Palantir’s CEO says the platforms will have a vast effect on the electoral landscape … especially women. Is it a warning or a sales pitch? Don’t you just love AI? It has inundated the internet… Read more: This CEO warns that Democratic voters are most at risk from automation | Arwa Mahdawi

America really hates data centers. While the rise of grassroots data center opposition makes compelling evidence on its own, a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows just how bad the tech industry’s PR… Read more: Americans’ Anger Against AI Data Centers Is Boiling Over

These days, the AI stack beckons: emails, shopping, personal finance — there’s hardly a task some company isn’t clamoring to automate on your behalf. As tempting as it might sound to let AI agents handle… Read more: Watchdog Issues Grim Warning About Letting AI Run Your Life

The DOGE deposition videos a judge ordered removed from YouTube on Friday after they had gone massively viral have since been backed up across the internet, including as a torrent and to the Internet Archive.… Read more: The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet

From the guy who bragged that he chats with “real Nazis” and mused about how legalizing war crimes would be good for his bottom line comes another zinger that will have you yearn for the… Read more: CEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated Women

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that searched for life in the dark, stood up for hedgehogs, dropped some wisdom, and died in an inexplicably epic explosion. First, aliens might… Read more: Alien Life Might Exist on the Starless Moons of Rogue Planets, Scientists Say

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of strange plume-like structures hidden deep inside the Greenland ice sheet. New research suggests they form through thermal convection—slow, swirling motions driven by temperature differences inside the ice.… Read more: Scientists discover giant swirling plumes hidden deep inside Greenland’s ice sheet

Hair may grow in a completely different way than scientists once believed. Instead of being pushed out from the root, new research shows that moving cells inside the follicle actually pull the hair upward like… Read more: Textbooks were wrong: Scientists reveal the surprising way human hair really grows

With all eyes on West Asia as the US and Israel unleash devastating air strikes on Iran, another deadly conflict is already well underway: the political crisis in Haiti. According to a new report by… Read more: Police Drones in Haiti Have Killed More Than 1,000 People

First major study on ‘AI psychosis’ suggests chatbots can encourage delusions among vulnerable people A new scientific review raises concerns about how chatbots powered by artificial intelligence may encourage delusional thinking, especially in vulnerable people.… Read more: New study raises concerns about AI chatbots fueling delusional thinking

Professors are fighting an uphill battle against the intrusion of AI into education, and it’s forcing them to rethink how they instruct their students, many of whom have already become hopelessly dependent on the tech.… Read more: Professors Say AI Is Destroying Their Students’ Ability to Think

Elon Musk has ordered another round of job cuts at xAI after growing frustrated with the poor performance of its coding product, forcing out several more cofounders and parachuting in “fixers” from SpaceX and Tesla… Read more: Staff complain that xAI is flailing because of constant upheaval

Scientists have uncovered an enormous hidden archive of plant DNA that has endured for more than 400 million years. By comparing hundreds of plant genomes, researchers identified more than 2.3 million regulatory DNA sequences that… Read more: Scientists discover ancient DNA “switches” hidden in plants for 400 million years

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on toxic chemicals and harsh conditions, the new approach… Read more: A lab mistake at Cambridge reveals a powerful new way to modify drug molecules

Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposed Stargate was to be the world’s biggest AI investment: a $500bn infrastructure project to “secure American… Read more: Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

Treasury minister Spencer Livermore trails new strategy as chancellor pins hopes on benefits of AI amid global uncertainty The NHS and Ministry of Defence will be urged to buy British tech, as the government pins… Read more: NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis

A newly identified Australian tree has been dubbed the “zombie” tree because it’s alive but unable to reproduce. Myrtle rust repeatedly kills its young growth, stopping the species from flowering or making seeds. Scientists are… Read more: Scientists warn Australia’s “zombie tree” could vanish within a generation

Researchers have identified two gut bacteria that can produce serotonin, a key chemical that regulates bowel movements. In experiments with mice lacking serotonin, the microbes boosted serotonin levels, increased nerve cells in the colon, and… Read more: Gut bacteria that make serotonin may hold the key to IBS

When talking about risk during a press conference on Thursday, the NASA officials in charge of the upcoming Artemis II Moon mission hedged their answers. Reporters’ questions on the risks were certainly valid and appropriate.… Read more: NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there’s a reason why

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, water, and even household dust—could trigger inflammation and damage in the brain through multiple biological pathways. Scientists estimate… Read more: Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of Sun-like stars billions of years ago. The journey may have carried the solar system… Read more: Our Sun may have escaped the Milky Way’s center with thousands of twin stars

Scientists are exploring a surprisingly simple way to clean up diesel engines: adding tiny droplets of water to the fuel. During combustion, the water rapidly vaporizes, triggering micro-explosions that improve fuel mixing and lower combustion… Read more: Simple water trick cuts diesel engine pollution by over 60%

A judge on Friday ordered the immediate removal of a series of depositions of members of DOGE, but not before clips of the depositions, including one in which a member was largely unable to define… Read more: DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery

Researchers say they’ve discovered a supply-chain attack flooding repositories with malicious packages that contain invisible code, a technique that’s flummoxing traditional defenses designed to detect such threats. The researchers, from firm Aikido Security, said Friday… Read more: Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Google Fiber, now officially called GFiber, is being sold to private equity firm Stonepeak and will be combined with cable-and-fiber firm Astound Broadband to create a larger Internet service provider. Google owner Alphabet announced Wednesday… Read more: Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during training.… Read more: Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

Do you remember the joyful satisfaction you felt when you really started to understand Slay the Spire? This isn’t a totally rhetorical question. If you’re reading this piece about Slay the Spire 2—published roughly a… Read more: Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

A 58-year-old woman in Greece appears to hold the record for growing a parasitic sheep bot fly in her nose the longest, almost creating a snot rocket that could literally fly. Usually, when the sheep… Read more: Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum

As the QuitGPT movement gains momentum, should people concerned about the environmental impacts of AI consider opting out? Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s… Read more: The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI?

In a Thursday tweet, Elon Musk said he was looking to rebuild his AI startup xAI “from the foundations up” after admitting it wasn’t “built right first time around.” The news comes amid a major… Read more: Elon Musk Orders Sweeping Layoffs as xAI Fails to Catch Up

How a small IT team at the South Mississippi Housing Authority used AI and hybrid cloud technology to handle 68% of calls and modernize legacy infrastructure. The post What IT Leaders Can Learn From a… Read more: What IT Leaders Can Learn From a Housing Authority’s AI Transformation

If you’re an AT&T FirstNet customer and suddenly get hit with a $6,200 charge, the good news is that it’s probably a mistake and can be corrected. But actually getting the wrong charge wiped out… Read more: Another AT&T FirstNet user gets shocking $6,200 bill, at $2 per megabyte

For more than a decade, most electric vehicles have shared the same electrical backbone: a battery pack operating at roughly 400 V. It’s the invisible standard behind everything from early compliance cars to today’s bestselling… Read more: Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs

Canceling a software subscription is supposed to be easy—that’s what US law dictates. Adobe, however, has played fast and loose with its Creative Cloud subscriptions in the past. The company was sued by the Department… Read more: Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from March 9–13. The post AI Expansions, Cyberthreats, and Industry Shifts Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Starting on April 10, Amazon Prime subscribers will pay $5 per month for ad-free Prime Video without ads, up from the current $3 per month on top of their Prime subscription, Amazon announced today. On… Read more: Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10

There’s a new target in 21st century warfare: US tech companies. According to Al Jazeera, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps made the announcement following attacks on the country by US and Israeli military forces. In… Read more: Iran Declares Google and Microsoft to Be Military Targets

Saturday quiz | Avoiding AI | Size matters It was lovely to read Sabrina Olson’s letter (6 March) on the quiz as it has been a family ritual for us for years. It kept us… Read more: The quiz that keeps families connected | Brief letters

Writers are voicing their anger at AI theft of their work with ‘Human Authored’ logos and an empty book. The government must listen In a scene that might have come from a dystopian novel, books… Read more: The Guardian view on changes to copyright laws: authors should be protected over big tech | Editorial

In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staff that the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon.… Read more: BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI

Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a “compiling shaders” step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their specific hardware.… Read more: Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times

In January 2025, a measles outbreak erupted on the western edge of Texas and soon spilled over to New Mexico and other states. The overall outbreak would become the largest the country has seen since… Read more: Signs of hope: As measles spread, New Mexico vaccinations surged 55%

One of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the brightest explosions in the Universe,” says Joseph Farah, an astrophysicist at the University of California Santa… Read more: Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae

The M5 Pro and M5 Max in the new MacBook Pros are interesting not because they deliver a solid speed increase for Apple’s fastest laptop processors but because they also include substantial under-the-hood changes. And… Read more: M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody

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 traveling for reporting and watching way too… Read more: Behind the Blog: DOGE Bros and Data Labelers

Feature generated editing suggestions inspired by well-known authors and academics, prompting a class-action lawsuit over the use of real names without consent Grammarly has disabled a controversial AI feature that imitated the style of prominent… Read more: Grammarly removes AI Expert Review feature mimicking writers after backlash

Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs to fund AI investments and enterprise sales, even as the company reports strong growth and its stock rises after the news. The post More Tech Layoffs: Atlassian Slashes 10% of… Read more: More Tech Layoffs: Atlassian Slashes 10% of Workforce, Stock Climbs After Announcement

Besides headlines about the majority of original cofounders fleeing the company, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has struggled to gain much media attention as of late — particularly as competitor Anthropic’s high-profile spat with the… Read more: Elon Musk Says He’s Epically Screwed Up at xAI, Is Rebuilding “From the Foundations”

Apple has already launched several new devices in 2026, but more are coming. Here’s everything Apple has released so far, along with the products still expected this year. The post Apple’s 2026 Product Roadmap: New… Read more: Apple’s 2026 Product Roadmap: New iPhones, Macs, and Apple Watch Are Coming

Samsung launches the Galaxy S26 series and Galaxy Buds4 worldwide, with the Galaxy S26 Ultra leading preorders and introducing new AI, privacy, and camera features. The post Samsung Galaxy S26, Buds4 Launch Worldwide After Record-Breaking… Read more: Samsung Galaxy S26, Buds4 Launch Worldwide After Record-Breaking Preorders

China’s BYD will aim to take on Porsche and BMW in the European luxury car market with a premium electric vehicle that can be charged in just five minutes. BYD, which overtook Tesla as the… Read more: BYD’s latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes

There are different marketing strategies when it comes to movie trailers. One is the Project Hail Mary approach, in which the final trailer pretty much gives away the entire movie, trusting that the audience will… Read more: Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer

Picture this: your company sits on tens of petabytes of data. To put that into perspective, if I had a penny for each byte and stacked them up, I’d have enough to reach Pluto and… Read more: Unlocking the power of data: How we built text-to-SQL with agentic RAG at Rocket Mortgage

For years now, large language model-based chatbots have lured users into intimate relationships — romantic affairs enabled by tech that’s surprisingly adept at tapping into your psyche with a sycophantic tone that can be irresistible.… Read more: Rumors Fly That a Famous Actor Is Dating an AI Chatbot

86% of enterprises with active edge AI deployments are pursuing agentic edge capabilities, from research to production Operational efficiency gains are the top success metric, shifting core IT budgets to edge AI investments 47% adopt… Read more: ZEDEDA Survey Finds Enterprise Edge AI Entering New Phase

Welcome to Edition 8.33 of the Rocket Report! NASA officials seem optimistic about launching the Artemis II mission next month, so confident that they will forgo another fueling test on the Space Launch System rocket… Read more: Rocket Report: Pentagon needs more missile interceptors; Artemis II clears review

More than 1,000 local tech jobs have recently been cut, with companies citing AI productivity gains. But that’s not the full story, experts say Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast… Read more: Will AI take Australian jobs, or is it just an excuse for corporate restructure?

Even as scrutiny of the Epstein files reaches a fever pitch, the controversial AI platform Character.AI is hosting chatbots based on the prolific sex criminal, as well as his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and “Epstein Island”… Read more: Character.AI Is Hosting Epstein Island Roleplays Scenarios and Ghislaine Maxwell Bots

The company’s generative AI search tools increasingly cite its own services, like Google Search and YouTube, over third-party publishers.

Artificial intelligence’s relationship to filmmaking is rapidly evolving, with each week bringing new – often startling – developments. Nick Lehr/The Conversation, CC BY-SA I teach a course on AI and filmmaking at USC’s School of… Read more: As the Oscars approach, Hollywood grapples with AI’s growing influence on filmmaking

A new study from the Pew Research Center asked Americans about their feelings toward datecenters and it’s not positive. Pew published the study the day after Sen. Bernie Sanders called for a moratorium on the… Read more: People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds

Purpose-built inference engine for end-to-end infrastructure reasoning across multi-cloud environments FluidCloud, the pioneer in portable cloud infrastructure, today announced the launch of its Large Infrastructure Model (LIM), the world’s first and only LIM purpose-built for… Read more: FluidCloud Unveils the World’s First Large Infrastructure Model

The West Virginia University Health System, which operates under the brand WVU Medicine, is expanding Abridge’s enterprise-grade AI platform for clinical conversations across its multi-state network. The expansion follows clinician-reported gains in well-being and satisfaction… Read more: WVU Medicine Scales Abridge’s AI Platform Across Rural Hospitals and Clinics

Award recognizes Coder’s use of AI and automation to streamline partner collaboration, accelerate co-selling, and enable partners to deliver secure development environments at scale Coder, the leader in AI development infrastructure, today announced it has… Read more: Coder Wins 2026 ChannelVision AI for Partner Relationship Innovation

Hype around the open source agent is driving people to rent cloud servers and buy AI subscriptions just to try it, creating a windfall for tech companies.

Fake pictures look authentic – and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverage The videos look authentic – and they are spreading like wildfire on social media.… Read more: AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe? | Margaret Sullivan

Insight Partners leads the round as Wonderful scales its hyper-local operating model worldwide Wonderful, the enterprise AI agent platform, today announced it has raised $150 million in a Series B funding round led by global… Read more: Wonderful Lands $150M Series B to Expand AI Across 30+ Markets

From the global RAM shortage driving up console prices to job loss in the industry, gaming is shaping up to be one of the AI boom’s biggest casualties.

Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how The standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon has forced the… Read more: Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war

In medieval Denmark, people could pay for more prestigious graves closer to the church — a sign of wealth and status. But when researchers examined hundreds of skeletons, they discovered something unexpected: even people with… Read more: Monty Python Got It Wrong About Medieval Disease

Software demos and Pentagon records detail how chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude could help the Pentagon analyze intelligence and suggest next steps.

E.SUN Bank is working with IBM to build clearer AI governance rules for how artificial intelligence can be used inside a bank. The effort reflects a wider shift in finance. Many firms already use AI… Read more: E.SUN Bank and IBM build AI governance framework for banking

Europe’s factory floors have a new kind of colleague. BMW Group has deployed humanoid robots in manufacturing in Germany for the first time, launching a pilot project at its Leipzig plant with AEON–a wheeled humanoid… Read more: BMW puts humanoid robots to work in Germany–and Europe’s factories are watching

University of Cambridge study finds AI-powered toys can misread emotions and respond inappropriately to children It was all going well. Charlotte, five, was chatting with an AI soft toy called Gabbo at a London play… Read more: AI toys for young children must be more tightly regulated, say reseachers

Scientists at Arizona State University have uncovered surprising new ways bacteria move, even without their usual whip-like propellers called flagella. In one study, E. coli and salmonella were found to spread across moist surfaces by… Read more: The surprising new ways bacteria spread without propellers

As AI systems began acing traditional tests, researchers realized those benchmarks were no longer tough enough. In response, nearly 1,000 experts created Humanity’s Last Exam, a massive 2,500-question challenge covering highly specialized topics across many… Read more: Scientists built the hardest AI test ever and the results are surprising

Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have uncovered three key discoveries about… Read more: Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold

Researchers have discovered that hedgehogs can hear ultrasound, a surprising ability that could help protect them from cars. Since road traffic kills large numbers of hedgehogs, scientists believe ultrasonic repellents might be used to steer… Read more: Scientists discover hedgehogs can hear ultrasound and it could save them from cars

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the event GW200105, contradicts the long-held expectation… Read more: A black hole and neutron star just collided in a strange oval orbit

Researchers have uncovered a universal pattern showing how temperature affects life on Earth. Across thousands of species—from microbes to reptiles—performance rises gradually with warming until an optimal temperature is reached, after which it drops sharply.… Read more: Scientists discover a universal temperature curve that governs all life

A study from Kobe University has uncovered a surprising partnership between Japanese red elder plants and Heterhelus beetles. The beetles pollinate the flowers but also lay eggs inside the developing fruit. The plant responds by… Read more: Scientists discovered a secret deal between a plant and beetles

Decades of data from over 80,000 great tits reveal that extreme weather can shape the fate of baby birds. Cold snaps soon after hatching and heavy rain later in development shrink nestling body mass and… Read more: Extreme weather is hitting baby birds hard in a 60-year study

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most anticancer treatments that harm normal tissues,… Read more: A “mirror” molecule can starve cancer cells without harming healthy cells

Within hours of the US and Israel launching airstrikes on Iran two weeks ago, security professionals warned organizations around the world to be on heightened watch for destructive retaliatory hacks. On Wednesday, the predictions appeared… Read more: The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker’s Windows network”

Characterized by weakened or damaged heart musculature, heart failure results in the gradual buildup of fluid in a patient’s lungs, legs, feet, and other parts of the body. The condition is chronic and incurable, often… Read more: Can AI help predict which heart-failure patients will worsen within a year?

Nuro’s Tokyo rollout is an early test of whether autonomous driving software can adapt across markets with less location-specific tuning. The post Nuro Tests Zero-Shot Autonomous Vehicles in Tokyo appeared first on TechRepublic.

Members of the International Imaging Technology Council (Int’l ITC) are calling out HP for issuing firmware updates that brick third-party ink and toner functionality in its printers. HP calls this Dynamic Security and has been… Read more: HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

Newly unsealed documents show that a Live Nation regional director boasted of gouging ticket buyers and “robbing them blind” with fees for ancillary services such as slight upgrades to parking. Live Nation has tried to… Read more: Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, “robbing them blind”

Ever since Donald Trump took office and declared himself a “pro-crypto president,” FTX’s disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been working to convince the administration that he’s a Republican now. The former Democratic megadonor apparently hopes… Read more: Trump’s DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried’s MAGA makeover on X

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case A Tennessee grandmother says she is trying to rebuild her life after an incident of… Read more: Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Women crashing through glass bridges. Cat parents grinding their children into mincemeat. Poor people rioting in Walmart. Whichever way you look, the internet is clearly drowning in AI slop — and the tide just keeps… Read more: Disturbing AI Food Slop Is Strangling the Internet

Getty Images Artificial intelligence (AI) already affects many areas of daily life, including the lives of young children. Many families give screens to children younger than two, and AI-generated content is increasing on the popular… Read more: Why exposing young children to AI content could have irreversible consequences

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT-5 in August of last year, many academics scoffed at the tech company’s claims its new artificial intelligence (AI) model possessed “PhD-level” intelligence. After all, how could systems so prone to hallucination,… Read more: A PhD is an apprenticeship in research – we can’t let AI take that away

In today’s episode, we discuss how the saga between Anthropic and the Department of Defense is far from over.

Anthropic upgraded Claude’s Excel and PowerPoint add-ins with shared context, reusable Skills, and cross-app workflows for business users. The post Anthropic’s Claude Now Connects Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Workflows appeared first on TechRepublic.

Centuries before the rise of the Inca Empire, a much smaller kingdom on the central coast of Peru already had a sophisticated trade network—one it used to import live parrots across the Andes from the… Read more: Centuries before the Inca, Peru’s wealthy imported parrots from afar

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company is moving that kind of… Read more: Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Lucid’s entry into the highly competitive, high-volume midsize SUV market will be key to achieving profitability, the company told investors today. And it’s going to do that with a trio of electric SUVs that will… Read more: Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs

WIRED spoke with Nick Fox, Google’s SVP of knowledge and information, about how AI is changing the company’s advertising business.

Anti-AI sentiment surged over the last year as the hype surrounding the tech showed no signs of slowing down. Industry’s obsession with the tech has driven up electricity bills, been used to justify mass layoffs,… Read more: People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds