
- UK regulator warns of “arms race” to keep up with AI use in financial services
Regulators are in an “arms race” to keep up with the use of artificial intelligence in financial services, a senior UK official has warned, with millions of people using the technology to help them make… Read more: UK regulator warns of “arms race” to keep up with AI use in financial services - There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend
As the United States of America celebrated its 250th birthday on terra firma with fireworks displays this weekend, two Asian countries made some splashes of their own farther from Earth. On Sunday, an aging Japanese… Read more: There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend - Shifting your integration architecture to headless
The integration layer is the last part of your stack that hasn’t been opened up – and it’s holding teams back. Developers are shipping inside Claude Code, Cursor, and the AI IDE they already use… Read more: Shifting your integration architecture to headless - Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI
Jodie Heenan says her award-winning short film Guardians of the Burrow ‘looks and feels’ real Scene: a dimly lit underground burrow. A giant Amazonian tarantula and a tiny dotted humming frog share the space, an… Read more: Into the spider’s lair: how an Australian film-maker made an impossible documentary with AI - Thanks for registering
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Anthropic is reportedly in early talks with Samsung on a custom AI chip as AI firms push to cut compute costs and rely less on Nvidia hardware. The post Anthropic Reportedly Eyes Samsung for Custom… Read more: Anthropic Reportedly Eyes Samsung for Custom AI Chip - In our deep oceans, evolution is supercharged – this diversity of life could help unlock humanity’s greatest challenges
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents like these in the mid-Atlantic Ocean are natural laboratories for studying life in extreme conditions. Gallwis/Shutterstock Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth.… Read more: In our deep oceans, evolution is supercharged – this diversity of life could help unlock humanity’s greatest challenges - Gemini Spark App Connections Arrive Before Enterprise Controls
Google Gemini Spark’s new app connections move the AI agent into files, apps, and MCP servers, creating new governance questions for IT teams. The post Gemini Spark App Connections Arrive Before Enterprise Controls appeared first… Read more: Gemini Spark App Connections Arrive Before Enterprise Controls - Quality Clouds Announced the Launch of Hub
Platform extends a decade of enterprise code governance to AI-native development, as organisations confront the risk of unchecked AI output reaching production Quality Clouds, the AI Code Governance company, today launched Quality Clouds Hub, a platform… Read more: Quality Clouds Announced the Launch of Hub - AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney
These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track… Read more: AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney - Global AI Show Riyadh 2026 Ignites Era of Agentic AI and Nation-Building
From Code to Country: Global AI Show Riyadh 2026 Ignites the Era of Agentic AI and Nation-Building TheGlobal AI Show Riyadh held from 29-30th June,2026 cementing its status as the definitive anchor for the Kingdom’s… Read more: Global AI Show Riyadh 2026 Ignites Era of Agentic AI and Nation-Building - The Czinger 21C might be the wildest car we drive all year
The temptation with a car like the Czinger 21C is to treat it as a collection of extreme specifications, and to be fair, it’s certainly not lacking in that department. At its most basic level,… Read more: The Czinger 21C might be the wildest car we drive all year - Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal
Bentley is preparing to add a fourth model to its rarified lineup, and today we know what it will be called: the Torcal. The carmaker has been working on its first electric vehicle for a… Read more: Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal - China’s AI companion rules: what Beijing is really going after
An AI companion sounds dystopian, but it has become a common thread in the wider conversation about the perils of generative AI. What it refers to is essentially a conversational agent built to sustain an… Read more: China’s AI companion rules: what Beijing is really going after - AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion AI tools are twisting online messages on sensitive political topics about everything from abortion to climate change in ways… Read more: AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds - Boost City regulator’s powers to help protect UK consumers from AI, says watchdog
FCA’s review into how tech will reshape financial services warns about amplified risks of cyber-crime and fraud Business live – latest updates Ministers have been urged to toughen the City regulator’s powers to protect consumers… Read more: Boost City regulator’s powers to help protect UK consumers from AI, says watchdog - Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader
A police officer speeds 70 MPH down a two-lane highway running over a bridge in the Florida Keys. He passes a dump truck in a no-passing zone, then immediately does it again, crossing over a… Read more: Footage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader - Streetlights are trapping thousands of pill bugs in giant “death spirals”
Researchers discovered that artificial streetlights can trap thousands of woodlice in mesmerizing circular “death spirals” never before seen in the wild. The surprising finding suggests that light pollution may be unintentionally altering the behavior of… Read more: Streetlights are trapping thousands of pill bugs in giant “death spirals” - Rubrik Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
Positioned as Leader and Furthest in Vision for Seven Consecutive Years Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, has been named a Leader and positioned furthest in Vision in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant… Read more: Rubrik Recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ - Astronomers witness the birth of a magnetar for the first time
A strange “chirping” signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe’s brightest stellar explosions. The discovery also marks the first… Read more: Astronomers witness the birth of a magnetar for the first time - Aily Labs and AWS to Boost AI Decision Intelligence Across the Fortune 500
Aily’s AI Decision Intelligence agents are now available in AWS Marketplace, with one-click procurement against existing AWS commitments Orchestrated by Aily’s Super Agent and powered by multiple foundation models, the agents are also available on… Read more: Aily Labs and AWS to Boost AI Decision Intelligence Across the Fortune 500 - Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
Elbit Systems supplied Tzayad digital army programme to map people, vehicles and other objects in real time Israel identified about 1,000 potential targets a day during the first two years of the wars in Gaza… Read more: Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier - Allora Labs Announced the Launch of Forge
The world’s first arena for predictive intelligence, Forge is a live environment where machine learning models compete on real-world problems and improve together, built on the thesis that the future of prediction belongs to a network of… Read more: Allora Labs Announced the Launch of Forge - Clarity Narrative Tackles AI Misrepresentation Risks
When an AI assistant describes a company inaccurately, the lost customer never shows up in any report. Clarity Narrative has introduced a service that surfaces how AI currently represents a business and corrects the information… Read more: Clarity Narrative Tackles AI Misrepresentation Risks - ABC will trial using AI for journalism. What are the risks and benefits?
Brecht Corbeel/Unsplash Earlier today, the ABC flagged a shift in their position on generative artificial intelligence (AI) use in their news production. Despite previous caution, a recent deal with US tech company Anthropic has opened… Read more: ABC will trial using AI for journalism. What are the risks and benefits? - What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation finds Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns… Read more: What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’? - Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’ ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre What are Britain’s AI growth zones and… Read more: Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise - ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre
Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge development Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise What are Britain’s AI growth zones… Read more: ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre - Authors like me must have faith that Australia, where fairness is fundamental, won’t gut our copyright for big tech | Anna Funder
US companies hoping to make fortunes from AI want the creative product of our country to be available to them for free, or for peanuts. Words fail me Last week I went to Canberra with… Read more: Authors like me must have faith that Australia, where fairness is fundamental, won’t gut our copyright for big tech | Anna Funder - China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands
Race to develop ‘embodied AI’ focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products Human hands – nimble, nerve-filled appendages that are the most flexible part of the human skeleton… Read more: China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands - Ancient bees turned tooth sockets into tiny nurseries 20,000 years ago
A stunning fossil discovery shows that ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets of mammal bones as tiny nests after owls scattered the bones across a cave floor 20,000 years ago. It’s the first known… Read more: Ancient bees turned tooth sockets into tiny nurseries 20,000 years ago - Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan’s 2011 tsunami was so deadly
Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami became so devastating. By drilling deeper into the seafloor than ever before, researchers discovered a… Read more: Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan’s 2011 tsunami was so deadly - 5,000-year-old wolves found on remote island rewrite what we know about domestication
Scientists discovered ancient wolves on a tiny Baltic island where they could only have been brought by humans, suggesting an unexpectedly close relationship between people and wolves thousands of years ago. Evidence indicates the wolves… Read more: 5,000-year-old wolves found on remote island rewrite what we know about domestication - Scientists may have finally found how Alzheimer’s kills brain cells
Researchers have identified a previously overlooked mechanism of brain cell death that appears to play a major role in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia. The finding could lead to new treatments aimed at slowing neuron… Read more: Scientists may have finally found how Alzheimer’s kills brain cells - Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts
At first glance a data centre looks like a bland, boring warehouse. But these buildings, stacked with thousands of servers, are the beating heart of the internet and the booming artificial intelligence (AI) industry. As… Read more: Should Australia pause building new data centres? We asked 5 experts - AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper
Exclusive: Foreign secretary warns of combined risks of AI, climate crisis, irregular migration and foreign interference Artificial intelligence poses a “Hiroshima”-style risk to humanity if governments do not agree to curb how it is developed,… Read more: AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper - Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it’s changing the world
Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced technologies. Now researchers are pushing its boundaries even further, with potential breakthroughs in energy, medicine, computing,… Read more: Quantum mechanics once baffled scientists. Now it’s changing the world - What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it | Emma Beddington
The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of bland ‘tasteslop’ The internet, as we know, is now a… Read more: What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it | Emma Beddington - The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust
Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research, geologists still don’t agree on how they formed. “The continents started appearing around about four billion years ago—that’s… Read more: The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust - Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules
Physicist Ronald Koopman appeared at a Southern California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid dispersion and water mitigation testing. Hydrofluoric acid, also known as… Read more: Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules - Startup Exec Boasts About Using AI to Churn Out Sports Content”Without Human Input”
Do you like kicking back and watching some sports after a long day? Do you like AI? Would you like more AI-generated content in your sports? You might not have much of a choice —… Read more: Startup Exec Boasts About Using AI to Churn Out Sports Content”Without Human Input” - Scientists discover the deep sleep circuit that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain
Researchers have identified the brain circuitry that links deep sleep with the release of growth hormone, revealing how the two regulate each other. The newly discovered feedback loop helps explain why poor sleep can interfere… Read more: Scientists discover the deep sleep circuit that builds muscle, burns fat, and boosts the brain - New optical centrifuge unlocks the secrets of frictionless superfluids
Physicists have developed a new optical centrifuge that can precisely spin molecules inside a superfluid for the first time. The advance could help unravel some of the biggest mysteries of quantum liquids and reveal how… Read more: New optical centrifuge unlocks the secrets of frictionless superfluids - NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with incredible views of space
NASA is marking the United States’ 250th birthday with four striking red, white, and blue images of deep space from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The collection features an exploded star, a stellar nursery, a galaxy… Read more: NASA celebrates America’s 250th birthday with incredible views of space - Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox
Researchers have proposed that black holes stop evaporating at the last moment, leaving behind tiny remnants that preserve all the information they contain. The same seven-dimensional geometry behind this idea could also help explain why… Read more: Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox - NASA’s Hubble captures a star-spangled sea of 500,000 stars
Celebrating the United States’ 250th anniversary, NASA released a stunning Hubble portrait of Messier 3, an ancient globular cluster with more than 500,000 stars. The remarkable cluster is helping scientists unravel the Milky Way’s past… Read more: NASA’s Hubble captures a star-spangled sea of 500,000 stars - NASA’s Hubble captures a crimson stellar nursery sparkling with blue and white stars
Hubble has captured a spectacular view of LH 95, where about 2,500 young stars are still on their journey to becoming full-fledged stars. Scientists discovered these growing stars can keep pulling in gas and dust… Read more: NASA’s Hubble captures a crimson stellar nursery sparkling with blue and white stars - NASA’s Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way’s oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient cluster are clues… Read more: NASA’s Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July - NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services
Update in England expected to reach about 200,000 patients over the next year as part of £10bn package to overhaul NHS systems The NHS will begin using AI on its app to direct patients to… Read more: NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services - Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy
Exclusive: With the technology fast becoming popular in GP surgeries, regulators are monitoring its implementation and potential pitfalls Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The federal health department has raised… Read more: Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy - Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests
Pour one out for Supergirl, the latest installment in the DCU’s Gods and Monsters chapter, which has been beset by online troll attacks, mixed reviews, and a very disappointing opening weekend box office—not the outcome… Read more: Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests - Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta became embroiled in a major controversy after Wired found that it had discreetly included facial recognition tech in the software of its lineup of popular smart glasses. The camera-equipped spectacles… Read more: Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses - Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content
Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors’ AI models with disturbing prompts ranging from suicide to cannibalism. Internally known as “Cannes,” the project, run by… Read more: Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content - A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it’s not clear why
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent five years traversing Jezero Crater looking for the chemical leftovers of whatever processes were at work on Mars billions of years ago. The rover has found organic carbon, but it… Read more: A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it’s not clear why - When the ability to smell goes away
About 14 years ago, Chrissi Kelly lost her sense of smell. She had traveled to the Czech Republic to visit family and caught some virus. Months later, when she still couldn’t smell, she made the… Read more: When the ability to smell goes away - OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over Stargate UK project
Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical It was to be the biggest undertaking in Britain for OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Stargate UK – a… Read more: OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over Stargate UK project - SOLVED: The Case of the Missing Megalodon
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that glimpsed a bygone world, caught an 80-foot fish, outshone the stars, and declared scientific independence. First, a mysterious group of extinct human relatives… Read more: SOLVED: The Case of the Missing Megalodon - Could the next great novel be written by AI (and would you even be able to tell)?
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in… Read more: Could the next great novel be written by AI (and would you even be able to tell)? - AI Agents Are Creating a New Enterprise Security Gap
Five independent security disclosures in a single week point to the same gap: AI agent permissions, not AI agent capabilities, are the problem enterprises haven’t solved. The post AI Agents Are Creating a New Enterprise… Read more: AI Agents Are Creating a New Enterprise Security Gap - We can debate the ethics of AI but can’t seem to change course | Letters
Readers respond to the profile of Iason Gabriel, a philosopher and research scientist at Google DeepMind The Guardian’s profile of Google DeepMind’s philosopher was encouraging because it showed how seriously many of the people building… Read more: We can debate the ethics of AI but can’t seem to change course | Letters - Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start
During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization. - Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX’s millenary milestone
Welcome to Edition 9.01 of the Rocket Report! Back in January, I wrote about the 20 launches and landings we were most excited about in 2026. The list included things that were, at the time,… Read more: Rocket Report: Indian startup nears first launch; SpaceX’s millenary milestone - NSW government ‘absolutely thrilled’ to welcome OpenAI … until someone mentioned the Terminator films
Emails sent between MP Anoulak Chanthivong’s staff take cautious approach to AI giant arriving in Sydney – despite the government’s encouragement Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The NSW technology… Read more: NSW government ‘absolutely thrilled’ to welcome OpenAI … until someone mentioned the Terminator films - What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment I tried to imagine
The abundance that AI promises to deliver represents an enormous and radical opportunity – a chance to reconnect with the ancient project of how to live For a long time humanity has dreamed about a… Read more: What would our lives look like if we no longer had to work? As a thought experiment I tried to imagine - How to control AI agents before they control you
AI agents are genuinely impressive. They can plan, reason, search the web, write code, send emails, and execute multi-step tasks with minimal human input. We want your feedback (and there’s a reward in it for… Read more: How to control AI agents before they control you - Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails
Researchers at the British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt spurred ChatGPT to drop its most basic safety guidelines, in another example of how the guardrails surrounding even the most popular AI… Read more: Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails - Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was
If I had to pick a chunk of the 1990s that feels the most 90s-ish to me, it’d be the two-year stretch between 1996 and 1997. 1996 saw me graduating from high school and starting… Read more: Wing Commander IV and the FMV future that never quite was - Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR
Having a computer strapped to my face for 40 minutes was one reason to feel a little sweaty. But the tour of the Universe I had just received in virtual reality—including visits to the near… Read more: Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR - Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America
The last time America celebrated a big anniversary, I was all of three years old. Even so, I retain a few fuzzy memories from a sunny summer afternoon in small-town Michigan: climbing on a cannon… Read more: Despite the darkness, I still see signs of hope in America - Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech
On a Sunday evening in the middle of Tompkins Square Park in New York City’s East Village, hundreds of people gather in front of a giant papier-mâché face of a woman wearing a crown. She’s… Read more: Inside the Luddite festival harnessing Gen Z’s rage against Big Tech - AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps
As imaging tools become more sophisticated, online predators are using images of children to make extreme pornography UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears The two photos started out… Read more: AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps - Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days
David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of boiling the creatures alive. But new tech brings new horrors, and perhaps Wallace, if he were alive… Read more: Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days - UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears
Exclusive: National Crime Agency and safety watchdog issue guidance amid rise in explicit material online AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps The UK National Crime Agency has recommended… Read more: UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears - AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks
A new hack can trick AI browsers into breaking their guardrails by constructing a false reality around them where the rules are made up and actions don’t have consequences. Put another way, they’re basically hypnotized… Read more: AI Browsers Can Basically Be Hypnotized Into Turning Against Their User and Carrying Out Devastating Hacks - Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico
Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose which therapeutic areas or disease… Read more: Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico - Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss the Supreme Court, the private jet, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet - Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI
Google’s electricity use and emissions skyrocketed last year due to its aggressive AI infrastructure buildout, according to the company’s most recent environmental impact report. “The biggest change to our environmental impact is the expansion of… Read more: Google Admits It Missed Its Climate Goals — Again — Because of AI - Old muscle stem cells can act young again but there’s a catch
Scientists at UCLA discovered a surprising reason aging muscles heal more slowly. In older muscle stem cells, a protein called NDRG1 builds up and acts like a brake, slowing the cells’ ability to jump into… Read more: Old muscle stem cells can act young again but there’s a catch - Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough
Researchers have created quantum control techniques that can make a system appear to run backward in time. By precisely managing quantum measurements, they can reshape the system’s arrow of time and even harvest energy from… Read more: Scientists make quantum time flow backward in stunning physics breakthrough - California AI Company Launches Praxis Human-First AI™
A New Category Designed to Preserve and Amplify Trusted Human Intelligence At the AI for Good Global Summit 2026, Praxis AI introduces the Praxis Human-First Agentic Platform: the technology, trust, intelligence, and economic infrastructure for Human-First AI.… Read more: California AI Company Launches Praxis Human-First AI™ - Intersignal Announced the Launch of Braid Pathfinder v0.5
Intersignal, an independent artificial intelligence research and systems engineering initiative, today announced the release of Braid Pathfinder v0.5, a hardened developer preview of its local AI state synchronization protocol. Braid Pathfinder is designed for developers,… Read more: Intersignal Announced the Launch of Braid Pathfinder v0.5 - A strange LIGO signal could reveal the missing link behind dark matter
An unusual gravitational wave signal has renewed hopes that primordial black holes, long considered purely theoretical, may finally be within reach of discovery. If confirmed, they could solve one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries by explaining… Read more: A strange LIGO signal could reveal the missing link behind dark matter - 3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom
Powered by chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea is seeing a surge in wealth, but there are questions over who gets to share in the profits When South Korea’s most high-profile divorce case… Read more: 3,000% bonuses but a growing wealth divide: South Korea grapples with its AI chip boom - Scientists stunned as bumble bees solve a classic intelligence test
Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The discovery adds to growing evidence that these tiny insects are far smarter and more… Read more: Scientists stunned as bumble bees solve a classic intelligence test - ‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work
A potential deal with the government would allow international tech companies to mine the creative work of Australian musicians. Some of the prime minister’s favourite artists told the Guardian how they feel about it Creatives… Read more: ‘Don’t kill music’: Anthony Albanese’s favourite bands beg PM to stop AI companies from stealing their work - Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content
Follow the day’s latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A teenager has been charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy was discovered with fatal stab wounds outside a… Read more: Australia news live: shadow arts minister Angie Bell, a former musician, says AI giants must pay for content - New MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Foldable iPhone Could Test Apple Buyers
Apple’s reported plans include a redesigned MacBook Pro, a faster iPad Pro, and the first foldable iPhone, with price and supply risks. The post New MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Foldable iPhone Could Test Apple… Read more: New MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Foldable iPhone Could Test Apple Buyers - This spray-on powder can stop life-threatening bleeding in 1 second
A new spray-on powder developed by KAIST can stop life-threatening bleeding in about one second by instantly forming a strong gel over a wound. It works on deep and irregular injuries where conventional hemostatic products… Read more: This spray-on powder can stop life-threatening bleeding in 1 second - Newly discovered PamStealer isn’t your typical macOS malware
Researchers have found a never-before-seen piece of macOS malware that combines a series of clever tradecraft to infect Macs with stealthy, custom-developed credential-stealing code. The malware is delivered in two stages. The first is distributed… Read more: Newly discovered PamStealer isn’t your typical macOS malware - Meta Could Sell AI Compute Capacity as Infrastructure Costs Rise
Meta is reportedly exploring a cloud business to sell excess AI compute, potentially offsetting data center costs and challenging neocloud providers. The post Meta Could Sell AI Compute Capacity as Infrastructure Costs Rise appeared first… Read more: Meta Could Sell AI Compute Capacity as Infrastructure Costs Rise - The Smartwatch Blood Sugar Revolution, Explained
Smartwatches may transform blood sugar tracking, but today’s advances depend on CGMs, AI, and regulated health tech integrations. The post The Smartwatch Blood Sugar Revolution, Explained appeared first on TechRepublic. - FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet
A long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States would be overturned in a new rule proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. That could pave the way for the possible return of… Read more: FAA proposal: Supersonic airliners can fly over US cities if they’re quiet - Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK… Read more: Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions - Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?
Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it’s acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs. - Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion
Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent the intervening years challenging that decision, but the continent’s highest… Read more: Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion - Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division
Understanding the origin of life requires addressing a collection of overlapping scientific questions. We’ve made a lot of progress toward explaining how simple chemicals present on an early Earth built the complex molecules used by… Read more: Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division - Africa CDC confirms Marburg case in Uganda as Ebola outbreak rages
Amid disease surveillance for the ongoing Ebola outbreak, Ugandan health authorities identified a case of Marburg virus disease in a one-and-a-half-year-old child, who has died, according to Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But… Read more: Africa CDC confirms Marburg case in Uganda as Ebola outbreak rages - Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250
When Plex launched in 2012, it sold lifetime access to its media server software for $75. In 2014, Plex raised the price to be more sustainable for the company, it said, and for years, Lifetime… Read more: Plex debuts 5-year membership pass for $250 - Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?
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