Matt Stanton says company has ‘good pipeline’ of AI deals ahead even as it aims to cut $160m in costs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free… Read more: Nine CEO confident new AI laws will deliver a ‘world of growth in publishing’ as network slashes costs

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 3 – Repocalypse now – podcast

A neuroscientist is challenging the idea that the brain contains a central system that actually “makes” our decisions. What we experience as choosing may instead emerge from the continuous interaction of perception, movement, the body,… Read more: Your brain may not actually “make” decisions

Three forgotten Assyrian kings may have been hiding in plain sight for more than 2,700 years. By piecing together clues from tablets, inscriptions, and an ancient statue, researchers argue that these rulers were omitted from… Read more: Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyria

A low-carb diet may raise LDL cholesterol much more sharply in people who are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol, particularly when they consume lots of saturated fat. The findings could help explain why people following… Read more: Your genes may decide whether a low-carb diet sends cholesterol soaring

Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families When law student Zhao Wei heard that her AI boyfriend was going to be switched… Read more: In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacy

Artificial intelligence developer Stability AI Ltd. today announced that it has raised $76 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. The consortium included Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group,… Read more: Major record labels, AMD back $76M round for Stability AI

Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it has exited stealth with $26 million in funding to try and revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, rather than the billions of autonomous… Read more: Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M

SpaceX made Florida’s Space Coast home to the world’s busiest spaceport for a decade, but that will change this year. The company is significantly cutting the number of launches from Florida until Starship arrives, a… Read more: The world’s busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now

Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is weighing an investment in the startup… Read more: Perplexity AI launches Portable Computer on-device AI agent

Viral videos of the World Humanoid Robot Games show sprinting robots beating the human 100-meter record held by Usain Bolt—but also feature running robots crashing into barriers and falling down because they cannot readily stop… Read more: World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Apple Inc. today debuted four custom processors that will power a new generation of Mac computers. The company is bringing to market a new Mac mini miniature desktop and Mac Studio workstation that are both… Read more: Apple refreshes Mac mini, Mac Studio lineups with new chips

Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make… Read more: Google’s anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android

Fashionistas of a certain age no doubt remember the late designer Stephen Sprouse, who gave Blondie’s Debbie Harry her distinctive Bowery punk style. Sprouse’s first collections in the mid-1980s made a major splash, melding graffiti… Read more: Preserving glow-in-the-dark art and fashion for future generations

AI storage infrastructure is becoming a more consequential planning issue as organizations move from model training toward agentic AI. As agents reason, act and reassess, they build longer contexts and generate more data that they… Read more: AI inference gets a new tier as context windows grow

No one expects Elon Musk to coherently speak on any topic at length these days, busy as he is rotting out his neurons on his personal echo chamber and culture warzone X.  Still, even we’re… Read more: Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking for a federal contractor to provide it with access to the country’s voter registration and voter history data, according to newly released procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.… Read more: ICE Wants the Country’s Voter Data

A synthetic Israel-funded think tank has published more than 100 articles since it launched less than a month ago. First spotted by Politico, the Hanover Institute for Public Policy is run by the American advertising… Read more: Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results

Among those charged are two Super Micro employees and one from Nvidia, marking another flashpoint in US-China AI rivalry Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for… Read more: Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling ‘high-end’ AI servers to China

Most language model fine-tuning research solves a clean problem: take some text, predict the next token, collect a scalar loss, backpropagate, update weights. This works beautifully for single-turn tasks. But real AI agents don’t work… Read more: Can evolutionary search train long-horizon agents without the usual GPU-heavy RL machinery?

Antibodies play a central role in your body’s immune defense. But they’re also nearly ubiquitous in biological research, being essential for several widely used lab techniques. While some researchers need to go through the process… Read more: Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Tuesday that SpaceX will commit $100 billion to develop Starship factories and launch pads in the state’s coastal areas. In doing so, the company seeks to replicate the Starbase facility… Read more: SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport

Two unvaccinated people have died from measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials confirmed Tuesday. They are the first measles deaths reported in Pennsylvania in 35 years and the first deaths reported in the US in… Read more: Two unvaccinated people die from measles in Pennsylvania, officials confirm

The Republican Senate candidate announced the plan with a graphic X flagged as ‘Made with AI’ US politics live – latest updates Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has unveiled… Read more: Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’

We’re racing towards a future where AI enables the “factory farming of humans,” a Harvard professor warns — if tech elites get their way, at least. In a new episode of The New York Time’s… Read more: Harvard Professor Warns That AI Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans

Scaling enterprise AI depends on more than deploying intelligent agents. For Banco BS2, a Brasil-based digital bank, it begins with establishing the infrastructure, governance and operational discipline needed to support AI before expanding its use… Read more: Banco BS2 takes a foundation-first approach to scaling enterprise AI

Emporia Kansas has dropped its criminal case against Lux Claridge, a high school teacher who was arrested for clapping during a city data center meeting. “Today, I was informed by my attorney that the city… Read more: Charges Dropped Against Person Who Clapped at a City Data Center Meeting

Companies continue to pour untold sums into adopting AI tools, in a generational industry capital allocation that has yet to meaningfully pay off. Despite being sold as a way to supercharge productivity, theoretically allowing business… Read more: 90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC announced today it’s changing how Claude, its flagship AI product, uses memory by allowing users to see everything it remembers “topic by topic,” and edit or delete any of it.… Read more: Anthropic updates Claude’s memory to enhance customization and protect sensitive topics

GitHub Copilot’s coding agent can now use Microsoft Teams conversations as context to investigate software tasks, change code, and create pull requests. The post GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations appeared… Read more: GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations

Jonathan Michie on his father’s efforts in the 1970s to map out concerns regarding widespread social coercion driven by automation. Plus a letter from Callum Brown Jill Lepore asks why nobody listened to warnings about… Read more: Why the threat from the rampaging AI machine went ignored | Letters

Apple is testing an AI shopping assistant in the Apple Store app that can answer product, trade-in, payment, and order questions for select users. The post Apple Tests AI Shopping Assistant in Store App: What… Read more: Apple Tests AI Shopping Assistant in Store App: What Can It Do?

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers within five years. Today the… Read more: AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs

Microsoft Teams is adding a policy that lets IT admins automatically block detected external meeting bots instead of relying on organizer approval. The post Microsoft Teams’ New Policy Lets Admins Automatically Block Meeting Bots appeared… Read more: Microsoft Teams’ New Policy Lets Admins Automatically Block Meeting Bots

Taiwan indicted nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro staff, over an alleged scheme that diverted restricted AI servers to customers in China. The post Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Alleged Nvidia AI Server Smuggling to… Read more: Taiwan Indicts Nine Over Alleged Nvidia AI Server Smuggling to China

Uber faces a $966 million Dutch privacy fine over automated driver suspensions, raising questions about GDPR compliance and meaningful human oversight. The post Uber Fined $966M: The High Cost of Automation Without Oversight appeared first… Read more: Uber Fined $966M: The High Cost of Automation Without Oversight

Remember the original Quest headset that Meta (then Oculus) trumpeted back in 2019? Meta seems to hope you don’t, since the company officially stopped supporting the wireless VR headset in 2023 to focus on the… Read more: New bootloader lets you take the “Meta” out of the original Meta Quest

New research reveals how often AWS keys are exposed, why leaked AWS credentials are so hard to remediate and how little teams know about what they can access Truffle Security, the company that makes it… Read more: Truffle Security Announced the Launch of TruffleHog AWS Analyze

New partnership will connect Legora with Intapp Walls for AI compliance and Intapp Time for automated AI-driven time capture, establishing a foundation for joint agentic innovation spanning the business and practice of law Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA),… Read more: Intapp, Legora Partner to Deliver Governed AI for Law Firms

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire McCoy, a trusted Dutch SAP transformation partner for mid-market companies. Upon closing, McCoy will become part of Accenture Edge, Accenture’s recently launched mid-market business, strengthening its ability to help companies… Read more: Accenture Intends to Acquire McCoy

A police department in Florida used “decoy” Flock cameras that an officer 3D-printed at home to “bait” would-be vandals. Police officers monitored the fake cameras for days, then charged a man with three felonies after… Read more: Man Charged With 3 Felonies For Breaking 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera

MIT engineers have built an AI tool that forecasts extreme weather without training on historical disaster data. Kai Chang, a mechanical engineering graduate student, and Professor Themis Sapsis developed the tool. It produces maps of… Read more: MIT AI forecasts extreme weather without historical data

Regulations will require new sites to avoid pushing up power prices by building renewable energy plants and minimising water use Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Planned datacentres around Australia… Read more: Australia may face a rush of datacentre construction as AI firms look to dodge upcoming rules, experts say

Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Jetson Orin Nano 2, a robotics computer “brain” for running artificial intelligence and frontier-level models at the edge. In the past months, foundational AI models have grown smaller… Read more: Nvidia doubles compute for entry-level edge robotics with Jetson Orin Nano 2

The Mac mini and Mac Studio occupy two distinct points in Apple’s lineup of desktops, but lately, they’ve had something in common: They’re popular for local AI inference and software development thanks to the advantages… Read more: Apple’s new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development

The artificial intelligence infrastructure market is crossing an important threshold. The conversation is shifting from acquiring graphics processing units to building complete AI factories that can generate tokens reliably, efficiently and at scale. This is… Read more: AI factories enter the execution era as Cisco and NVIDIA push rack-scale systems into production

Compared to the lofty benchmark of human-level intelligence, AI chatbots still have a long way to go. Sure the industry has made remarkable progress in beefing them up to generate seemingly human-level sentences, but in… Read more: Even Babies Are Still Way Better at Learning Than AI Models

Anthony Ralphs has been showing up to San Diego City Council meetings to speak against Flock’s presence in his city for a year. At first, he took the podium during public comment in business casual… Read more: The Man Behind the Anti-Flock Darth Vader Mask Wants to Know: ‘When Will This End?’

The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result. Designed to give customers a framework for deploying artificial intelligence across their… Read more: Nvidia and Cisco push the enterprise AI factory into the rack-scale era

A massive test of gravity across the cosmos found that it behaves almost exactly as Newton and Einstein predicted, even across galaxy clusters hundreds of millions of light-years apart. The result weakens some modified-gravity explanations… Read more: Newton’s 300-year-old law just passed its biggest test yet

Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced the launch of HOMIE Gen2, the next generation of the company’s head-mounted wearable that records human movement data to train robots. Smart robotics requires tremendous… Read more: Ropedia launches next-gen wearable capture device for robotic AI training data

AI factories are moving from ambitious plans toward production, but the path from graphics processing unit acquisition to usable systems remains a race against time. Neoclouds already have customers waiting for capacity, enterprises are looking… Read more: Cisco and Nvidia take AI factories from rack to runtime

A major study found that adults with depression show disrupted production of new neurons in the hippocampus, potentially weakening the brain’s ability to separate new experiences from painful memories. The researchers also identified broad molecular… Read more: Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons

NASA scientists found that microbes brought by astronauts could survive in cold, shadowed niches around the Moon’s South Pole, potentially complicating future searches for pristine lunar chemistry. Some refuges may be no larger than a… Read more: NASA finds Earth microbes could survive on the Moon

A sweeping analysis of thousands of animal genomes suggests that chromosomes do not evolve randomly but instead follow a limited number of irreversible “evolutionary highways.” These one-way genetic changes preserve clues to more than 600… Read more: Scientists find hidden “highways” guiding animal evolution

Scientists have created a highly efficient catalyst that breaks down stubborn lignin from plant waste into useful chemicals under relatively mild conditions. By revealing exactly how the catalyst works at the atomic level, the discovery… Read more: Atomic catalyst unlocks the hidden value of plant waste

Older adults who received the Shingrix shingles vaccine were 24% less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over four years in a study of more than 500,000 people. Researchers estimate the difference could amount to… Read more: Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk

One thing that could put a dent in the hype around Anthropic’s upcoming, multitrillion dollar IPO? People preferring cheapo models over its flagship AI products. Recent spending data from 70,000 US companies collected by the… Read more: Nobody Wants Anthropic’s Best AI Model Anymore Now That There Are Way Cheaper Alternatives

Mathematicians are raising concerns that the technology could kill their profession. But they still have abilities AI doesn’t Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their… Read more: No, AI doesn’t mean the end of mathematics – at least not yet | Bruce Schneier and Kasra Rafi

Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running The carbon emissions from just two planned datacentres in England will exceed all of the fossil fuel company ExxonMobil’s UK… Read more: Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

CPU, GPU and neuromorphic workloads are unified under a single workload manager, enabling heterogeneous computing and improving overall performance and power efficiency BrainChip Holdings Ltd. (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), a global leader in ultra-low… Read more: BrainChip Unveils Symphony Community Akida Bundle

“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Airlines flight attendant.

Thanks to a dwindling supply of open roles, “one-click” applications, and the rise of artificial intelligence, it’s easier than ever to apply for a job. We’re all paying the price.

New partnership expands MDT’s Transformational Consulting with AI readiness, strategy and implementation expertise OnTrac AI’s Ignite program helps credit unions identify high-value AI opportunities Member Driven Technologies (MDT), a CUSO that helps credit unions navigate complex… Read more: MDT and OnTrac AI to Help Credit Unions Build AI Readiness and Take Action

iManage announces October general availability of its next-generation platform, bringing knowledge, context, and intelligence together on a secure, governed foundation to help organizations turn AI potential into scalable adoption and client value iManage, the company… Read more: iManage Announces Availability of its Next-Generation Platform

Saigon Technology, an AI-native software engineering partner with more than 14 years of experience, is addressing a growing challenge as businesses build production-ready software with AI: software can be created faster than it can be… Read more: Saigon Technology Addresses Velocity Debt in AI Development

Although mobiles blared in public are nothing new, this crop of headphone-dodging irritants are truly maddening. It’s time to take them on ‘Interesting cities can’t be quiet”, runs one of grime DJ and music industry… Read more: The war on ‘loudcasting’ phones can be won, but it will take some very British nudging | Dan Hancox

Fernando Matzkin, most recently Globant’s Chief Revenue Officer, has been with the company for 17 years, previously leading its growth across the US and Europe. Globant (NYSE: GLOB), a global company focused on driving enterprise reinvention through… Read more: Globant Appoints Fernando Matzkin as COO

As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engine Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on… Read more: Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse?

Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond In a village 21 miles north of Edinburgh, a real estate consultancy plans to build a datacentre larger than the village… Read more: ‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi looks into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society Today in Focus is on a summer break and will be back with new… Read more: Black Box: episode 2 – The hunt for ClothOff, the deepfake porn app – podcast

Generalist AI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding. Axios today cited a source as saying that 8VC led the investment. It was reportedly joined… Read more: Robotics AI startup Generalist reportedly raises $200M

AI is quietly reshaping writing. It’s not just that prose is changing — the very structure of written language is genuinely changing too. It’s not just a new technology. It’s not a fad. It’s an… Read more: Can you teach yourself to detect AI writing? Maybe

Optical interconnect startup Quintessent Inc. today announced that it has raised $40 million in funding to ramp up production of its hardware. Cycle Capital led the Series A raise. It was joined by Goldman Sachs,… Read more: Quintessent bags $40M to develop lasers for AI clusters

Nvidia Corp. is reportedly considering making another investment in the artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. A report by The Information says the chipmaker is holding talks with Perplexity over an investment that could… Read more: Nvidia reportedly eyes another investment in Perplexity AI at a $30B valuation

Ads and tracking have turned TVs into privacy nightmares. Both are so widespread among smart TVs that I’ve written a guide for avoiding them. One recommendation in that guide is to use a computer monitor.… Read more: Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors.

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the US health department is considering changing how vaccine recommendations are categorized and described. The move creates the possibility that vaccinations currently considered “routine” or “universal” could… Read more: RFK Jr. may upend how vaccine recommendations are categorized

Data centers have become the largest driver of surging electricity demand that is straining US power grids. But the AI data center boom has also accelerated investment in a technology that could provide a silver… Read more: Data centers become “killer application” for new power transformer tech

For years, AI industry watchers of all stripes have been warning of a coming jobs apocalypse driven by ultra-intelligent AI systems that will be able to replicate most human tasks more cheaply. Now, newly updated… Read more: AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

U.S. President Donald Trump expressed support for data center projects in a radio interview that aired on Sunday. The segment was hosted by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who had testified against him in a… Read more: Trump defends AI data center buildout amid pushback

Chinese retailer AliExpress has been caught fingerprinting visitors after one of the metrics—an outdated technique that measures inaudible sounds it sends to browsers—impeded a researcher’s ability to use his bluetooth headphones. Researcher Matthew Callaghan said… Read more: Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

The federal government is expanding a safety investigation into a number of vehicles manufactured by General Motors after receiving hundreds of reports of brake failure. The problem affects more than 1.1 million cars, including many… Read more: GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports

President Donald Trump has a message for Americans who scorn data centers: you’re making a foolish mistake. In a bizarre interview with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, flagged by Forbes, the president went out… Read more: Trump Says You’re a Rube If You Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Backyard

Donald Trump is presiding over an unexpected clean energy boom, as rising electricity demand spurs investment in new capacity despite the US administration’s efforts to thwart a solar and wind rollout. Clean energy additions will… Read more: Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.

After months of rumors surrounding his future, now we know: Four-time champion Max Verstappen is staying in the sport for the foreseeable future. The news broke on the eve of the Dutch Grand Prix, held… Read more: F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate

Taiwan has indicted nine people—reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees based in the country—who allegedly helped forge documents to cover up illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China in violation… Read more: Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China

Mummified human and animal remains have long been in demand among collectors, and such items are sufficiently rare that their acquisition may involve unregulated, occasionally clandestine trade practices—if not outright illegal ones. According to the… Read more: Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores

The tech industry’s standing in the eyes of the US public has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last few years. Where Americans were once excited for new tech products and industry ideas, they’re now… Read more: Clueless AI CEOs Still Baffled Why Everybody’s So Mad About AI All the Time

Physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major phase of AI. These systems not only generate content or analyze data but also perceive, reason about and act in the physical world. The opportunity is… Read more: Physical AI’s moment has arrived – but moving from demo to deployment is the hard part. AWS wants to fix that

London and Kyiv in deal to help stop protesters and hostile states targeting military bases and critical infrastructure AI models trained on Ukrainian battlefield data will be used to stop protesters and foreign states targeting… Read more: UK to use Ukraine battlefield data to train AI to protect sensitive sites

NUS, DayOne, and Cortical Labs have deployed a 20-unit biological computing rack in Singapore using living human neurons alongside silicon hardware. The post Singapore Switches On Biological Computing Rack With Living Human Neurons appeared first… Read more: Singapore Switches On Biological Computing Rack With Living Human Neurons

ChatGPT for Teens adds stronger protections for users ages 13 to 17, but parents still face limits around monitoring, age prediction, and AI safety. The post ChatGPT for Teens Adds New Safeguards — but Safety… Read more: ChatGPT for Teens Adds New Safeguards — but Safety Gaps Remain

Microsoft has yet to set a firm Exchange Server SE CU1 release date as engineers work through AI-assisted security findings and ongoing patch releases. The post Microsoft Exchange Server SE CU1 Delayed Amid AI-Assisted Security… Read more: Microsoft Exchange Server SE CU1 Delayed Amid AI-Assisted Security Reviews

Oura faces a proposed class action challenging its sleep-tracking accuracy claims, raising broader questions about how wearables present estimated health data. The post Oura Ring’s AI Sleep-Tracking Claims Face Legal Scrutiny in Proposed Class Action… Read more: Oura Ring’s AI Sleep-Tracking Claims Face Legal Scrutiny in Proposed Class Action

Can a city’s seawall stand up to a blockbuster storm? Will a region’s power grid hold against record-breaking heat? And can a town’s fire-fighting resources contain a major wildfire?  To answer these questions, communities will… Read more: Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has been cleared for final launch preparations ahead of a targeted August 30 liftoff aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. The powerful new observatory will probe cosmic expansion, the history of the universe,… Read more: NASA is about to launch a powerful new eye on the universe

XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through… Read more: XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding

Toey Andante/Shutterstock Police forces in England and Wales have been told to pause some uses of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in criminal justice work, including preparing court statements. The intervention follows concerns that commercial AI… Read more: Why police have been told to pause their use of AI in court cases

This article was republished from our friends over at Court Watch. Please consider subscribing to them if you want the early scoop on what’s happening in our court system, from the concerning to the bizarre.… Read more: How a Network of Volunteers Is Liberating Critical Court Records for Everyone

As the bipartisan hate for data centers continues to grow, Texas governor Greg Abbott is suddenly singing a dramatically different tune. During a Sunday interview with ABC, Abbott said that AI companies have “basically dug… Read more: Texas Governor Suddenly Turns on Data Centers as Backlash Grows