Even for an executive long known by employees as the “Eye of Sauron,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the concept of micromanagement to its final form, the Financial Times reports, by using AI to… Read more: Meta Secretly Building a Photorealistic AI Clone of Mark Zuckerberg so No Employee Can Ever Escape His Watchful Eye

As debate rages over whether AI’s effects on the job market are real or illusory, one thing is clear: recent college grads are entering a labor force that has no room for them regardless. In… Read more: Recent Grads Say AI Is Making It Impossible to Find a Job

A hacker has compromised a backend system for Doublespeed, an a16z-funded startup that uses a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated TikTok accounts, and attempted to have those accounts post memes calling a16z… Read more: Hacker Compromises a16z-Backed Phone Farm, Tries to Post Memes Calling a16z the ‘Antichrist’

Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligence Emma Brockes’ article struck a chord (It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to… Read more: Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI | Letters

US bank has the Claude model and is working closely with the tech firm to improve cyber protection Goldman Sachs’s chief executive, David Solomon, has said he is “hyper-aware” of the capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos… Read more: Goldman Sachs chief ‘hyper-aware’ of risks from Anthropic’s Mythos AI

The electric pickup startup Slate Auto starts the week off well. This morning it announced it has raised $650 million as part of its latest funding round. Slate is a refreshing outlier among all the… Read more: Slate Auto raises $650 million as production gets closer and closer

More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

Why does the internet feel like it’s getting worse every single day, and why does it feel like the political landscape is getting worse in response? The answer might seem obvious, especially if you read… Read more: How the Internet Became Hell (with Whitney Phillips)

Digital avatar being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected If you’re one of Meta’s 79,000 employees and can’t get hold of the boss, don’t worry. The owner of Facebook… Read more: Meta creates AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

For many decades, conspiracy theorists have attempted to argue that NASA’s missions to the lunar surface were somehow faked — and the space agency’s latest trip around the Moon and back is no different. Except… Read more: Moon Denialists Are So Pathetic That They’re Using AI to Fake Artemis Footage

Light doesn’t just help plants grow—it may also quietly hold them back. Researchers have uncovered a surprising mechanism where light strengthens the “glue” between a plant’s outer skin and its inner tissues. This tighter bond,… Read more: Light makes plants stronger but also holds them back

Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply. But this unexpected detour is proving deadly: nearly… Read more: Gray whales are entering San Francisco Bay and many aren’t surviving

Meta is building an artificial intelligence version of Mark Zuckerberg that can engage with employees in his stead, as part of a broader push to remake the Big Tech company around AI. The $1.6 trillion… Read more: Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees

Scientists have developed a new way to fight gum disease without wiping out the mouth’s helpful bacteria—a major shift from traditional treatments. Instead of killing everything, this targeted approach blocks only the harmful microbes that… Read more: New toothpaste stops gum disease without killing good bacteria

Over the past several years, the AI industry has focused heavily on training increasingly large models. Discussions about artificial intelligence often center around massive GPU clusters, trillion-parameter architectures, and the enormous computational resources required to… Read more: AI’s new era: Train once, infer forever

As the capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) increases at an exponential rate, so do concerns about the privacy of user data. Increasingly, organizations around the world are adopting something called federated unlearning that enables AI… Read more: Does ‘federated unlearning’ in AI improve data privacy, or create a new cybersecurity risk?

In the pursuit of powerful and stable quantum computers, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed the theory for an entirely new quantum system – based on the novel concept of ‘giant superatoms’.… Read more: “Giant superatoms” could finally solve quantum computing’s biggest problem

Models like Google Gemma 4 are increasing enterprise AI governance challenges for CISOs as they scramble to secure edge workloads. Security chiefs have built massive digital walls around the cloud; deploying advanced cloud access security… Read more: Strengthening enterprise governance for rising edge AI workloads

WebinarTV, a site that scrapes Zoom webinars without permission, has downloaded and posted Zoom Webinars for anonymous addiction recovery meetings, support groups for caregivers and people who suffer from chronic illness, and a meeting of… Read more: WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs

I’ve been teaching college Earth science courses as a part-time faculty member for a long time now, all while juggling other jobs. I started because it was enjoyable; no one gets into this line of… Read more: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions. It’s an attempt optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and even romantic partners.

Many companies are taking a slower, more controlled approach to autonomous systems as AI adoption grows. Rather than deploying systems that act on their own, they are focusing on tools that assist human decision-making while… Read more: Companies expand AI adoption while keeping control

Westend61 / Getty Images New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its… Read more: Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert

Westend61 / Getty Images New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its… Read more: Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently… Read more: AI to predict how bowel cancer patients will respond to new NHS drug

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently… Read more: AI to predict how bowel cancer patients will respond to new NHS drug

A newly discovered molecule could reshape the future of weight loss treatments by mimicking the powerful appetite-suppressing effects of drugs like Ozempic — but without many of the unpleasant side effects. Identified using artificial intelligence,… Read more: Stanford scientists discover “natural Ozempic” without side effects

A twice-yearly injection may soon change how high blood pressure is treated. In a global trial, patients receiving the experimental drug zilebesiran alongside standard therapy saw greater blood pressure reductions than those on standard treatment… Read more: Forget daily pills. This shot works when blood pressure meds fail

A colossal “cosmic volcano” has erupted in deep space, as a supermassive black hole in galaxy J1007+3540 roars back to life after nearly 100 million years of silence. Astronomers captured stunning radio images showing fresh… Read more: Black hole wakes after 100 million years and erupts like a cosmic volcano

For years, scientists believed our lifespan was mostly shaped by environment and chance, with genetics playing only a minor role. But a new study from the Weizmann Institute flips that idea on its head, revealing… Read more: Scientists were wrong about lifespan. Your genes matter way more than we thought

Artificial intelligence is often celebrated as the future of work. It is efficient, innovative and neutral. Yet, for many women in Indonesia’s gig economy, AI feels like a source of mounting pressure. In my recent… Read more: Algorithms don’t care: how AI worsens the double burden for Indonesia’s female gig workers

If you were arrested after an AI facial recognition camera wrongly flagged you as a trespasser, how far would you go to get justice? Jason Killinger is looking to go all the way. The Nevada… Read more: Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest

Is there anything about this upcoming World Cup — which will be taking place across the entire continent of North America — that isn’t shaping up to be a total disaster? FIFA seems to be… Read more: Nike’s AI Designed World Cup Jerseys Are a Disaster

In both Republican and Democratic states, scepticism and hostility towards an unregulated construction boom is growing When blue-collar Trump voters and Maga-friendly midwest states join the same cause as Bernie Sanders and liberal California teachers,… Read more: The Guardian view on AI politics: US datacentre protests are a warning to big tech | Editorial

A new survey from Epoch AI and Ipsos has found that one in five full-time American workers say AI has already taken over parts of their job, in the latest piece of data adding fuel… Read more: Research Finds That AI Has Already Replaced Work for 20 Percent of Jobs

On Thursday, Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier announced his office was investigating OpenAI over a deadly school shooting last year that victims claim was at least partially inspired by conversations with ChatGPT. The shooting, which… Read more: OpenAI Backing Law That Protects It When AI Causes Mass Deaths and Other Mayhem

OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other. This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO… Read more: OpenAI Staffers Horrified When Senior Leadership Hatched “Insane” Plan to Pit World Governments Against Each Other

A new nanodisc-based platform lets scientists study viral proteins in a form that closely mimics real viruses, revealing how antibodies truly recognize them. This approach uncovered hidden interactions in viruses like HIV and Ebola that… Read more: Hidden weak spots in HIV and Ebola revealed with breakthrough nanodisc technology

Researchers are launching a new project to crack the mystery of aggressive breast cancer, where predicting disease progression remains a major hurdle. By studying how tumors interact with and suppress the immune system, scientists aim… Read more: How aggressive breast cancer turns off the immune system

The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic Levant not only coexisted but actively interacted, sharing technology, lifestyles, and burial customs. These interactions fostered cultural exchange,… Read more: 110,000-year-old discovery rewrites human history: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens worked together

A cave in Belgium has revealed unsettling evidence that Neandertals selectively cannibalized outsiders, focusing on women and children. The victims weren’t from the local group and appear to have been treated like prey, with bones… Read more: Neandertals may have hunted and eaten outsiders, chilling cannibalism study finds

A new study reveals that popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may not work as effectively for about 10% of people due to specific genetic variants. These individuals appear to have a… Read more: Why Ozempic doesn’t work for everyone: Scientists just found a hidden reason

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts This week’s question: what would the world look like if people… Read more: Readers reply: Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

What’s it like to have a diary that talks back to you, offering comments and advice on your hopes, fears and lunch plans? I spent two months finding out Ever since I was a teenager,… Read more: ‘It feels as if I’ve made a new best friend’: my experiment with AI journalling

In President Donald Trump’s telling, the United States has fuel enough to hover above the chaos that his attack on Iran has triggered in global energy markets. “We’re in great shape for the future,” Trump… Read more: Shock from Iran war has Trump’s vision for US energy dominance flailing

Despite promising to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars for the build out of enormous data centers, the AI industry has struggled to keep up with its lofty ambitions. According to recent reporting by Bloomberg… Read more: OpenAI’s Latest Thing It’s Bragging About Is Actually Kind of Sad

Is artificial intelligence taking our jobs in a sweeping overhaul of the productive economy as we know it? It’s a burning question with no definitive answers, but some workers aren’t waiting around to find out… Read more: Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won’t Take Their Job

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it In 2026, its easy to see why generative AI is bad. The internet has nicknamed its excretions “slop”. The CEOs… Read more: Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

OpenAI is gearing up for a potential IPO later this year at a staggering valuation of up to $1 trillion — a meteoric rise from a mere $29 billion in January 2023, months after launching… Read more: Why Does It Suddenly Feel Like OpenAI Is Melting Down Into Disaster?

The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AI OpenAI made a surprise announcement this week – not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar… Read more: AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?

The firm says it withheld an AI model on cybersecurity grounds but sceptics say this was hype to lure investment This week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful… Read more: ‘Too powerful for the public’: Inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war

A major international effort has produced an ultra-precise measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate, confirming it’s faster than early-Universe models predict. By linking multiple distance-measuring techniques, scientists ruled out simple errors as the cause of… Read more: The Universe is expanding too fast and scientists still can’t explain it

Mars may be hostile, but it might not be entirely unlivable. In lab experiments, yeast cells survived simulated Martian shock waves and toxic perchlorate salts—two major environmental threats on the Red Planet. Their secret weapon… Read more: Life on Mars? Tiny cells just survived shock waves and toxic soil

The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn’s moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? It came… Read more: Brian Cox: ‘We don’t know how powerful AI is going to become – it’s both exciting and potentially a problem’

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 on Easter weekend, and the local AI community responded like it was Christmas. The family spans four sizes – E2B, E4B, 26B A4B (MoE), and 31B dense – with the… Read more: Google’s Best Open Model Yet Has a Memory Problem

Corporations are rapidly embracing AI to churn out mountains of code.  Outwardly, this is presented as a revolution in productivity. But a behind the scenes look in The New York Times paints a slightly different,… Read more: The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny

Researchers have uncovered why a rare blood clotting disorder can occur after certain COVID-19 vaccines or adenovirus infections. The immune system can mistakenly target a normal blood protein (PF4) after confusing it with a viral… Read more: Scientists finally crack mystery of rare COVID vaccine blood clots

Losing your sense of smell might signal Alzheimer’s far earlier than expected. Scientists found that immune cells in the brain actively destroy smell-related nerve fibers after detecting abnormal signals on their surfaces. This damage begins… Read more: Your nose could detect Alzheimer’s years before symptoms begin

Scientists have achieved the unthinkable by stabilizing a highly reactive molecule in water, confirming a decades-old theory about vitamin B1’s role in the body. The breakthrough not only solves a scientific mystery but could revolutionize… Read more: A 67-year-old “crazy” theory about vitamin B1 has finally been proven

Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made from sewage sludge—points to a hidden route… Read more: Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time

A major study suggests that when you eat could play a key role in staying lean. People who fast longer overnight and start their day with an early breakfast were more likely to have a… Read more: Two simple eating habits linked to lower weight, study finds

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that were ritually sacrificed, kicked out of the galaxy, taxonomically revised, and wore many hats. First, scientists shed light on human sacrifice and cousin… Read more: The Oldest Octopus Fossil Ever Isn’t An Octopus At All, Scientists Discover

Last month, Axios was forced to issue a bizarre correction for a blog post about a growing maternal health crisis in the United States. The story quoted new poll findings by a company called Aaru,… Read more: Foolish Pollsters Are Now Just Asking AI What Voters Would Say in Response to Questions and Publishing It at Face Value

Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it Jason Moran, a renowned jazz composer and pianist, got a strange call from a friend last… Read more: ‘It has your name on it, but I don’t think it’s you’: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify

Huzzah! A mass psychosis inducing machine is making money out the wazoo by bombarding users with highly-targeted corporate messages. According to a new Axios scoop, OpenAI has already generated $100 million in annual recurring revenue… Read more: OpenAI Says It’s Already Made $100 Million by Stuffing ChatGPT With Ads

AI models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic lost money betting on soccer matches over a Premier League season, in a new study suggesting even the most advanced systems struggle to analyze the real world over… Read more: AI models are terrible at betting on soccer—especially xAI Grok

Since the onset of the AI chatbot boom, tech companies, insurance industry mouthpieces, and healthcare administrators have spun a yarn that introducing AI to healthcare is a surefire way to lower costs for patients. Mario… Read more: AI Is Causing Healthcare Costs to Surge

Plus: Iran’s internet blackout hits the 1,000-hour mark, cryptocurrency scams result in a record amount of money stolen from Americans, and more.

With consumers roundly panning generative AI slop wherever it’s found, tech companies have set their sights on a more captive audience as a source of revenue: the world’s boardrooms and cubicle farms. But the office,… Read more: There’s a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace

A new study by economists at Goldman Sachs has discovered something that should come as no surprise to most workers: losing your job to new technology can seriously mess up your life in ways that… Read more: People Who Lose Their Job to AI Are in for a World of Pain, Goldman Sachs Report Finds

From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.

The Artemis era well and truly began Friday evening when a shiny spacecraft that had traveled 700,000 miles around the Moon, carrying four astronauts, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.… Read more: The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?

Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first… Read more: Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon

Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit,… Read more: Californians sue over AI tool that records doctor visits

North America wouldn’t look much like it currently does without a tectonic plate that has largely been lost to the Earth’s geological history. The Farallon plate, which has since largely vanished underneath North America, helped… Read more: New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

Samsung is reportedly considering a $4 billion chip packaging and testing project in Vietnam, deepening the country’s role in the global semiconductor supply chain. The post Samsung Eyes Vietnam for $4B Semiconductor Packaging Project appeared… Read more: Samsung Eyes Vietnam for $4B Semiconductor Packaging Project

As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has published a sweeping policy paper outlining its vision of who should call the shots once… Read more: OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea

The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued to Reddit, the government reportedly issued… Read more: Report: US demands Reddit unmask ICE critic, summons firm to grand jury

Formula 1 is enjoying something of an unexpected break right now. The war in the Middle East saw the cancellation of F1 races that were due to be held this month in Bahrain and Saudi… Read more: F1 moves a step closer to fixing its 2026 hybrid problem

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