Alibaba launches a new AI data center powered by 10,000 homegrown chips, signaling a major push toward self-reliance amid US export restrictions. The post Alibaba Launches AI Data Center Powered by 10,000 Homegrown Chips appeared… Read more: Alibaba Launches AI Data Center Powered by 10,000 Homegrown Chips

These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted or not. So when files with names and functions… Read more: What leaked “SteamGPT” files could mean for the PC gaming platform’s use of AI

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the fossil record, the specimen dated back to the… Read more: Oldest octopus fossil found to not be an octopus 

Over the years, YouTube has evolved from a source of Rickrolls and cat videos to a platform for some of the Internet’s most popular streaming content. Today, it costs more than ever to see that… Read more: YouTube increases Premium price again, says 90-second unskippable ads are a bug

Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully dubbed “oobleck.” (The name derives from a 1949 Dr. Seuss… Read more: “Oobleck” still holds some surprises

San Francisco police say they’ve arrested a suspect who allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and then made threats outside the company’s headquarters. At around 3:43 am on Friday, officers responded to… Read more: Someone Just Threw a Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s House

Microsoft says it hears the complaints people have about the current state of Windows, and it wants to fix them. One of those fixes is another overhaul for its Windows Insider Program, the public beta… Read more: Microsoft’s “commitment to Windows quality” starts with overhaul of beta program

The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.

Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters A person tossed a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, before the sun rose on… Read more: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home targeted with molotov cocktail

Last week, the New York Times published a laudatory profile of a startup called Medvi, which is basically an AI-powered marketing wrapper for telehealth providers and compounding pharmacies that sells GLP-1 weight loss drugs. The… Read more: New York Times Makes Substantial Changes to Article That Glazed a Sleazy AI Startup: “Our Piece Should Have Included That Information”

An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO’s residence before making threats outside of the startup’s headquarters.

Onix is launching a “Substack of bots,” where digital twins of health and wellness influencers dispense advice 24/7. And maybe hawk their products.

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 gun violence and chatbots and acceptance of… Read more: Behind the Blog: Smoking the Whole Carton

Claude Mythos’s apparent superhuman hacking abilities are alarming experts as the Trump administration remains blinded by hostility In June 2024, a cyber-attack on a pathology services company caused chaos across London’s hospitals. More than 10,000… Read more: Anthropic’s new AI tool has implications for us all – whether we want it or not

Google is rolling out notebooks in Gemini, giving users a new way to organize chats, files, and instructions into AI-powered project hubs. The post Google Brings NotebookLM to Gemini for Easy Project Organization appeared first… Read more: Google Brings NotebookLM to Gemini for Easy Project Organization

Minutes after President Donald Trump announced that he would not wipe out “a whole civilization” on Tuesday evening, a team of self-described young Iranian activists jumped into action. Members of the group known as Explosive… Read more: Pro-Iran Explosive Media trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego cartoons

Death, taxes, and the gravitationally bound return of the Artemis II mission on Friday evening. These are the only certainties in life. Even if the four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft discovered a serious… Read more: Here’s what to expect from the fiery, 14-minute return of Artemis II

I’ve been dreaming about the future of software development for a while now. And I’ll admit, my vision might sound like a nightmare to some of you. But hear me out. Picture this: You write… Read more: Rapid prototyping with GenAI: From idea to interactive PoC in days

A mysterious glow of gamma rays at the center of the Milky Way has long hinted at dark matter, but the lack of similar signals in smaller dwarf galaxies has cast doubt on that idea.… Read more: Scientists think dark matter might come in two forms

A new chip design from UC San Diego could make data centers far more energy-efficient by rethinking how power is converted for GPUs. By combining vibrating piezoelectric components with a clever circuit layout, the system… Read more: This new chip could slash data center energy waste

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric charges efficiently. Using a novel… Read more: These cheap solar cells work better because they’re flawed

A strange new kind of superconductivity has been uncovered in uranium ditelluride (UTe2), where electricity flows with zero resistance—but only under extremely strong magnetic fields that should normally destroy it. Even more surprising, the superconductivity… Read more: This superconductivity dies then comes back to life

Scientists have proposed a surprising new way to detect gravitational waves—by observing how they change the light emitted by atoms. These waves can subtly shift photon frequencies in different directions, leaving behind a detectable signature.… Read more: Gravitational waves may be hidden in the light atoms emit

A common eye-health nutrient, zeaxanthin, may also help the body fight cancer more effectively. Scientists discovered it strengthens T cells and enhances the impact of immunotherapy treatments. Found in everyday vegetables and supplements, it’s safe,… Read more: A common nutrient could supercharge cancer treatment

Alzheimer’s isn’t just one problem—it’s a tangled mix of biology, aging, and overall health. That’s why drugs targeting a single factor have fallen short, even as new treatments show modest benefits. Scientists are now pushing… Read more: Scientists say we’ve been treating Alzheimer’s all wrong

Will artificial intelligence save us or destroy us? According to a growing band of thriller scriptwriters, we should be very afraid indeed Maybe the “H” in Line Of Duty will turn out to stand for… Read more: ‘There’s no shortage of terrifying technology’: how AI became TV drama’s new go-to villain

Two developments recently have quietly revealed a deeper shift in AI. One model exists behind closed doors, deployed to a small group tasked with securing critical systems. Another arrives openly, building software over hours-long sessions… Read more: Is AI splitting into two worlds?

To protect enterprise margins, business leaders must invest in robust AI governance to securely manage AI infrastructure. When evaluating enterprise software adoption, a recurring pattern dictates how technology matures across industries. As Rob Thomas, SVP… Read more: IBM: How robust AI governance protects enterprise margins

Late last year, news emerged that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta would be shedding its open source roots to instead work on a closed model like the vast majority of its competitors. Now we’ve finally gotten a… Read more: First AI Model From Zuckerberg’s Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals

For the most part, economists have been one of the few groups of professionals who’ve roundly rejected the AI Kool-Aid. Consensus of the worst-case scenario seemed to center on the idea that AI could upend… Read more: Economists Starting to Admit They May Have Been Wrong About AI Never Replacing Human Jobs

Welcome to Edition 8.36 of the Rocket Report! Thank you for your indulgence of our missing the report last week, as we focused on the launch and progress of the Artemis II mission. And we… Read more: Rocket Report: Chinese version of Falcon 9 fails; Artemis depends on rapid heavy lift

Brady Frey did not realize that his daughter lied about her age when she set up her Discord account. He only found out after her account got hacked and he got trapped in a spiraling… Read more: Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

New AI-powered recommendations enable enterprises to train fraud scoring on their own data for more accurate detection Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence for fraud prevention, today announced the addition of AI-powered recommendations to its… Read more: Fingerprint Unveils AI-Enhanced Suspect Score

For something called machine learning, we spend surprisingly little time asking whether machines actually learn. That isn’t a throwaway line. It’s the central tension behind a recent paper, and it cuts closer to home than… Read more: AI doesn’t actually learn. Here’s the problem

Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to AI influencer schools.

Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.

Next-generation AI assistants being developed in the Apple ecosystem and by chipmakers like Qualcomm, but early reports suggest they are being designed with limits in place. Tom’s Guide has described early versions of these assistants… Read more: Why companies like Apple are building AI agents with limits

New platform provides systems-of-systems infrastructure, enabling organizations to understand what’s happening inside their AI deployments Secure, turnkey infrastructure built for data sovereignty, keeping mid-size organizations’ data fully in their control while avoiding vendor lock-in Data… Read more: UltiSim announced the launch of Data Fusion Plane

The open-source AI movement has never lacked for options. Mistral, Falcon, and a growing field of open-weight models have been available to developers for years. But when Meta threw its weight behind Llama, something shifted.… Read more: Meta has a competitive AI model but loses its open-source identity

Reports say Fed chair Jerome Powell among attenders at meeting in Washington The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, summoned major American bank chiefs to a meeting in Washington this week amid concerns over the cyber… Read more: US summoned bank bosses to discuss cyber risks posed by Anthropic’s latest AI model

Every organisation needs guardrails that channel them away from human fallibility and collectively minimise the harm they can do Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app… Read more: AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham

Self-help hacks such as ‘cooking from scratch’ or ‘meeting your friends’ may seem ridiculous. But there’s something deeply human at the heart of this trend Does life, of late, feel just too easy? Are you… Read more: I baulked at the idea of ‘friction-maxxing’. But there’s more to it than meets the eye | Gaby Hinsliff

Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft’s toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded like clockwork. NASA has made few changes to the flight plan since the launch of… Read more: Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry, but will require redesign

The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

Company claims law regulating AI systems, set to go into effect in June, infringes on its first amendment rights Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado over… Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence

As expected, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has significantly rewritten the charter for a federal vaccine advisory panel. The edits give him more power to appoint his like-minded allies as federal advisors, shift… Read more: RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel’s charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks

The AI company Anthropic released a 244-page “system card” (PDF) this week describing its newest model, Claude Mythos. The model is “our most capable frontier model to date,” the company says, and supposedly is so… Read more: AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry

Last week, the New York Times published a rapturous profile of a drug marketing company called Medvi, which the paper declared to be the first one-ish man venture on track to surpass one billion dollars… Read more: AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients

In the 1970s, the late Jane Goodall observed a community of chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, breaking into two factions; the males in one group ended up killing all the males in the rival group over… Read more: Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals

Amid customer dissatisfaction around Broadcom’s VMware takeover, rivals have been trying to lure customers from the leading virtualization firm. One of VMware’s biggest competitors, Nutanix, claims to have swiped tens of thousands of VMware customers.… Read more: “Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says

Almost as soon as researchers started exploring the capabilities of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, they recognized its potential use in targeted gene editing. But the intervening decades have seen slow progress as people worked to determine… Read more: Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too

Expert said federal law bars officials from taking actions in their jobs that benefit their own financial interests A high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency’s artificial intelligence efforts made a profit of… Read more: US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company

What makes work valuable? Michal Masny, the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow in the MIT Department of Philosophy, investigates the role work plays in our lives and its impact on our well-being.  Masny sees numerous… Read more: A philosophy of work

On the home stretch of their nine-day mission, the four astronauts flying aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft are just beginning to reflect on their experience of flying beyond the Moon. Their memories of Monday’s encounter with… Read more: The gravity of their experience hasn’t quite set in for the Artemis II astronauts

A federal appeals court refused to halt the Trump administration’s efforts to blacklist Anthropic yesterday, denying the company’s emergency motion for a stay. But the court granted the US-based AI firm’s request to expedite the… Read more: Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

Muse Spark shipped Wednesday. It’s the first model out of Meta Superintelligence Labs, built over nine months under Alexandr Wang after Zuckerberg spent $14.3 billion on a 49% stake in Scale AI and brought Wang… Read more: Meta traded its biggest community asset for a commerce engine

New brand reflects belief that technology can do more than just work, it can elevate anything SoftServe, a digital engineering and technology services company specializing in AI, data, and cloud solutions, today announced the launch… Read more: SoftServe Launches New Brand Identity: ‘Technology Elevated’

Black Forest Labs has long punched above its weight in the AI image generation space. Its next move? Powering physical AI.

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have observed an extremely rare chimpanzee “civil war,” a conflict… Read more: World’s Largest Group of Chimps Waging Deadly ‘Civil War,’ Scientists Discover

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been blocked from publishing a scientifically vetted study finding significant health benefits from this season’s COVID-19 vaccines, according… Read more: CDC study shows COVID shot benefits; Trump official blocks release

An Ohio man became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act after pleading guilty to creating and sharing both real and AI-generated explicit images of at least 10 victims without their consent.… Read more: First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

A corporal in the Pennsylvania state police yesterday pleaded guilty to a mind-boggling set of crimes that include going through his co-workers’ underwear, possessing a stolen gun, having child sexual abuse material on his hard… Read more: Police corporal created AI porn from driver’s license pics

Muse Spark was competitive with models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in language, but lagged in coding Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Meta on Wednesday… Read more: Meta debuts new AI model in first test of costly ‘superintelligence’ team

Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, often appearing as large blocks that contain links to numerous gambling opportunities on the service. The bets often appear in the “For you” section… Read more: Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets Alongside Actual Journalism

Among the requirements of Volkswagen’s Dieselgate settlement with the Department of Justice back in 2016 was to start building electric vehicles locally at the company’s factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee. That was a reality by 2021,… Read more: Volkswagen ends ID.4 production in Tennessee to build Atlas SUV

In February, Oklahoma native Darren Blanchard attended a city council meeting in Claremore with the plan to speak out against a proposed datacenter in the community. When he went a few seconds over his allotted… Read more: Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight

GoPro is cutting nearly 23% of its workforce amid declining revenue, signaling a cost-cutting shift… not AI-driven layoffs like others. The post GoPro Is Cutting Nearly a Quarter of Its Workforce (and AI Isn’t the… Read more: GoPro Is Cutting Nearly a Quarter of Its Workforce (and AI Isn’t the Reason)

SiMa.ai, a leader in Physical AI, today announced a strategic investment from Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), strengthening its ability to scale production-ready, high-performance Physical AI solutions for real-world intelligent systems. The investment deepens the companies’… Read more: SiMa.ai Secures Micron Investment to Scale Physical AI

LGI Healthcare Solutions announces the appointment of Luc Gagnon as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a strategic move that strengthens its ability to support healthcare organizations as they navigate complex technology and transformation challenges. Luc brings… Read more: LGI Healthcare Solutions appoints Luc Gagnon as Chief Technology Officer

At one time, the US electricity grid ran mostly on coal. But coal-fired power plants have steadily been decommissioned. Power producers found the plants were too expensive to operate and carried risks tied to toxic… Read more: Trump’s emergency orders pushing coal power are “illegal” as well as dumb

One of life’s abiding mysteries—at least to this writer—has been Tesla’s enduring success over recent years despite offering so few choices for customers. With the death of the low-volume and antiquated Models S and X… Read more: First, Tesla canceled the Model 2—now it’s working on a new small EV

Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Not long ago, if you needed a speech polished, a document translated or a logo designed, you would probably have hired a freelancer online. Millions of people did exactly that. They went to platforms… Read more: The more commodified your job, the more likely AI can do it – lessons from online freelancing

AI agents hold the promise of automatically moving data between systems and triggering decisions, but in some cases, they can act without a clear record of what, when, and why they undertook their tasks. That… Read more: Agentic AI’s governance challenges under the EU AI Act in 2026

Scientists are uncovering a surprising connection between autism and ADHD that goes deeper than labels. Instead of diagnoses, it’s the severity of autism-like traits that seems to shape how the brain is wired—even in children… Read more: Brain study reveals hidden link between autism and ADHD

Since the beginning of the Iran war, the group Explosive Media has released over a dozen viral videos mocking Trump and the US.

The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database,… Read more: FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

Your brain might be quietly deciding what tastes good before you even take a sip. Researchers found that simply changing what people thought they were drinking—sugar or artificial sweetener—could dramatically shift how much they enjoyed… Read more: Your brain can trick you into liking artificial sweeteners

Was AI used to produce a personal essay that wound up in the pages of the New York Times? The answer is complicated. The writer Kate Gilgan found herself at the center of a literary… Read more: We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times

A hidden waste-removal pathway in the brain has finally been caught in action. Using cutting-edge MRI scans, researchers discovered that fluid flows along the middle meningeal artery in a slow, lymphatic-like pattern—very different from blood.… Read more: Scientists just found a hidden “drain” inside the human brain

Robotic cloud laboratories powered by AI can carry out experiments remotely and cut costs. J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended… Read more: AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology

Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation as reasons for putting Stargate project on hold OpenAI has put plans for a landmark project to strengthen the UK’s AI capabilities on hold, citing high… Read more: OpenAI pulls out of landmark £31bn UK investment package

Training a large artificial intelligence model is expensive, not just in dollars, but in time, energy, and computational resources. Traditionally, obtaining a smaller, faster model either requires training a massive one first and then trimming… Read more: New technique makes AI models leaner and faster while they’re still learning

The conflict in Iran – but also the war in Ukraine – show not only that AI is radically changing the economics of war (which may be good news), but also that we may be… Read more: Could revisiting Asimov’s laws help us avoid AI’s ‘Chernobyl moment’?

The Nigerian village of Mmiata Anam in Anambra state, completely submerged by floods. Chinedu Chime/Shutterstock A message appears online during heavy flooding: “This rain no be small o, everywhere don red.” Someone unfamiliar with the… Read more: How AI’s language barrier limits climate disaster responses

Anthropic’s most capable AI model has already found thousands of AI cybersecurity vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. The company’s response was not to release it, but to quietly hand it to… Read more: Anthropic locked down its most powerful AI Model over cybersecurity fears–then put it to work

The latest platform advancements eliminate disruptive upgrade cycles, provide flexibility across hybrid environments, and enable AI anywhere while accelerating analytics across the data estate. Cloudera, the only company bringing AI to data anywhere, today announced… Read more: Cloudera Enhances Hybrid Data Platform with Scale, Stability

A new study reveals that gut bacteria may play a key role in triggering ALS and frontotemporal dementia. Harmful sugars produced by these microbes can spark immune responses that damage the brain. This breakthrough explains… Read more: Scientists discover hidden gut trigger behind ALS and dementia

Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.

A new survey reveals a striking disconnect in how Americans think about autism research. While nearly everyone agrees that studying the autistic brain is essential, most people are unaware that brain donation after death is… Read more: Your brain could help solve autism and most people don’t know it

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new player in Alzheimer’s disease: a protein called CSE that helps produce tiny amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas in the brain. In experiments with genetically engineered mice, removing this protein… Read more: This “rotten egg” brain gas could be the key to fighting Alzheimer’s disease

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier than some recent theories suggested. By tracing maternal DNA lineages, the team discovered that these early travelers likely used… Read more: Humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago, new DNA study reveals

Chronic inflammation often works quietly in the background but can fuel serious diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. New research reveals that everyday plant compounds—like menthol from mint, cineole from eucalyptus, and capsaicin from… Read more: Scientists discover spice synergy that boosts anti-inflammation 100x

Weight loss drugs and bariatric surgery may work differently, but they lead to surprisingly similar results inside the body. Both significantly reduce fat while also causing a modest loss of muscle, reshaping overall body composition.… Read more: The hidden tradeoff behind today’s most popular weight loss drugs

UPERFECT recently unveiled Soul N1, an AI agent monitor that marks the company’s entry into a new category of intelligent display devices. By integrating AI capabilities directly into a portable screen, Soul N1 enables users to generate… Read more: UPERFECT Unveils Soul N1, an AI Agent Monitor Redefining Portable Workspaces

Strategic investment facilitates collaboration on next-generation AI infrastructure optimized for memory-intensive workloads Semidynamics, an advanced computing company developing memory-centric AI infrastructure for large-scale inference, today announced a strategic investment from SK hynix, one of the… Read more: Semidynamics Lands Investment to Advance AI Inference Chips

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that cells can detect less efficient genetic instructions and selectively silence them. A protein… Read more: Your DNA has a secret “second code” that decides which genes get silenced

The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser communications… Read more: The Moon is already on Google Maps—did Artemis II really tell us anything new?

The Trump administration wants to require health insurance companies to hand over troves of sensitive, detailed, and identifiable medical records from millions of federal workers and retirees, along with their families. The move is raising… Read more: Trump admin makes sweeping request for medical records of federal workers

Existing video removal tools are surprisingly good at magic. You can paint over a stray tourist in your vacation footage, and AI will replace them with a reasonably convincing background. But if that tourist was… Read more: Netflix’s VOID shows video editing has finally learned the laws of physics

The AI company now faces conflicting rulings in its fight over how Claude can be used by the US military.