equs X, a personal AI that lets customers retain control of their information. Equs X pairs a personal… Read more: Equs launches a personal AI platform with private storage to give users greater control over data - Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps
Artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. today unveiled North 2, an overhaul of its platform for running AI agents inside large organizations. Alongside a redesigned system for orchestrating multistep agent work, the update gives administrators new… Read more: Cohere unveils North 2 AI agent platform with rebuilt orchestration and token spending caps - Exclusive: Iterate.ai’s Lifeboat runs up to six times more AI agent sessions per GPU
Enterprise artificial intelligence software company Iterate Studio Inc. today launched Lifeboat, an inference engine for large language models that has confidential computing built in. Iterate.ai says the software fits two to six times as many… Read more: Exclusive: Iterate.ai’s Lifeboat runs up to six times more AI agent sessions per GPU - This mysterious hole on the Moon may open into a giant cave
NASA has selected the GIMLI project to investigate whether the Marius Hill Pit opens into a vast underground cave or lava tube. Using radar, seismic sensors, gravity measurements, and cameras, researchers will search beneath the… Read more: This mysterious hole on the Moon may open into a giant cave - Cancer-fighting t cells burn out. Scientists may have found a fix
Cancer immunotherapy can lose its punch when tumor-fighting T cells become exhausted, but researchers may have found a way to keep them going longer. Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center identified a signaling molecule… Read more: Cancer-fighting t cells burn out. Scientists may have found a fix - Scientists discover a human brain gene that can jump through DNA
Scientists have discovered a human gene with a remarkable double life: it appears to play an important role in brain cells while still retaining the ability to jump around the genome. Called BC200, the gene… Read more: Scientists discover a human brain gene that can jump through DNA - RSA Agent ID Closes the Agentic Identity Gap
As AI, sovereignty, and board-level accountability converge on identity, RSA Agent ID enables finance, government, and regulated industries to find and register agents, prove the authority behind every consequential action, and run it where they… Read more: RSA Agent ID Closes the Agentic Identity Gap - Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of “mechanical” switches
The mechanical keyboard isn’t always so mechanical anymore. Over the past six years, keyboards with optical, Hall-effect, and other “contactless” switches have become increasingly common, often going for higher prices than traditional mechanical keyboards, which… Read more: Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of “mechanical” switches - A new kind of magnetism could unlock faster, more efficient computers
Scientists have discovered evidence of altermagnetism in a thin, highly tunable material that could help electronics use electron spin instead of relying only on electrical charge. The unusual magnetic state may enable faster, more energy-efficient… Read more: A new kind of magnetism could unlock faster, more efficient computers - Don’t miss: Watch Saturn shine and Halley’s Comet debris streak across the sky
October skywatchers can see Saturn at opposition, catch meteors from Halley’s Comet during the Orionid peak, and watch the Moon sweep past the famous Pleiades star cluster. Moonlight may obscure some Orionids, but the best… Read more: Don’t miss: Watch Saturn shine and Halley’s Comet debris streak across the sky - Vagus Nerve Stimulation Could Help New Skills Stick
Stimulating the vagus nerve after practice helped mice develop stronger long-term motor learning, revealing a potentially important window when the brain is still locking in a new skill. The effect was linked to rhythmic changes… Read more: Vagus Nerve Stimulation Could Help New Skills Stick - Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for… Read more: Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman - TheTop Announced the Launch of TheEngine
Co-founders Scott Goeden and Sergei Dubograev unveil an intelligence layer designed to give organizations greater clarity, better economics and smarter performance across enterprise AI. TheTop today announced TheEngine, an intelligence layer that gives organizations immediate visibility… Read more: TheTop Announced the Launch of TheEngine - Research: Strong Process Context Drives 5x Better AI Outcomes
The Hackett Group® and ARISstudy reveals a growing execution divide as enterprise AI ambition outpaces operational readiness Organizations with strong process context are five times more likely to report very successful AI outcomes, according to… Read more: Research: Strong Process Context Drives 5x Better AI Outcomes - The UK’s G20 presidency will push Andy Burnham to the centre of the global stage. What will he use it for? | Michael Jacobs
This is a chance for the PM to advance his progressive agenda and tackle urgent issues such as AI regulation and climate action Among the many crucial decisions Andy Burnham has to make over the… Read more: The UK’s G20 presidency will push Andy Burnham to the centre of the global stage. What will he use it for? | Michael Jacobs - Kyndryl Announced the Launch of AI Innovation Lab in Dallas, Texas
Investment reinforces Kyndryl’s commitment to advancing customer innovation and AI adoption across the United States Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced the opening of its first U.S. AI… Read more: Kyndryl Announced the Launch of AI Innovation Lab in Dallas, Texas - More Than 67% of U.S. Companies Use AI, but Few Can Process It End-to-End
Pipefy survey finds barrier to results is AI orchestration, not adoption: just 6.6% of companies run a fully orchestrated process More than two-thirds (67.1%) of U.S. companies report using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in some processes,… Read more: More Than 67% of U.S. Companies Use AI, but Few Can Process It End-to-End - New forensic evidence supports Egyptian “retainer sacrifice”
Egyptologists have long debated whether the earliest pharoahs of the First Dynasty were buried with various servants and officials to serve them in the afterlife—a form of human sacrifice. But there is very little archaeological… Read more: New forensic evidence supports Egyptian “retainer sacrifice” - Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material
Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s total AI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this… Read more: Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material - The “glue” holding your cells together has a surprising second job
Scientists have discovered that E-cadherin, a protein best known as the “glue” holding cells and tissues together, has a surprising second job: helping epithelial cells swallow nearby dead cells. Using live zebrafish and mouse embryos,… Read more: The “glue” holding your cells together has a surprising second job - Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers
The tech industry has largely failed to win over the public when it comes to AI. Data centers have become a hot-button topic, with the vast majority of Americans — in a still-growing bipartisan cohort… Read more: Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers - Chinese Hackers Impersonate Anthropic Employee to Extract AI Secrets
Cybercriminals who appear to be Chinese hackers pretended to be Anthropic researchers and former government officials in a scheme to obtain information about American AI development, according to a report from the Silicon Valley cybersecurity… Read more: Chinese Hackers Impersonate Anthropic Employee to Extract AI Secrets - McDonalds Has Secretly Deployed AI Models to Determine Exactly What to Charge You for Its Mid Fast Food Burgers
The next time you find yourself paying way more than what’s warranted for McDonald’s decidedly mid-tier burgers, you may have more to blame than just faceless executives. According an investigation by Reuters, the fast food… Read more: McDonalds Has Secretly Deployed AI Models to Determine Exactly What to Charge You for Its Mid Fast Food Burgers - Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa’s diverse wildlife
Chimps fish for algae in a rare example of primate tool use. Credit: National Geographic A wild African black panther prowls for prey. An orphaned baby pangolin must learn how to climb on its own.… Read more: Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: a spotlight on Africa’s diverse wildlife - Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness
There’s no AI company in the world more obsessed with the idea that their models may be conscious than Anthropic. According to new reporting from the New York Times, the company has for months been… Read more: Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness - AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy
Recently unredacted legal documents and depositions in the New York Times‘ lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI revealed something extraordinary: executives knew full well of the destructive powers of AI when they rushed to launch products… Read more: AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy - Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar
Calyton said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but it also posed ‘a threat’ during his DNI Senate confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to serve also as the… Read more: Trump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar - Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched… Read more: Rural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’ - Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using AI Slop of Troops in Warzones
Actual footage of warfare is horrific enough. But now that AI slop floods every social media feed on the web, we get to experience the trauma and propaganda of war regurgitated from the bowels of… Read more: Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using AI Slop of Troops in Warzones - Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds
A two-year randomized clinical trial involving 493 adults with overweight or obesity found that diet soft drinks were essentially as effective as water for long-term weight loss and weight maintenance. Participants drinking beverages sweetened with… Read more: Diet drinks work as well as water for weight loss, major trial finds - Vitamin D drug may help crack pancreatic cancer’s protective shield
A vitamin D analog may help break down pancreatic cancer’s protective defenses, potentially making tumors more vulnerable to chemotherapy and immune attack. A small clinical trial found encouraging responses, especially in patients whose tumors had… Read more: Vitamin D drug may help crack pancreatic cancer’s protective shield - Scientists just found a new way to make hydrogen from water
A new light-activated material can efficiently produce hydrogen from water without requiring an additional expensive metal catalyst. Researchers say its unusual sulfur-based chemistry could point toward cheaper and more practical ways to turn sunlight into… Read more: Scientists just found a new way to make hydrogen from water - Your gut bacteria may reveal how fast your brain is aging
A UCLA study links faster brain aging to specific gut bacteria and chemical byproducts, with older-looking brains also associated with poorer memory, focus, and mood. The findings suggest that biological signs of brain aging may… Read more: Your gut bacteria may reveal how fast your brain is aging - A forgotten 30-year forest experiment just delivered a huge surprise
A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while recovering enough carbon to match or exceed untouched areas. The results suggest carefully managed thinning could support… Read more: A forgotten 30-year forest experiment just delivered a huge surprise - Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up
Tiny magnetic fields created shortly after the Big Bang may help explain the long-running disagreement over how fast the universe is expanding. Detailed simulations show that these primordial fields could have changed the formation of… Read more: Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up - A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than scientists thought
A meteor crater buried beneath Oklahoma has turned out to be nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought. Zircon crystals show the Ames impact occurred about 370 million years ago, meaning it was not… Read more: A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than scientists thought - The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the… Read more: The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind - All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure, and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right? That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency… Read more: All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part. - Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated
The credit rating firm Egan-Jones hears all the serious talk about an AI murder spree apocalypse and raises a mundane, financial one. In a commentary bluntly titled “It’s Over,” the firm proclaimed that AI is… Read more: Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated - Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash. - Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died at the age of 94. Windler… Read more: Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94 - OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms… Read more: OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ - Black Box: The Chatbots | Life Raft | Ep 4 – podcast
More than a billion people are suddenly talking to AI chatbots designed to connect with us. We are sharing with them our deepest secrets, trusting them with our wellbeing and acting on their advice. Across… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | Life Raft | Ep 4 – podcast - 9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers’: Vertical AI becomes the growth engine
The companies featured at the recent Bank of America Private Tech Trailblazers Conference point to where the next wave of AI growth is taking shape: specialized technology built around proprietary data, industry-specific workflows and, increasingly,… Read more: 9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers’: Vertical AI becomes the growth engine - The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception. - An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires
America’s disgust with AI — and the extreme wealth concentration with which it’s inextricably entwined — continues to rise ahead of the midterm elections in November. According to polling by the Wall Street Journal, a… Read more: An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires - Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots
Last month, Futurism published an investigation into a company called Brown Brothers Media, which has attracted tens of millions of page views per month by acquiring struggling news sites and turning them into AI-powered content… Read more: Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots - The Tech Industry’s Aggressive Push to Integrate AI Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster
The American AI industry has a problem. In order to justify its explosive spending on AI infrastructure — data centers, essentially — firms like OpenAI and Google need to convert as many non-AI users into power… Read more: The Tech Industry’s Aggressive Push to Integrate AI Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster - Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe
Ultra-detailed simulations are showing how the first stars lit up the dark Universe and seeded space with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The MEGATRON project could bridge JWST observations of the earliest galaxies… Read more: Powerful simulations reveal how the first stars changed the universe - Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule
Scientists studying Chang’e-6 lunar soil have discovered a previously unknown magnetic mineral in natural Moon samples: a form of metallic iron called γ-Fe. Found inside tiny impact-glass particles, the nanoscale iron can preserve a stable… Read more: Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule - ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter
ESA’s Juice spacecraft raced past Earth on September 28, using our planet’s gravity to dramatically reshape its path toward Jupiter without burning much fuel. The flyby changed its direction by 20 degrees and increased its… Read more: ESA’s Juice just used Earth as a slingshot to Jupiter - This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse
Scientists have identified an enzyme that may act as a natural defense against the worsening of fatty liver disease, which affects an estimated 100 million Americans. The enzyme, called UBE2N, helps liver cells clear away… Read more: This protective enzyme could help stop fatty liver disease from getting worse - California’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs
The state, which is home to many AI companies, is one of the first to roll out workplace regulations targeting the technology California’s laws aimed at protecting workers from the impacts of artificial intelligence could… Read more: California’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs - The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It
Let’s get this out of the way: AI models don’t have feelings, and they’re certainly not “alive.” So what does it mean when someone’s accused of building an “AI torture chamber?” Apparently, it means that… Read more: The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It - The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton
This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit. They’ve been hiking into the wilderness with powered assistive devices… Read more: The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton - Scientists just made a superconductor stronger using “empty space”
Researchers have demonstrated that quantum fluctuations in supposedly empty space can strengthen superconductivity, raising the transition temperature of an ultrathin material by as much as 5.4%. The discovery opens the possibility of using specially engineered… Read more: Scientists just made a superconductor stronger using “empty space” - Your gut may be making a molecule that raises Alzheimer’s risk
Scientists have linked a gut bacterial compound called ImP to greater Alzheimer’s risk, harmful brain protein buildup, and faster cognitive decline. The finding raises the possibility that reducing ImP in the blood could one day… Read more: Your gut may be making a molecule that raises Alzheimer’s risk - Leucine does more than build muscle. It powers up your cells
The essential amino acid leucine can boost cellular energy production by protecting key proteins on mitochondria from being destroyed. The discovery reveals a new connection between nutrition and metabolism that could eventually lead to new… Read more: Leucine does more than build muscle. It powers up your cells - Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a “Pet Incinerator”?
You can buy practically anything these days on the internet — especially when it’s being shipped straight from China, the beating heart of global manufacturing. It doesn’t matter how macabre the object in question is.… Read more: Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a “Pet Incinerator”? - Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. - AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand
As programmers make more and more use of generative AI in the workplace, their responsibilities are quickly transitioning from creating new products from scratch to babysitting a large language model that cobbles together code. It’s… Read more: AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand - Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that searched for the ur-animals, wandered the poles, rained on Mars, and destroyed the solar system. First, scientists present new evidence that the first… Read more: Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds - Meta Is Using Its Massive AI Data Centers to Avoid Paying Billions of Dollars in Taxes
The AI industry’s data centers aren’t belching pollution, driving their neighbors bonkers with screeching noise, and using up vast amounts of power and water. They’re also allowing companies to exploit tax breaks to save billions… Read more: Meta Is Using Its Massive AI Data Centers to Avoid Paying Billions of Dollars in Taxes - From the Bayeux tapestry to Glastonbury: top tips and tricks to grab the hottest tickets
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