Not quite halfway through a six-year sojourn through the Solar System, a NASA spacecraft used a close encounter with Mars last week as a dress rehearsal for its arrival at the Solar System’s largest metal… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world

At a star-studded event that closed Downtown Los Angeles’ Sixth Street Viaduct last night, Mercedes and AMG unveiled the next generation of performance electric vehicles. The new four-door GT Coupe arrives in the midst of… Read more: Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

No doubt buoyed by all the positive advance reviews on social media, Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer for Masters of the Universe, and it comes in strong with the 1980s nostalgia, chock-full… Read more: Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the ’80s nostalgia

In ancient Roman times, military generals are thought to have used a tactic known as decimation to punish mutinous groups of mercenary soldiers. Essentially, they’d kill one in every 10 unruly soldiers as a horrifying… Read more: Why Is Mark Zuckerberg Taunting His Employees Before Firing Them?

The Trump administration yesterday sued Minnesota in an attempt to block the first state law that prohibits prediction markets. While other states imposed restrictions on prediction markets, Minnesota banned them outright in a law signed… Read more: Minnesota prohibits prediction markets, promptly gets sued by Trump admin

On Tuesday, biotech startup Colossal announced its newest development on the road to its announced goal: reversing the extinction of species, in this case, avian species. The development itself is essentially an artificial eggshell, one… Read more: Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

Disney currently has no plans to shutter Hulu as a standalone streaming service or app, according to a company representative. In a report from Variety today, the spokesperson said that Disney, which took total ownership… Read more: Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

President Donald Trump’s latest pitch for using taxpayer dollars to secure his White House ballroom featured a militarized building—including a rooftop hardened against drone strikes and a “drone port” that could potentially house military drones.… Read more: Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the… Read more: Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

It’s not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to… Read more: “Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition” may help you avoid paying for a new PC

For several years, a debate has been raging among economists: is AI really taking our jobs, or are CEOs just using it as an excuse when they conduct layoffs that they would have done anyway?… Read more: New Data Suggests That AI Really Is Already Replacing Human Jobs

Climate change is pushing starving grey whales to San Francisco Bay, where ship strikes led to 40% of 21 deaths Ferries, cargo ships and tankers cut through choppy waters in the San Francisco Bay on… Read more: San Francisco turns to AI to save whales from ship strikes as deaths soar

Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift. As Google’s search VP Liz Reid said during the keynote, “Google search is AI search.” This… Read more: Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.

New Zealand’s government plans to cut thousands of public service jobs while pushing agencies to adopt AI and tighter budgets. The post New Zealand Plans to Cut 9,000 Public Sector Jobs as AI Push Accelerates… Read more: New Zealand Plans to Cut 9,000 Public Sector Jobs as AI Push Accelerates

The literary world is being torn asunder after a prestigious magazine was accused of publishing an AI-generated short story. Titled “The Serpent in the Grove,” the story was published Saturday by Granta on its website… Read more: Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

Abiy Ahmed | AI job losses | Deer ruminations | Harry Belafonte | Stephen Yaxley‑Lennon In reference to your report about 112 Nobel laureates calling on Iran to release the gravely ill activist Narges Mohammadi… Read more: Nobel laureates and human rights abuses | Brief letters

Richard Eltringham and Barbara Riddell point to the decline in general practice as the reason why people are turning to AI for health advice. Plus a letter from Dr Katie Baker Your report (One in… Read more: Why patients are turning to Dr Chatbot | Letters

Every boardroom pitch deck in 2025 told the same story: AI agents are your new digital workforce. They research leads, reconcile ledgers, orchestrate supply chains, and draft contracts. The demos were immaculate, and the ROI… Read more: AI agents keep breaking in production. Here’s why nobody’s fixed it yet

An amazing video has been making the rounds today. It shows a humanoid robot strides out in front of a crowd, busting moves to Michael Jackson’s 1983 smash hit “Billie Jean.” It starts out impressive… Read more: This Robot Trying to Dance Like Michael Jackson But Wiping Out Pathetically in Front of a Crowd Perfectly Illustrates the Industry’s Deep-Seated Problem

Telus Digital, the global technology and digital services arm responsible for the telecommunication giant’s call centres, has recently deployed an “accent masking” artificial intelligence tool to change the way its offshore agents sound. The technology… Read more: Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents

For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device. The… Read more: Yearslong fight over users’ right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

It’s difficult to know the true state of the Russian economy, both because the country’s financial reporting is sparse and because official figures are unreliable. But things probably aren’t great. This week, Sweden’s minister of… Read more: Russia’s plan to advertise on rockets and spacecraft takes off

Larry Bushart, a retired Tennessee cop who was jailed for 37 days for posting a Trump meme on Facebook, won an $835,000 settlement Wednesday after suing the county and sheriff that he said jailed him… Read more: Man wins $835K after sheriff jailed him for a month over Charlie Kirk post

Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls, as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong date UK politics live – latest updates The Electoral Commission has called for new legal… Read more: ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

The treasurer of Saline Township, Michigan, publicly resigned last week citing death threats she’d received related to the construction of an Oracle and OpenAI datacenter.  “I’m submitting my resignation effective May 29th. I can’t take… Read more: Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats

The first in an annual series, the report examines real-world outcomes of live AI agents across healthcare, higher education, financial services, and HR & IT Druid AI today released the 2026 AI Adoption Benchmark Report, a data-backed… Read more: Druid AI Data Highlights Gap Between AI Hype and Adoption

Exclusive: Workers sign petitions over applications of AI by governments for defence and intelligence, and vote to unionise Google DeepMind has agreed to enter formal talks with UK tech workers that could lead to trade… Read more: Google DeepMind in talks with UK unions amid staff concern over AI use by US and Israel

Beijing banned an Nvidia gaming chip while the company’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, was visiting China with Donald Trump last week, the latest salvo in the superpowers’ battle to dominate AI. The chip was added… Read more: China banned RTX 5090D V2 while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was visiting

After months of discussion and outrage from residents, the city council of the tiny town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to immediately end its contract with the surveillance company Flock. In the aftermath of the… Read more: After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

Scientists have identified the oldest known human remains in Northern Britain as a young girl who lived around 11,000 years ago. Found in a Cumbrian cave and nicknamed the “Ossick Lass,” she was likely between… Read more: Britain’s 11,000-year-old “oldest northerner” was a 3-year-old girl, DNA reveals

Astronomers have uncovered a strange magnetic “flip” hidden inside the Milky Way. Using a new radio telescope, researchers mapped the galaxy’s magnetic field in unprecedented detail and discovered that a mysterious reversal in the Sagittarius… Read more: Scientists found a giant magnetic “twist” hidden inside the Milky Way

Researchers have developed a light-driven method for creating tiny, high-energy “housane” molecules that are valuable for drug development and materials science. These compact ring-shaped structures are difficult to produce because of the intense internal strain… Read more: Scientists use light to create tiny molecules that could transform medicine

Scientists in Canada have discovered that ancient underground rocks are naturally producing hydrogen gas — and lots of it. Measurements from mine boreholes in Ontario show the gas can flow continuously for years, offering a… Read more: Scientists discover massive natural hydrogen source beneath Canada

A newly identified enzyme called IDOL could become a major new target in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers found that removing it from neurons sharply reduced amyloid plaques and improved key brain processes linked… Read more: Scientists found a hidden Alzheimer’s trigger and shut it down

We start this week with Sam telling us all about the commencement speeches where speakers have been praising AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. That did not go down well! After the break, Jason… Read more: Podcast: Elites Just Don’t Get AI

Women may be especially sensitive to the effects of common dementia risk factors, according to a new UC San Diego study of over 17,000 adults. Researchers say tailoring prevention strategies specifically for women could be… Read more: Scientists discover why Alzheimer’s risk hits women so much harder

The robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for nearly a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern at one point.… Read more: The Internet can’t stop watching Figure AI’s humanoid robots handling packages

Almost 50 years after he first got his hands on a computer, the Oxford professor still believes in the power of technology. Can his beloved game theory explain why Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs consistently misuse it?… Read more: ‘I don’t worry about a robot takeover’: AI expert Michael Wooldridge on big tech’s real dangers (and occasional blessings)

Collaboration provides AIBotics access to cutting-edge simulation technology designed to power the next wave of AI, robotics and immersive applications AIBotics, Inc. (OTCID: AIBT) (“AIBotics” or the “Company”), a global operator deploying AI-enabled robotics and… Read more: AIBotics Enters Strategic AI Partnership and J.V with ARYA AI Labs

Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon roadmap and a new large language model, signalling that the company is building an integrated… Read more: Alibaba is designing AI chips around agents, and that changes what the race is actually about

New foundation model for tabular data enables enterprises to generate instant predictions with no training, tuning, or infrastructure management H2O.ai, the leading Enterprise AI Platform for Predictive AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Observability AI, and… Read more: H2O.ai Unveils tabH2O at Dell Technologies World 2026

The justice department’s lawsuit is part of a federal effort to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreach This April, the US Department of Justice joined Elon Musk’s xAI in suing the state of Colorado… Read more: Musk and the US government fought an AI anti-discrimination law. The arguments don’t hold up | Genevieve Smith

Bringing hyperscale and mission-critical infrastructure experience, Travis will support key industrial clients and position our team to expand our portfolio in the data center sector. Travis Marcus, PMP, has joined CDM Smith as a principal… Read more: Travis Marcus joins CDM Smith as data centers transformational growth leader

BARCELONA, Spain—Volvo unveiled its new all-electric EX60 in January with a slew of distinctions. The EX60 is the first model on the company’s all-EV SPA3 platform, a scalable base upon which Volvo plans to build… Read more: Moose-proof and megacasting: Ars drives the new Volvo EX60

We would like to hear from people who regret turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal or social lives People are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for advice on their personal and social… Read more: Tell us: have you used an AI chatbot to make a significant decision – and regretted it?

New capabilities unify orchestration, context, process design, and governance so enterprises can coordinate AI agents, automations, systems, and people At Imagine today, Automation Anywhere announced new capabilities for its Agentic Process Automation (APA) platform, designed to help… Read more: Automation Anywhere Unveils 2026 Platform Enhancements

It’s getting harder and harder to guess whether a face is AI. The University of New South Wales recently launched an AI faces test, which challenges users ability to distinguish between real and fake faces.… Read more: Real or AI: can a photographer and internet addict spot fake portraits? – video

Scientists have uncovered an astonishing new chapter in humpback whale migration: two whales were found to have traveled between breeding grounds in Australia and Brazil, crossing more than 14,000 kilometers of open ocean. One whale… Read more: Humpback whale breaks migration record with 15,000 kilometer ocean journey

Why did T. rex have such tiny arms? Scientists now think it’s because its giant head became the ultimate hunting tool. Across multiple dinosaur groups, stronger skulls and crushing jaws evolved alongside shrinking forelimbs, especially… Read more: T. rex’s tiny arms may have evolved for a surprisingly brutal reason

Scientists in Australia are using cutting-edge DNA techniques to help save one of the world’s rarest marsupials — the critically endangered Gilbert’s potoroo, with fewer than 150 left in the wild. By analyzing tiny traces… Read more: Scientists use DNA from poop to save the world’s rarest marsupial

For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments for early survival. But a groundbreaking discovery in West Africa is rewriting that story. Researchers uncovered evidence that humans were… Read more: Lost for 150,000 years: Rainforest discovery upends human history

and_machines / Unsplash Many of the most exciting discoveries in science involve highly specialised knowledge and making connections between far-flung facts. Scientists must combine deep analysis with broad reasoning strategies. As in many information-rich tasks,… Read more: New ‘AI scientists’ are improving – but reveal their fundamental limits

Exclusive: Employment tribunal claim says worker lost his job after distributing leaflets throughout London office Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against… Read more: AI engineer says Google unfairly sacked him after he protested against work for Israel

Among all of the possible chemical compounds, it’s estimated that between 1020 and 1060 may hold potential as small-molecule drugs. Evaluating each of those compounds experimentally would be far too time-consuming for chemists. So, in recent years,… Read more: Building AI models that understand chemical principles

Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what… Read more: Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time” information… Read more: FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”

Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone.

As of July 1, at 12:01 am UTC—or June 30 at 8:01 pm ET—people seeking access to Plex’s media server features through a one-time purchase will have to pay $750. That’s three times the current… Read more: Plex’s 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription

There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some with reusable boosters, led by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9. So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary… Read more: “I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

Prime Video has released one last trailer for its upcoming live action series, Spider-Noir, starring Nicolas Cage, and once again it’s been released in two formats: one in black and white (below) and another in… Read more: Spider-Noir final trailer gives us a classic villain

Justin Solomon, associate professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), has been appointed associate dean of engineering education in the MIT School of Engineering, effective July 1. In this new… Read more: Justin Solomon appointed associate dean of engineering education

Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other sensitive CISA assets” exposed in a… Read more: In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

In a few short years, we’ve gone from easily identifying AI content that featured superfluous fingers to images and videos that look shockingly realistic. How can we know what’s real in the age of AI?… Read more: Google’s SynthID AI watermarking tech is being adopted by OpenAI, Nvidia, and more

On Tuesday, Nature released two papers describing AI systems intended to help scientists develop and test hypotheses. One, Google’s Co-Scientist, is designed as what they term “scientist in the loop,” meaning researchers are regularly applying… Read more: Two AI-based science assistants succeed with drug-retargeting tasks

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

Granta publisher says ‘perhaps we never will know’ true authorship of work that won Commonwealth prize A few syntactical tics – and the verdict of an AI detection platform – have sparked furore over the… Read more: ‘Obvious markers of AI’: doubts raised over winner of short story prize

On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

An app that allows users to deepfake their appearance in realtime has predictably resulted in a streamer making nonconsensual and potentially defamatory content. Specifically, the streamer made himself look like Mr. Beast and said “I… Read more: Streamer Realtime Deepfakes Himself into Mr. Beast, Says He Loves ‘Touching Little Boys’

At last year’s I/O event, Google was still talking about the 2.5 branch of Gemini, and what a difference a year makes. We’ve gone through the 3.0 and 3.1 families since then, and now it’s… Read more: Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5.Flash and a do-anything model called Omni

A revised charter document for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influential vaccine advisory committee has been withdrawn by the Health Department over an administrative error, according to a notice published in the Federal… Read more: RFK Jr. forced to withdraw charter that opened CDC panel to anti-vaccine quacks

Recognized as a Leader across Product, Innovation, and Market Leadership categories Highlighted for advanced JIT and ephemeral access, AI agent governance, cross-domain privilege graph, mature session monitoring, and extensive identity and DevOps integrations Recognition reinforces… Read more: BeyondTrust Named PAM Leader by KuppingerCole for Sixth Year

Penguin Solutions, Inc. (“Penguin Solutions” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PENG), the AI Factory Platform company, today announced that David Heard, President of Network Infrastructure at Nokia, has been appointed to Penguin Solutions’ board of directors, effective… Read more: Penguin Solutions Appoints David Heard to Board of Directors

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links.… Read more: Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.

Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.

Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.

Some employees will be moved to new teams focused on AI agents and cloud infrastructure As Meta races to recenter itself around artificial intelligence, the tech giant is mandating more than 7,000 workers must move… Read more: Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’

Truth in the age of AI, indeed. A buzzy new book called “The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality” contains more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes,” a review by The New York… Read more: Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations

“Build a civilization to stand the test of time.” That was the promise on the box of Sid Meier’s Civilization, the first in a long-running strategy game franchise that has evolved over 35 years and… Read more: Civilization VII finally lets you build a civ that stands the test of time

The 119th Congress might be one of the most dysfunctional and least productive legislative sessions in the 250-year history of the United States, but it seems there’s one thing it can agree on: Electric vehicles… Read more: EV drivers will pay $130 a year under Congress’ 2026 transportation bill

Almost exactly two years ago, we were gawking at prototypes of 1,000 Hz monitors and wondering who really needed a display that could support such ludicrously smooth frame rates. Now that those prototypes are starting… Read more: The era of 1,000 Hz gaming monitors has arrived, but why?

Schools can compromise children’s privacy, exposing them to potential identity fraud, harassment and AI exploitation, says Dr Claire Bessant It was concerning, but sadly unsurprising, to read a Guardian article reporting that UK schools are… Read more: Dangers of putting pupils’ images on school websites | Letters

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a formerly beloved public figure eviscerates their own reputation via a years-long ego-driven crash out, eventually losing their sense of perspective in such spectacular fashion that they… Read more: Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed by Jesus Christ

A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand… Read more: Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers

A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal… Read more: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest

Walking the dog: a US service member patrols with a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 prototype at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. Tech. Sgt. Cory Payne / US Air Force The third in a series… Read more: Fears of helping the enemy are blocking international agreements on AI in weapons systems

A long and bitter legal battle between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Sam Altman has culminated in victory for the OpenAI boss. Musk has vowed to appeal the verdict. But what did the trial reveal… Read more: Musk v Altman: tech bros at war over OpenAI – The Latest

The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely and totally flunked the assignment. As local outlet AZFamily reported,… Read more: Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony

Nearly 48,000 workers are threatening an 18-day walkout amid fears of global memory chip shortages South Korean memory chip maker Samsung Electronics is facing its worst-ever strike, with nearly 48,000 workers threatening to walk off… Read more: What are Samsung union workers demanding and how might a strike play out?

Three gardens at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show have found themselves mired in controversy rather than the more usual mud. This year’s show gardens include one designed by Matt Keightley, who has used Spacelift,… Read more: Six tech-free tips from history for designing your garden

The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.

Scientists have uncovered remarkable new details about Bronze Age life in Central Europe by studying rare burials untouched by cremation. The research reveals communities experimenting with new foods, burial rituals, and cultural connections while largely… Read more: Rare graves reveal a lost world of Bronze Age Europe hidden for 3,000 years

Scientists spent decades chasing signs of a mysterious new force hidden inside the muon, one of nature’s strangest particles. But after years of supercomputer calculations, researchers discovered the apparent anomaly was likely a calculation error… Read more: Scientists were wrong about this “rule-breaking” particle

Iran claims it will charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables that run beneath the contested Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. The war has already halted multiple projects and led to the… Read more: Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

As part of its plan to develop a private space station, Vast Space built and then launched a small demonstration spacecraft in early November. This vehicle then completed dozens of test objectives with flying colors… Read more: In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites

The guy who sued 27 women, one man, and several platforms after users in a Facebook group called him “clingy” and “psycho” had his case against Meta dismissed after a judge suggested that his attorney… Read more: Lawyer for Guy Who Sued Women Who Called Him ‘Psycho’ Caught Using AI

AI models can pose questions and follow up on them, but the answers they solicit may be limited in scope and depth. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Anthropic, the company behind the generative AI tool… Read more: AI interviewers can’t connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning

Shipper new ARR surges 52% year over year as enterprise logistics leaders deepen commitment to the Decision Intelligence Platform project44, the Decision Intelligence Platform for the modern supply chain, today announced Q1 FY27 results: 34%… Read more: project44 Boosts ARR With AI Agent and TMS Expansion