Anthony Shkraba/Pexels Fashion has always been a bit different to other industries. Consumers do not just buy because they need something. They buy because they are bored, influenced or simply browsing. That makes it a… Read more: When AI starts shopping for you, fashion may be entering a new era of pricing

Amazon today announced two satellite deals that it hopes will make its Amazon Leo network a more formidable competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink. Amazon signed a merger agreement to buy satellite operator Globalstar and said it… Read more: Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer

If you’ve been waiting for Microsoft to update its Surface PC lineup—perhaps with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite processors—I’ve got bad news for you. Microsoft is shaking up its PC lineup, but it’s doing so by… Read more: Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away

Company surpasses $100 million in annual revenue run rate AfterQuery, a leading applied data solutions research lab, today announced the completion of its $30 million Series A fundraising round at a $300 million valuation. The… Read more: AfterQuery Raises $30 Mn Series A Round at $300 Million Valuation

With many Americans turning to Large Language Models for health advice, health systems around the country are eyeing and even rolling out their own branded chatbots in an attempt to harness this already popular tool… Read more: Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

We’re learning more about the guy who allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house late last week — and as we do, he’s sounding less like a spur-of-the moment crank and… Read more: Man Who Threw Molotov at Sam Altman’s House Warned AI Will Exterminate Humankind

Suit alleges the billionaire’s AI company is illegally spewing toxic pollutants from its datacenter in the Memphis area A new lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company of illegally spewing toxic pollutants into the Black… Read more: NAACP lawsuit accuses Elon Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis

Last week, Anthropic announced it was restricting the initial release of its Mythos Preview model to “a limited group of critical industry partners,” giving them time to prepare for a model that it said is… Read more: UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

US-based startup Haast embeds organizational policy and risk frameworks directly into enterprise workflows, automating high-effort manual compliance processes at scale. Today, Haast, the leading AI-powered enterprise compliance engine, announced it has raised $12 million in Series… Read more: Haast Raises $12M to Solve AI Compliance Bottlenecks

Thomson Reuters, the technology and content conglomerate that owns the Reuters media agency but also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company selling data… Read more: Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says

This week, US president Donald Trump posted an AI slop image of himself as Jesus Christ, miraculously healing a sick man while a host of angels look on from above and an American flag ripples… Read more: Trump Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive AI Slop

X is cutting clickbait payouts, but the bigger problem may be a creator program that rewarded attention-chasing behavior before trying to punish it. The post X Cuts Clickbait Payouts and Exposes a Creator Program Problem… Read more: X Cuts Clickbait Payouts and Exposes a Creator Program Problem

Once you familiarize yourself with the characteristics of ChatGPT’s writing, it becomes impossible to miss. The internet has been flooded with AI-generated text that often features distinctive language patterns, from liberal use of em dashes… Read more: There’s Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs

iFLYTEK, a global leader in intelligent speech and AI technologies, is showcasing its All-In-One AI Solutions at GITEX ASIA 2026 in Singapore, an integrated hardware and software system for private AI computing and model deployment, combined with… Read more: iFLYTEK Demonstrates All-In-One AI Solutions at GITEX ASIA 2026

Strategic Partnership Brings Enterprise AI Platform to Latin America’s Largest Economy Airia, the leading enterprise AI management platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Performa IT, a premier Brazilian technology consulting and artificial intelligence solutions… Read more: Airia Partners with Performa IT to Expand AI Solutions into Brazilian Market

Experts point to Chinese backing for multinational attempts to introduce global governance of AI China is now the “good guy” on AI rather than Donald Trump’s US where the technology is being pursued in a… Read more: China now AI’s ‘good guy’ as US takes a ‘wild west’ approach, MPs told

HubSpot launches an AEO tool inside Marketing Hub to track AI visibility, citations, and competitors. See what this HubSpot news means for marketers. The post HubSpot Launches AEO Tool to Help Brands Compete in AI… Read more: HubSpot Launches AEO Tool to Help Brands Compete in AI Search

AI search is reshaping how users find information, shifting visibility from rankings to AI-generated answers. HubSpot’s new AEO tool highlights how answer engine optimization is emerging as the next phase of SEO. The post What… Read more: What is AEO SEO? Why Answer Engine Optimization Is the Next Evolution of SEO

There has been considerable debate among physicists over the last 15 years about conflicting measurements of the charge radius of a hydrogen atom’s proton—some confirming the predictions of our strongest theoretical models, others suggesting it… Read more: Physicists think they’ve resolved the proton size puzzle

Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, and the competition is not even close. So the browser is a key part of Google’s efforts to get everyone using its AI tools. The company’s… Read more: Google introduces “Skills” in Chrome to make Gemini prompts instantly reusable

Toyota unveils CUE7, its latest AI basketball-shooting robot, with a lighter build, dynamic controls, and a record-setting history. The post Toyota Unveils Basketball-Shooting Robot With Vision Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Today, the IONNA charging network announced that it’s partnering with Circle K to bring its “Rechargery” experience to more than 350 Circle K locations in the US. IONNA will start with 85 existing Circle K… Read more: IONNA Rechargeries are coming to more than 350 Circle K stations

So you thought you’d just read that webpage and then go back to the previous page? A bold assumption. All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s… Read more: Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June

HOUSTON—Their mission is complete. The four people who flew beyond the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II mission are back home in Houston with their families. But the lessons from Artemis II are just beginning to… Read more: Rockets and spaceships are cool, but the humanity of Artemis II resonated most

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by… Read more: Why Do ChatGPT Users Keep Committing Mass Shootings?

BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low-power, neuromorphic AI technology, today announced the launch of its Radar Reference Platform. This fully validated hardware and AI stack is designed to provide… Read more: BrainChip Unveils Radar Reference Platform

The premade Skills available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome include ways to maximize protein in recipes or summarize YouTube videos.

Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over a proposed Illinois law that would let AI labs largely off the hook for mass deaths and financial disasters.

From the onset, analytics engineering seemed like the final evolution phase of business intelligence. It created order through modern warehouses and declarative modeling tools. Dashboards became trusted, lineage was visible, and metrics were version-controlled. Over… Read more: What analytics engineering didn’t prepare me for in AI

An industry of tech companies is now selling AI-powered chatbot services to Airbnb hosts which reply to guests on their behalf. 404 Media started looking into the companies after one Airbnb host used AI to… Read more: Airbnb Hosts Don’t Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI

A new Mac mini leak points to an M5 upgrade in 2026 as Apple faces high-end stock shortages and growing questions over memory supply. The post Apple’s Mac Mini 2026: New Leak Teases M5 Upgrade,… Read more: Apple’s Mac Mini 2026: New Leak Teases M5 Upgrade, Release Timeline

Bread and other carbohydrate staples may be doing more than just filling plates—they could be quietly reshaping metabolism. In a surprising twist, researchers found that mice strongly preferred carbs like bread, rice, and wheat, abandoning… Read more: Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories

A new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is overturning a decades-old belief that Indigenous Hawaiians hunted native waterbirds to extinction. Instead, researchers found no scientific evidence supporting this claim and propose a… Read more: Scientists just debunked a 50-year myth about Hawaii’s birds

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that creates selenium-74 using a rare… Read more: Scientists just recreated a rare cosmic reaction never seen before

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: Lystrosaurus. Now, a stunning fossil discovery—an ancient egg containing a curled-up embryo—has finally answered a decades-old mystery… Read more: Mammal ancestors laid eggs, and this 250-million-year-old fossil finally proves it

New constellation aims to turn the planet into a continuous data stream for machine learning The post Xoople and L3Harris team up to build satellites for ‘Earth AI’  appeared first on SpaceNews.

I actually don’t want to make my work easier. We should demand authenticity if we care about the sort of society that comes out the other end of this so-called revolution I never thought I’d… Read more: Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human | Peter Lewis

Financial analysis is an industry that is seeing job growth even as AI is increasingly used. Orientfootage/iStock via Getty Images Forecasts of the impact of artificial intelligence range from the apocalyptic to the utopian. An… Read more: Industries most exposed to AI are not only seeing productivity gains but jobs and wage growth too

Human love is valuable precisely because it’s limited – we can’t be everything to everyone all the time. Maria Korneeva/Moment via Getty Images When the movie “Her” debuted in 2013, its plot felt like science… Read more: AI companions can give constant support – but distort ideas about what a relationship really is

Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections Ken, a copywriter for a large, Miami-based cybersecurity firm, used to enjoy his job. But then the “workslop”… Read more: Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

A San Francisco woman sued OpenAI last week, alleging that ChatGPT fueled the dangerous delusions of her violent stalker — and that OpenAI failed to intervene even as the woman begged the company for help. The… Read more: Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

According to SAP, integrating agentic AI into core human capital management (HCM) modules helps target operational bloat and reduce costs. SAP’s SuccessFactors 1H 2026 release aims to anticipate administrative bottlenecks before they stall daily operations… Read more: SAP brings agentic AI to human capital management

An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. According to the audit from privacy search… Read more: Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

Japanese carmaker will add self-driving abilities to 90% of cars in future and cut a fifth of its models Business live – latest updates Nissan has said it will add self-driving abilities to the vast… Read more: Nissan turnaround plan pins hopes on ‘AI-defined vehicles’

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) was founded in 1950 in response to “a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war,” as outlined in the 1949 Lewis Committee… Read more: Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

The electricity to an island goes out. To find the break in the underwater power cable, a ship pulls up the entire line or deploys remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to traverse the line. But what… Read more: Human-machine teaming dives underwater

I’ve found a core misconception is persistent… people use the CLIP interrogator model expecting it to recover the original prompt from an image. It cannot do this, and if you look at the architecture it… Read more: The prompt isn’t hiding inside the image

Scotiabank has launched an AI framework, Scotia Intelligence, for data and AI operations that joins various platforms, data oversight, and software tools into a single instance. According to a press release from the bank, the… Read more: Canada’s Scotiabank preps for its AI future

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language.… Read more: AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn’t get carried away by the hype Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian’s US tech editor, writing… Read more: AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers

Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee, helped pass one of the country’s toughest AI laws. Now Silicon Valley’s biggest names are trying to stop his rise to Congress.

Hyundai Motor Group is starting to look like a company building machines that act in the real world. The change centres on physical AI: Where AI is placed into robots and systems that move and… Read more: Hyundai expands into robotics and physical AI systems

Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets. It arrives with some aerobatic capabilities and an entry-level price, but the question of what you’d actually do with it remains open.

A person with measles passed through the busiest airport in Idaho, shedding one of the world’s most infectious viruses in the state with the country’s lowest measles vaccination rate. Health officials are now warning residents… Read more: Measles takes a plane to Idaho, which has worst vaccination rate in US

If you were working a retail job at a movie rental store in the early ’90s, there’s a decent chance you couldn’t wait to clock out for the day and escape from the daily grind… Read more: Retro Rewind re-creates the glorious drudgery of working a ’90s video store

Michael Cotter had a problem: “Chargebacks” at his tech support company were too high. The reason for this was not hard to find; people at his company, Tech Live Connect, were scamming Cotter’s fellow Americans.… Read more: Your tech support company runs scams. Stop—or disguise with more fraud?

PC hardware company NZXT and its billing partner, Fragile, have agreed to a $3,450,000 settlement in response to a class-action complaint regarding NZXT’s Flex PC rental program. NZXT announced Flex in August 2024, saying that… Read more: NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement

Modern smartphone operating systems have myriad systems in place to improve security, but none of that helps when attackers target the modem. Google’s Project Zero team has shown it’s possible to secure remote code execution… Read more: Google shoehorned Rust into Pixel 10 modem to make legacy code safer

A newly disclosed vulnerability reveals how AI assistants can become invisible channels for data exfiltration — and why security enforcement must shift to the data layer. The post GrafanaGhost: The AI That Leaked Everything Without… Read more: GrafanaGhost: The AI That Leaked Everything Without Being Hacked

Last month, a joint investigation by two Swedish newspapers found that contractors in Kenya were watching personal videos recorded by users of Meta’s Ray Ban AI glasses. The devices, which can easily be used to… Read more: Huge Group of Experts Warns Meta That Its Pervert Glasses Will Enable Terrible Crimes

I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business… Read more: Zoom Perspectives: Why ‘agentic’ work is the new enterprise standard

IBM agreed to pay $17 million to the US government to resolve the Trump administration’s claim that the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies discriminated against employees and job-seekers. The Department of Justice (DOJ)… Read more: IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty

The Hunger Games franchise, based on the bestselling novels by Susan Collins, has grossed over $3.4 billion at the global box office across five films and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon.… Read more: Sunrise on the Reaping teaser brings us a Second Quarter Quell

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