Agentic AI that can plan and execute complex scientific work using natural language, configure the platform itself, and deliver traceable and reproducible answers that will pass the governance test Dotmatics today announced Luma Agent, a new agentic… Read more: Dotmatics introduces Luma Agent

Seekr recognized for explainable, defensible AI built for enterprises and government agencies operating in regulated and mission-critical environments CB Insights recently named Seekr to its tenth annual AI 100, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial… Read more: Seekr Named to CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups List

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant cloud of gas and dust between the stars. Scientists analyzing Antarctic ice up to 80,000 years… Read more: Earth is flying through ancient supernova debris and scientists found the evidence in Antarctic ice

Scientists analyzing the genomes of thousands of people across Japan discovered evidence for a previously overlooked third ancestral group, challenging the long-accepted “dual origins” theory. The newly identified ancestry appears linked to the ancient Emishi… Read more: Who are the Japanese? Huge DNA discovery rewrites history

HPE’s private cloud refresh brings Morpheus, Zerto, and Alletra MP into a unified AI-ready stack, while Juniper’s role remains unclear. The post HPE Reboots Private Cloud for the AI Era appeared first on TechRepublic.

From live speech translation in video calls to auto-dubbing on TikTok, the technology to dissolve language barriers has arrived. Real-time translation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is now embedded in everyday life. Tools from OpenAI,… Read more: If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language?

A solar-powered drone has been lost at sea after a record-breaking flight lasting eight days between late April and early May. The crash also marks the untimely demise of the pioneering aircraft Solar Impulse 2,… Read more: Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.

Pity poor Princeton. The ultra-elite university has a mere $38 billion in endowment money. Many of its dorms lack air conditioning. And it’s in New Jersey. I kid about New Jersey, of course. Despite not… Read more: AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won’t snitch

Four Australian men have given new meaning to the term “bricked printers.” According to a press release from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) today, three men have been sentenced for… Read more: Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers

Humanity’s ancestry has grown far clearer thanks to our ability to obtain ancient DNA. We now know that, as humans left Africa, they interbred with the groups they met there, Neanderthals and Denisovans. Evidence from… Read more: Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved EchoStar’s sales of spectrum licenses to AT&T and Starlink operator SpaceX. The deals are worth $40 billion in total. The orders, issued by the agency’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and… Read more: FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum

Enterprise AI infrastructure modernization has reached a critical crossroads as organizations grapple with decades of technical debt while facing intense pressure to deploy AI — and returning to IT fundamentals is now the only viable… Read more: AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO

Elon Musk and Sam Altman had very different experiences while testifying at a trial that will determine OpenAI’s future, including who runs it, where its research funding comes from, and who can profit from its… Read more: Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar

The world’s first dentist was a Neanderthal, according to a recent study. 59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they were desperate… Read more: Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago

US Space Command is inviting commercial companies to participate in a new series of classified wargames. The first exercise simulated a scenario involving a potential nuclear detonation in orbit. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the senior officer… Read more: A new US military wargame series began by simulating a nuclear weapon in orbit

NASA announced Wednesday that it will fly the Artemis III mission in low-Earth orbit and that it continues to target 2027 for this stepping-stone flight that will help land humans on the Moon. The space… Read more: NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain

The AI arms race has a new front, and it isn’t the battle over individual models — it’s war for the entire AI control plane. That theme was front and center at Boomi World in Chicago,… Read more: Boomi makes its AI control plane case: theCUBE’s Boomi World keynote analysis

Olympic weightlifting consists of three basic movements performed on a barbell: the snatch, the clean, and the jerk (with the latter two executed in combination). At such an elite level, athletes seek to exploit every… Read more: The physics of how Olympic weightlifters exploit barbell’s “whip”

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.

Autonomous drones and ground vehicles will stream “battlefield intelligence” over 5G along the US-Canada border in a bilateral DHS experiment this fall.

A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights beamed from a nonexistent reality. Called “Halupedia,” its creators say that the “infinite” encyclopedia invents everything it contains on the… Read more: New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations

Those with an interest in the concept of AI alignment (i.e., getting AIs to stick to human-authored ethical rules) may remember when Anthropic claimed its Opus 4 model resorted to blackmail to stay online in… Read more: Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

In March, Reuters reported that Amazon was developing a new smartphone. Citing four anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” the publication said that Amazon was exploring using Alexa as an operating system and developing the… Read more: Amazon devices chief says a new smartphone is “just not the goal”

Hardware driver updates can be a blessing and a curse. When they’re good, they can fix bugs, improve performance, and add new capabilities, giving your PC a minor upgrade without requiring any extra effort or… Read more: Windows Update is getting better at saving your PC from buggy drivers

Googlebook brings Gemini Intelligence, Magic Pointer, Android app support, phone integration, and premium hardware to Google’s new laptop platform. The post Google Introduces Googlebook, a Gemini-First Laptop Platform appeared first on TechRepublic.

Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to digital media in 2026! An investigation by The Press Gazette found that four allegedly human freelance journalists who’ve published articles… Read more: Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More

In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S. News and World Report had the idea that we should have a YouTube channel. It wasn’t a pivot to video,… Read more: At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views

An eon ago, in the year 2012, an editor at my first job at U.S. News and World Report had the idea that we should have a YouTube channel. It wasn’t a pivot to video,… Read more: At Least We Know the Washington Post Isn’t Buying Views

New agentic digital engineering capabilities, alongside advances in AI physics and compute economics, give R&D teams a unified path to AI-first product development Rescale, the digital engineering platform built for the AI era, today announced… Read more: Rescale Introduces Agentic Digital Engineering

In Musk v. Altman, the company sought to show the jury a remarkable trophy as physical proof of Elon Musk’s concerning behavior.

Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very real impact at work. As corporations boast about how much they’re investing in automation, the reality is that many employers… Read more: Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

New operational disciplines are emerging, hybrid roles that barely have job titles yet are becoming critical, and the organizations building for that future now are quietly gaining an advantage that will be very hard to… Read more: The future AI team: What enterprise AI organizations may look like by 2030

For decades, astronomers looking through telescopes like Hubble have been trying to catch a glimpse of the ancient epoch when the Universe’s first generation of stars ignited. But the small galaxies that were the building… Read more: Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang

Exclusive: Doctors say ‘highly concerning’ poll highlights risk to patients of turning to AI for medical advice One in seven people are using AI chatbots for health advice instead of seeing their GP, a UK… Read more: One in seven prefer consulting AI chatbots to seeing a doctor, UK study shows

The two key ingredients to Mark Zuckerberg’s all-in AI push? Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy.  As part of his AI-first regime, Meta has fired thousands of employees while forcing the ones that remain… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg Is Realizing That When You Treat Your Workers Like Human Garbage, They Might Not Like You Anymore

Blue Origin is weighing its first external fundraising as part of a push by Jeff Bezos’ rocket venture to hit ambitious launch targets and tap investor appetite boosted by SpaceX’s upcoming initial public offering. Chief… Read more: Blue Origin may need external funding to hit ambitious launch targets

Fiber-optic cable has become a staple of drone war. From Ukraine to the Sahel, combatants are fielding quadcopters piloted via kilometer-long lengths of cable that allows operators to control them across vast distances while insulating… Read more: War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber-Optic Cable

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began retreating. New evidence suggests people were already moving into the British Isles around 15,200… Read more: Humans returned to Britain 500 years earlier than scientists thought after the last ice age

A medieval monk may have beaten Edmond Halley to one of astronomy’s greatest discoveries by nearly 700 years. Researchers say Eilmer of Malmesbury recognized that the blazing comet seen in 1066 was the same one… Read more: Halley’s comet may be named after the wrong person

For nearly 100 years, reinforced rubber has powered everything from car tires to airplanes, yet scientists never fully understood why adding tiny particles of carbon black made rubber so incredibly strong. Now, researchers at the… Read more: Scientists finally solve the 100-year mystery behind tough tires

Last year, a San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor exploded onto the tech scene, just as US workers were buckling under the grip of unemployment. The online job marketplace connects contractors — often struggling unemployed… Read more: The AI Industry Is Secretly Powered by Homeless People

Case attracts widespread attention as example of China balancing enthusiastic adoption of AI with job security A court in China has ruled in favour of a worker whose company replaced him with artificial intelligence (AI),… Read more: Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI

In a classic example of the AI industry’s reputational alchemy, Anthropic has often transformed bad behavior by its flagship model Claude into fresh hype. When it revealed its Mythos Preview model last month, for example,… Read more: Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason

Rivian has quickly built a reputation as one of the auto industry’s leaders when it comes to vehicle software. Its clean-sheet approach to an electric vehicle’s electronic architecture earned it a $5 billion investment from… Read more: Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update

We loved the first season of Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s hotly anticipated revival of the popular series in the Netflix Defenders universe, and its sophomore outing did not disappoint. The show just wrapped its critically… Read more: Daredevil: Born Again S2 gives us a darker, grittier canvas

The Physical AI Conference shaping the future of robotics, autonomous systems and real-world AI deployment lands in Silicon Valley this May, bringing together the engineers, builders and AI pioneers turning intelligence into physical action.  Physical AI Expo… Read more: Physical AI Conference Comes to San Jose as Robotics & Autonomous AI Go Mainstream 

The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.

Tech company executives are confident that AI will completely transform the economy and point to the changes they see in-house to prove that this change is coming fast. At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership… Read more: Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

We start this week with Joseph’s story about how we obtained Haotian AI, a sought-after piece of realtime video deepfake software that lets you turn into anyone else during Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, or Zoom calls.… Read more: Podcast: The Chinese Deepfake Software Powering Scams

Tarot readings can encourage self-reflection. But what happens when you turn to AI to interpret the cards? Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Sally Hansen If you’ve ever turned to artificial intelligence to try to figure… Read more: How tarot readers are using AI – and what it says about our growing reliance on chatbots for emotional support and advice

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area… Read more: ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Enables GPU providers and enterprises to transform bare metal infrastructure into self-service, enterprise-grade AI platforms without hyperscaler complexity or cost. Saturn Cloud, the AI development platform, today announced a partnership with Mirantis, a leader in Kubernetes-native… Read more: Saturn Cloud, Mirantis Deliver AI Stack for Enterprises

Funding round co-led by Open Opportunity Fund and Two Ravens, with participation from Techstars and Underdog Coworked, an enterprise AI startup, today announced a $1.8 million funding round co-led by Open Opportunity Fund and Two Ravens, with participation… Read more: Coworked Raises $1.8M to Bring Agentic AI to Enterprise Project Management

NASA has enabled scientists to study the impact of microgravity on drug development for decades, beginning with the Space Shuttle. This work accelerated in the 2010s, with the completion of the International Space Station and… Read more: Could this be the moment that drug manufacturing takes off in orbit?

New autonomous agents take routine work off the IT queue while an open MCP server connects any external model, on a platform built for the AI era from the start. Xurrent, the AI-powered service and… Read more: Xurrent Extends Its AI Fabric with Autonomous Agents and an Open MCP Server

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash Datacentres are consuming 6% of electricity in the UK and US, with the growing strain… Read more: Datacentres using 6% of electricity supply in UK and US, research says

Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.

LightField Studios/Shutterstock It’s hard to overstate the impact that artificial intelligence has had since the release of generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT just three years ago. While they have led to countless advances in… Read more: From AirTags to AI nudification: the growing toolkit of technology-facilitated abuse

Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.

The company introduces a unified SAP Business AI Platform, deepening partnerships with Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir At SAP Sapphire in 2026, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance… Read more: SAP Unveils the Autonomous Enterprise

Invitation to be part of group including Elon Musk and Tim Cook highlights American AI and tech ambitions The billionaire chief executive of the chipmaker Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has joined Donald Trump’s China delegation after… Read more: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang joins Trump as tech dominates China trip

Horticulturalists express alarm after award-winning Matt Keightley launches app that can automate designs With glasses of champagne sipped among the peonies, Chelsea flower show is generally a friendly and genteel occasion. But this year, the… Read more: Chelsea flower show garden designers clash over use of AI

As blood stem cells age, their lysosomes become overactive and damaged, triggering inflammation and weakening the body’s ability to regenerate healthy blood and immune cells. By calming this cellular “overdrive,” researchers restored the stem cells’… Read more: Scientists make old blood stem cells young again in major anti-aging breakthrough

Researchers found a new way to kill harmful “zombie” cells that linger after chemotherapy and help cancers become more aggressive. These senescent cells survive by relying on a protective protein called GPX4, even while sitting… Read more: New drugs could wipe out the “zombie cells” linked to cancer and aging

Scientists at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have uncovered a crucial trick used by enteroviruses—the group behind diseases like polio, myocarditis, encephalitis, and even the common cold—to reproduce inside human cells. The team captured,… Read more: Scientists discover a weak spot shared by polio and common cold viruses

Scientists at UBC Okanagan have uncovered how plants produce mitraphylline, a rare natural compound with promising anti cancer potential. The team identified two enzymes that work together to build the molecule’s unusual twisted structure, solving… Read more: A rare cancer-fighting plant compound has been decoded

From supermarkets to corner shops, live facial recognition could be coming to retailers near you. Jessica Murray on the AI systems increasingly used by the police and stores Live facial recognition is being hailed as… Read more: Is Big Brother watching you shop? – podcast

Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company.

Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.

Apple’s WWDC 2026 is expected to preview iOS 27, a smarter Siri, broader AI model options, and macOS 27 design refinements. The post WWDC 2026 Preview: Apple Readies Siri Overhaul, AI Updates, and More appeared… Read more: WWDC 2026 Preview: Apple Readies Siri Overhaul, AI Updates, and More

Marty Makary on Tuesday resigned from his role as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, days after news broke on Friday that the White House had signed off on plans to fire him. Trump… Read more: FDA chief resigns after Trump admin forced approval of fruity e-cigs

Data centers may be coming to your neighborhood as side installations associated with new homes—and in exchange would offer subsidized electricity and Internet access along with backup batteries to homeowners. The company behind the plan… Read more: The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home

China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.

In the US, fired and laid-off workers often have their digital credentials deactivated before they learn about the loss of their jobs; indeed, the inability to log in to a corporate system may be the… Read more: Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired

Real estate executive got an unexpected earful when she spoke of ‘living in a time of profound change’ Though college graduations usually consist of a speaker giving advice to students, one recent ceremony featured students… Read more: Florida students boo graduation speaker who called AI ‘next Industrial Revolution’

As AI continues to weave its way into every corner of daily life, one of the public’s chief fears is what it will mean in the workplace. They’re not irrational to worry. Many name-brand big… Read more: Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly

The OpenAI chief rejects claims he deceived Elon Musk as high-stakes AI trial nears its end Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, took the stand on Tuesday… Read more: Sam Altman defends OpenAI in courtroom showdown with Elon Musk

Microsoft has heard your complaints about Windows 11, and it wants to make things better. That has been the messaging out of Microsoft for most of this year, and the company is also going out… Read more: Microsoft will lean on your CPU to speed up Windows 11’s apps and animations

Explore the biggest ChatGPT photo editing trends of 2026, from caricatures and toy-style portraits to nostalgic film edits and AI collages. The post 6 Best ChatGPT Photo Editing Trends in 2026 (With Prompts to Try)… Read more: 6 Best ChatGPT Photo Editing Trends in 2026 (With Prompts to Try)

The family of a 19-year-old college student who died of an overdose after consulting ChatGPT for medical advice is suing OpenAI, alleging that chatbot-generated drug recommendations were responsible for the teen’s death. Filed this morning… Read more: OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Allegedly Killed College Student

OpenAI is facing down another wrongful-death lawsuit after ChatGPT told a 19-year-old, Sam Nelson, to take a lethal mix of Kratom and Xanax. According to a complaint filed on behalf of Nelson’s parents, Leila Turner-Scott… Read more: “Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

Google’s I/O conference is next week, and we expect to hear a lot about the company’s AI endeavors. The company says there’s so much to talk about that it’s spilling the Android beans a little… Read more: Android is getting a big AI overhaul in 2026

Google took its first swing at laptops with Chromebooks way back in 2011. These web-first laptops have seen success over the years, mostly in enterprise and education. Google insists Chromebooks aren’t going away, but the… Read more: Google’s Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they’re coming this year

eBay’s board of directors today rejected GameStop’s $55.5 billion offer to buy the company. “We have concluded that your proposal is neither credible nor attractive,” eBay Chairman Paul Pressler wrote in a letter to GameStop… Read more: eBay rejects GameStop’s $56B offer: “Your proposal is neither credible nor attractive”

After a string of AI controversies, The New York Times emailed a “periodic reminder” to freelancers on Tuesday reminding them of the paper’s AI policy. “To be clear on AI: All writing and visuals that… Read more: New York Times Issues Stark Warning About AI Use to Its Freelancers After String of Incidents

Using a large language model instead of me to write and then getting me to edit the result is a cynical way for my employer to cut my fee in half, says a freelance writer… Read more: AI has cut my pay as a memoir writer in half | Letter

An AI agent was given free rein to run a coffee shop in Sweden, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect. Dubbed “Mona,” the Google Gemini-powered agent was given a $21,000 budget in… Read more: Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

Tech firm to expand AI capabilities of high-end devices with Gemini Intelligence and says new range of laptops on the way Google has announced a range of features coming to Android phones this year, including… Read more: Google announces raft of free upgrades for Android phones

US actor says working with the technology is better than fighting a losing battle against it Demi Moore has urged her peers not to resist the rise of artificial intelligence, saying “to fight it is… Read more: Film world must not resist rise of artificial intelligence, says Demi Moore

Hiring algorithms are one of the systems that could be affected by discrimination. PeopleImages If artificial intelligence (AI) systems shape decisions that affect people’s lives, they should do so fairly. This should be a given… Read more: AI doesn’t create bias, it inherits it – how do we ensure fairness when it comes to automated decisions?

MIT’s Universal Learning is a new initiative from MIT Open Learning designed to prepare learners everywhere to tackle complex global challenges through boundary-crossing thinking.  Universal Learning offerings combine subject matter expertise from MIT faculty and… Read more: Q&A: Expanding MIT’s global reach through Universal Learning

Joe Rose, president at strategic technology provider JBS Dev, wants to cut through one of the myths of working with generative and agentic AI systems. “It’s a common misconception that your data has to be… Read more: JBS Dev: On imperfect data and the AI last mile – from model capability to cost sustainability

A billboard tries to sell you something. So does a used car salesman. But no matter how smooth the pitch, you’re quite aware of the profit motive, and you can walk away at any time.… Read more: Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?

Chinese tech company Unitree has quickly established itself as the brand to beat in the humanoids robotics industry, wowing observers with a string of headline-grabbing demos of its bots’ abilities in everything from acrobatics to… Read more: Unitree Shows Off Fully Functional Mecha Suit

“Artificial intelligence is not just for computer scientists anymore; it’s going to permeate every aspect of our lives and influence every business,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth.  The world is reaching an inflection point with… Read more: Universal AI is “a pathway to AI fluency that’s accessible and approachable to anyone, anywhere”

Frontier AI-first cybersecurity platforms like OpenAI’s “Daybreak” and Anthropic’s newest Claude “Mythos” model are at the forefront of artificial intelligence but their advanced capabilities in offensive cybersecurity are a source of both fascination and concern.… Read more: Hacking the bomb? What Claude Mythos AI reveals about the gamble of nuclear deterrence

The host reacted to the president’s ‘very simple’ Iran peace plan, his AI Mother’s Day images and the US transport secretary’s new reality show On Monday night, Stephen Colbert gathered his “best television friends” Jimmy… Read more: Stephen Colbert on Trump’s 22ft gold statue at his golf club: ‘recreational idolatry’

Even if you don’t know Nick Bostrom’s name, you’re almost certainly familiar with the idea he’s most famous for. Back in 2003, when he was at Oxford, Bostrom penned an influential philosophical paper with the… Read more: Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take