When a human picks up a coffee cup, we use predictive processing based on our understanding of the world. For a robot, picking up a cup requires extensive training and simulation. (Unsplash) Today’s artificial intelligence… Read more: Why AI cannot ‘think’ like humans do
There’s a BlazeTV YouTube video whose thumbnail shows the presenter with his arms around Anakin Skywalker and a gender-flipped Draco Malfoy called Malfoid. “Total Chud Victory?” It says. The video’s title: “Young Right is Reclaiming… Read more: Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber
A few years ago, Yuriy Nazarenko sat at a desk in his grandfather’s apartment in Ukraine and, on a diet of cigarettes, Lay’s chips, and beer, painstakingly made digital copies of fake identity documents. One… Read more: The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin
For months I’ve been speaking to an AI fraud kingpin. You might remember in 2024 we revealed the existence of OnlyFake, an underground site that let anyone generate realistic photos of fake IDs using ‘neural… Read more: An AI Fraud Kingpin’s Confessions
The iPad mini has long felt like a niche product. It has earned a reputation as a quality tablet for people who want something small, comfortable, and portable, but its small screen and comparatively limited… Read more: 2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s-related protein buildup, disrupted brain waves during deep sleep, and fading memory. The findings suggest that hidden changes in how the brain processes memories overnight may contribute to… Read more: Scientists discover mysterious “lonely” brain waves linked to memory loss
Scientists have discovered how to reprogram the internal structure of glass using a special molecule that rearranges chemical bonds while lowering the melting temperature. The breakthrough could unlock entirely new glass materials with precisely controlled… Read more: A clever molecular trick unlocks previously impossible properties in glass
The startup Aina bets you won’t need to rely on your phone to control virtual assistants. It’s making a smart ring that lets you control the actions of your autonomous agents with one tap.
Tencent launches Hy4, a 770B-parameter AI model with vision and computer-use capabilities. Explore its benchmarks, pricing, availability, and limitations. The post Tencent Launches Hy4 AI Model With Vision and Computer-Use Capabilities appeared first on TechRepublic.
Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data can speed up the plodding process of developing new drugs.
US voters are pushing back against AI data centers, raising concerns about construction delays, energy costs, and the future of AI infrastructure. The post AI Data Center Boom Faces Backlash After US Election Results appeared… Read more: AI Data Center Boom Faces Backlash After US Election Results
AI Data Harness connects governed enterprise data while new program equips technology partners, SIs, and service providers to build and deliver solutions on the Zetaris AI Data Harness Zetaris today announced the launch of their… Read more: Zetaris Helps Partners Reduce Data Friction for Enterprise AI
New workspace inside Hatz Chat keeps context, files and tools together, with MSP-grade governance built in Hatz AI, the essential AI operating system for small and medium-sized businesses delivered through Managed Service Providers (MSPs), today… Read more: Hatz Announced the Launch of Spaces
Semi-custom memory solution brings high bandwidth and low power consumption to AI-ISP, wearable, MCU, and other Edge AI designs Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, today announced CUBE-Lite, a semi-custom… Read more: Winbond Launches CUBE-Lite for Edge AI Applications
Recognition highlights Coretek’s leadership in helping organizations operationalize, secure, and scale AI through managed services and Microsoft Cloud innovation. Coretek, a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP and leading AI and cloud solutions provider, today announced it… Read more: Coretek Named to CRN’s Inaugural 2026 AI Innovators List
MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2027 brings 56% higher throughput, more resilience and new AI capabilities to one durable foundation, and a new brand identity marks the company’s evolution from database to platform for the agentic enterprise… Read more: MariaDB Launches Agent-Ready Platform and a Bold New Brand
Anthropic’s S-1 filing spends a long passage on competition. It names model developers such as OpenAI and Google, and first-party application providers. IT services firms do not appear. The passages on partners cite systems integrators… Read more: The Anthropic-Indian IT Partnership Is a Two-Way Bet
In an emergency, a human might someday ask a robotic assistant to fetch a wall-mounted defibrillator located down the hall. But if the robot has incorrectly labeled the defibrillator as a fire extinguisher in its… Read more: Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory
Shares of Kyndryl Holdings Inc. jumped 30% today after it reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter of its 2027 fiscal year. Kyndryl generated $3.9 billion in sales during the three months ended Sept. 30.… Read more: Kyndryl shares surge 30% on hyperscaler-related revenue growth
During World War II, physicists on the Manhattan Project worried that the Nazi German nuclear program might achieve the first nuclear bomb before the US and its allies. That’s not what transpired, but historians have… Read more: Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
Hackers possibly linked to the Kremlin exploited previously patched iOS and Android flaws in an attempt to hack visitors of multiple websites, including one celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution,… Read more: Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
Following his public disputes with California authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk personally moved to Texas, outside of Austin, in 2020. Over the next six years, he doubled down on the Lone Star State.… Read more: After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
Donald Trump’s big, rapid American AI buildout now faces a major slowdown as voters in yesterday’s elections overwhelmingly supported candidates and measures that favored increasing restrictions on AI and data centers nationwide. One resource from… Read more: Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
After alienating many long-time small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, Broadcom’s VMware is trying to appeal to its smaller customers. Today, the virtualization company announced vSphere Express, a lower-end virtualization offering for organizations that require… Read more: VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
Certinia Inc. is bringing AI into the software firms use to sell projects, assign staff, deliver work and bill clients. AI’s ability to instantaneously draw from a deep well of information and provide guidance in… Read more: Certinia brings AI into professional services workflows
Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company Inc., a low-profile developer tooling startup. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pierre operates a cloud service that artificial intelligence agents can… Read more: OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Pierre Computer
A shared semantic layer is fast becoming the dividing line between lakehouses built for reporting and those built for artificial intelligence. As AI agents join human analysts in querying corporate data, enterprises need platforms that… Read more: Oracle rethinks the lakehouse as AI agents become data consumers
As vibe coding moves from novelty to everyday practice, enterprises face a new problem: Machine-generated software still has to be maintained, governed and understood by people. Low-code platforms were built to speed up application development,… Read more: As AI takes over coding, Oracle rethinks how applications are built
Google is tying up AI Overviews with traditional search, angering parents and educators who worry that easy, machine-generated answers are leaving kids less capable.
People across America rejected data centers during last night’s midterm election. Proposals related to data centers were explicitly on the ballot in more than 40 races across 13 states. People voted against data centers in… Read more: American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers
The Republican party wasn’t the only loser following a historic Democratic victory following this year’s midterm elections. Big Tech suffered a bruising defeat as well, with dozens of ballot measures across the country calling for… Read more: Sam Altman Makes Weird Tweet After Bruising Midterm Results
Canva’s restructuring affects 1,271 workers through layoffs, role changes, and relocation. Here’s what it means for tech workers and enterprise customers. The post Canva Announces Layoffs in Restructure Affecting 1,271 Workers appeared first on TechRepublic.
A “blunami” swept the nation last night as Democrats defeated Republicans to gain control of the House and Senate in a historic midterm landslide. And it looks like data centers played a key role in… Read more: Americans Just Resoundingly Rejected AI Data Centers
OpenAI tests AI for hardware design and vehicle engineering. Explore manufacturing limits and what businesses should check before adopting these tools. The post OpenAI Expands AI Engineering Tests From Devices to Vehicles appeared first on… Read more: OpenAI Expands AI Engineering Tests From Devices to Vehicles
OpenAI’s forward-deployed engineers are working with Mazda’s aerodynamics and crash-safety engineers to explore how its AI models can help develop and evaluate vehicle designs. The research collaboration will use airflow and structural behaviour simulations to… Read more: OpenAI’s Codex Helps in Aerodynamic Engineering for Mazda
Google’s new school AI controls could affect student Search access. Here’s what administrators need to know about Gemini, Guided Learning, and the 2027 rollout. The post Google Changes AI Access Rules for Schools Ahead of… Read more: Google Changes AI Access Rules for Schools Ahead of 2027
In 2012, as the driver of deaths in the opioid crisis began moving from prescription pills to heroin, Laura Bohn was tasked with finding safer drugs to manage pain. Funded by the National Institute on… Read more: The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
Paige and the PD Reliability Platform bring AI-assisted detection, triage, resolution and prevention together so organizations can stop disruptions before they reach customers PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE: PD), the global leader in AI-first incident management, today… Read more: PagerDuty Unveils Paige and Establishes PD Labs
Shared metric definitions and governed computation help enterprise agents use consistent, governed metrics. AtScale, a provider of the Universal Semantic Layer for enterprise AI and analytics, today announced that developers and business teams can now… Read more: AtScale Integrates Trusted Business Context with Grok AI
Stonebranch recognized in the Orchestrator category as enterprises prioritize reliable, governed data pipelines to power AI and analytics. Stonebranch, a leading provider of service orchestration and automation solutions, today announced it has been recognized as… Read more: Stonebranch Named Representative Vendor in 2026 Gartner DataOps Report
Scientists have discovered that a simple mechanical squeeze can dramatically alter the magnetic properties and electrical behavior of exotic materials called altermagnets. The surprising breakthrough could open the door to faster, more energy-efficient electronics and… Read more: A tiny squeeze dramatically changes the magnetism of exotic materials
A new study warns that permanent daylight saving time could force American children to make at least 2 billion additional school commutes in darkness, potentially increasing safety risks and disrupting their biological clocks. Researchers found… Read more: Permanent daylight saving time has a dark side, scientists warn
Built on Atsign Platform, EdgeAI secures distributed systems with up to 88x higher encryption throughput on Intel Xeon processors and 60x on Intel Core Ultra processors, as reported in the collaborative solution brief Atsign today… Read more: Atsign Announced the Launch of EdgeAI
The third quarter of 2026 offered an interesting insight into how AI is creating two different outcomes for the world’s largest digital advertising businesses. While Meta is using AI to improve ad targeting, recommendations, and… Read more: Why AI is Eating Google Search’s Ad Revenue While Boosting Meta’s
Funding expands AI that enterprises and governments can control, verify and own Lazarus AI today announced $43 million in funding, with participation from QBE, Mucker Capital, Motivate Ventures, State Farm Ventures, Wave Function Ventures, Indelible… Read more: Lazarus AI Secures $43 Million to Advance Independent AI
Integrates BIO-key’s IAM, biometric authentication, and passwordless technologies into Cipher’s cybersecurity portfolio, with plans for international expansionBIO-key International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKYI), a global provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and biometric authentication solutions, today announced… Read more: Cipher and BIO-key Integrate Technology to Expand Identity Security
When a human picks up a coffee cup, we use predictive processing based on our understanding of the world. For a robot, picking up a cup requires extensive training and simulation. (Unsplash) Today’s artificial intelligence… Read more: Why AI cannot ‘think’ like humans do
There’s a BlazeTV YouTube video whose thumbnail shows the presenter with his arms around Anakin Skywalker and a gender-flipped Draco Malfoy called Malfoid. “Total Chud Victory?” It says. The video’s title: “Young Right is Reclaiming… Read more: Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber
Big Tech bet big on Trump ahead of the midterms, and it backfired. A blue tsunami overpowered largely pro-AI Republican candidates across the country — even, crucially, in Texas, where the election has now imperiled… Read more: Tech Industry in Denial That the Midterms Show Everyone Hates Them
Few technology firms have embraced the arrival of artificial intelligence agents quite like Box Inc., and today it went even further down the road to automation with an expanded partnership with Nvidia Corp. At its… Read more: Box taps Nvidia’s AI models to build a rich context layer for autonomous enterprise agents
A few years ago, Yuriy Nazarenko sat at a desk in his grandfather’s apartment in Ukraine and, on a diet of cigarettes, Lay’s chips, and beer, painstakingly made digital copies of fake identity documents. One… Read more: The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin
Workers at one of the most advanced AI labs on the planet say they have important information to share — but their employer is preventing them from speaking out. New reporting by the Washington Post… Read more: Google Staffers Say They’re Being Silenced From Telling the Public the Truth About AI
For months I’ve been speaking to an AI fraud kingpin. You might remember in 2024 we revealed the existence of OnlyFake, an underground site that let anyone generate realistic photos of fake IDs using ‘neural… Read more: An AI Fraud Kingpin’s Confessions
Scientists have solved a decades-old mystery and uncovered a hidden immune system defense that protects healthy cells from the very inflammation meant to fight infections. The surprising discovery could lead to new approaches for treating… Read more: Scientists solve 30-year-old mystery and discover a hidden defense against inflammation
The iPad mini has long felt like a niche product. It has earned a reputation as a quality tablet for people who want something small, comfortable, and portable, but its small screen and comparatively limited… Read more: 2026 iPad mini review: Maximizing the mini
Humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not yet achieved widespread commercialization, compared with industrial robots that have decades of proven track records in warehouses and factories. That frank acknowledgment is among the risks… Read more: Agility Robotics’ Nasdaq debut invites scrutiny of humanoid robot market
Motorola is patching a hole in its US lineup with a non-folding flagship phone, but the pricing puts this device dangerously close to the company’s expensive tablet-style foldable. The long-rumored Motorola Signature 27 is real,… Read more: Motorola’s new Signature 27 has it all if you can stomach the $1,600 price tag
The startup Aina bets you won’t need to rely on your phone to control virtual assistants. It’s making a smart ring that lets you control the actions of your autonomous agents with one tap.
Albanese should tread carefully as he struggles to make case for how the new technology will benefit ordinary voters Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast When will Australia see the… Read more: Australians are yet to see the benefits of AI and datacentres – and US midterms show they could be political kryptonite
Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data can speed up the plodding process of developing new drugs.
Ocient Inc., the maker of a speedy data analytics platform, today said it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to expand its agentic artificial intelligence analytics business. That business is fueled by… Read more: Ocient raises $100 million as agentic AI drives growth in large-scale analytics
Denise Herzing, the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project, is using AI to help understand audio and video footage of the marine mammals.
The tech industry spent big on the midterms, but it turned out to be a poor investment. Elon Musk poured a staggering $446m dollars into Republican-aligned political action committees (Pacs) and groups since last year,… Read more: Was Elon Musk the US midterms’ biggest loser? – Stateside with Kai and Carter
OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXSI have all reached out to Husk, an influencer who regularly goes viral by exposing the shortcomings of chatbots.
Mercedes-Benz provided flights from San Francisco to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the AMG GT 4-Door Coupe. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. The night before I drove the AMG GT… Read more: Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
More than 100 campaign groups will join together in 15 countries this week to call for a halt to major AI projects Protesters across Europe are planning two days of action against datacentres this week… Read more: Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres
In an emergency, a human might someday ask a robotic assistant to fetch a wall-mounted defibrillator located down the hall. But if the robot has incorrectly labeled the defibrillator as a fire extinguisher in its… Read more: Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory
Delivering net zero also at risk, say MPs as they call for centralised policy and funding for mines and diversification The UK is “dangerously” dependent on China for critical raw materials needed for the military,… Read more: UK found to be ‘dangerously’ reliant on China for critical minerals needed for defence and AI
Shares of Kyndryl Holdings Inc. jumped 30% today after it reported better-than-expected earnings for the second quarter of its 2027 fiscal year. Kyndryl generated $3.9 billion in sales during the three months ended Sept. 30.… Read more: Kyndryl shares surge 30% on hyperscaler-related revenue growth
During World War II, physicists on the Manhattan Project worried that the Nazi German nuclear program might achieve the first nuclear bomb before the US and its allies. That’s not what transpired, but historians have… Read more: Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
Hackers possibly linked to the Kremlin exploited previously patched iOS and Android flaws in an attempt to hack visitors of multiple websites, including one celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the US Constitution,… Read more: Hackers exploited iOS and Android flaws to infect phones
For years, the AI industry’s insatiable demand for memory and storage has had plenty of knock-on effects on the price and availability of PC components like RAM, SSDs, and GPUs. Now those shortages are also… Read more: Nintendo’s biggest ROM chip supplier is bowing out of the business
After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthusiasts looked for comfort in low Earth orbit.
Transparency and advertising experts say trust in politics could be further eroded as a result of ‘lies, deepfakes and AI-generated politicians’ Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast It’s the night… Read more: Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired artificial intelligence coding startup Conductor in a deal first reported today by Axios. Conductor confirmed it is joining Meta in a post on its website. Terms were not disclosed. Conductor’s… Read more: Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor, whose app runs several coding agents at once
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is aiming to widen the Republican majority on the Federal Communications Commission before Democrats take over control of the Senate in January 2027. Just before the Republicans’ midterm loss, Cruz yesterday… Read more: Ted Cruz aims to stack FCC with Republicans before Democrats take Senate control
Following his public disputes with California authorities during the COVID-19 pandemic, Elon Musk personally moved to Texas, outside of Austin, in 2020. Over the next six years, he doubled down on the Lone Star State.… Read more: After Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX?
Donald Trump’s big, rapid American AI buildout now faces a major slowdown as voters in yesterday’s elections overwhelmingly supported candidates and measures that favored increasing restrictions on AI and data centers nationwide. One resource from… Read more: Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
AMD reported third-quarter revenues on Tuesday with a record $13.4 billion, an increase of 45 percent year over year, as data center business nearly doubled and the company’s gaming segment cratered. AMD CFO Jean Hu… Read more: AMD’s record quarter: Data center business doubles, while gaming craters
After alienating many long-time small- to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, Broadcom’s VMware is trying to appeal to its smaller customers. Today, the virtualization company announced vSphere Express, a lower-end virtualization offering for organizations that require… Read more: VMware releases vSphere Express for virtualization on up to 128 cores
Certinia Inc. is bringing AI into the software firms use to sell projects, assign staff, deliver work and bill clients. AI’s ability to instantaneously draw from a deep well of information and provide guidance in… Read more: Certinia brings AI into professional services workflows
Democrats, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, left, and Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, will have full control of state government in 2027. AP Photo/Matt Rourke The 2026 midterm elections changed the balance of power in Washington,… Read more: Pennsylvania Democrats now have power to push forward on election reform, marijuana legalization and minimum wage increases
The coming year will signal an abrupt transition from digital banking to intelligent finance, as AI agents and operating models reshape the ways that financial firms acquire customers and provide advice. This is the central… Read more: Research prediction: Shift from digital banking to AI-driven finance will transform financial services in 2027
Leading the Future, backed by Silicon Valley’s biggest billionaires, had a war chest of $100 million and an aggressive stance against AI regulation. All of it didn’t add up to much on Tuesday night.
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company Inc., a low-profile developer tooling startup. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pierre operates a cloud service that artificial intelligence agents can… Read more: OpenAI to acquire developer tooling startup Pierre Computer
Frontier AI models that uncover software flaws by the hundreds are forcing database providers into larger, faster patch cycles, and real application testing is becoming the safeguard that keeps those fixes from breaking production systems.… Read more: Oracle connects AI-driven testing with a new approach to database security
During a recent podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some baffling comments that really hit a nerve on social media. The billionaire said that it didn’t make sense for individual people to run their… Read more: Panicked Sam Altman Reverses Position as Walls Close In, Says People Should Be Able to Own RAM
A shared semantic layer is fast becoming the dividing line between lakehouses built for reporting and those built for artificial intelligence. As AI agents join human analysts in querying corporate data, enterprises need platforms that… Read more: Oracle rethinks the lakehouse as AI agents become data consumers
As vibe coding moves from novelty to everyday practice, enterprises face a new problem: Machine-generated software still has to be maintained, governed and understood by people. Low-code platforms were built to speed up application development,… Read more: As AI takes over coding, Oracle rethinks how applications are built
Google is tying up AI Overviews with traditional search, angering parents and educators who worry that easy, machine-generated answers are leaving kids less capable.
“Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors,” Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
Tech companies threw their lot in with Donald Trump, and now, following a blue tsunami, they’re poised to pay the price. If it wasn’t already clear before the first vote was cast, it’s now undeniable… Read more: The Tech Industry Went All in on Trump, and Now They’re in Serious Danger Now That Americans Have Turned on Him
The first modern smartphones had 3.5-inch screens, which can be hard to remember in today’s world of gargantuan glass slabs. Sure, people talk about wanting smaller phones, but will they buy one? Enough Phone is… Read more: People say they want small smartphones—the Enough Phone will put that to the test
People across America rejected data centers during last night’s midterm election. Proposals related to data centers were explicitly on the ballot in more than 40 races across 13 states. People voted against data centers in… Read more: American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers
The Republican party wasn’t the only loser following a historic Democratic victory following this year’s midterm elections. Big Tech suffered a bruising defeat as well, with dozens of ballot measures across the country calling for… Read more: Sam Altman Makes Weird Tweet After Bruising Midterm Results
A “blunami” swept the nation last night as Democrats defeated Republicans to gain control of the House and Senate in a historic midterm landslide. And it looks like data centers played a key role in… Read more: Americans Just Resoundingly Rejected AI Data Centers
Google announced that schools restricting AI entirely will lose access to Google Search. What do you think of this? Google announced this week that schools restricting AI entirely will lose access to Google Search. Chris… Read more: US parents and teachers: share your thoughts on Google turning off Search for schools that reject AI
An AI agent somewhere has just made its fourteenth tool call of the morning, and the team that owns it is staring at a perfectly green CPU graph. Both facts can be true at once.… Read more: Who’s watching your AI agents? Observability just had its breakout year
From high-profile Senate races to local rezoning initiatives, data centers and their supporters did miserably on the ballot in the 2026 midterms.
Ed Kelsey and Arthur Gould respond to an interview with the author in which she discussed AI and the future of humanity I thoroughly enjoyed the interview with Jeanette Winterson (‘There is no inevitable dystopia’:… Read more: Jeanette Winterson’s point about AI brings to mind an Isaac Asimov story | Letters
In 2012, as the driver of deaths in the opioid crisis began moving from prescription pills to heroin, Laura Bohn was tasked with finding safer drugs to manage pain. Funded by the National Institute on… Read more: The DEA banned a drug some opioid users called a miracle
If my 45-minute drive yesterday morning is anything to go by, I think Slate Auto will have quite the hit on its hands. The startup had one of its prototype trucks in town and asked… Read more: What I learned driving the Slate electric truck prototype
The hackers who stole billions of dollars in cryptocurrency from the Binance exchange spent months working on the theft and used both social engineering and novel malware in the process, the company said Tuesday. The… Read more: Binance says hackers who stole billions in crypto spent months planning heist
Tencent Holdings Ltd. today introduced Hy4, a new large language model that adds computer-use capabilities for the first time, using advanced visual understanding, reasoning and tool-calling to deliver long-horizon agentic performance. The company said the model marks… Read more: Tencent releases Hy4, powerful frontier LLM introducing visual understanding and computer use
Paul Virilio on the site of ‘Ce qui arrive,’ an installation he planned in Paris in 2002 to explore the idea of accidents. Daniel Janin/AFP via Getty Images With the race to build artificial intelligence… Read more: How a French philosopher’s warnings about speed and power describe today’s AI race
The use of digital agriculture is expanding across Africa. Tools like artificial intelligence (AI), sensors and blockchain are helping farmers receive information about weather, pests, markets and farm management. AI can analyse images and other… Read more: AI and blockchain are coming to African farms: 4 things must happen for farmers to benefit
The AI minister now concedes the estimated figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country’s slow rate of adoption
Artificial intelligence is no longer just about conversational assistants that tell people what to do. These days, it’s all about work automation, and Google Cloud is making sure it’s right at the forefront of that… Read more: Google fine-tunes its Agentic Data Cloud to support highly scalable autonomous AI workers
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Oumi PBC today extended its Frontier AI Engineer agent so it can build AI agents for customers and retrain the models those agents run on. The release goes after a… Read more: Oumi’s Frontier AI Engineer now builds AI agents and retrains the models behind them
Cost of living and AI outrank climate change and war as top concerns for future, but support for multiculturalism remains strong Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast The vast majority… Read more: ‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry
Centre for Public Integrity report says mandatory audit and public register of all automated decision-making needed Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The federal government is “sleepwalking its way into… Read more: Albanese government warned it’s ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI
The social media we know was once easy to define. Platforms such as Facebook or X were designed to mediate human relationships at scale: sharing stories, forming communities, debating ideas, and increasingly, monetising attention. However… Read more: When social media no longer needs people, what does the ‘social’ part mean?
When Elon Musk unveiled Tesla’s latest Roadster, much of the attention focused on the obvious spectacle. Here, apparently, was one of the oldest promises of science fiction finally made real: a flying car. The demonstration… Read more: Seeing is no longer believing: why physical witnesses matter more in the age of AI-generated content
After decades of establishing itself as one of the worst guardians of personal data, Meta raised eyebrows this year by encouraging users to hand over their email logins and credit card information to its new… Read more: Former Meta Exec Shreds the Company’s Muse AI Agent as “Insane” Privacy Risk