Scientists examining amber from Goethe’s personal collection discovered three hidden fossil insects, including an extinct ant preserved in extraordinary detail. Advanced 3D imaging allowed researchers to see not only the ant’s outer features but also… Read more: Goethe never knew this 40-million-year-old ant was hidden in his collection

For decades, pancreatic cancer has been one of the most lethal cancers, with few effective treatment options. A new drug, daraxonrasib, targets the KRAS mutation that fuels most pancreatic tumors—something many scientists once thought couldn’t… Read more: Scientists finally crack an “undruggable” pancreatic cancer target and nearly double survival

A weird text from my dad in February sent me on a months-long quest to solve a mystery that has been troubling an odd group of victims from a Columbia University data breach last year.… Read more: My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with

On Monday, SpaceX amended its initial public offering to state that water conditions—including water scarcity, regulations around water, and drought—could constrain data center development. It isn’t the only tech company trying to assess how water… Read more: How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems

Researchers at EPFL have developed a chip-scale ultrafast laser that performs on par with traditional tabletop femtosecond lasers. The innovation could make advanced laser technologies far smaller, cheaper, and more accessible for applications ranging from… Read more: After 20 years, scientists finally shrink a powerful laser onto a chip

After a slow start, Subaru’s electrification journey picked up a bit this year with the debut of a pair of new electric vehicles, the Uncharted and the Trailseeker. Neither is truly an in-house Subaru—like the… Read more: It doesn’t feel very agricultural: The 2026 Subaru Solterra review

Scientists spend enormous time hand-crafting publication-quality figures, yet every automated system in existence handles only one figure type at a time, producing static images that cannot be tweaked. The assumption underlying this limitation is straightforward:… Read more: Are you still manually fighting with LaTeX and TikZ to create publication-quality figures?

The MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) has received renewed support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an additional five years, increasing annual funding from $4 million to $4.98 million. The… Read more: NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery

In the last few years, we’ve heard case after case where attorneys used generative AI and were caught including fake citations, quotes, and other major errors in their filings. This generally plays out in dockets,… Read more: Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don’t Exist

Nothing does more for your ego than realising you can make a better decision than a bot with all of human knowledge at its digital fingertips I am not, by nature, an early adopter. There… Read more: I asked AI for help with DIY. It told me to build a subfloor on rotting stumps, but also taught me valuable lessons | Myke Bartlett

First comparative benchmark of AI agents for API bug detection shows strong performance on simple checks, but major gaps on cross-field and business-logic failures KushoAI today released the first comparative benchmark study of how leading… Read more: KushoAI Benchmark Finds AI Coding Tools Struggle With Complex API Bugs

Kong will help ADEO bridge API management and AI connectivity within a single platform Kong Inc., a leading developer of API and AI connectivity technologies, today announced that ADEO, the global leader in Europe in home… Read more: ADEO Partners with Kong to Scale GenAI Adoption

While Google CEO Sundar Pichai proudly tells the world that 75 percent of all new code at the company is AI-generated, internally Google employees are sharing memes about how AI is bad at that exact… Read more: Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks

Have you found yourself drumming your fingers in impatience more lately? Connect Images via Getty Images When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching… Read more: Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that’s bad news for patience

Pinecone Nexus integration with Microsoft OneLake moves reasoning upstream and delivers trusted knowledge to AI agents querying enterprise data, at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches. Pinecone, trusted knowledge infrastructure for AI, today at… Read more: Pinecone Nexus Now Integrates with Microsoft OneLake

Thousands of electric vehicles in Waymo’s autonomous robotaxi fleet may eventually give up their used batteries for a very different purpose—contributing up to hundreds of megawatt-hours of stationary energy storage to local power grids. That… Read more: Used Waymo robotaxi batteries become backup storage for power grids

Microsoft has announced the wider testing of its new Autopilot feature at the Microsoft Build event this week, backed by a post on the company’s’ website. Autopilots are described as a new category of agents… Read more: Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.

Launching at Cisco Live 2026, this solution helps enterprises safely deploy generative AI, strengthen zero trust, and simplify access management LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, launches its new Managed Secure… Read more: LTM Launches Managed Secure Service Edge (SSE) Solution with Cisco

Amazon is offering its AI shopping technology to other retailers through a new Agentic Shopping Assistant built on AWS, with Kate Spade among the first brands to use it. The service allows retailers to build… Read more: Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade

A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”

Microsoft’s Project Solara previews a future where AI agents run on managed enterprise devices, not just PCs, browsers, or chat windows. The platform is still early, but its badge and desk concepts raise new questions… Read more: Microsoft Project Solara Brings AI Agents to Enterprise Devices

Most enterprise teams are treating EU AI Act compliance like a legal checkbox. It isn’t. For teams actually deploying production agents the requirements reach deep into how you build, monitor, and govern every step of… Read more: Building compliant AI Agents: Preparing Enterprise teams for the EU AI Act

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered unusual chemistry in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the first direct detection of methane on a visitor from another star system. The comet also contains exceptionally high levels of… Read more: NASA’s Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way the immune system fights cancer, overturning a core belief that has guided immunology for decades. The research found that when cancer cells shut down a key immune-recognition molecule… Read more: Cancer’s favorite escape trick may actually make it easier to kill

Researchers have discovered how microscopic imperfections and atomic vibrations can be used to control a powerful quantum effect in an advanced material. The effect can turn alternating electrical signals from the environment directly into the… Read more: Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries

Hidden beneath Arctic waters, beluga whales have long kept their family lives a mystery. By analyzing DNA from more than 600 belugas in Alaska’s Bristol Bay over 13 years, researchers uncovered a surprisingly flexible mating… Read more: Beluga whales keep switching mates and it may be saving their species

SpaceX set its IPO price at $135, putting the company on track for a record public listing and a valuation near $1.77 trillion. The post SpaceX Sets $135 IPO Price at $1.77T Valuation appeared first… Read more: SpaceX Sets $135 IPO Price at $1.77T Valuation

OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, announced today the launch of OpsGuru Agentic Delivery, an AI-native professional services model designed to deliver governed, production-grade AI outcomes for customers at fixed-fee pricing. The announcement addresses… Read more: OpsGuru Announced the Launch of Agentic Delivery

IPO could raise up to $75bn, giving SpaceX market value of $1.77tn as it sets up Musk for extraordinary wealth Space X is seeking to raise about $75bn (£55bn) through its imminent stock market listing,… Read more: SpaceX targets biggest ever stock market debut, putting Musk on course to be trillionaire

Some will question its credibility. But the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak • Academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival In our increasingly dystopian… Read more: ‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

MCP Re-Writes Enterprise Integration, AI Accountability, and the Rise of the Co-Engineer Will Dominate Second Half of 2026 Propel Software, creator of the first product value management (PVM) platform that transforms how businesses create, market,… Read more: Propel Software Identifies Five Trends Defining Future of Product Innovation

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was… Read more: My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart

Stronger checks likely to be needed in England to safeguard reputation of GCSE, AS and A-levels, says Ian Bauckham Cheating in exams could be magnified by the new generation of wearable hi-tech devices such as… Read more: Smartglasses and earpieces may worsen exam cheating in schools, says Ofqual

Getty Images One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial intelligence (AI) models will need less in the future as they improve and… Read more: UN report warns AI could soon use 3% of world’s electricity and more water than we need to drink

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.

Measure expected to pass next week represents major rebuke to big tech as local disquiet over AI boom grows Seattle’s city government is on the verge of passing a year-long ban on the construction of… Read more: Seattle, home to Amazon and Microsoft, poised to pass moratorium on new datacenters

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies and… Read more: Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress

Plex is adding new social features to the platform. As of today, users can make and share “personalized lists on Plex of any movie, show or episode,” the company said in an announcement. Later this… Read more: New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business

On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally signed his executive order expanding the government’s efforts to conduct voluntary safety testing of frontier AI models. Now, critics are warning that the order may be short-sighted, offering only performative… Read more: Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

The generative AI boom has driven the cost of memory into the stratosphere, and Google is a key part of that trend. So it’s only fitting that Google should offer some less RAM-hungry local AI… Read more: Google’s new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

There’s a lot that doesn’t add up in a security advisory password manager Dashlane published Monday, warning that attackers managed to obtain 20 encrypted user vaults. “Starting on Sunday, May 31, 2026, an external party… Read more: Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen

Microsoft showed Project Solara concept devices at Build 2026, including a wearable AI badge for office workers using AI agents. The post Microsoft Tests Wearable AI Badge for Office Workers appeared first on TechRepublic.

UK regulators today ordered Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to… Read more: Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

In 2026, the hype for artificial intelligence agents is louder than ever before. These semi-autonomous programs can “think” and execute well-defined tasks in areas like customer service and software development, typically using language models (LMs).… Read more: Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”

A case of New World screwworm has been reported in South Texas. If confirmed, it would be the first detected breach of the US-Mexico border by the ravenous flesh-eating flies, which have been making their… Read more: Flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says

Tod Machover, the Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media, faculty director of the MIT Media Lab, and director of the Opera of the Future research group, will receive the George Peabody Medal for… Read more: Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology

While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Residents in Monterey Park, California, became the… Read more: In first, California city overwhelmingly votes to permanently ban datacenters

As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming that incoming students barely have a middle-school level… Read more: College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science

Consumer advocates decry Democrat Jared Polis for ‘choosing to side with dominant corporations’ over workers Colorado’s governor vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have banned companies from using surveillance pricing to set workers’ wages… Read more: Colorado governor vetoes block on surveillance pricing as other states push for bans

Four people suing Elon Musk’s AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.

Spencer Huang, Nvidia’s robotics lead, tells WIRED that the new bot combines the best of both worlds.

The secondary market for decades old, low-tech John Deere tractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly.… Read more: Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

Giving news websites the power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications The UK’s competition watchdog has ordered Google to change how it uses publishers’ content in its… Read more: What do UK watchdog’s new rules on Google AI results mean for publishers?

Jess Asato was portrayed by AI tool as wearing a bikini after she criticised the creation of such non-consensual pictures A Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s AI company after saying its… Read more: Labour MP sues Elon Musk’s AI company over fake sexualised images

Some copywriter at Microsoft is getting a real stern talking to. In an internal document obtained by 404 Media, the tech giant let slip that it wants to “make people addicted” to its new personal… Read more: In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI

European Commission aims to reduce ‘risky dependencies’ on foreign suppliers in cloud computing, AI and semiconductor production The EU executive wants to ensure no foreign government or company has access to a “kill switch” to… Read more: EU proposes to block foreign providers using ‘kill switch’ to disrupt vital tech across Europe

We start this week with Jason’s story about one of the wildest hacking stories in a while. Hackers simply asked Meta’s AI to change the email address on a target Instagram account, and the chatbot… Read more: Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked

Readers respond to an article by Nesrine Malik on what we lose when we trust machines over humans Nesrine Malik is right to worry about the effect that AI may have on writing (AI is… Read more: The risks of inviting AI into the heart of our economy, society and governance | Letters

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that the way vaporized materials cool can dramatically change… Read more: Scientists simulated a nuclear fireball and found a surprise in the fallout

Christi Hill and male police officer misidentified in Vickrum Digwa case on AI platforms including Grok UK politics live – latest updates A former police officer has been forced to flee to a safe space… Read more: Former officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest

After shelving the original executive order last month, Donald Trump finally got on board Monday night.

June’s night sky delivers several must-see events, starting with a close encounter between Venus and Jupiter after sunset. Mercury joins the pair to form a rare three-planet lineup, while the Moon puts on a special… Read more: Venus will disappear behind the Moon in a rare June sky event

Florida has become the first state in the union to sue ChatGPT producer OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. In a landmark lawsuit filed by Florida attorney general James Uthmeier, the state accused the entity… Read more: State of Florida Sues OpenAI, Saying Sam Altman Showed “Utter Disregard for the Risk to Human Life”

The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort… Read more: Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

The first platform to enforce compliance on every AI-generated message, voice call, and video before it is sent ZeroDrift, the compliance firewall for AI, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $10 million seed round.… Read more: ZeroDrift Raises $10M Seed Round to Build the Compliance Firewall for AI

Cofounder is one of the first agentic interfaces for small businesses that knows a business’ team, payroll, compliance tasks and more before even getting started Gusto, the leading partner for small businesses, today announced the… Read more: Gusto Launches Cofounder, an AI Teammate Purpose-Built for Small Business

At first, it felt a bit like Emmy-winning writer director Jorge Gutierrez had been living under a rock. On May 27, Amazon announced that it had ordered an animated series, dubbed “Punky Duck,” as part… Read more: Amazon’s AI-Generated Animated Series Canceled After Relentless Derision

The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort… Read more: Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

Researchers discovered a way to reverse the direction of energy flow in turbulence, challenging a theory that has stood for more than 80 years. The finding could open new possibilities for controlling ocean currents, improving… Read more: New discovery upends an 80-year-old theory of turbulence

A newly identified group of amygdala neurons appears to play a central role in anxiety and social behavior. Restoring normal activity in this tiny brain circuit reversed anxiety and social deficits in mice, revealing a… Read more: Scientists reverse anxiety by fixing a tiny brain circuit

Scientists have developed an experimental diabetes and obesity pill that works in a completely different way from drugs like Ozempic. Rather than reducing hunger, it activates metabolism in skeletal muscle, helping lower blood sugar and… Read more: This new diabetes pill burns fat without the downsides of Ozempic

Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing population. At the same time, productivity is uneven. For… Read more: AI offers promise for agriculture, but smallholder farmers risk being left behind

Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended… Read more: Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness

DfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’ Disability campaigners have called on the government to halt plans to cut funding for specialist… Read more: Thousands sign petition against cuts to tech support for disabled students in England

The director defends investment in and use of AI-generated storyboards, saying the immediacy of communicating his vision to cast and crew is ‘creatively freeing’ Martin Scorsese’s announcement that he has invested in an AI company… Read more: Martin Scorsese accused of ‘throwing artists under bus’ with AI storyboards

For decades, scientists have understood that plants can release volatile organic compounds—essentially airborne chemical signals—to attract the natural enemies of the things that eat them, like caterpillars. What we didn’t know was exactly how a… Read more: Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars

Standardising grid data through SAP S/4HANA allows E.ON to modernise infrastructure and execute AI deployments. The utility giant manages infrastructure across three distinct domains: energy grids, customer solutions, and energy infrastructure solutions. Maintaining operations across… Read more: How E.ON uses SAP S/4HANA to modernise the grid with AI

Peopleimages/Shutterstock.com In 2006, Carl Koch sued his employer for damages after burn injuries during a workplace accident that left him with chronic pain. The employer accused him of malingering, so the judge admitted a neuroscientist… Read more: Pain shouldn’t be judged with a lie detector test – here’s why

The company’s RTX Spark chips might finally turn the “AI PC” into reality.

Software could make ethically superior decisions to humans in high-pressure moments, claims ex-GCHQ head David Omand Drones will need to be programmed with moral guidelines as AI-driven decision making reduces human involvement in autonomous warfare,… Read more: Future AI weapons such as drones should have moral code, says former UK spy chief

While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? The question is becoming… Read more: Can autonomous AI-powered killer drones take morality onboard?

A former NASA engineer named John Muratore sat on console as launch director in early September 2016 as propellant flowed onto a Falcon 9 rocket in Florida. Ahead of a planned launch two days later,… Read more: How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin’s launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.

Cottonbro Studio/Pexels ChattyBear, a soft, brown-furred teddy bear, begins every conversation with a jubilant, “Hello, my buddy!” No longer the province of the imagination, ChattyBear is part of a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI)… Read more: Chatbot teddies for three-year-olds? Why AI toys are risky for kids

Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.

Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip arrived this week with numbers that are genuinely difficult to contextualise: qubits 1,000 times more reliable than the first generation, a mean qubit lifetime of 20 seconds against an industry norm measured… Read more: Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum chip is also a case study for agentic AI in R&D

New partnership connects AI-powered resource planning with automated time capture as firms struggle with visibility into capacity, profitability and delivery risk Laurel, the work intelligence platform for professional services, and Dayshape, the AI-powered resource management… Read more: Laurel, Dayshape Help Firms Improve Revenue and Efficiency

Walmart has reportedly begun limiting employees’ use of an internal AI assistant called Code Puppy after demands placed on the LLM backing the tool were higher than expected. Employees of Walmart were encouraged to use… Read more: Walmart’s AI workflows meet the realities of the balance sheet

Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.

Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech… Read more: Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs | Arwa Mahdawi

With rivals racing to market to raise ‘eye-popping sums’, the spotlight is now on the AI sector’s one-time ‘poster child’ A year is a long time in AI. Just 12 months ago, Sam Altman was… Read more: As the tech mega-IPO race hots up, has OpenAI missed its moment?

TDTHAI establishes the foundation for enterprise AI deployment across Asia-Pacific while supporting Trident’s expanding digital infrastructure, cybersecurity, digital identity, and automation ecosystem Trident Digital Tech Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: TDTH) (“Trident” or the “Company”), a Singapore-headquartered… Read more: Trident Digital Tech Holdings Launches TDTHAI Across Asia-Pacific

Trustero expands its AI-native GRC platform with Playbooks and MetricStream integration, offering qualified users a complimentary Proof-of-Concept. Trustero AI, the leader in AI-powered GRC automation, today announced AI-powered Playbooks coincident with an integration with MetricStream, delivering Continuous… Read more: Trustero Announces AI-Powered Playbooks

30-year enterprise technology revenue executive joins Managed Intelligence Provider as market demand for Agentic Day-2 support accelerates. Apiphani, Inc. today announced the appointment of David McDougall as Chief Revenue Officer. McDougall brings 30 years of enterprise technology… Read more: Apiphani Names David McDougall CRO to Lead Commercial Expansion

A joint venture between Tquila and You.com, Weaver delivers production AI on a fixed fee. Financial model in two to three weeks. Working system in six to twelve. Weaver launched today with one conviction: most… Read more: Weaver Launches as the AI-Native Systems Integrator

Watchdog says ‘publishers will now have effective tools to prevent content being used to power AI features in search’ Business live – latest updates Publishers will be able to opt out of their content being… Read more: UK media groups given power to opt out of Google AI search summaries

Cisco unveiled Cloud Control, Live Protect, and Hybrid Mesh Firewall at Cisco Live to help enterprises manage AI-era IT and security operations. The post Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats appeared first… Read more: Cisco Live 2026: New Security Tools Target AI Threats

ZoomMate aims to turn meeting conversations into AI-powered workflows, giving IT leaders new questions around governance, automation, and ROI. The post Zoom Introduces ‘ZoomMate,’ an AI Teammate for Post-Meeting Work appeared first on TechRepublic.

Australia’s economy grew by 0.3% in the first three months of 2026, slowing from 0.9% growth at the end of 2025, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures. Over the year to March,… Read more: Australia’s economy slows as households tighten their belts, while AI investment surges