It’s no secret that many of the world’s top CEOs are obsessed with AI. By pursuing lofty goals of complete AI automation, these executives have created one of the largest financial bubbles in recent memory… Read more: Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis

Meta is launching paid tiers for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp while testing new AI, creator, and business subscriptions. The post Meta Adds Paid Subscription Tiers Across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp appeared first on TechRepublic.

An experimental gene-editing therapy that aims to lower bad cholesterol for the long-term after a single infusion is off to a positive start in an early clinical trial. Researchers running a Phase I safety trial… Read more: Bad cholesterol slashed 62% by single dose of gene-editing drug in small trial

With Inbolt Robot Programming, weeks of iterative commissioning can now be done in one shot: engineers build programs directly from the CAD model, and at runtime the Inbolt Vision Model locates the real part and… Read more: Inbolt Launches Vision-Enabled Robot Programming

The Cost of Disconnected Work Report finds teams running three or more request platforms are far more likely to lose money to missing or delayed work Zapier, the leading AI orchestration platform, today released its Cost… Read more: Zapier Study Reveals Operational Bottleneck Challenges

1Password, a leader in identity security, announced today that it has been named by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, to the 2026 AI 100 list in the AI Security category. Now in its third year,… Read more: 1Password Earns Recognition on the Third Annual CRN AI 100 List

Agent skills—the instructions and guidelines that govern how AI models behave when solving problems—exist in an awkward middle ground. They’re either hand-crafted once and frozen, generated fresh each time without learning, or loosely self-revised without… Read more: Can your AI agent actually learn from its mistakes or just keep repeating them?

It’s no secret that YouTube is overrun with AI slop. It’s made gestures towards reining in the flood of chintzy AI imagery, and now it’s signaling that it’s getting a little more serious about enforcing… Read more: YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop

Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central… Read more: Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol

The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona today.

For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes.… Read more: A 100-year-old piano mystery has finally been solved

Researchers are developing a futuristic alternative to LASIK that reshapes the eye without lasers or incisions. Using mild electrical pulses and platinum contact lenses, they temporarily soften the cornea so it can be molded into… Read more: Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or surgery

Tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Scientists studying four isolated populations of British Wrens discovered that some island birds have grown astonishingly large — with the biggest St Kilda… Read more: Scottish wrens may be evolving into new species through island gigantism

Scientists have solved the mystery of the Seychelles’ vanished crocodiles using DNA from historic museum specimens. The reptiles were not a unique species after all, but an isolated population of saltwater crocodiles that likely drifted… Read more: DNA solves 250-year-old mystery of the Seychelles’ lost crocodiles

Rather than pay a monthly subscription for an app that plenty of people think kinda sucks, a developer has created Cracked Oura, an open source app that lets Oura ring wearers query and analyze their… Read more: ‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription

Most GTM teams don’t have a framework for deciding where AI belongs in their operation, so they default to deploying it where it’s most visible, not where it’s most ready and efficient. AI SDRs deployed… Read more: The AI-first GTM strategist: agents, workflows, and knowing when to stop

For the last few years, I’ve been seconded to assist the Catholic Church’s unprecedented global grassroots listening initiative. Just as that process drew to a close, I received a surprise request: would I help Pope… Read more: The story of Pope Leo’s ‘landmark’ text on AI technology – by a member of its launch panel

Headway, a popular online therapy platform, says it will require clients and providers to undergo biometric scanning, and there’s no way to opt out other than leaving the platform. On April 3, Headway sent an… Read more: Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care

Compal Electronics Inc. (“Compal”; TWSE: 2324) today announced its collaboration with GMI Cloud, a Silicon Valley-based AI infrastructure provider, to advance the deployment of next-generation AI infrastructure optimized for large-scale inference and emerging agentic AI workloads. Under… Read more: Compal and GMI Cloud Collaborate on AI Infrastructure Development

Brownfield campus adds a power-advantaged platform with an owned substation, existing data center infrastructure, and an immediate path to 20–30 MW, with long-term expansion potential to 70 MW DartPoints, a leading regional provider of colocation,… Read more: DartPoints Acquires Lexington, Kentucky Data Center Campus

Taylor Swift’s filings sit at the messy intersection of copyright, publicity and trademark law, each of which addresses different aspects of AI deepfakes. Luis Gutierrez/Norte Photo via Getty Images As one of the most popular… Read more: Taylor Swift trademarking her voice and likeness points to a new legal frontier in combating AI deepfakes

Growing fleet of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricity Energy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across… Read more: Irish datacentres have increased household bills by hundreds of euros, report finds

The Narrative Marketplace becomes the one-stop hub for every building block of a modern enterprise data and AI stack, built on open standards and runnable on any cloud or AI tool. Narrative I/O, data normalization… Read more: Narrative Reimagines the Marketplace: A Composable Hub for Data and AI Work

Strategic membership positions Akto as a leading voice in AI safety standards as enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents and MCP-connected systems Akto, the leader in Agentic AI Security and MCP Security, today announced… Read more: Akto Joins Cloud Security Alliance as AI Corporate Member

Stan Lee, an icon of the comic books world, died in 2018. But tell that to ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesizing firm. On Wednesday, the company announced that it signed a new deal with the… Read more: AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop

Unlike traditional email security tools that stop at reactive inbox scoring, Doppel investigates social engineering threats with brand protection context, continuously patches prompt-based detection policies with agents, and executes coordinated takedowns against the infrastructure behind… Read more: Doppel Announces Agentic Email Security Solution

New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.

Michigan-based enterprise AI company ships a platform that works alongside any existing ITSM or runs as an AI-native service management system Helios Core AI today launched Mira Resolve, the AI-first IT service desk on the… Read more: Helios Core AI Announced the Launch of Mira Resolve

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league plans to introduce an automated system for certain officiating decisions, including out-of-bounds calls. The system would use AI and cameras placed around the court to determine possession. Silver… Read more: NBA plans AI system for automatic out-of-bounds calls

Forecasters are calling for below-average activity this hurricane season, which begins Monday, June 1. The National Weather Service is predicting eight to 14 named storms, including three to six hurricanes and one to three major… Read more: Forecasters predict below-average hurricane season, advise against complacency

The tech giant says a breakthrough in data-center networking has dramatically accelerated the flow of information through its massive cloud infrastructure.

New open standard introduces runtime control architecture designed to help enterprises govern autonomous AI systems across platforms and frameworks The Agent Control Standard (ACS) today announced a vendor-agnostic, open standard for governing AI agents at runtime. While… Read more: ACS Launches Open Framework for Runtime Governance of AI Agents

Preempt platform modules expands with autonomous offensive capabilities helping mitigate the future AI vulnerability onslaught eSentire, a leader in Controlled Autonomy SecOps, today announced new preempt, detect, and respond capabilities within the Atlas Platform, a unified… Read more: eSentire Expands SecOps Automation With Agentic AI

Delos Nonstop AI Product Portfolio Solves AI Interconnect Bottlenecks and Increases GPU Utilization Delos AI interconnect architecture enables faster and efficient data movement between GPUs Solves interconnect issues cluster wide for large-scale inference workloads as unified… Read more: Nonstop AI Accelerates Inference at 1000x Higher Scale

Delivers AI-first headless interfaces and skills to make enterprise identity programmable; AI agent governance across the full lifecycle; and privileged access for AI agents without exposing secrets  Ping Identity, a leader in securing digital identities… Read more: Ping Identity Redefines the Identity Control Plane for the Agentic Enterprise

When the body runs low on protein, the gut sends powerful signals to the brain that reshape cravings and push animals to seek essential amino acids instead of sugar. Researchers say this newly discovered gut-brain… Read more: Scientists discover hidden gut-brain circuit that triggers protein cravings

Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have got people wondering whether robots… Read more: Are robots nearing their ChatGPT moment? – podcast

I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existence Last week I went to a gig… Read more: AI ‘art’ is boring, soulless theft – and when I see it as an artist I see red | Jess Harwood

The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.

Over four years after a California agency sued Tesla over an alleged pattern of racial discrimination, a judge has dismissed Tesla’s motion to throw out the lawsuit. The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) said today… Read more: California defeats Tesla’s attempt to throw out racial discrimination lawsuit

In a splashy move that signals that Taiwan remains irreplaceable to the AI industry’s short-term and long-term goals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced Wednesday that his chip company will invest $150 billion a year to… Read more: Nvidia bets $150B on Taiwan as Trump’s plan to make US an AI hub backfires

Erio Noen/Pexels It’s now a common experience to receive an AI-generated email that’s robotic and hollow, or get a stream of useless chatbot responses when you just need some help from customer service. Worse yet,… Read more: In a sea of hype, here are the AI ‘nothingburgers’ you don’t hear about

Getty Images The government’s promised overhaul of New Zealand’s public service has made much of the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline operations and compensate for a radically reduced workforce. This is in keeping… Read more: ‘Like drinking from a firehose’ – what it’s like to be the human in the AI loop

Modern Legend of Zelda games like Breath of the Wild are built around Link’s ability to run, climb, and jump with the best of them. In old-school, top-down Zelda titles, though, the ability to increase… Read more: Mina the Hollower is the best old-school action adventure I’ve played in a while

NASA satellites designed to observe cyclone wind speeds and collapsing ice sheets have also proven capable of identifying the approximate locations of GPS jammers. That could help monitor high-risk areas for aircraft and ships navigating… Read more: Mystery GPS jammer in Iran becomes test for NASA satellites’ capabilities

Over the decades, there has been no shortage of sites using clever techniques to covertly track visitors’ browsing histories, device fingerprints, and log keystrokes and mouse movements in real time. Even Meta and Yandex were… Read more: Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to give us the ability to look at one of the earliest periods in the evolution of the Universe, a time when some of the earliest stars… Read more: “Little red dot” in early Universe is a naked supermassive black hole

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to spread wildly, outpacing the international response efforts sprinting to catch up to the deadly Bundibugyo virus strain. The outbreak was first announced May… Read more: Trump admin to block Ebola-exposed Americans from US, move them to Kenya

Valve’s Steam Deck handheld has been largely unavailable to buy since mid-February, a victim of the RAM and storage shortages that have been driving up prices for most consumer tech since the fall of 2025.… Read more: Valve’s Steam Deck is back in stock after months, but you won’t like it

Roku just unveiled the biggest overhaul to its smart TV operating system (OS) in 10 years. The most noticeable difference is a new ad space that takes up a large chunk of the screen’s right… Read more: Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad

With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United States is at an all time high. That’s a grim milestone for any country, let alone one… Read more: Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents

Smart lighting manufacturer Govee is apologizing after a pair of books showing only the words “white supremacy” were featured in a marketing image on its website. The books were visible in an image (shown above)… Read more: Smart light company Govee apologizes for “white supremacy” marketing imagery

AI content creation tools like Google’s new Omni model threaten to make reality even harder to discern from AI fantasy, but YouTube is taking an important step toward verifying video origins. After debuting wishy-washy AI… Read more: YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos

Universal Pictures has released one last trailer for Disclosure Day, director Steven Spielberg’s hotly anticipated return to his “aliens are among us” summer blockbuster roots. And the director features prominently, offering his thoughts on the… Read more: Disclosure Day final trailer features Spielberg himself

SpaceX has won a lucrative contract to provide the US military with a means of distributing space-based sensing and targeting data, forming the “backbone” of a rearchitected network after separate Pentagon initiatives stalled, officials announced… Read more: US Space Force confirms SpaceX will build sensor-to-shooter targeting network

Supio’s legal AI platform shows why vertical AI built on trusted data and specific workflows may matter more than generic enterprise chatbots. The post Why ‘Vertical AI’ is the Practical Future for Most Companies appeared… Read more: Why ‘Vertical AI’ is the Practical Future for Most Companies

Meta employees are questioning Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to avoid more company-wide layoffs this year as the company restructures around AI. The post Meta Layoffs Leave Employees Wary Despite Zuckerberg’s Reassurance appeared first on TechRepublic.

SK Hynix crossed a $1 trillion valuation as AI data center demand drives memory chip prices higher and reshapes the semiconductor market. The post SK Hynix Tops $1 Trillion Valuation as AI Memory Boom Reshapes… Read more: SK Hynix Tops $1 Trillion Valuation as AI Memory Boom Reshapes Chip Market

AI coding tool flaws highlight the need for data-layer governance, access controls, encryption, and audit logs for AI agents. The post The Next AI Security Failure May Start With a Trusted Assistant appeared first on… Read more: The Next AI Security Failure May Start With a Trusted Assistant

A scathing essay by the former prime minister rehashes assumptions that underpinned his own rise to power. But the challenges are quite different now A paradox lies at the heart of Sir Tony Blair’s latest… Read more: The Guardian view on Tony Blair’s advice for Labour: policymaking like it’s 1999 will not lead to a revival | Editorial

The Chinese company is adapting to the demise of Moore’s Law, which guides chip production. It could complicate US chip dominance.

Google AI Studio lets users test Gemini models, build apps, generate media, and export code. Here’s what it does, costs, and where it falls short. The post Google AI Studio Cheat Sheet: Features, Pricing, and… Read more: Google AI Studio Cheat Sheet: Features, Pricing, and More

We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a while now, executives have raised eyebrows by justifying sweeping layoffs by arguing that AI had made thousands… Read more: Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI

Volvo Cars got some welcome news from the US Department of Commerce yesterday. The government has told the Swedish automaker, which is partly owned by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding, that it may import connected cars… Read more: Volvo gets US government approval to bypass Chinese connected-car ban

Shiny new Nvidia apps like the GeForce Experience and the “Nvidia app” have come and gone, but the old Nvidia Control Panel and its rotating green Nvidia logo have existed as an option for managing… Read more: Nvidia kills Windows XP-era Control Panel “after 20 years of dedicated service”

The true cost of AI is rapidly catching up with the tech industry. At first, tech leaders were adamant that their workforce use up as much AI resources as possible, an approach that’s become known… Read more: Uber Says Its AI Costs Just Aren’t Worth It

A sea slug smaller than a sesame seed has turned up in Taiwan’s coastal waters — and it’s so tiny and unusual that scientists realized they had discovered a completely new species. Named Thecacera sesama… Read more: Tiny “sesame” sea slug discovered in Taiwan turns out to be a new species

JumpCloud Inc. today announced its continued market leadership in the G2 Summer 2026 Grid® Reports. The company secured 141 Leader badges, surpassing its previous record of 118. JumpCloud was recognized as a global leader across multiple core… Read more: JumpCloud Continues Its Global Leadership in the G2 Summer Reports

Scientists at the University of Houston have shattered a long-standing superconductivity record, creating a material that can conduct electricity with zero resistance at the highest temperature ever achieved under normal pressure conditions. Their breakthrough pushes… Read more: Scientists break 30-year superconductivity record at normal pressure

Investment deepens alignment between Databricks and v4c as the company joins an exclusive portfolio of ecosystem leaders following breakout momentum v4c.ai, a strategic boutique pure-play Databricks services partner, today announced a Series A investment by Databricks… Read more: v4c.ai Announces Investment from Databricks Ventures

Users of the chatbot app Character.ai have been melting down on Reddit and begging the company to stop messing with the app after a series of changes that users say has completely ruined the app.… Read more: ‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like

Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.

AI agents used to be all the rage, the supposed next hit product category after generative AI failed to generate productive returns. Now, the bill on all that hype is coming due. According to some… Read more: Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks

The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the past Tony Blair is right. Labour has made some… Read more: Tony Blair is strong on diagnosis, deluded on prescription: Britain’s ills can’t be fixed by him | Larry Elliott

Zendesk for Startups gives founders the runway, automation, and support to scale, now with dedicated benefits for venture capital partners for the first time At its annual Relate conference, Zendesk today announced a new $100… Read more: Zendesk Commits $100M to Help Startups Build with AI, Expands VC Program

Surveys and polls help societies understand what people think about issues in politics, health, education and much more. But fewer people these days tend to respond, so pollsters have to reach out more widely, which… Read more: AI is replacing humans in responding to some surveys – but simulated opinions are not the same as public opinion

Police clear the campus of Brooklyn College on May 8, 2025, after students established an encampment to protest the Gaza war. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald… Read more: Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point

The foreign exchange market is really moving away from pure intuition and toward a space shaped by speed, data and precision. By using automated systems in your routine, you can approach volatility with a level… Read more: Exploring the Benefits of AI Bots for Forex Trading in Forex Markets

Agentic Business Context Foundation (ABCF) defines the operational intelligence layer that context graphs and agent architectures depend on Skan AI, the enterprise context graph company, today introduced the Agentic Business Context Foundation (ABCF), a technical… Read more: Skan AI Introduces New Intelligence Framework for Enterprise AI Agents

Ever since being anointed as the leader of the Catholic Church last year, Pope Leo has been an outspoken critic of AI. Most recently, in his first encyclical, he called for the tech to be… Read more: Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) has been the most disruptive force to hit education in a long time, and educators are still absorbing the impact. My colleagues and I have had to reprogram our approaches… Read more: Holocaust education has a growing Gen AI problem

We start this week with Sam’s deeply reported story on how deepfakes rocked a high school, and how those kids were failed at each step. After the break, Joseph tells us about BusPatrol, a company… Read more: Podcast: How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School

Google is folding Display Ads into its AI-powered Demand Gen platform, marking the end of a long-standing digital advertising model. The Google Display Network (GDN) has been a staple of the open internet for almost… Read more: Google folds Display Ads into AI-first Demand Gen platform

For the last several years, Motorola’s smartphone headliners were the Razr flip phones, but 2026 is different. This time around, Moto’s first tablet-style foldable, the Razr Fold, somewhat overshadows the flip phones, but a bulky… Read more: Motorola’s 2026 Razrs are almost worth buying just for their stunning looks… almost

Oren Kurland is a professor and endowed chair at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and a leading expert in information retrieval, data science, and artificial intelligence Quantum X Labs Inc. (Nasdaq: QXL) (“QXL” or… Read more: Quantum X Labs Appoints AI Renowned Expert to New Scientific Advisory Board

We’d like to hear what Americans think about the pope’s latest remarks criticizing the rapid development of AI The first American pope has made waves since taking the position. However, after his latest remarks –… Read more: People in the US: what are your views on Pope Leo’s comments about AI?

Agreement averts strike and shows latest impact of AI boom as two more chipmakers join $1tn club Business live – latest updates Employees at Samsung Electronics’s memory chip division are to receive bonuses averaging about… Read more: Samsung memory chip staff in line for £310,000 bonuses after AI profit-sharing deal

New vertical leadership accelerate Hyland’s push to automate the high-stakes, high-friction work that regulated industries have never been able to touch Hyland, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM) and the pioneer of the… Read more: Hyland Expands Product Leadership for the Agentic AI Era

In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic… Read more: US law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred grows

Today Canyon Code emerged from stealth to enable granular controls on multi-agentic apps. Enterprises can now decide on various aspects of their apps on a per-app basis: what should each app optimize, how should that… Read more: Canyon Code Raises $5M for Enterprise AI App Control

Carly, an AI assistant providing businesses with digital employees to handle administrative, operations, and marketing tasks, today announced the launch of its workflow automation builder. With Carly workflows, users can build complex and reliable automations across… Read more: Carly AI Launches Workflow Automation Builder

Offering combines ePlus’ deep AI infrastructure and lifecycle services expertise, Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® and systems from Lenovo and NVIDIA ePlus inc. (NASDAQ NGS: PLUS – news) today announced that it has launched Private AI Infrastructure Managed Service, a… Read more: ePlus Launches Private AI Infrastructure Managed Service

NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected what may be the first confirmed gamma-ray signal from a superluminous supernova — one of the most extreme explosions in the universe. Scientists believe the blast was powered by a… Read more: NASA’s Fermi telescope reveals the power source behind monster supernovae

Markus Winkler / Unsplash., CC BY What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important… Read more: AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us

Collaboration leverages silicon innovation and open-network system design competencies to deliver high-availability, open, and intelligent edge network infrastructure for next-generation Enterprise and SMB applications MaxLinear, Inc. (Nasdaq: MXL), a leader in connectivity and networking silicon,… Read more: MaxLinear and Edgecore Partner on Edge Network Growth

Scientists uncovered evidence that human blood cells may trace their origins back to single-celled ancestors that lived 700 million years ago. By rebuilding the evolutionary family tree of blood cells, the team revealed how today’s… Read more: Scientists discover ancient single-celled ancestors still live on in your blood

Scientists in Japan have created powerful new vitamin K-based compounds that may help the brain regenerate lost neurons — a breakthrough that could one day change how diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are treated. By… Read more: Scientists create supercharged vitamin K that helps the brain heal itself

The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series.

I’m not suggesting that a man like Pope Leo—the Vicar of Christ, the Bishop of Rome, the Servant of the Servants of God—would stoop to anything quite so base as “trolling” the onetime PayPal co-founder… Read more: Is Peter Thiel the target of Pope Leo’s Gandalf quote? An investigation.

It seems fair to say that Apple’s MacBook Neo took the rest of the PC industry by surprise. Companies are used to competing on price and features with $1,000-and-up Apple laptops like the MacBook Air… Read more: We’re starting to see some PC makers respond to Apple’s MacBook Neo