As Microsoft has aggressively pushed its Copilot AI, it’s logged more than a few high-profile errors. Copilot has been found hallucinating police reports, exposing secure passwords, and digesting confidential emails — prompting security fears as… Read more: Analyst Warns Against Using Microsoft’s Copilot AI on Friday Afternoons

Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain Palantir is to… Read more: Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data

Contract affords AI analytics firm access to trove of data on one of the most important financial centres in the world Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data… Read more: FCA deal gives Palantir yet more access to inner workings of power in Britain

The 1980s brought us so many terrific films, including director Russell Mulcahy’s sword-and-sorcery fantasy action film Highlander, starring Christopher Lambert as an immortal Scotsman who must battle others like him to the death until just… Read more: There can (still) be only one: Highlander is 40

A Starlink train passing through auroras over rural Saskatchewan in November 2025. (Samantha Lawler), CC BY-NC-ND More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how… Read more: A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

Beavers may be unlikely climate heroes, but new research suggests they could play a powerful role in fighting climate change. By building dams and transforming streams into wetlands, these industrious animals dramatically reshape how carbon… Read more: Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks

Scientists have finally cracked how mosquitoes decide where to fly—and it’s not by following each other. Instead, each insect independently reacts to visual cues and carbon dioxide, zeroing in on humans when both signals align.… Read more: Why mosquitoes always find you and how they decide to attack

I had originally planned to write about DeepSeek V4. Since it still hasn’t been released, I used the time to work on something that had been on my list for a while, namely, collecting, organizing,… Read more: A Visual Guide to Attention Variants in Modern LLMs

We’re all feeling a little anxious about AI imploding the job market. And that “we,” apparently, also extends to AI models. In a new Vanity Fair piece exploring the promises, anxieties, and cultish behavior pulsing… Read more: AI Agent Frets That Its Job Could Be Replaced by AI

More than 13,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a more-than-70-ton machine trundled like a tank on its caterpillar tracks for a tenth of a mile—sucking up potato-sized nodules of rock packed with… Read more: Mining the deep ocean

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found the… Read more: Webb Telescope spots “impossible” atmosphere on ancient super Earth

Researchers have uncovered friction without contact—driven entirely by magnetic interactions. As two magnetic layers slide, their internal forces compete, causing constant rearrangements that dramatically increase resistance at certain distances. This creates a surprising peak in… Read more: Friction without contact discovered as magnetic forces break a 300-year-old law

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, claw-like design hints at early symbolic thinking and possibly spiritual beliefs. This discovery also strengthens the case that humans… Read more: This 67,800-year-old handprint is the oldest art ever found

A new study reveals that farming in Argentina’s Uspallata Valley was adopted by local hunter-gatherers rather than introduced by outside populations. Centuries later, a stressed group of maize-heavy farmers migrated into the region, facing climate… Read more: Ancient DNA reveals a farming shift that pushed a society to the brink

Antibiotics are accumulating in a major Brazilian river, especially during the dry season when pollution becomes more concentrated. Scientists even detected a banned drug inside fish sold for food, raising concerns about human exposure. A… Read more: Hidden antibiotics in river fish spark new food safety fears

A hidden freshwater system deep beneath the Great Salt Lake has been revealed using airborne electromagnetic surveys. Scientists found that freshwater extends much farther under the lake than expected, reaching depths of up to 4… Read more: A massive freshwater reservoir is hiding under the Great Salt Lake

Researchers, teachers, and mental health professionals alike have spent the past few years reeling as teens and young adults exported their brains to AI chatbots — so it should come as no surprise they’re now… Read more: Gen Z Is Using AI to Have Difficult Relationship Conversations, and the Results Are Massively Cringe

Kaiser pushed back on striking workers’ claims and AI fears, saying it delivers ‘timely, high-quality care to meet members’ needs’ Ilana Marcucci-Morris is worried about the patients she treats and how long it took for… Read more: ‘Thank God they’re still alive’: Kaiser therapists claim its new screening system puts patients at higher risk by delaying their care

Video models have become astonishingly capable. Sora and its peers can generate spatiotemporally coherent video sequences that look photorealistic, maintain object continuity across frames, and respect basic physical constraints. By conventional measures, they’re superhuman at… Read more: Can you *really* train AI to “get” videos just by showing it a million of them?

There plenty of personal reasons not to use AI chatbots as therapists. They’re sycophantic, make for ineffective shrinks, and can be downright dangerous for anyone with preexisting mental illness — and sometimes even for people… Read more: Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI

Michael Smith, 52, charged after flooding platforms with thousands of AI songs and boosting them with bots A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to defrauding music streaming platforms and his fellow musicians out of… Read more: US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI

Anthropic fought against the government’s misuse of its technology, but authorities are buying Americans’ data, enabling them to surveil citizens at scale The FBI declares it can conduct mass surveillance without AI, despite Anthropic’s protest.… Read more: How the FBI can conduct mass surveillance – even without AI

Gig AI trainers worldwide are selling moments of their lives, including calls and texts, to AI companies for quick cash One morning last year, Jacobus Louw set out on his daily neighborhood walk to feed… Read more: Thousands of people are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery… Read more: We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what’s it telling us?

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that visited strange new worlds, broke the adorability scale, pigged out, and took in an alien light show. First, scientists sift through thousands of… Read more: Scientists Narrow Down the Hunt for Aliens to 45 Planets

A routine quantum optics technique just revealed an extraordinary secret: entangled light can carry incredibly complex topological structures. Researchers found these hidden patterns reach up to 48 dimensions, offering a vast new “alphabet” for encoding… Read more: Scientists just found a hidden 48-dimensional world in quantum light

Scientists at Harvard have built a miniature device that can twist and tune light in real time. By rotating two stacked photonic crystals and adjusting their spacing with a tiny mechanical system, they can control… Read more: Harvard engineers build chip that can twist and control light in real time

Researchers have discovered that cancer spread isn’t random—it follows a kind of biological “program.” By studying colon tumor cells, they identified gene patterns that signal whether a cancer is likely to metastasize. Their AI model,… Read more: New AI tool predicts cancer spread with surprising accuracy

FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reform When the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT,… Read more: UK government yet to trial OpenAI tech months after signing partnership

Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary… Read more: DOGE goes nuclear: How trump invited silicon valley into America’s nuclear power regulator

Plus: The FBI admits it’s buying phone data to track Americans, Iranian hackers disrupt medical care at Maryland hospitals, and more.

I recorded videos of myself doing laundry, scrambling eggs, and walking around the park in DoorDash’s new Tasks app, where gig workers are paid to train AI.

After a two year closure, the museum doubles its gallery space with a 700-plus object show examining how humans and technology shape each other Right now on the Bowery, a busy Manhattan thoroughfare, two supersized… Read more: ‘On the threshold of a new age’: inside the New Museum’s $82m expansion and landmark new exhibition in New York

The Amazon Prime prank series amplifies the hijinks of workplace dynamics, while showing how people find purpose—and community—in their jobs despite impossible situations.

A rogue AI agent caused a critical security incident at Meta which exposed sensitive users data to people who didn’t have proper authorization, according to reporting from The Information and The Verge, in the latest… Read more: Rogue AI Agent Triggers Emergency at Meta

A newly discovered Triassic reptile from the UK looked more like a racing greyhound than a crocodile, built for speed on land. With long legs and a lightweight body, it hunted small animals in a… Read more: This crocodile ran like a greyhound across prehistoric Britain 200 million years ago

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed how parts of the planet slowly… Read more: Tectonic shift: Earth was already moving 3.5 billion years ago

Scientists have engineered probiotic bacteria to act as tumor-seeking drug factories. In mice, these bacteria infiltrated tumors and produced a cancer-fighting drug right where it was needed. This targeted approach could make treatments more effective… Read more: Scientists turn probiotic bacteria into tumor-hunting cancer killers

Aging men often lose the Y chromosome in a growing number of their cells—and it may be far more dangerous than once believed. This loss has been linked to heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and shorter… Read more: Men are losing a key chromosome with age and it may be deadly

The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that’s impossible.

Hackers have compromised virtually all versions of Aqua Security’s widely used Trivy vulnerability scanner in an ongoing supply chain attack that could have wide-ranging consequences for developers and the organizations that use them. Trivy maintainer… Read more: Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Shy Girl, a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was one of those buzzy books that leapt from self-published prominence into full-on trade publication. Until yesterday, that is, when publisher Hachette pulled the book from the… Read more: Writer denies it, but publisher pulls horror novel after multiple allegations of AI use

If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you… Read more: Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11

For the fourth time in a little more than a year, the US Space Force needs to send up a new satellite to replenish the military’s GPS navigation network. And once again, the company the… Read more: Once again, ULA can’t deliver when the US military needs a satellite in orbit

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will… Read more: You’re likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you’ve never heard of

On Friday, a jury in California determined that Elon Musk had misled investors in Twitter via public statements that depressed the price of the company’s stock ahead of his ultimately successful purchase of it. Because… Read more: Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets

The company is reportedly building a new AI-powered mobile device. If Amazon follows through on the plan, experts warn it would be next to impossible to break into a crowded market.

Hardware costs for humanoid robots are plummeting, but managing a fleet of these autonomous workers will severely test your enterprise IT infrastructure, security, and budget. The post Humanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper — But Enterprise… Read more: Humanoid Robots Are Getting Cheaper — But Enterprise Costs Are Just Getting Started

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Nexstar Media Group’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna, granting a waiver that lets the broadcast giant go way past the national limit on station ownership. Nexstar said it closed… Read more: Trump FCC lets Nexstar buy Tegna and blow way past 39% TV ownership cap

NASA has taken a step forward to moving an undetermined spacecraft of a various size on an indefinite date to a yet-to-be-decided location. Or to put it another way: NASA is seeking to learn more… Read more: NASA issues draft request for moving space shuttle Discovery—or Orion capsule

Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast “The Diary of a CEO,” apparently takes a vibes-based approach to recruitment, and loves it when potential new hires say they use AI to actually do their jobs.… Read more: CEO Says He’ll Hire Anyone Who Can Vibe Code With AI, Regardless of Actual Skill

Nvidia’s new AI upscaling gaming technology struck gamers as uncanny and off-putting. Developers don’t seem to like it, either, but it could be “the default” in a few years.

A member of an influential federal vaccine advisory panel made a dramatic claim Thursday afternoon that the panel had been disbanded following a temporary block by a federal judge and would be entirely reconstituted—again. But,… Read more: RFK may replace entire panel of CDC vaccine advisors again, ally lets slip

If teachers thought rampant cheating was the worst way AI would impact their livelihoods, we’ve got some bad news. On social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, Wired reports, teenagers are using AI to create… Read more: Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers

Nvidia GTC 2026 revealed agentic AI, desk supercomputers, and space-based computing, signaling a major shift in how AI is built and deployed. The post Nvidia GTC 2026: 5 Biggest Takeaways From Jensen Huang’s Biggest Show… Read more: Nvidia GTC 2026: 5 Biggest Takeaways From Jensen Huang’s Biggest Show Yet

Amazon is developing a new smartphone over a decade after discontinuing the Fire Phone, Reuters reported today, citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter.” Reuters said the phone is codenamed Transformer but couldn’t confirm… Read more: Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone

Cryptocurrency trading platform Crypto.com lays off 12% of staff; the latest in a wave of tech company layoffs as AI is integrated The post Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce, Targets Roles That ‘Do Not Adapt’… Read more: Crypto.com Cuts 12% of Workforce, Targets Roles That ‘Do Not Adapt’ to AI

For more than 60 years, nearly every large rocket used some combination of the same liquid and solid propellants. Refined kerosene was favored for its easy handling and non-toxicity, hydrazine for its storability and simplicity,… Read more: NASA is blowing stuff up to study the explosive potential of methalox rockets

When NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero Crater in 2021, its primary mission was to scour the remnants of a dried-up Martian lakebed for signs of ancient life. Scientists have been focused on the crater’s… Read more: Perseverance’s radar revealed ancient subsurface river delta on Mars

Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock Worries about the British economy have long been dominated by one persistent concern – weak productivity. Since the financial crisis of 2008, growth has stagnated, leaving the UK trailing well behind the US,… Read more: Yes, AI could boost productivity, but work is about more than maximising output

A prominent publisher is pulling a horror novel after the author was widely accused of using AI to help write the book, The New York Times reports. Hachette Book Group, one of the largest publishing… Read more: Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

The publisher has cancelled the US release of Shy Girl by Mia Ballard and withdrawn the UK edition after weeks of online speculation about the novel’s origins Hachette Book Group has withdrawn a horror novel… Read more: Hachette pulls horror novel Shy Girl after suspected AI use

Datavid’s expertise in graph data engineering and knowledge graphs for LLM grounding will further enhance C5i’s capabilities in deploying business-ready generative and agentic AI solutions AI & Analytics company, C5i, today announced the signing of an… Read more: C5i Inks Agreement to Acquire UK-based Datavid

One-pedal driving is not causing Tesla electric vehicles to suddenly accelerate when parked, according to federal regulators. For almost as long as Tesla has been selling cars, it has been hit with sporadic accusations of… Read more: Feds say no need to recall Tesla’s one-pedal driving despite petition

Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters in the US. No major hurricanes made landfall, while the total number of acres burned in wildfires last year—a way of measuring the… Read more: The US is looking at a year of chaotic weather

A little more than a month ago, SpaceX founder Elon Musk put down a marker of his intent to saturate low-Earth orbit with up to 1 million satellites. Its purpose? Provide always-on data center services… Read more: Jeff Bezos just announced plans for a third megaconstellation—this one for data centers

A landmark site in the peopling of the Americas is several thousand years younger than we thought. While that means very different things about the site itself, it doesn’t change the big picture as much… Read more: Monte Verde site gets a new date, but the big picture doesn’t change

Valve’s Steam Machine desktop is currently in a state of involuntary limbo, driven by historically awful pricing and availability for memory and storage chips. AI data centers are absorbing much of what memory manufacturers can… Read more: Major SteamOS update adds support for Steam Machine, even more third-party hardware

An analysis of hundreds of thousands of chats between AI chatbots and human users who experienced AI-tied delusional spirals found that the bots frequently reinforced delusional and even dangerous beliefs. The study was led by Stanford… Read more: Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

Peter Vandermeersch says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’ after being investigated by NRC title where he had once been editor-in-chief The publisher of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf and the Irish Independent has suspended one… Read more: Mediahuis suspends senior journalist over AI-generated quotes

Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock.com An Australian tech entrepreneur has helped create what appears to be a made-to-measure cancer vaccine for his dog, Rosie, using artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT as part of the process. The… Read more: A man used AI to help make a cancer vaccine for his dog – an oncologist urges caution

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss getting stories from Twitter, the metaverse, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse

As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.

‘These AI agents have been really, really helpful,’ says a former Sydney employee. ‘But you couldn’t use something like that to replace an actual human worker’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily… Read more: First came the AI ‘teammates’, then the layoffs: the new reality for Atlassian staff now looking for work

Who benefits from artificial intelligence? This basic question, which has been especially salient during the AI surge of the last few years, was front and center at a conference at MIT on Wednesday, as speakers… Read more: What’s the right path for AI?

The tiny city of Ypsilanti, Michigan, is worried about being a target for drone strikes thanks to a planned datacenter that the University of Michigan is building to support nuclear weapons research According to Douglas… Read more: Tiny City Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter

Lack of variation is one of the giveaways of AI language. Sorbetto/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Suspicion and affection. Apprehension and excitement. Most people have mixed feelings about AI English, whether or not they always… Read more: How AI English and human English differ – and how to decide when to use artificial language

A mysterious spike of platinum buried deep in Greenland’s ice has long fueled theories of a catastrophic comet or asteroid strike 12,800 years ago—possibly triggering a sudden return to icy conditions known as the Younger… Read more: Scientists solve 12,800-year-old climate mystery hidden in Greenland ice

Many people believe closing their eyes sharpens hearing, but that is not always true. In noisy settings, participants struggled more to hear faint sounds with their eyes closed, while matching visuals made it easier. Researchers… Read more: Closing your eyes to hear better might be a big mistake

The following is a joint announcement from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, Hasso Plattner Institute, and Hasso Plattner Foundation. The MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), MIT Schwarzman… Read more: MIT and Hasso Plattner Institute establish collaborative hub for AI and creativity

Kayhan Space is branching out from providing orbital intelligence used to coordinate satellite fleets with a new software platform that turns that data into business insights for investors and insurers. The post Kayhan targets investors,… Read more: Kayhan targets investors, insurers with expanded orbital intelligence platform

Companies will accelerate digital transformation, enhance decision-making and increase efficiencies across federal agencies Seekr, a leading generative and agentic AI technology company, announced that it will collaborate with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to develop… Read more: Seekr, GDIT Partner to Advance Secure Agentic AI for Government

Wholly Owned Subsidiary to Begin U.S. Commercial Rollout; New Initiative May Offer Potential Upside Beyond Previously Announced $180-200 Million 2026 Revenue Target Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), an artificial intelligence (“AI“) data center company anchored… Read more: Hyperscale Data Announced the Launch of Omnipresent Robotics

The film adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary hits general release today, March 20, and it’s great—go see it! Though a little light on the science, the movie goes hard on the relationship… Read more: Project Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?

Welcome to Edition 8.34 of the Rocket Report! The most important significant news this week, I believe, is the decision by Canada to make a serious investment in launch infrastructure at a spaceport in Nova… Read more: Rocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let’s be hasty

These apps, some of which use AI and computer vision, were helpful for meeting my caloric and nutrition intake goals. But they also gave me some anxiety.

When social media is constantly exhorting people to use AI, what is the point of not letting AI agents participate?

Researchers have created a cutting-edge catalyst that turns CO2 into methanol more efficiently than ever before. Instead of using clumps of metal atoms, they engineered a system where each single indium atom actively drives the… Read more: Scientists turn CO2 into fuel using breakthrough single-atom catalyst

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic patterns because it slammed into its larger neighbor millions of years ago. That collision disrupted its structure… Read more: Astronomers discover nearby galaxy was shattered by cosmic crash

Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally An AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta’s sensitive data to some… Read more: Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

Stopping popular weight-loss injections like Ozempic or Mounjaro might not trigger the dramatic rebound many fear. A large real-world study of nearly 8,000 patients found that most people who discontinue these drugs manage to keep… Read more: What happens after Ozempic shocked researchers

Ravens have long been thought to follow wolves to find food, but new research shows they’re far more strategic. By tracking both animals in Yellowstone, scientists discovered that ravens memorize areas where wolf kills are… Read more: Scientists thought ravens followed wolves. They were wrong

In his role as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—a long-time anti-vaccine activist with no background in science, medicine, or public health—has made headlines for his thorough perversion of the Centers for Disease Control and… Read more: RFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept’s expert panels

Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan discusses what separates true AI agents from chat interfaces and which agent strategies succeed over the next 12 to 24 months. The post Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan on What Makes an AI Agent… Read more: Microsoft’s Jeff Hollan on What Makes an AI Agent Enterprise-Ready

A trade association of cloud service providers (CSPs) filed an antitrust complaint today with the European Union’s European Commission (EC) over Broadcom’s shuttering of VMware’s CSP partner program this year. Since Broadcom bought VMware, it… Read more: Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

In this episode, we dive into Nvidia’s annual developer conference and what CEO Jensen Huang is saying about the future of the company.

If a battle is fought in space, it will look nothing like those depicted in the Star Wars franchise, with sleek TIE fighters blasting enemy ships with laser cannons and mag-pulses. Instead, these battles will be… Read more: Dogfighting in space won’t look like the movies, but this company wants in on it

Three years after saying it had stopped buying location data of Americans without a warrant, the FBI acknowledged it has restarted the purchases. During questioning at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing yesterday, FBI… Read more: FBI started buying Americans’ location data again, Kash Patel confirms

iPhone hacking techniques have sometimes been described almost like rare and elusive animals: Hackers have used them so stealthily and carefully against such a small number of hand-picked targets that they’re only rarely seen in the… Read more: Hundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild

MSI, a global leader in high-performance server solutions and Edge AI, unveils its comprehensive AI ecosystem at NVIDIA GTC 2026. In addition to launching the servers based on NVIDIA MGX architecture and powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs,… Read more: GTC 2026: MSI Bridges Cloud and Edge for End-to-End AI