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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA officials announced contract awards for the initial elements of a lunar base on Tuesday, including two rovers that will provide mobility to astronauts. With the series of announcements, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman sought to… Read more: NASA takes steps toward building Moon Base, including discussing a “perimeter”

SpaceX and the Pentagon have been bickering about the price of using Starshield satellite service during the Iran war, according to a Reuters report published today. It appears that SpaceX asked the military for more… Read more: Musk says US military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules

Millions of AI agents and tools around the world have been imperiled by a critical vulnerability that can allow hackers to breach the servers running them and make off with sensitive data and credentials to… Read more: Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players.

Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

Fear of AI is at an all-time high. Not fear of a Skynet-style superintelligent singularity seizing power, generally speaking, but of something perhaps just as horrifying: that life under capitalism continues much as it always… Read more: 99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds

Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But that’s something that… Read more: Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

A $2,500 pair of humanoid robot legs built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components is not going to win marathons just yet. But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers to more easily test and… Read more: 3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

The earliest arrests under the Take It Down Act (TIDA) suggest that cops don’t have to work too hard to identify people illegally posting and selling nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes of women online. Last week, the… Read more: FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

If you owned a Windows computer in the late ’90s or early ’00s, you probably remember 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet, a surprisingly competent virtual table included for free with multiple Microsoft OS… Read more: Windows’ classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation

As the AI backlash continues to grow, critics of the tech have found an unlikely voice of support: the Catholic Church. In perhaps his strongest rebuke of the tech industry’s rampant obsession with AI yet,… Read more: The Pope Just Low Key Declared Holy War on Artificial Intelligence

Audi provided flights from Washington, DC, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could see its new Q, as well as drive its new RS5, which you can read about later this week. While we… Read more: A global brand but local cars is Audi’s future, says CEO

The Duffer brothers wrapped up their blockbuster series Stranger Things earlier this year and also departed Netflix for a lucrative new production deal with Paramount. But a couple of their production projects remain with Netflix: the… Read more: Review: The Boroughs is a smart, pitch-perfect creature feature

We all know AI guardrails are far from perfect, but they should at least be pretty hard to circumvent, right?  Bad news: they aren’t. New reporting from the Financial Times sounds the alarm on the… Read more: New Tools Strip AI Guardrails In Minutes, Allowing Them to Give Instructions on Chlorine Gas Attacks

This week Joseph speaks to Zack Whittaker, an editor at TechCrunch. Zack has been leading coverage into the spouseware or stalkerware industry. This is malware sold to ordinary people, which they then often install on… Read more: Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)

ClickUp cut 22% of its staff, with CEO Zeb Evans framing the layoffs as part of an AI restructuring focused on 100x output. The post ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff as CEO Pushes AI-First ‘100x… Read more: ClickUp Cuts 22% of Staff as CEO Pushes AI-First ‘100x Org’ Model

What will Google CEO Sundar Pichai say next month when he gives the commencement speech at Stanford University? Under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t be a terribly interesting question. But if you’ve been paying attention to the… Read more: As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation

When a queen wasp suddenly disappears, her colony doesn’t calmly choose a successor — it erupts into chaos. Researchers found that female wasps immediately begin battling for power, shattering the colony’s social order in a… Read more: Queenless wasp colonies explode into chaos but hidden helpers save them

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that contain them are most likely to form. By combining thousands of rock samples with seismic images… Read more: Scientists create global treasure map pointing to hidden rare earth deposits

Ferrari provided flights from Washington, DC, to Rome and accommodation so Ars could see the Luce. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. ROME—The arrival of any new Ferrari that isn’t a two-seater is usually… Read more: Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari’s first electric car

A new AI-powered chip from UC Davis can analyze light and chemicals using a device tiny enough to fit almost anywhere. By combining smart silicon sensors with machine learning, it achieves lab-style spectral analysis without… Read more: AI-powered spectrometer chip shrinks lab technology to the size of a grain of sand

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and forces of the universe. By… Read more: Large Hadron Collider detects strange particle behavior that could rewrite physics

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, at the Vatican on May 25, 2026. AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino With the release of his encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas on May 25, 2026,… Read more: Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape

Researchers at Texas A&M have developed a nasal spray that appears to reverse brain aging by calming inflammation and restoring the brain’s energy systems. After just two doses, memory and cognitive function improved for months,… Read more: Scientists say they’ve reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray

BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every… Read more: ‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access

Up until a decade ago, China had never launched as many as 20 orbital rockets a year. But beginning in 2022, the Asian country launched 64 rockets and last year reached a record total of… Read more: Analyst on China’s spent rocket stages: “Things only continue to get worse”

Even after being caught — and viciously criticized — for using AI to write his book about AI, one writer says he’s not giving up on the tech. While many AI writing scandals center on… Read more: Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit

AI can detect financial fraud more efficiently than previous technology did, but it also flags legitimate transactions that it shouldn’t. CardMapr.nl on Unsplash, CC BY Imagine you’re at the supermarket checkout. Your cart is full.… Read more: Your bank’s AI just blocked your payment – what can you do?

BearingPoint is expanding its AI portfolio with a fully owned, sovereign on-premise and edge infrastructure designed specifically for generative and agentic AI workloads in highly regulated industries and public administrations in Europe. Building on decades… Read more: BearingPoint Introduces Fully Sovereign On-Premise Infrastructure in Europe

Porsche provided flights from Albany, New York, to Munich, Germany, and accommodation so Ars could drive the electric Cayenne Coupe. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. MUNICH, GERMANY—Think about every fast Porsche you’ve ever… Read more: Driving Porsche’s most powerful car—and no, it’s not a 911

Remember when OpenAI was supposed to upend Hollywood by making a fully AI-generated animated movie? Such a feat would’ve been curtains for studios like Pixar, which spend hundreds of millions of dollars on each film.… Read more: OpenAI’s Attempt at an AI-Generated Pixar-Style Movie Is in Shambles

Critics of platform’s proposed new feature say it could accelerate the spread of machine-generated music Spotify’s chief executive has said the company’s move into AI-generated music offers users and creators a better alternative to unregulated… Read more: Spotify says its AI remix tool protects artists from unregulated ‘slop’

Taylor Swift has filed a trademark application covering her voice and stage image. It includes a photo of her performing in her distinctive bejewelled Eras Tour bodysuit and two voice recordings: “Hey, it’s Taylor” and… Read more: Can you own a voice? Taylor Swift’s latest legal move raises big questions for AI and copyright

Live demos and expert sessions will showcase how organization close the 68% security coverage gap in the age of AI GARTNER SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT SUMMIT — Synack, provider of a Human + AI platform… Read more: Synack Highlights Continuous Security at Gartner Summit

Purpose-built for High-Density and HPC Workloads, the Libertyville Facility Helps Enterprises Build, Validate and Deploy Production-Ready Infrastructure Faster and With Less Risk AHEAD, a leading provider of advanced enterprise AI Infrastructure, today officially opened its… Read more: AHEAD Opens New Air- and Liquid-Cooled Integration Facility

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype?

From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world.

Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.

Autonomous AI systems are beginning to move beyond software environments and into warehouses, delivery networks, and public spaces. The development is drawing attention to whether current AI rules cover systems that operate in physical environments.… Read more: Autonomous AI systems test governance in physical environments

AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know.

Cooking. Doing laundry. Tidying up. All your household tasks can be turned into data to train future humanoids—if you’re prepared for the consequences.

There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon.

Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate.

The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever.

The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’ “I have just arrived in Tudor London, 1536,” a young woman in… Read more: ‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history

This AI course helps beginners build in-demand workplace skills. The post Future-Proof Your Career With a $15 AI Fundamentals Course appeared first on TechRepublic.

Vectra AI is recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Vectra AI,  the cybersecurity AI leader in protecting modern networks from modern attacks, today announced it has been named a Leader in… Read more: Vectra AI Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for NDR

WSO2 today announced the expansion of its Agent Fabric platform, the introduction of a Forward Deployed Engineering model, and the scaling of its delivery partner ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of the agentic enterprise. Announced at… Read more: WSO2 Advances Agentic AI With Expanded Enterprise Support

Company receives the highest score in the Current Offering category and is recognized as a Customer Favorite based on outstanding feedback Hyperscience, a market leader in enterprise AI infrastructure software, focused on Intelligent Document Processing… Read more: Hyperscience Leads Document Mining Platform Evaluation

Every boardroom pitch deck in 2025 told the same story: AI agents are your new digital workforce. They research leads, reconcile ledgers, orchestrate supply chains, and draft contracts. The demos were immaculate, and the ROI… Read more: AI agents keep breaking in production. Here’s why nobody’s fixed it yet.

Recent college grads are not very fond of commencement speakers hyping up a technology they see as a threat to their career prospects When Jacob Pagel graduated from Middle Tennessee State University this spring, predictions… Read more: US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’

Scientists used some of the most advanced plasma simulations ever created to uncover how the universe builds enormous magnetic fields out of turbulence. The discovery could reshape our understanding of stars, black holes, neutron star… Read more: Massive supercomputer simulations unlock cosmic magnetic mystery

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The discovery may finally explain the origins of several mysterious… Read more: Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 mph while also producing… Read more: NASA’s Psyche spacecraft uses Mars as a giant slingshot toward a mysterious metal world

A representation of one version of the new best arrangement of points on a plane with pairs separated by a unit distance. Álvaro Lozano-Robledo Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one… Read more: An AI solution to an 80-year-old problem has shocked mathematicians

Pope Leo XIV has just declared artificial intelligence one of the defining moral challenges of our time, in his first encyclical: a formal letter intended to guide moral, social and theological thought. Titled Magnifica Humanitas… Read more: Pope Leo warns of AI’s risks to humanity in his first encyclical

With the co-founder of Anthropic at his side today in Rome, Pope Leo XIV released a major new encyclical—his first—called “Magnifica Humanitas” (“Magnificent Humanity”). It calls for AI to be “disarmed” in service of the… Read more: Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must “disarm” AI

Marten Newhall/Unsplash Global society makes billions of images and uploads hundreds of thousands of hours of video on the internet every day. The problem is, some of this content is misleading or downright wrong. And… Read more: Three ways to avoid being fooled by AI slop

Exclusive: Chancellor pushes for procurement of ships, steel, energy and AI to prioritise Britishness as well as cost Rachel Reeves has instructed cabinet colleagues to award government contracts in four critical industries directly to British… Read more: Rachel Reeves tells ministers to ‘buy British’ in four key industries

In calling for regulation of the digital revolution, and foregrounding human dignity, the pontiff has contributed to a crucial ethical debate When the present pope adopted his regnal name, he explained the choice by reference… Read more: The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first | Editorial

In the first landmark publication of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has addressed recent advances in artificial intelligence by focusing on the threat it poses to workers, social justice and “the dignity of persons”. Presenting… Read more: ‘AI needs to be disarmed’: Pope Leo sees threat to humanity in technological arms race