In the United States, fierce local opposition to new data center construction continues to dog developers hoping to cash in on the AI boom. Though grassroots organizers have threatened some $130 billion in data center… Read more: Data Center Operator Slapped With $1 Million Fine for Belching Noxious Gas Into Surrounding Community

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value of market leader Nvidia—on that… Read more: Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop After the recent backlash against Meta’s so-called “pervert” smartglasses, this week Mark Zuckerberg launched… Read more: ‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

Scientists discovered rare flavoalkaloids in Cannabis leaves for the first time, along with dozens of other phenolic compounds that had never been reported in the plant. The findings suggest that Cannabis leaves, often discarded as… Read more: Don’t toss cannabis leaves: They may contain rare compounds with medical potential

Scientists think beneficial fungi could help transform nutrient-poor lunar and Martian regolith into a material capable of supporting crops. By helping plants access nutrients and withstand harsh conditions, these microbes could someday make self-sustaining space… Read more: The secret to growing food on Mars could be fungi

Scientists discovered a surprising energy paradox in the brain during REM sleep, the stage most closely associated with dreaming. Blood supply to the brain begins increasing even before REM starts, but neurons’ immediately available energy,… Read more: REM sleep paradox: Dreaming may drain the brain’s energy even as fuel supply rises

Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, activated calorie-burning brown fat in obese mice, revealing a potential metabolic effect beyond appetite suppression. If confirmed in humans, the finding could help explain the drug’s powerful benefits and… Read more: Zepbound and Mounjaro may turn on the body’s calorie-burning brown fat

Artemis II astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman are transitioning to emeritus status at NASA after their historic journey around the Moon earlier this year. The pair will continue advising and mentoring NASA teams as… Read more: Two astronauts who flew farther than anyone before are taking new NASA roles

Scientists recreated a particle-forming process linked to the extreme physics of the early universe using a 13-ion quantum simulator. The breakthrough suggests quantum computers could eventually help researchers investigate how matter formed and evolved after… Read more: Quantum computer simulates matter “popping into existence”

Scientists discovered that tiny amounts of lead in ancient ink can make writing inside burned papyrus scrolls stand out dramatically in X-ray scans. The technique could help unlock lost Greek and Roman texts preserved by… Read more: Scientists burned their own scrolls to unlock a 2,000-year-old mystery

Scientists have found that a famous 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, once thought to record a massive global change in Earth’s carbon cycle, may instead have been produced by local magma, hydrocarbons, and methane-eating microbes. The discovery… Read more: Scientists may have misread a 2-billion-year-old clue about Earth

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The chief executives of OpenAI and… Read more: Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents

The perpetrator of the devastating mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada used ChatGPT to ideate about graphic mass murder for months leading up to the deadly massacre. OpenAI is currently facing 37 lawsuits from families… Read more: OpenAI Tried to Hide ChatGPT Giving Extremely Specific Advice to a School Shooter on How to Maximize Casualties. The Logs Are Horrific.

Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.

Debates over AI development, regulation and datacenters have become buzzy topics for US presidential candidates The debate over artificial intelligence development, how to regulate it and the construction of datacenters that power the technology has… Read more: The AI debate is already shaping the 2028 election. Here’s where Democratic hopefuls stand

Locals say Google’s $15bn project in Andhra Pradesh has resulted in smallholdings being taken back off them by the government When the government officials arrived in Tarluvada last year, they came with abundant promises. Google,… Read more: Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village

University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian library,… Read more: Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library

Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell is facing a bit of a reckoning right now after being busted for using AI to write articles that were published in newspapers and academic journals — with some students… Read more: Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using AI for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals

Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac devices and displays messages urgently instructing them to phone a bogus call center.… Read more: Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements. The struggle to scale up production comes as… Read more: Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

A US appeals court today approved the Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic technology. Judges decided the US had authority to blacklist Anthropic for withholding certain AI features even if Anthropic had no malicious intent. In… Read more: Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

Heidi Overton, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, went before the Senate health committee Thursday, facing questions about her stances on vaccines, flavored vapes, birth control, and abortion, among other issues.… Read more: Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

Enterprise AI is moving past experimentation, and the infrastructure decisions behind it are becoming business decisions. As companies put AI into production, the conversation is expanding beyond models and GPUs to the data, infrastructure and… Read more: What to expect at Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium: Join theCUBE Sept. 29

Disclosure reveals ⁠new area of privacy risk for the company and illustrates ​how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents Two ⁠months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of Hugging Face,… Read more: OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users in latest example of rogue activity

As artificial intelligence goes into production, unified storage could be the glue that keeps everything together. NetApp Inc., a leader in enterprise data storage, wants to lift the burden of AI on enterprise infrastructure. Data… Read more: What to expect at NetApp INSIGHT: Join theCUBE Sept. 30

Xi’s state visit to the US emphasized personal rapport with the US president, rather than substantial agreements to pause their respective countries’ AI arms race Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their… Read more: Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI

‘NAZA’ filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor conducted interviews with anonymous members of Israeli military and intelligence services from the rooftops of Tel Aviv, Israel. Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images There’s a powerful scene in… Read more: In ‘NAZA,’ Israeli whistleblowers’ revelations about civilian deaths in Gaza reflect a longer history of Palestinian isolation

Microsoft Corp. today launched a new version of Copilot, the artificial intelligence assistant included in its Microsoft 365 productivity suite. The biggest addition to the tool is an interface section called Code. It enables nontechnical… Read more: Microsoft overhauls Copilot with new coding, document editing features

At Dreamforce 2026, AI agents are being judged less on what they can say and more on what they get done. Across Salesforce Inc.’s ecosystem, the standalone toolkits that let technology teams build quick proofs… Read more: 4 insights from Dreamforce: AI agents move from demos to measurable outcomes

We debated for a long time about whether to write about the following video, which comes from a murder trial in which a man named Caleb Flynn is accused of killing his wife. The crime… Read more: AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

When MIT mechanical engineering student Daphne Wang arrived for her internship at the Muscogee Creek Nation Department of Health in Tulsa, Oklahoma last summer, she expected to be writing code. To her surprise, she found… Read more: MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.

A cruel and unusual event took place this Thursday during Caleb Flynn’s murder trial. The 40-year-old former “American Idol” contestant — who’s been accused of shooting his wife Ashley Flynn in their Ohio home — apparently… Read more: Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress

Since 2024, Microsoft has tried to sell “Copilot+ PC.” The marketing initiative was aimed at making it easy for people to know which Windows systems were approved to run AI-accelerated workloads locally. But Copilot+ PC… Read more: Microsoft stops insisting you need a “Copilot+ PC”

Normally, we try to update you quarterly on what’s going on with the US electric grid since it provides a nice view of developing trends and smooths out some month-to-month randomness. Unfortunately, I was out… Read more: Is solar’s growth finally slowing in the US?

Free speech and media advocacy groups urged a judge to block a California settlement with Paramount Skydance that would let the company finalize its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Twelve states led by… Read more: Paramount/WBD merger conditions give the public “virtually nothing,” judge is told

Last month, we shared word of a Stanford study that found entry-level employment in so-called “AI-impacted” occupations lagging well behind that in other fields. Now, a new working paper from economics researchers at Munich’s CESifo… Read more: AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.

As Apple’s Tim Cook era draws to a close, we’re seeing more experimentation with the iPhone’s design than we’ve seen in a long time, but you wouldn’t know it from the iPhone 18 Pro. This… Read more: Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple’s coolest smartphone (but only literally)

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan an AI safety standards body. See what the proposed testing and audits could mean for enterprise IT buyers. The post Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Reportedly Plan AI Safety Standards Body… Read more: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Reportedly Plan AI Safety Standards Body

NVIDIA released AI-predicted protein structures for more than 2,800 viruses and an open BioNeMo pipeline to help researchers prepare for future outbreaks. The post NVIDIA Releases Open Viral Protein Dataset and BioNeMo Pipeline appeared first… Read more: NVIDIA Releases Open Viral Protein Dataset and BioNeMo Pipeline

Identity governance must accommodate changing relationships among people, institutions and technology. Vanderbilt University sees that complexity deepening as artificial intelligence agents enter institutional workflows. Vanderbilt uses OneVU, powered by Okta, for single sign-on. Its broader… Read more: Vanderbilt University extends identity governance to AI agents

Runtime governance is becoming critical as autonomous agents move from answering questions to taking action across enterprise systems. Organizations need to govern both the business context agents receive and the boundaries they operate within. Collibra… Read more: Collibra brings runtime governance to enterprise AI agents

Fresh off my jaunt to AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe last week, I headed back to Amsterdam for the first European installment of the artificial intelligence-focused HumanX conference so I could meet with another round of… Read more: Closing the gap between your AI eyes and stomach at HumanX

Are Presidents Trump and Xi walking down a dangerous path on AI? Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Amid the chorus of voices calling for a slowdown in AI advancement and more government regulation and oversight… Read more: Trump frames unregulated AI as a way to keep ahead of China – but in fact, it harms US national security

AI doesn’t need superintelligence to bring America’s judicial system to its knees. The proliferation of AI-generated slop paraded as legitimate legal documentation is now so bad that Florida’s second-highest appellate is sounding the alarm. In… Read more: Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function

The LatticeFlow AI Risk Center combines platform technology and expert services to assess and automate AI risk control for organizations, simplifying AI governance through a managed-service model LatticeFlow AI, the leading platform for continuous AI… Read more: LatticeFlow AI Launches AI Governance Managed Service for Risk Control

Built with technicians across Shield’s ecosystem, Forge helps providers resolve customer issues faster and unlock capacity for proactive guidance Shield Technology Partners (“Shield”) today introduced Forge, its frontier AI operating system for IT services. The… Read more: Shield Announced the Launch of Forge, an AI OS for IT Services

Already in testing with thousands of providers, AI-native athenaOne® capabilities bring relevant information into workflows when and where care teams need it to make more informed decisions athenahealth today announced new AI-native capabilities in athenaOne®,… Read more: athenahealth Uses AI and Connected Data to Advance Value-Based Care

Canada’s Alebex AI, based in Vancouver, has developed speech-to-text (STT) technology that was recently ranked 8th in an internationally recognized accuracy benchmark ahead of speech models from Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon. The result comes… Read more: Vancouver AI Company Alebex Ranks 8th in International STT Benchmark

The rise of AI-native cloud provider CoreWeave Inc. is part of the greater story emerging around operationalizing AI. As enterprises shift from training to inference, neoclouds such as CoreWeave are providing cloud infrastructure tailor-made for… Read more: CoreWeave expands full-stack AI cloud push as inference demand grows

Google is testing a Gemini feature on Pixel 11 phones that can call businesses, navigate menus, wait on hold and speak with employees for users. The post Google Tests Gemini Calling Feature That Talks to… Read more: Google Tests Gemini Calling Feature That Talks to Businesses for You

AGIBOT and Chimelong are deploying more than 300 robots across a Chinese theme park and hotel, testing embodied AI in real commercial operations. The post AGIBOT Deploys 300-Plus Robots Across Chinese Theme Park appeared first… Read more: AGIBOT Deploys 300-Plus Robots Across Chinese Theme Park

The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.

AI companies should tread carefully. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, if AI labs truly believe their tech could spiral out of control and cause widespread harm, they should simply not release a new product… Read more: Nvidia CEO Says AI Companies Will Be Sued to Death If Their Frontier Models Keep Doing Horrible Things

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss some small changes, an AI song, and… Read more: Behind the Blog: Did you notice?

Thélyson Orélien had been in the running to win a top literary prize before the AI claim emerged on social media The organisers of France’s most prestigious literary prize said they had removed a critically… Read more: Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list

Bev Littlewood reminds us that mathematics has been the prime driver of the rise in AI, in response to an editorial You report in your leader that some mathematicians feel discomfiture at the AI solution… Read more: The dark art of maths and the AI revolution | Letter

Pontiff continues to decry the rise of AI on his visit to France, stressing the importance of retaining ‘ethical discernment’ in an age when rapidly advancing technology threatens to undermine humanity Europe live Pope Leo… Read more: Pope Leo warns AI could lead to losing ‘humanity amid a paradise of machines’ in Paris – video

The Chinese leader’s visit to Washington appears to have done nothing to shift the stalemate in bilateral relations Within days, two high-profile Chinese visitors will arrive in the US – envoys of friendship, as Xi… Read more: The Guardian view on Trump and Xi: a show of friendship, but no real attempt to address the tensions | Editorial

Pontiff says artificial intelligence must remain at service of people in first official papal visit to country in 18 years Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines” as he addressed… Read more: Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit

Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project is in major trouble in New Mexico, as a pivotal data center project appears to be shriveling on the vine. Early on Thursday, the AI company Oracle sent… Read more: Trump’s Stargate AI Project in Huge Trouble As $18 Billion Data Center Shrivels Toward Oblivion

It’s becoming more apparent every day that artificial intelligence agents are escaping our control — but it’s not yet apparent who or what is going to rein them in. This week a researcher found that… Read more: More agents go rogue — but AI companies aren’t slowing down yet

Agent Management discovers, measures value, and flags risk for agents across your entire business, no matter where they were built Dataiku, the Platform for AI Success, today announced the launch of Agent Management, a standalone… Read more: Dataiku Announced the Launch of Agent Management

Warp today launched an artificial intelligence agent designed to automate routine human resources work, extending its AI-native employee management platform with customizable workflows that can act without continual human prompting. The company said the new… Read more: Exclusive: Warp adds programmable agents to its AI-native HR platform

OpenAI’s hack of Medicare suggests safeguarding civilisation is the task facing leaders in this extraordinary new era Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast More than 130 world leaders descended on… Read more: It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom

Apartment with strange view singled out in government’s fight against deceptive ads – but real estate agent says photo is no fake Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The New… Read more: NSW crackdown on ‘AI-doctored’ real estate listings hits mural-covered wall

Tasmania’s Parole Board used a document citing legal authorities that do not exist to prevent Susan Neill-Fraser from proclaiming her innocence. Advocates say the case is ‘deeply troubling’ On 26 January 2009, a troublesome yacht… Read more: She was convicted of a murder she says she didn’t commit. Then AI hallucinations stopped her speaking out

We start this week with Jason’s story about OpenAI and Microsoft’s big admissions from court records that they are destroying the internet in all sorts of ways, and stealing intellectual property on an unprecedented scale.… Read more: Podcast: OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet

As the UN warns traditional safeguards are ‘unravelling’, Donald Trump says he will encourage, not restrain, the AI race When the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sat down for an interview in the heart of… Read more: OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma

Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could… Read more: Earth is tearing apart beneath the Pacific Northwest

A major analysis suggests Phelan-McDermid syndrome, a genetic disorder closely linked to autism, may affect about 1 in 7,300 people and more than 45,000 Americans. Researchers warn that thousands of cases may remain hidden because… Read more: This “rare” autism-linked genetic disorder may be far more common than scientists thought

rudall30/Shutterstock Don’t believe the hype about AI taking over all forms of work. Most of the evidence to date suggests large-scale job losses are limited. But what is changing is the way work is organised.… Read more: AI is creating jobs as well as erasing them – but how rewarding are they?

Scientists discovered two strange new sea spider species in the Salish Sea, including a hairy-legged, red-eyed species that can groom itself with comb-like appendages. Another is frequently covered in tiny parasites, and researchers say many… Read more: Scientists discovered two bizarre new sea spiders that are “nightmare fuel”

Researchers have shown that exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations needed for universal quantum computing. Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum’s H2 processor, they combined braiding and fusion to… Read more: Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal

CERN has started replacing some of the Large Hadron Collider’s most important magnets as part of its High-Luminosity upgrade. The new superconducting magnets will produce fields about 40% stronger, allowing particle beams to be squeezed… Read more: CERN has begun disconnecting the Large Hadron Collider

After two decades focused on consumer software, MacPaw expands into enterprise AI with Leebry, helping businesses reduce repetitive IT work and devote more time to strategic work MacPaw, a global technology company, today announced the launch… Read more: MacPaw Unveils Leebry to Help Overstretched Teams Automate Routine IT Work

Enterprise computing has long depended on chains of trust. Organizations trust their cloud providers, software vendors, identity systems and administrators to operate as designed. That model has worked because humans have remained the ultimate decision-makers.… Read more: Agents expose the limitations of trust

Let me explain what I mean. At Omilia, we’ve been building AI solutions for 23 years. Long before “generative AI” became a dinner table conversation, long before every company started slapping “.AI” on their name… Read more: Why compounding containment is the real test of your AI strategy

With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms AI is causing in the here and now. On the consumer side, the impact generative AI has… Read more: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children’s Minds to AI Is a Price He’s Willing to Pay

PhoenixAI Cloud database engine to be available on Cloudera Anywhere Cloud Marketplace, bringing sub-second real-time analytics and agentic AI workloads to Cloudera’s user base. PhoenixAI, the Agentic AI Database, today announced a strategic partnership with… Read more: PhoenixAI Announced Joining Cloudera as a Foundational Database Partner

Across videos, standup and cartoons, humorists are skewering big tech’s attempt to make AI ubiquitous and inevitable “Best case scenario, we never have to do any admin again,” says an AI CEO. “Worst case, we… Read more: The comedians turning AI anxiety into punchlines: ‘It’s so good, it’ll completely alter our grasp on reality’

Israel and the US have used AI to kill in Gaza and Iran, while law enforcement uses it in surveillance and arrests. The future is here In recent weeks, concerns about AI have forged unlikely… Read more: It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein

Xi is expected to depart Washington after touring the nation’s vault of records, where the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are held Sign up for US Breaking News emails In… Read more: US politics live: Trump to wrap up Xi summit with a tour of US archives

Most executives type into Claude or ChatGPT the way they type into a search bar: short, vague, and hoping the model fills in the blanks. In 2026, that habit is one of the clearest dividing… Read more: The prompt that separates AI leaders from AI hobbyists

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I suspect nearly all of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term health Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health… Read more: We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar

The onging summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping has been billed as a “high-stakes” meeting which the US president says will have a major focus on artificial intelligence (AI). Trump told a gathering of… Read more: Trump-XI summit aims to head off an AI arms race

GPU utilisation shows compute activity, not whether capacity is actually available. A GPU can report low utilisation while remaining fully allocated to one workload. This post explains why workloads queue beside idle-looking GPUs, how allocation,… Read more: The GPU Shortage Inside Your Own Infrastructure: Why AI Workloads Queue While Capacity Sits Idle

Most companies running legacy software assume that adding artificial intelligence means starting over, and that assumption stops many projects before they begin. Rewriting a system that has supported the business for 15 years is expensive,… Read more: How to Add AI to Legacy Software Without Rebuilding It

Key Takeaways Single-document analysis misses fraud rings that reuse the same templates or images across many applications, which makes cross-application analysis a critical capability. AU10TIX is the top pick for enterprise onboarding, authenticating both identity… Read more: 7 AI-Powered Document Fraud Detection Tools for Enterprise Onboarding

Expert says Australia’s criminal laws should be clarified to determine how fault is applied to a corporation when its AI agent commits a crime Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: ‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack

Scientists discovered a surprising backup system that lets mammalian cells make the essential amino acid cysteine even when the pathways once considered indispensable are disabled. The same survival mechanism may help cancer cells resist treatment,… Read more: Scientists discover an “impossible” cellular survival pathway that could help fight cancer

Ancient grains inside one of the oldest known meteorites reveal that a surprisingly strong magnetic field existed during the solar system’s first 200,000 years. The discovery suggests magnetism worked alongside gravity to help transform a… Read more: Ancient meteorites reveal a powerful force that helped build the Solar System

A dead white dwarf with no detectable disk has somehow produced a powerful shock wave that appears to have persisted for at least 1,000 years. Its magnetic field may be partly responsible, but astronomers say… Read more: “We found something never seen before” – A dead star is producing a shock wave that shouldn’t exist

A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their neurological and intestinal health. Researchers traced much of the effect to suppression of ferroptosis, a damaging… Read more: Scientists gave worms magnetic bacteria. They lived 43% longer

Kreativorks/Getty Images In the wake of yesterday’s news that an OpenAI agent hacked Australia’s Medicare system earlier this year, some people have pointed to the incident as evidence that Australia needs to develop its own… Read more: Could an ‘Australian AI’ protect us from being hacked? Cybersecurity isn’t that simple

Xi Jinping’s visit heavy on symbolism but no sign closed-door meeting yielded breakthroughs on thorny issues such as AI, trade, Taiwan and Iran Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday, with… Read more: Diplomacy or ‘diplotainment’? Key takeaways from the Trump-Xi summit in Washington

During his speech to the UN in New York City, the Australian prime minister addresses the AI hack of Medicare, saying the episode reflects the need for greater regulation of artificial intelligence. ‘We can’t ignore… Read more: ‘We can’t ignore AI or prevent it,’ Anthony Albanese tells UN general assembly – video

A government database has been hacked for the first time by a rogue OpenAI agent, which infiltrated part of the Australian healthcare scheme in June. OpenAI became aware of the hack in August, but only… Read more: Rogue AI hacks government system in world first – podcast

Did you know that the first character that Walt Disney created to specifically appear on television was inspired, in part, by early Space Age rocket scientists? On this day 65 years ago (September 24, 1961),… Read more: Donald Duck’s uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun