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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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?’

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 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

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

Are unchecked AI companies destroying the news and the broader media ecosystem? We could harp on about why this is the case, but why not let the AI executives do the talking? As revealed in… Read more: Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a “Doom Loop” That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Useless

It won’t bag “her” any awards, but the AI “actor” Till Norwood just put in the performance of a lifetime. In an interview — also deserving of scare quotes, but we’re trying to show some… Read more: AI “Actor” Tilly Norwood Glitches Out During Interview, Starts Rambling in Chinese

For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had. That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a star and blinked twice on… Read more: Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Learning another language is a highly complex mental activity. It requires people to remember words, distinguish unfamiliar sounds, recognize patterns, work out grammatical rules, and retrieve the right expression at the right moment. All of… Read more: Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.

With anxiety over an AI doomsday reaching a fever pitch, some citizens of the world are no longer asking for regulations. Earlier this week, the offices of two Canadian AI labs were ransacked by what… Read more: Protestors Ransack AI Lab, Leave Graffiti Calling on Masses to “Burn the Data Centers”

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that ate well, moved mountains, grew brains, and saved medieval texts. First, scientists set out to understand why Venus doesn’t have a moon and… Read more: ‘Supermountains’ Buried Under Antarctica Fueled Explosion of Life, Scientists Discover

Energy bills are scheduled to rise next month but there are innovative ways to heat your home and save money ‘When Giles Gibson turns on the hot tap in his home, the water that comes… Read more: Domestic datacentres: how computer power can help heat your home

Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to… Read more: China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn’t a pretty sight. New reporting by Fortune revealed the disastrous results of Shopify’s all-out scramble to embrace AI nearly… Read more: “Slop Grenades”: Shopify CEO Who Pushed Staff to Use AI Is Now Horrified by What He’s Wrought

Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang reportedly urged President Trump to reject an industry-funded AI regulator as debate over frontier AI oversight intensifies. The post Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang Reportedly Urged Trump to Reject AI Regulator appeared… Read more: Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang Reportedly Urged Trump to Reject AI Regulator

Politicians who threaten filmmakers rather than investigate alleged military crimes expose not strength but a leadership frightened of the evidence Across Israel, politicians, military leaders and much of the media are trying to discredit a… Read more: The Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason | Editorial

Readers respond to the warning from a former Anthropic researcher that the technology could ‘kill us all’ by the end of the decade Here we go again with another round of tech bros claiming that… Read more: Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters

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Parole condition of convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser deemed invalid after board cited non-existent case law Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A review of potential artificial intelligence use in parole… Read more: Tasmanian justice department review under way after AI and fake citation used in murderer’s parole decision

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of… Read more: Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” US intelligence report generated with the help of AI tools, according to a CNN report. That erroneous intelligence, submitted by a US… Read more: AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

With so many talks about AI’s potential to someday wipe out mankind with some spooky bioweapon, it seems many have overlooked the catastrophic risk that AI is actually posing in the here and now. Bombshell… Read more: US Military Nearly Started World War III After AI Chatbot Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Aboard a Chinese Ship

On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported. The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National… Read more: US government website used Chinese model the FBI called “malicious”

For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain. “Usually, sleep is associated with being controlled by subcortical regions,” said Geoffrey Terral,… Read more: Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. Under US law, companies with licenses to… Read more: FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

An AI tool is set to start advising air traffic controllers on managing air traffic in the congested airspace above the Washington, DC, area. The expected launch would be the first step toward a planned… Read more: FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

Anthropic PBC has opened a wet lab, a facility dedicated to biology research, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reuters reported today that the company will use robots to automate certain scientific tasks at the… Read more: Anthropic opens AI-powered biology research lab

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

Yesterday, Futurism published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media — a sprawling media empire that buys struggling news publications and turns them into AI-powered content mills, while engaging in deeply dishonest… Read more: Here’s Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills

Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the… Read more: Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

In the growing AI ecosystem, specialized cloud platform provider CoreWeave Inc. is defining its role as a cost-efficient resource for companies seeking to deploy AI with less investment and effort. Two announcements over the past… Read more: What to expect during CoreWeave’s ‘Fully Connected’ event: Join theCUBE Sept. 30-Oct. 1

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence.  Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program… Read more: A new chapter for MIT Reads

For as long as we can remember, Meta has been the tip of the surveillance state spear. The company has amassed an unprecedented amount of intimate data about billions of people — and treated that… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Has Set Strict Limits on Their 11-Year-Old Daughter’s AI Use

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence.  Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program… Read more: A new chapter for MIT Reads

Vietnam’s NATIF is offering businesses up to about $114,000 for AI projects, with applications open through Oct. 10, 2026. The post Vietnam Offers Businesses About $114K for AI Projects — Who Qualifies? appeared first on… Read more: Vietnam Offers Businesses About $114K for AI Projects — Who Qualifies?

A new Samsung patent reveals how wearable glucose measurement could work as the company continues researching noninvasive blood sugar monitoring. The post Samsung’s New Patent Reveals How a Galaxy Watch Could Measure Blood Sugar appeared… Read more: Samsung’s New Patent Reveals How a Galaxy Watch Could Measure Blood Sugar

Prism ML Inc. announced Thursday the launch of Bonsai 2 27B, the second generation of its ultra-compact multimodal generative artificial intelligence small enough to fit on PCs and some high-end mobile devices. The company said… Read more: PrismML launches Bonsai 2 27B, a high-intelligence AI model so small it fits on consumer hardware

Opal Zero brings dynamic AI-based decisioning to enable frictionless just-in-time access governance to AI agents across Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, and other platforms Enterprises are moving fast on AI agents, and the controls have to adapt… Read more: Opal Security Announced the Launch of Opal Zero

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 just doing it, machines that eat the… Read more: Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet

In this collaboration with our friends at The Intercept, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the Intercept’s Sam Biddle and Akela Lacy discuss the ways AI is already used to empower private surveillance companies that filter… Read more: 404 Media x The Intercept Live: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill

The majority of Americans are harboring some apocalyptic fears about AI. According to a new Politico poll that surveyed over 2,000 adults, about two thirds of the American public believes there’s now at least a… Read more: The Majority of Americans Are Now Terrified of AI

Cyber researchers broke into OpenAI using its key rival Anthropic’s software, highlighting vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT maker’s security as leading AI companies face mounting scrutiny over safety. A small cyber security group gained access to… Read more: Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. Credit: Ning Xu, Tsinghua University Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia,… Read more: Meet the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video contest

And in a desperate attempt to turn a cliche into a sharper analogy to today’s AI era, let’s complete the rest of Charles Dickens’ first line in “A Tale of Two Cities,” which honestly does… Read more: For AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times

Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior ministers, alarmed by the latest developments in… Read more: ‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks

Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.

The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

Enterprise investment in generative and agentic AI continue to accelerate, but an increasingly important question is emerging amongst applied AI leaders: Where is the measurable return? At the individual level, the value is clear. With… Read more: Where Is the ROI from Enterprise AI?

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.

Dru MetaGraph and a proprietary AI threat pipeline analyze suspicious behavior, validate impact, and guide precise containment and clean recovery Druva, the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, today announced new capabilities for Druva Identity… Read more: Druva Launches New Identity and Ransomware Detection Capabilities

Three in four customers deploy Evo within the quarter they buy it, using Snyk’s independent validation and remediation layer to govern agents and turn findings into fixes. Snyk, the AI security company, today announced that Evo… Read more: Snyk’s Evo Reaches 60% of New Deal Volume Amid AI Risk

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.

Enterprises are moving beyond standalone AI tools as they look for ways to weave agents into the work employees and customers already do. The shift toward connected AI workflows raises broader questions about how agents… Read more: What to expect at Dreamforce: Join theCUBE on Sept. 25

Scientists have found a new way to create a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom containing a heavier cousin of the electron. The advance could allow researchers to test for the first time whether… Read more: Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, and… Read more: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned

A new Caltech device can redirect a beam of light in just 74 femtoseconds using another beam and a nanoscale silicon metasurface. The breakthrough could pave the way for dramatically faster photonic communications, computing, and… Read more: Caltech’s tiny new chip can steer light in 74 quadrillionths of a second

A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is… Read more: Scientists just named a new snake after Guns N’ Roses legend Slash

Scientists discovered a population of cells that can start the process of programmed cell death, survive it, and then help rapidly rebuild damaged tissue. Their descendants become far more resistant to future damage, revealing a… Read more: Scientists discover cells that cheat death and rebuild damaged tissue

Gartner reports that warehouse automation now spans four operational AI tiers as logistics operators transition from software trials to live facility deployments. In an analysis released this month, the research firm concludes that logistics infrastructure… Read more: Gartner outlines four AI tiers in warehouse automation

An AI answer to a search query can fit one of several types. Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images I recently typed a simple question into Google search: How much screen time is too much… Read more: How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question

In the lab, GreyOrange’s GreyMatter software manages a single order’s journey across technology from multiple vendors and the workforce, all on one floor GreyOrange, a global leader in AI-powered multi-agent warehouse orchestration and store inventory… Read more: Kenco Innovation Lab Presents GreyOrange’s AI-Powered Warehouse Orchestration

US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security… Read more: OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and formal guardrails to be introduced by the US government. But President Trump is not moved by the doomsday predictions, calling them a ‘hoax’. What… Read more: Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? | Politics Weekly America

AI Governance, Ontologies, Intelligent Feeds, Console, Governed Collections, and Semantic Model Mastering extend AIOS coverage of governed data, context, and AI agents across the enterprise Alation Inc., the creators of the intelligence operating system, today… Read more: Alation Expands AIOS™ with Six Products that Accelerate AI Transformation

Anak Krakatau erupted for more than 24 hours in early September, sending volcanic ash up to 50,000 feet into the atmosphere. The ash cloud shut down eight airports, disrupted nearly 3,000 flights, and affected air… Read more: Anak Krakatau blasts ash nearly 10 miles high

Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications can improve blood sugar, weight, and cardiovascular health, but researchers found little evidence that they also improve mental health, employment, marriage, or overall well-being. The findings suggest the drugs’ broader… Read more: Ozempic can change your body. Can it change your life?

Scientists found that declining levels of the brain protein Menin may help drive aging, with lower levels in mice linked to inflammation, cognitive decline, weaker bones, and thinner skin. Restoring Menin reversed several age-related changes,… Read more: Scientists restore a brain protein and reverse signs of aging in mice

Newer blood thinners may do more than prevent strokes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and atrial fibrillation. Researchers found that patients taking NOACs experienced a slower decline in cognitive function than those using warfarin or… Read more: These blood thinners may have an unexpected benefit for Alzheimer’s patients

The left wants AI regulation. They just can’t agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024, making it the largest newly formed crater ever identified in the solar system. The impact disturbed the surface for… Read more: NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before

Six-time entrepreneur Frank Addante’s new company gives each user their own digital twin, not just an assistant, and private memory graph across phone, text, email, voice, web, and app. Hello Haven, a personal AI company… Read more: Hello Haven Debuts With a Personal AI Digital Twin and $15 Mn Funding

Google’s experimental CC assistant now helps groups of up to six adults coordinate household schedules and shared information through one AI-managed account. The post Google CC AI Agent Manages Family Calendars and Tasks appeared first… Read more: Google CC AI Agent Manages Family Calendars and Tasks

OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Partner, has announced the appointment of Tim Currie as President. Currie will lead all go-to-market functions across OpsGuru’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and managed cloud portfolio, driving growth across Canada… Read more: OpsGuru Announced the Appointment of Tim Currie as President

Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.

Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.

Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off ‘highly capable malicious cyber actors’ Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast When… Read more: Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying

The Instinct-to-Instinct model that is the talk of Silicon Valley presents too small a future for personal AI. With Fulcra’s multiplayer capabilities, people can get agent to agent collaboration without having to lock-in to any… Read more: Fulcra Brings Universal Multiplayer to Any Agents You Choose 

Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast After 15 years… Read more: ‘Brutal’: thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims

After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat. Join us… Read more: Could AI really end humanity? Post your questions for our tech reporters now

In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and… Read more: LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has proposed a law that would require Internet service providers and other network operators to block foreign piracy websites. Issa’s bill would help copyright holders obtain judicial blocking orders to… Read more: Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws… Read more: Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Google’s AI models may not be in the lead by most measures right now, but the company does have one key advantage: your data. If you’re deep in the Google ecosystem, Gemini models have a… Read more: Google announces new experimental “CC” AI agent for families