Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO2 from the atmosphere, regulating Earth’s climate on geological timescales. But recent studies have shown that erosion can also… Read more: Feedbacks upon feedbacks: Rock weathering and the climate

Volkswagen Group is considering what was previously unthinkable: closing up to four factories in Germany and instituting layoffs that would shrink the workforce by 15 percent. 2025 was a bad year for Europe’s largest automaker.… Read more: VW may close four factories to adapt to the future, report says

OPAQUE open-sources Agent Manifest, extending the governance framework created by AGT creator Imran Siddique OPAQUE is launching OPAQUE 3.0 to make independent AI verification an open standard for enterprises and regulators with support from TII,… Read more: OPAQUE Expands AI Agent Governance Toolkit

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has told investors that it plans to launch a new Starlink mobile service for US consumers, in a move that would upend the country’s multibillion-dollar phone network market. The company’s president and… Read more: SpaceX plans to launch Starlink mobile service in the US

The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn’t just driving up electricity prices, wasting huge amounts of water, and reviving heavy-polluter power stations — it’s also making life… Read more: If There Wasn’t Enough Opposition to AI Data Centers Already, Now They’re Supercharging Inflation

It’s a stretch to think that the continent can build a top-tier model, but it has an advantage: Donald Trump.

Report finds adoption is no longer the challenge with precise AI use cases emerging and those most prolific and practiced in AI more likely to report revenue impact Bluehost, the SMB business platform that millions… Read more: Bluehost Launches Small Business AI Confidence Study

Global study of 1,100 business leaders reveals only 23% say their workforce is ready for AI – declining 6 points from 2025 Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced the release… Read more: Kyndryl: Workforce Readiness Drives AI ROI

Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Redpoint, Theory Ventures, Vine Ventures, CRV, A*, and Abstract Ventures, Sail is Building the First Infrastructure Platform Purpose-Built for Long-Horizon AI Agents Sail Research, the infrastructure company purpose-built for long-horizon… Read more: Sail Research Raises $80 Mn to Build Max-Efficiency Infra for AI Agents

Imagine working at a warehouse or office sometime in the near future, and you’re asked to help a new trainee learn the basics of their job. The catch: It’s a robot. To teach them, you… Read more: LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details

Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos Business live – latest updates OpenAI is staggering the release of its latest AI model after a request from… Read more: OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request

SAP aligns fragmented commerce data structures to enable operational AI personalisation at the execution layer. Enterprise leadership routinely establishes objectives to anticipate customer requirements and deliver relevant interactions across digital touchpoints. However, the actual infrastructure… Read more: SAP aligns commerce data for AI personalisation

Welcome to Edition 8.47 of the Rocket Report! We have now very nearly reached the midpoint of 2026, a year in which several new US rockets were advertised as potentially making their debuts. But now,… Read more: Rocket Report: China may soon attempt booster landing; Rocket Lab does rapid response

In Q1 2026, AI companies absorbed $242 billion in venture capital. That’s 80% of all global VC funding for the quarter. The money is going to startups that have identified specific, high-value enterprise workflows and… Read more: 30 startups rebuilding enterprise software with AI agents

Dabarti CGI/Shutterstock Investigative interviewing – the process of obtaining accurate and complete accounts from victims, witnesses and suspects – is the lifeblood of the criminal justice system. When a crime occurs, someone usually knows something.… Read more: Investigative interviews are key to solving crimes – should AI be helping police with their inquiries?

Qatar has become the place where FIFA experiments with the next generation of football technology. The results are already visible across this year’s World Cup.

Expanded agreement extends Marmot across key enterprise functions, advancing a new operating model for AI-powered decision-making in Life Sciences Komodo also unveils new Marmot capabilities to move organizations beyond AI experimentation and into enterprise-wide intelligence… Read more: Komodo Scales AI Platform Through Alnylam Alliance

News summary: Entrust is introducing a new approach to helping prevent account takeover in the AI era, where attacks target high-risk moments beyond login. Entrust verifies the person behind the interaction by anchoring authentication in… Read more: Entrust Unveils AI-Focused Account Takeover Protection

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures A scientist who decoded the dictionary that a bird uses to communicate has won a $100,000… Read more: A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong

‘It’s all just rendered useless’ Something For Kate’s Paul Dempsey says as AI scrapes millions of songs to learn how to make music Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning are among big-name Australian musicians upset that… Read more: Australian musicians sound warning note after Nick Cave, Kylie and many more slurped into AI training tool

ThisisEngineering/Pexels “Just as we always suspected”, writes musician and writer Anna Goldsworthy in her new Quarterly Essay on AI, “the god that may destroy us is the god of ourselves.” This sentence captures the core… Read more: The true danger of AI may lie in its reflection of us, warns Anna Goldsworthy

Anthropic’s critics argue it’s rapidly accumulating power. The company says that’s what responsible AI development looks like.

Amazon-owned MGM Studios’ decision to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined. On Uncanny Valley, we take a look at where this is all headed.

The Federal Communications Commission was roundly criticized today for proposing to scale back or eliminate E-Rate, a $2 billion-a-year Universal Service program that provides discounts for telecom services and equipment in schools and libraries. FCC… Read more: FCC may kill $2B program that connects schools and libraries to Internet

Microsoft ended official support for Windows 10 in 2025, but the company may have a harder time than expected putting the operating system out to pasture. After promising a year of optional extended update support,… Read more: Microsoft adds another year to Windows 10 extended update program

For most of human history, our view of “close to the Sun” was defined by the orbit of Mercury, with its 88-day orbit and barren, baking surface. But from the moment we started discovering exoplanets,… Read more: Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect

Anthropic has accused the Chinese firm Alibaba of launching the largest attack yet attempting to clone Claude, as China races to match the capabilities of Anthropic’s leading model following Mythos’ release and subsequent restriction from… Read more: Anthropic says Alibaba must be punished for largest Claude cloning attack

Google Finance is not a new product—it has been around for 20 years, long enough that it initially relied on Flash to display charts and graphs. The website has gotten a few major updates over… Read more: Google finally releases a Finance Android app, promises iOS version later in 2026

In February 2024, Notion bought Skiff, an encrypted email and productivity software startup. Within a year, Notion shut down Skiff’s email service (taking @skiff.com email addresses with it). And in April 2025, the San Francisco-based… Read more: Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their voices, effectively allowing them to reproduce their likenesses in perpetuity. Not even underage performers are safe from… Read more: Peppa Pig Owner Demands Child Actors Sign Away Voice Rights to AI

Over the past 80 years, America’s bold, sustained investment in scientific research, and the discoveries, ideas and innovations that flowed from it made America a world leader. The nation’s scientific leadership has been essential to our… Read more: MIT in the media: Exploring how curiosity-driven science is an essential ingredient in America’s success

Microsoft’s July Windows 11 update adds practical fixes for update pausing, recovery, Bluetooth, Widgets, File Explorer, and more. The post Microsoft’s July Windows 11 Update Focuses on Fixing Everyday PC Frustrations appeared first on TechRepublic.

For years, Japanese investment group SoftBank has been all-in on the AI gold rush. In early 2025, mere weeks into his second term as president, Donald Trump announced a $500 billion AI infrastructure project, dubbed… Read more: Softbank CEO Who’s Invested $64 Billion in OpenAI Says It’s “Blasphemy” to Mention the AI Bubble

There’s something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line is an AI agent, not an actual human. If it hasn’t happened to you, it’s certainly happened… Read more: Customers Are Ditching Companies That Force Them to Talk to an AI Agent

According to DuckDuckGo’s AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. As the AI feature explains, Trump was apparently predeceased by Vice President JD Vance, who also died from… Read more: DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

LucidLink Corp., the maker of a cloud network-attached storage system based on object storage technology, today extended its distributed file system technology into agentic artificial intelligence with the public beta release of a Model Context… Read more: Exclusive: LucidLink launches MCP server to give AI agents shared access to distributed files

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved. The New… Read more: Warp lands $60M to automate payroll, compliance and HR with AI

Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organizations to quickly build and deploy AI agents. Today Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt service agent set atop the Agentforce… Read more: Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment

Apple bumped its prices across much of its product lineup today, in some cases adding hundreds of dollars to the cost of a new Macintosh. An entry-level MacBook Neo that cost $599 is now $699.… Read more: Apple ratchets up prices, blames the cost of memory

The electric car brand Polestar’s days in the US are seriously numbered. Today, the company revealed that the US Commerce Department has declined to authorize imports of new Polestars from model year 2027 onward as… Read more: Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027

How does a single cell build a brain with billions of precisely organized neurons? Researchers suggest that brain cells use their lineage—their cellular family tree—as a kind of positional map. Cells that come from the… Read more: Scientists discover how a single cell builds a brain with 170 billion cells

Researchers found that a rare liver cancer evades immunotherapy by luring immune T cells away from the tumor and trapping them in nearby fibrous tissue. An FDA-approved drug called AMD3100 freed those T cells to… Read more: FDA-approved drug may finally help immunotherapy defeat rare liver cancer

Vitamin B12 is needed in microscopic amounts, but a shortage can have major effects on health and energy. The vitamin was first linked to a lifesaving liver treatment for pernicious anemia nearly 100 years ago.… Read more: This common vitamin deficiency can mimic normal aging

Interpol’s latest Asia and South Pacific cybercrime assessment shows how phishing, ransomware, DDoS attacks, infostealers, and AI-enabled scams are raising security risks across APAC. The post Interpol: Cybercrime Hits 30% of Recorded Crime in Surveyed… Read more: Interpol: Cybercrime Hits 30% of Recorded Crime in Surveyed APAC Countries

F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, today announced the appointment of Gavin Munroe to its board of directors. Munroe’s extensive experience as a technology leader in… Read more: F5 Announced the Addition of Gavin Munroe to its Board of Directors

New M-Files Agents go beyond retrieval, delivering governed, context-aware decisions, actions, and outcomes M-Files, the leader in context-first document management, launched new M-Files AI agents designed to empower organizations to put content to work with intelligent information… Read more: M-Files Expands Agentic AI With New Automation Agents

This reinforces ivision’s ability to help organizations build secure AI foundations, govern AI responsibly, and scale AI with confidence. ivision, a leading technology consulting and managed services provider, today announced it has earned four Microsoft… Read more: ivision Earns Four New Microsoft Advanced Specializations

All the Homo naledi skeletons in Rising Star Cave are female, and that probably didn’t happen by accident. In 2013, a team of anthropologists led by Lee Berger unearthed the remains of more than 20… Read more: Every Homo naledi we know of is female, and the implications are fascinating

The US Endangered Species Act compels the government to identify species at risk of extinction and devise plans to restore populations and the habitats they depend on. It has seen some spectacular successes, such as… Read more: New effort will get genome sequences for entire Endangered Species list

In February, police in Claremore, Oklahoma arrested farmer Darren Blanchard for speaking a little too long during a community meeting about data centers. The city charged Blanchard with criminal trespass, a crime with a $200… Read more: Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

Europe is in the midst of its second big heat wave of the year, and it’s breaking more records. France just recorded its hottest day ever, with temperatures exceeding 44 degrees Celsius in some places.… Read more: The “sad inevitability” of Europe’s heat wave

A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents. But it doesn’t sound like it’s a whole better for the ones who avoided getting the axe, either. According… Read more: Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code

This year, FIFA is providing an AI agent that any team can use. Is it enough to level the playing field or will future winners be determined by which team can afford the best tools?

Superhuman Inc., the company formerly known as Grammarly, said today it has agreed to acquire GPTZero Inc., the startup whose detection tools tell teachers, editors and hiring managers when a piece of writing came from… Read more: Grammarly parent Superhuman buys AI detector GPTZero

Qualcomm Inc.’s stock jumped 14% in after-hours trading today after it shared a series of updates about its artificial intelligence roadmap. The company announced plans to acquire an inference software startup called Modular Inc. and… Read more: Qualcomm shares jump 14% on Modular acquisition, guidance upgrade

SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for $29.4… Read more: Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand

Agentic search startup Seltz Inc. said today it has bagged $12.5 million in seed funding to build a more optimal infrastructure so that artificial intelligence agents can find their way around the web. The round was led… Read more: Agentic infrastructure startup Seltz raises $12.5M to help AI agents search the web for answers

Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised $33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for computing power. The… Read more: Ornn raises $33M to help companies buy and sell AI compute as a commodity like oil

A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly 100 billion transistors on a chip the size of a human fingernail—nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip technology. The resulting… Read more: IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.

Five new solution accelerators get agencies to AI production outcomes faster, at lower cost, and with less risk than building or buying alone Presidio, a leading global digital services and solutions provider, today announced five… Read more: Presidio Unveils AI Solutions for Government and Education at AWS Summit

LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution The proliferation of datacentres and AI is increasingly at the forefront of environmental litigation around the world from Chile to Ireland, a… Read more: Datacentres facing increase in global climate-related legal cases, report finds

NTT DATA leveraging Cursor to strengthen its own engineering and delivery model. Enterprise-grade governance helps modernize and transform delivery with greater trust and control. NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology… Read more: NTT DATA and Cursor to Boost Enterprise-Grade Modernization, AI Governance

Modular’s AI-Native Platform to Advance Qualcomm’s Evolution as a Developer-First, AI Solutions Company Delivering Generative and Agentic AI from Edge to Cloud Creation of an Industry-Friendly Open Software Ecosystem to Scale AI Across Diverse Compute… Read more: Qualcomm Inks Agreement to Acquire Modular

Developer enhancements include Nebius Echo agent for controlling infrastructure, alongside a smoother day-to-day console experience New enterprise security and governance controls support sensitive workloads in regulated environments Nebius opens Nebius Builder Program in early preview… Read more: Nebius AI Cloud 3.6 Enhances Developer Experience

Content creation and online safety among new topics for 14- to 18-year-olds – but tweaks may be needed when social media ban comes in Scouts are introducing badges in content creation, digital communication and online… Read more: ‘More relevant than making fires’: Explorer Scouts launch badges for AI and digital age

Netwrix 1Secure SaaS platform now offers Agentic AI to secure data, identities and Copilot rollouts – providing insights within an hour Netwrix, a recognized leader in identity and data solutions, today announced new innovations within… Read more: Netwrix Enhances AI Governance Capabilities for Hybrid Microsoft Environments

OpenAI’s financial trajectory hinges heavily on infrastructure costs, a reality that drove the development of the new custom OpenAI Jalapeño chip. Developed in collaboration with Broadcom, the application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) represents a direct attempt… Read more: The math behind the OpenAI Jalapeño chip

Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it. But the way these highly fragmented systems… Read more: Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

The US response to the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak has concluded with no cases among American passengers but plenty of questions on the responses from Trump administration officials. The US’s response to the outbreak ended… Read more: US ends hantavirus outbreak response with no answers on draconian quarantines

Three months ago, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency was making a major pivot from building a space station in lunar orbit to a base on the surface. This “Ignition” event followed an… Read more: 13 years and $500 million for a stage adapter? Report justifies NASA cancellations.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex and the models those tools utilize, and Broadcom, an established silicon supplier, have announced a new chip called Jalapeño, designed specifically for large language model inference in data… Read more: OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

It seems to some of us like just yesterday—even though the transition began more than half a decade ago—that gamers were getting adjusted to spending $70 on AAA game releases at launch instead of $60,… Read more: Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games

Mayor’s office grants extra 12 months to run pilot while London force procures long-term supplier The Metropolitan police have been granted a 12-month extension to a pilot project with the spy-tech firm Palantir while the… Read more: Met gets extension to Palantir AI project after Sadiq Khan blocked deal

Google’s Search history update stores media uploads from your interactions, like images used in reverse image searches, for training its AI models.

CCW showed agentic AI moving deeper into CX platforms. Here’s what IT leaders should know about governance, data, workforce planning, and rollout. The post Zoom, Salesforce, Dialpad, and Others Bet Big on Agentic AI for… Read more: Zoom, Salesforce, Dialpad, and Others Bet Big on Agentic AI for CX

A Federal Communications Commission proposal to collect more identifying information from phone users has drawn protests from privacy-focused groups and advocates for domestic violence survivors. The plan is ostensibly designed to thwart robocallers but could… Read more: FCC plans ID mandate that could block anonymous use of prepaid burner phones

Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In the recent study published in Science Advances, a team… Read more: Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork

The Walt Disney Company has agreed to pay $50 million to subscribers of YouTube TV and DirecTV’s live TV streaming services to settle a lawsuit that claimed that Disney forced these services to raise their… Read more: Disney agreed to $50M settlement over claims it made live-TV streaming expensive

Slate provided flights from San Francisco to Los Angeles and accommodation so Ars could ride in the Slate truck. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. LOS ANGELES—Slate Auto has pulled a Disneyland. Let me… Read more: Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.

International authorities and a raft of private technology companies say they have disrupted a cybercrime “assembly line” that allowed crooks to collect millions of login credentials and steal more than $47 million in ransom payments… Read more: One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime “assembly line”

Indie movie fans are upset about Google DeepMind’s $75 million investment in the studio, which comes as AI companies are deepening their influence in Hollywood.

Spending on government contracts with tech firms that use AI-powered tools to track immigrants has soared to record levels under Trump 2.0, report says A new report sheds light on the unprecedented growth of the… Read more: ‘We should be worried’: report sheds light on ICE’s booming arsenal of hi-tech surveillance tools

The AI arms race between China and the US has researchers on both sides worried about a “Chernobyl moment.”

A few days after a Tesla plowed through a Texas home and killed a grandmother, the family sued the carmaker, alleging that the Model 3’s automated assist mode was defective. In a complaint filed this… Read more: Elon Musk denies Tesla’s Autopilot caused crash that killed grandmother

Google spent the last few years locked in a legal grudge match with Epic Games, which claimed that Google’s stewardship of the Play Store was anticompetitive. Now, the companies are thick as thieves, and Google… Read more: Google starts lowering Play Store fees, making good on Epic Games settlement

Formula E is in its final year for the current technical regulations, with a new single-seater EV set to be introduced at the start of next season, which begins in December in Saudi Arabia. The… Read more: Formula E reveals first calendar for GEN4 with lots of real race tracks

Pro- and anti-AI groups spent $24m on a congressional contest in New York, but it’s unclear to what end US politics live – latest updates When the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th congressional district… Read more: Big tech spent millions on a single US congressional race. It won’t be the last time

Canada’s new artificial intelligence strategy, AI for All, presents an ambitious vision for the country’s future. Artificial intelligence, the federal government argues, can boost productivity, strengthen competitiveness and create opportunity across the economy. But what… Read more: Are algorithms unfairly screening out immigrant job applications?

This morning, Slate Auto officially announced pricing for its Slate electric truck. Ars will have some time with a prototype later today, along with—hopefully—answers to many of our remaining questions. In the meantime, we decided… Read more: Slate Auto’s truck builder goes live for its $25k electric pickup

Midjourney is developing a 60-second full-body ultrasonic scanner and spa-like scanning locations, raising questions about health data and regulation. The post Midjourney Wants to Scan Your Body in 60 Seconds appeared first on TechRepublic.

The Army, Navy, and Air Force are once again requiring basic trainees to get vaccinated against influenza after the virus quickly swept through an Air Force base in Texas, sickening at least 222 recruits and… Read more: Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

Alibaba Cloud’s fifth Japan data center expands its Tokyo region and brings Model Studio to local customers, but enterprise buyers still need to verify residency, compliance, and roadmap details. The post Alibaba Cloud Adds Fifth… Read more: Alibaba Cloud Adds Fifth Japan Data Center as AI Platform Push Expands

Previously hidden text revealed without unrolling scroll discusses stoic philosophy on ethics, art and human behaviour The surviving part of an ancient scroll that was burnt to a crisp when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000… Read more: AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption

Anthropic launched Claude Tag in Slack, giving enterprise teams an AI agent with shared context, admin controls, logs, and spend limits. The post Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, Bringing AI Agents Into Slack appeared first on… Read more: Anthropic Launches Claude Tag, Bringing AI Agents Into Slack

At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic’s CEO—a “weirdo,” per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.

JumpCloud Inc. has appointed George Roberts, venture partner at OpenView and former executive vice president of North American sales at Oracle Corporation, to its board of directors. Roberts brings decades of experience scaling global technology organizations, driving… Read more: JumpCloud Names Seasoned Technology Sales Leader George Roberts to BOD

Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping the brain ignore distractions and zero in on what matters most. When researchers temporarily… Read more: Scientists discover ancient brain cells that help block distractions

In the agentic era, intelligence must move to the data, not the other way around. New capabilities make database tuning up to 10x faster and lower analytics TCO by up to 58%—all governed natively at… Read more: EDB Unveils Agentic Database, Converged Analytics, and Governance

Behind closed doors and without expert input, the Trump administration issued a major policy change to how census data is released. Data experts are concerned the result will be less reliable public data related to… Read more: The Trump Administration’s New Census Data Rules Are a Policy Disaster