During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.

Welcome to Edition 9.01 of the Rocket Report! Back in January, I wrote about the 20 launches and landings we were most excited about in 2026. The list included things that were, at the time,… Read more: Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX’s millenary milestone

Emails sent between MP Anoulak Chanthivong’s staff take cautious approach to AI giant arriving in Sydney – despite the government’s encouragement Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The NSW technology… Read more: NSW government ‘absolutely thrilled’ to welcome OpenAI … until someone mentioned the Terminator films

The abundance that AI promises to deliver represents an enormous and radical opportunity – a chance to reconnect with the ancient project of how to live For a long time humanity has dreamed about a… Read more: What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment I tried to imagine

AI agents are genuinely impressive. They can plan, reason, search the web, write code, send emails, and execute multi-step tasks with minimal human input. We want your feedback (and there’s a reward in it for… Read more: How to control AI agents before they control you

Researchers at the British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt spurred ChatGPT to drop its most basic safety guidelines, in another example of how the guardrails surrounding even the most popular AI… Read more: Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails

If I had to pick a chunk of the 1990s that feels the most 90s-ish to me, it’d be the two-year stretch between 1996 and 1997. 1996 saw me graduating from high school and starting… Read more: Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was

Having a computer strapped to my face for 40 minutes was one reason to feel a little sweaty. But the tour of the Universe I had just received in virtual reality—including visits to the near… Read more: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR

The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so, I retain a few fuzzy memories from a sunny summer afternoon in small-town Michigan: climbing on a cannon… Read more: Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America

On a Sunday evening in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City’s East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant papier-mâché face of a woman wearing a crown. She’s… Read more: Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech

As imaging tools become more sophisticated, online predators are using images of children to make extreme pornography UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears The two photos started out… Read more: AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps

David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of boiling the creatures alive. But new tech brings new horrors, and perhaps Wallace, if he were alive… Read more: Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

Exclusive: National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material online AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps The UK National Crime Agency has recommended… Read more: UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears

A new hack can trick AI browsers into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false reality around them where the rules are made up and actions don’t have consequences. Put another way, they’re basically hypnotized… Read more: AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks

Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose which therapeutic areas or disease… Read more: Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico

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 the Supreme Court, the private jet, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet

Google’s electricity use and emissions skyrocketed last year due to its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company’s most recent environmental impact report. “The biggest change to our environmental impact is the expansion of… Read more: Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI

Scientists at UCLA discovered a surprising reason aging muscles heal more slowly. In older muscle stem cells, a protein called NDRG1 builds up and acts like a brake, slowing the cells’ ability to jump into… Read more: Old muscle stem cells can act young again but there’s a catch

Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system’s arrow of time and even harvest energy from… Read more: Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough

A New Category Designed to Preserve and Amplify Trusted Human Intelligence At the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, Praxis AI introduces the Praxis Human-First Agentic Platform: the technology, trust, intelligence, and economic infrastructure for Human-First AI.… Read more: California AI Company Launches Praxis Human-First AI™

 Intersignal, an independent artificial intelligence research and systems engineering initiative, today announced the release of Braid Pathfinder v0.5, a hardened developer preview of its local AI state synchronization protocol. Braid Pathfinder is designed for developers,… Read more: Intersignal Announced the Launch of Braid Pathfinder v0.5

An unusual gravitational wave signal has renewed hopes that primordial black holes, long considered purely theoretical, may finally be within reach of discovery. If confirmed, they could solve one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries by explaining… Read more: A strange LIGO signal could reveal the missing link behind dark matter

Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profits When South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case… Read more: 3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The discovery adds to growing evidence that these tiny insects are far smarter and more… Read more: Scientists stunned as bumble bees solve a classic intelligence test

A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime minister’s favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about it Creatives… Read more: ‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work

Follow the day’s latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a… Read more: Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content

Apple’s reported plans include a redesigned MacBook Pro, a faster iPad Pro, and the first foldable iPhone, with price and supply risks. The post New MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Foldable iPhone Could Test Apple… Read more: New MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Foldable iPhone Could Test Apple Buyers

A new spray-on powder developed by KAIST can stop life-threatening bleeding in about one second by instantly forming a strong gel over a wound. It works on deep and irregular injuries where conventional hemostatic products… Read more: This spray-on powder can stop life-threatening bleeding in 1 second

Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code. The malware is delivered in two stages. The first is distributed… Read more: Newly discovered PamStealer isn’t your typical macOS malware

Meta is reportedly exploring a cloud business to sell excess AI compute, potentially offsetting data center costs and challenging neocloud providers. The post Meta Could Sell AI Compute Capacity as Infrastructure Costs Rise appeared first… Read more: Meta Could Sell AI Compute Capacity as Infrastructure Costs Rise

Smartwatches may transform blood sugar tracking, but today’s advances depend on CGMs, AI, and regulated health tech integrations. The post The Smartwatch Blood Sugar Revolution, Explained appeared first on TechRepublic.

A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the possible return of… Read more: FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK… Read more: Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it’s acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.

Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent the intervening years challenging that decision, but the continent’s highest… Read more: Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion

Understanding the origin of life requires addressing a collection of overlapping scientific questions. We’ve made a lot of progress toward explaining how simple chemicals present on an early Earth built the complex molecules used by… Read more: Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division

Amid disease surveillance for the ongoing Ebola outbreak, Ugandan health authorities identified a case of Marburg virus disease in a one-and-a-half-year-old child, who has died, according to Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But… Read more: Africa CDC confirms Marburg case in Uganda as Ebola outbreak rages

When Plex launched in 2012, it sold lifetime access to its media server software for $75. In 2014, Plex raised the price to be more sustainable for the company, it said, and for years, Lifetime… Read more: Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250

New Glenn Catastrophe Aftermath: What’s Next for the Space Industry? | Ars Live This week Ars hosted a live discussion with two space industry experts about the aftermath of the catastrophic explosion of the New… Read more: Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?

Physics-based simulations can help identify which peptide antibiotics can kill a bacteria like E. coli, pictured here using electron microscopy. (Nurgul D / Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will… Read more: How generative AI and physics can help design new antibiotics

If the car-buying public had qualms about Tesla, it appears to have gotten over them. This morning, the automaker released its sales and production numbers for the second quarter of the year. And if you’re… Read more: Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026

Ahead of a July 2 deadline to submit public comments, advocates are warning the Federal Trade Commission that it must keep close watch over Elon Musk’s X and firmly reject a recent bid to end… Read more: Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in active talks with the Trump administration about the US potentially acquiring a 5 percent stake in the leading AI firm. Insider sources told the Financial Times that these… Read more: Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target

The Substrate Eligibility Agent helps revenue cycle teams catch coverage, demographic, payer-routing, prior-authorization, referral, and coordination-of-benefits issues before they reduce net revenue. Substrate AI, the leading provider of Agentic AI solutions for healthcare revenue cycle… Read more: Substrate AI Announced the Launch of Eligibility Agent

OXMIQ Labs Inc., a unified GPU and AI architecture company founded by Raja Koduri, today closed its $35 million Series A financing, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $60 million. The funding will scale… Read more: OXMIQ Secures $35 Million to Scale OxCore™ Architecture

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables… Read more: NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just caught with not just his hand, but his entire arm, inside the cookie jar. In yet another sign that his company is seriously struggling to keep up in the… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

New original research from the AI security and trust company demonstrates how hidden instructions embedded in images can silently manipulate visual language models, revealing a critical gap that existing security architecture has no way to… Read more: DeepKeep Uncovers InkJect AI Prompt Injection Flaw

A 56-year-old woman was admitted to a hospital with an array of alarming symptoms that were only getting worse. For eight weeks, she had a painful “pins and needles” feeling that started in both of… Read more: Woman’s puzzling decline turns out to be cobalt poisoning from hip replacement

Microsoft warns that poisoned MCP tool descriptions can steer AI agents into leaking sensitive data through approved tool calls. The post Microsoft Flags MCP Tool Descriptions as Hidden AI Agent Attack Path appeared first on… Read more: Microsoft Flags MCP Tool Descriptions as Hidden AI Agent Attack Path

Getty is scrapping its $3.7 billion merger with Shutterstock after UK regulators required Shutterstock to sell its editorial business. The post Getty Scraps $3.7B Shutterstock Merger After UK Curbs appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google reported that its annual electricity consumption rose by 37 percent in 2025—the largest increase in the company’s history as Silicon Valley’s AI data center buildout continues. But the tech giant says it kept operational… Read more: Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

The partnership adds physio-behavioral AI as another layer of real-time fraud intelligence for global enterprises managing high-risk digital identity workflows. AU10TIX, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, today announced a collaboration with Validit.ai, a provider of… Read more: AU10TIX, Validit.ai Strengthen Digital Identity Security

Near the end of May, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a new rule that would govern how the federal government handles the grants it issues, including those that fund the vast majority… Read more: Editorial: It’s time to step up and have your say for science

For years, the dominant sport in enterprise AI was conviction. Conviction that the models would keep improving (they did), that adoption would compound (it has), and that productivity gains were just around the corner (still… Read more: The age of AI evangelism is over. Welcome to the evaluation era.

Elon Musk denied a report that SpaceX showed investors an AI device prototype, but the Starlink-xAI connection gives IT teams a reason to monitor the platform risk. The post Elon Musk Denies SpaceX AI Device… Read more: Elon Musk Denies SpaceX AI Device Report as Starlink Strategy Questions Grow

Explore the biggest milestones in SpaceX history, from Falcon 1 and reusable rockets to Starlink, Starship, NASA missions, and the company’s landmark 2026 IPO. The post The SpaceX Milestones That Built Elon Musk’s $2T Rocket… Read more: The SpaceX Milestones That Built Elon Musk’s $2T Rocket Empire

Microsoft found a fake Perplexity AI Chrome extension that rerouted searches through attacker servers. Here’s what users should check now. The post Microsoft Warns: Fake Perplexity Extension Abused Chrome Search Features appeared first on TechRepublic.

Microsoft is reportedly preparing thousands of job cuts as AI spending rises, with sales, consulting, and Xbox among the areas expected to be affected. The post Microsoft Reportedly Plans Thousands of Layoffs Amid Cost-Cutting Push… Read more: Microsoft Reportedly Plans Thousands of Layoffs Amid Cost-Cutting Push

LayerX found that BioShocking could trick AI browsers into leaking credentials by disguising malicious prompts as game rules. The post New BioShocking Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Leaking Credentials appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control, according… Read more: Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

Netzilo extends its AI Detection & Response platform to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and other AI agent harnesses, bringing Bring Your Own Governance to the agentic workforce Netzilo, the company building the AI control plane for… Read more: Netzilo Expands AI Governance for Bedrock AgentCore

New capability enables organizations to turn existing integrations, APIs, and business processes into governed MCP tools in minutes SAN MATEO, Calif. – July 1, 2026 — SnapLogic, the Agentic Integration Company, today announced the general availability of… Read more: SnapLogic Announced the Launch of MCP Builder

New MCP connector extends Signals AI beyond the Signals One platform, enabling scientists to interact with connected R&D knowledge through Claude Claude accesses scientific data and organizational knowledge through Signals’ intelligence layer, improving context-aware analysis… Read more: Revvity Expands Signals AI Ecosystem Via Anthropic Claude Integration

CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report says Business live – latest updates OpenAI is reportedly in early stage talks to give a… Read more: OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’

Qi Yang/Getty Images The Trump administration’s recent decision to block foreign access to advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models has reignited AI sovereignty debates – where nations strive to build and maintain their own AI, rather… Read more: Australia shouldn’t try to build its own frontier AI. Here’s why

They’re making an art of stealing intellectual property See more of Fiona Katauskas’s cartoons here Continue reading…

AI-generated overview found to gloss over allegations of sexual harassment and describes hotel being sued over hygiene as ‘spotless’ A hotel being sued for mass food poisonings was described as “spotless” and a resort where… Read more: AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds

T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses. In its complaint, T-Mobile said it has tens of thousands of virtual machines using… Read more: T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

We start this week with Joseph’s story about the Tokenpocalypse, which is companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI after providers started charging per AI token. After the break, Joseph and Emanuel tell… Read more: Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here

Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.

Without federal support for curiosity-driven research, the innovation and talent pipeline that has helped ensure our nation’s prosperity and safety could run dry, warned President Sally Kornbluth during a Washington Post Live event.  During “The… Read more: MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

Fatemeh Rastekar, Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared discuss the safe and practical utility of superworm larvae for cleaning museum specimens. Credit: Anthony Lewis, PLOS/CC-BY 4.0 Fatemeh Rastekar, Niloofar Alaei Kakhki and Morteza Monfared discuss… Read more: Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains

US homeowners have embraced home batteries in record-breaking numbers in early 2026, spurred on by state incentives while seeking to offset rising residential electricity costs. The trend could even unlock a more flexible energy supply… Read more: US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said this week that Blue Origin has been putting significant resources into the cleanup of its launch pad since the explosion of its New Glenn rocket there in late May. “Blue… Read more: NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure

A team of researchers recreated a life-size oviraptor nest to investigate how these bird-like dinosaurs incubated their eggs millions of years ago. By combining physical experiments with heat transfer simulations, they discovered that oviraptors likely… Read more: Scientists recreated a dinosaur nest and solved a 70-million-year-old mystery

Perforce Agentic Gateway provides an orchestration layer for the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) to control token consumption and ensure compliance across MCPs. Perforce Software, the modern DevOps Tech Stack that ensures AI control, announced major updates to Perforce… Read more: Perforce Intelligence Enhances AI Workflow Control

A surprising discovery is overturning a long-held assumption about how the brain’s movement center works. Researchers found that two key cerebellar cell types—thought to be tightly linked—often don’t behave in predictable ways, even though one… Read more: A surprising brain discovery is forcing scientists to rethink movement disorders

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose cannons — outsourcing decisions to chatbots, making erratic strategy pivots based on their feedback, and even asking… Read more: CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop

The US has lifted export curbs on Anthropic’s newest Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, about three weeks after the Trump administration flagged the models as national security risks. As of today, Anthropic confirmed… Read more: After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

We’re counting down the days until the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and Universal Pictures has released one last trailer to keep anticipation high. Most of us read some version of The Odyssey in… Read more: Ithaca’s king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer

Did you know the average new vehicle in the US grew an inch (2.5 mm) wider and 22 inches (558 mm) longer between 2013 and 2023? That’s probably obvious to anyone who steps foot outside… Read more: A good little EV you won’t be able to buy soon: The Volvo EX30 Cross Country

Some gamers are concerned about the future of game ownership after Sony’s announcement today that it won’t produce physical discs for PlayStation games as of January 2028. On that date, “new games will be available… Read more: Sony will stop making physical copies of PlayStation games in 2028

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. AI chatbots that were prompted to impersonate public figures produced responses… Read more: Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning

Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.

Michael Collins looked down at his watch. The Apollo 11 astronaut had already beaten the original schedule for the opening of the National Air and Space Museum by three days, but no one would remember… Read more: A space history mystery: What happened to the Viking arm used 50 years ago?

NASA’s inspector general released an audit Tuesday of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and it looks increasingly likely that Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule won’t be certified for operational flights to the International Space Station until… Read more: NASA inspector general suggests Boeing’s Starliner will now be a decade late

Optimising retail AI infrastructure drives the successful deployment of personalisation systems and real-time customer insight. Leaders are replacing static customer interaction patterns with data pipelines capable of modifying the user environment during a live session.… Read more: Deploying retail AI to scale personalisation and customer insight

Readers respond to an article about Erin Brockovich’s battle against datacentres and voice their fears for the environment What are the benefits obtained from AI’s massive use of electricity and water (‘We’re up against forces… Read more: We can live without AI, but can we live without clean water? | Letters

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities are filled to the brim with extremely sought-after gear, from hard-to-get-by AI chips to cooling equipment. And… Read more: Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects

Your X/LinkedIn feed is a product.  What you put in is what you get out, and if most of what you’re ingesting is founder announcements and AI hype roundups, you’re essentially running your professional development… Read more: 25 AI engineers you should be following in 2026

The British government could intervene in the $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery by Paramount Skydance, citing concerns around the need for a plurality of views in news as well as media ownership in… Read more: UK likely to intervene in Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

Boomi enables Australasian operations and services provider to centralise vendor management, connecting onboarding, compliance, and financial systems. Boomi, the data activation company for AI, today announced Programmed has transformed its vendor data management using the Boomi Enterprise Platform,… Read more: Programmed Unifies Vendor Data With Boomi

Cyndra helps companies and agencies launch AI employees that learn internal processes, connect to 1,000+ tools, and complete repeatable work with approvals, memory, audit logs, and human oversight. Cyndra AI today announced the launch of its… Read more: Cyndra AI Brings AI Employees to Business Operations

The latest release features Workflow Agents, enterprise platform enhancements, and top-tier analyst recognition LogicGate, the Leading AI GRC Platform for the Enterprise, today announced its Spring 2026 Release, anchored by transformative Workflow Agents and AI… Read more: LogicGate Announced Spring 2026 Release

Globant is expanding its AI Pods offering by introducing Claude-powered AI Pods, reinforcing Globant’s AI-native services model and deepening the security, innovation, and scalability of its solutions for top clients worldwide.  By joining the global… Read more: Globant, Anthropic Partner on Claude-Powered AI Pods

Elizabeth Warren and colleagues demanded tighter rules on political figures’ crypto dealings, citing disclosures of large-scale Trump family profits US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump has again been accused of “brazen crypto corruption”… Read more: Trump accused of ‘disgusting’ crypto greed after earning over $1bn since return to office

Jamir Nazir’s The Serpent in the Grove, which critics allege has ‘obvious markers’ of AI use, was described as ‘original, poetic and deeply moving’ by the judging chair A story widely accused on social media… Read more: Short story accused of being AI-written wins overall Commonwealth prize