Heaven club neighbour admits offences under Licensing Act, as Met says fictitious AI-generated complaints a growing issue A businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down a nightclub, which police… Read more: Man used AI to make false statements to shut down London nightclub, police say

This post is 8,000 words long—it is our new collaborative paper on an emerging type of AI evaluation. The paper is also published in a PDF format here. Summary: AI models have started to saturate… Read more: Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities

In Musk v. Altman, a jury will soon determine whether OpenAI has strayed from its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. Here’s what to know.

In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.

E-bikes have started to blur what was once a basic feature of cycling: you push the pedals, which turns the wheels. Now, with throttles, you only have to pedal some of the time. And in… Read more: First look: Also’s upcoming e-bike disconnects the pedals and wheels

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced meeting dates for advisors to discuss lifting restrictions on 12 unproven peptides that the agency deemed to pose significant safety risks in 2023. The meetings are scheduled… Read more: RFK Jr. forces FDA to reconsider 12 unproven peptides after 2023 ban

Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation… Read more: Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos

Google latest update to AI Mode in its Chrome browser is designed to keep the chatbot-style search tool always around once you start an online search journey.

In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to infiltrate dozens of targets around the world. It was trivially easy to get around Anthropic’s AI guardrails,… Read more: Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI

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Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, new editing tools, and adds partner models as it turns Firefly into a hub for agentic creative workflows. The post Adobe Expands Firefly Into AI-Powered Editing Assistant Across Creative Apps… Read more: Adobe Expands Firefly Into AI-Powered Editing Assistant Across Creative Apps

A new report from the nonprofit research group Tech Transparency Project (TTP) claims that Google and Apple’s app stores go beyond simply hosting harmful “nudify” and “undress” apps that remove women’s clothing in images, and… Read more: App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows

Case of businessman using AI to generate false letters of complaint against Heaven nightclub part of a growing issue, say police A businessman has pleaded guilty to making false statements in order to shut down… Read more: Man used AI to make false statements in effort to shut down London nightclub

There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically the first adopters of new technology like MP3 players and the internet — are actually the most… Read more: Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds

Is AI helping with your workouts? We want to hear about it According to reports, people are incorporating AI into their fitness routines in a variety of ways; they have it write up training plans,… Read more: Tell us: do you use AI for fitness?

Why AI safety breaks at the system level Two developments in AI have started to reveal a deeper shift in how intelligent systems are built and deployed.  One model operates behind closed doors, supporting a… Read more: Why AI safety breaks at the system level

Scientists are often advised to explain their work in terms that a child can understand—a task that is particularly challenging when it comes to such complex topics as quantum mechanics. It’s easier when the interviewer… Read more: Meet the Quantum Kid

As tensions with the US government mount, Anthropic has leased a new office with enough space to quadruple its 200-person head count in London.

The difference between a developer who gets mediocre results and one who ships faster than ever comes down to one thing: How well they have set Claude up to succeed.  Claude Code works best as… Read more: 3 easy ways to get the most out of Claude Code

As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s latest obsession are three magic words: “pivot to AI.” In a baffling announcement today, struggling tech bro… Read more: What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent

Footage of As Deep As the Grave screened in the US, featuring an authorised visual deepfake of the actor who died in 2025 A trailer has been released for the first film to star an… Read more: First trailer released for western starring AI version of Val Kilmer

As AI chatbots go, OpenAI’s ChatGPT isn’t the most provocative. Its relentlessly upbeat, hand-holding style has drawn constant criticism for coming across as condescending. Still, Starbucks’ newly announced partnership with the chatbot may have pushed… Read more: Starbucks’ Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups

I thought I would be a “cool” bride. I believed this because I never dreamed of my own wedding. When other girls daydreamed aloud about riding down the aisle on a pony, or gracefully officiated… Read more: I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

Researchers have discovered lithium hidden in pyrite within ancient shale rocks—an unexpected find that could reshape how we source this critical battery material. It raises the possibility of extracting lithium from existing waste, reducing the… Read more: Fool’s gold isn’t so foolish: Scientists find hidden treasure in pyrite

The ozone layer has been on track to recover thanks to the Montreal Protocol—but a loophole may be holding it back. Chemicals still permitted for industrial use are leaking into the atmosphere at higher rates… Read more: MIT scientists just found a hidden problem slowing the ozone comeback

Cloud migration becomes much harder when teams are not moving workloads, but also trying to make every environment reproducible and deployment-ready through Infrastructure as Code. The challenge is not limited to copying applications from one… Read more: 5 top cloud migration software for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Later this year, two spacecraft are scheduled for launch on missions to land somewhere near the rim of Shackleton Crater, an impact basin near the Moon’s south pole harboring an immense reservoir of water ice.… Read more: The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first?

OpenAI is introducing sandbox execution that allows enterprise governance teams to deploy automated workflows with controlled risk. Teams taking systems from prototype to production have faced difficult architectural compromises regarding where their operations occurred. Using… Read more: OpenAI Agents SDK improves governance with sandbox execution

California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.

The EIA’s pilot survey offers the clearest look yet at how the US government plans to measure data center power use as AI strains the grid. The post US Moves Toward Mandatory Data Center Energy… Read more: US Moves Toward Mandatory Data Center Energy Reporting as EIA Pilot Expands

Former Uber developer platform leaders launch AI agents that automate pull request validation and actively resolve code review and CI triage issues Gitar, a developer infrastructure company building AI agents for code review and continuous… Read more: Gitar Raises $9M to Tackle AI Code Validation Bottlenecks

Stereotaxis (NYSE: STXS), a pioneer and global leader in surgical robotics for minimally invasive endovascular intervention, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Robocath, a venture-backed innovator of robotic technologies for… Read more: Stereotaxis Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Robocath

Keebler Health, an LLM-native risk adjustment platform built to process unstructured clinical documentation at scale, today announced it has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round. Led by Flare Capital Partners, with participation… Read more: Keebler Health raises $16M to unlock clinical data insights

Recognized for delivering best-in-class accuracy, privacy-first AI, and maximizing price/performance ROI for healthcare and life sciences Based on its recent analysis of the North American Healthcare Large Language Model (LLM) industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes John… Read more: John Snow Labs wins customer value leadership award

Cadence Design Systems announced two AI-related collaborations at its CadenceLIVE event this week, expanding its work with Nvidia and introducing new integrations with Google Cloud. The Nvidia partnership focuses on combining AI with physics-based simulation… Read more: Cadence expands AI and robotic partnerships with Nvidia, Google Cloud

A long-running dinosaur mystery may finally be solved: Nanotyrannus, once dismissed as just a teenage T. rex, appears to have been its own distinct species after all. Scientists analyzed a tiny throat bone from the… Read more: Scientists thought this was a young T. rex. They were wrong

Scientists have discovered that methane in the open ocean is produced by microbes under nutrient-poor conditions, solving a long-standing mystery. As warming oceans reduce nutrient mixing, these methane-producing microbes may thrive. This could lead to… Read more: Scientists discover hidden ocean methane source that could worsen global warming

Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren’t planning a human response on the scale required The transition to a world of artificial intelligence has given a whole… Read more: AI is destroying jobs – and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott

An independent medical practice now has a round-the-clock multilingual receptionist – with pricing starting at $149/month. Freed, the AI clinician assistant trusted by more than 26,000 clinicians and institutions across 100+ specialties, today announced the… Read more: Freed Launches Front Desk, an AI Receptionist That Answers Clinic Calls 24/7

Join compliance, risk management, and cybersecurity leaders to experience Agentic AI innovation, master LogicGate platform capabilities, and earn CPE credits LogicGate, the Leading AI GRC Platform for the Enterprise, is excited to return its flagship Agility… Read more: Accelerate into the Agentic GRC Era at LogicGate’s Agility 2026 Conference

Thoras AI, an agentic scaling platform for mission-critical cloud infrastructure today announced a strategic partnership with Agiletek, a technology solutions provider focused on rapid AI integration, to accelerate the deployment of secure, scalable infrastructure across federal… Read more: Thoras AI, Agiletek partner on federal agentic AI rollout

New guidance to legal profession ‘embraces’ use of technology but flags penalties for lawyers who ‘mislead the court’ with AI-generated errors Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email,… Read more: Australian federal court issues warning to lawyers over ‘unacceptable’ use of AI

RDNE/Pexels In 2022, the founders of chatbot startup Character.AI launched a platform where anyone could create interactive characters powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The app exploded, quickly growing to more than 20 million users who… Read more: How do teens really use AI companions? With more creativity than you might think

On Wednesday shareholders in Thomson Reuters demanded the company’s board launch an investigation into whether its products have contributed to human rights violations, specifically with regards to Thomson Reuters’ ongoing sale of peoples’ personal data… Read more: Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts

A federal jury ruled today that Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary operate an illegal monopoly that overcharged fans for tickets, handing a win to US states that continued a trial even after the Trump… Read more: Jury finds Live Nation/Ticketmaster is illegal monopoly that overcharged fans

A Florida grand jury has indicted surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky on charges of second-degree manslaughter for the 2024 death of a patient whose surgical procedure was horrifyingly botched. That patient was 70-year-old William Bryan of Alabama,… Read more: Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen

Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as it cites “rapid advancements” in AI, saying smaller teams can do more amid rising competition and a push for profitability. The post Tech Layoffs Continue: Snap Cuts 1,000 Jobs, Citing… Read more: Tech Layoffs Continue: Snap Cuts 1,000 Jobs, Citing ‘Rapid Advancements’ in AI

The Godzilla franchise is going strong in 2026, with Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (part of Legendary Entertainment’s MonsterVerse) and the pending release of Toho’s Godzilla Minus Zero, the hotly anticipated sequel to 2023’s… Read more: New teaser gives us first look at Godzilla Minus Zero

NBA fans sat on the edges of their seats as last night’s game between the Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets went into overtime. That excitement quickly shifted to confusion, frustration, and outrage when Amazon Prime… Read more: Prime Video shows “technical difficulties” sign instead of NBA game in overtime

Deal teams are moving beyond virtual data rooms toward platforms that support the full deal lifecycle. Here’s how Intralinks DealCentre AI and Datasite compare. The post SS&C Intralinks DealCentre AI vs. Datasite: Which platform is… Read more: SS&C Intralinks DealCentre AI vs. Datasite: Which platform is built for the future of dealmaking?

Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four-legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses. Those improvements come courtesy of Google DeepMind’s newest robotic AI model that aims… Read more: Boston Dynamics’ robot dog now reads gauges and thermometers with Google’s AI

Most people access Google’s search and AI products through a browser, but you’ve got some new options today. Google has been testing a Windows search app for some months, and it’s now officially available. Over… Read more: Google releases new apps for Windows and MacOS

Two years ago, Microsoft launched its first wave of “Copilot+” Windows PCs with a handful of exclusive features that could take advantage of the neural processing unit (NPU) hardware being built into newer laptop processors.… Read more: “TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database

From people marrying digital companions to CEOs excited about how people whose jobs are replaced can ‘adapt’, this is terrifying watching. But Perry is the perfect host There is a fun game you can play… Read more: Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review – some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

Lack of funding leaving police forces failing to keep pace with two-thirds annual increase in referrals, says report Child victims of online sexual abuse are being inadequately protected from further harm because police forces are… Read more: Child victims of online sexual abuse in UK inadequately protected, review finds

Rebrand as NewBird AI sent shares up 582% in bizarre and rapid turnaround for firm that had fallen on hard times Allbirds, the maker of minimalist wool sneakers beloved by Silicon Valley, announced on Wednesday… Read more: Shares in Allbirds surge after maker of wool sneakers announces pivot to AI

Adolfo Felix/ Unsplash There has been no shortage of bold claims recently about artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs — from mass unemployment to over-hyped distraction. Much of this debate is speculative. Often, coming from the… Read more: Employment data shows the early signs of AI job disruption are already here

It doesn’t take much to impress an AI chatbot. Tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT have long garnered a reputation for being ludicrously sycophantic. Despite AI companies publicly promising to address the problem, researchers recently found that… Read more: ChatGPT’s “Honest Reaction” to a “Song” Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It’s Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas

YouTube is changing livestream ad timing to avoid interrupting purchases and peak chat moments, giving creators a clearer view of where automated monetization is headed. The post YouTube Will Show Fewer Livestream Ads During Purchases… Read more: YouTube Will Show Fewer Livestream Ads During Purchases and Chat Spikes

Netgear is the first major vendor of consumer routers to obtain an exemption from the US government’s sweeping ban on foreign-made routers. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced an exemption for Netgear’s Nighthawk and Orbi… Read more: FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn’t explain why

The US Space Force is still dealing with the near-term implications of the second grounding of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket in less than two years. The experience is likely to influence how the Pentagon… Read more: Space Force looks at moving “significant number” of launches from ULA to SpaceX

CEOs have eagerly grabbed onto AI as a tool to make offices more efficient, and often to reduce headcount via brutal layoffs. There’s a problem, though: the workers who remain often say they now have… Read more: AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock

Adobe has been putting task-specific AI tools and features into its creative productivity applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere at a breakneck pace, but the latest product from the company—a chat-based interface that can handle… Read more: Adobe takes Creative Cloud into Claude Code-esque territory

Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy praised robots as the future of war in a Defense Industry Worker Day address on Monday. “For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken… Read more: Ukraine Says Russians are Surrendering to Robots

Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction A new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in… Read more: The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial

AI is making it easier to design chips and optimize software for different silicon. Some startups envision a revolution in chipmaking.

A dismal job market has given rise to a grim new cottage industry: a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to do the work they can’t… Read more: Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs

Visualization shows how DESI built its 3D map of the Universe. Earth is at the center of the wedges, and every point is a galaxy. Credit: DESI/KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor In a significant milestone, the Dark Energy… Read more: New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery

If you know the name Allbirds, it’s probably for the company’s longstanding stated commitment to “sustainable shoes and apparel.” Going forward, though, the corporate entity wants to be known for its “long-term vision to become… Read more: Allbirds abandons clothes, pivots to “AI compute infrastructure”

In 2024, we learned that the third and final season of Good Omens wouldn’t be a full slate of episodes like the prior two seasons. In the wake of allegations of sexual assault against creator… Read more: Good Omens S3 trailer sets up a blessed conclusion

The risk to almost a million US jobs is too great to allow imports of Chinese vehicles, according to Ford CEO Jim Farley. In an interview, Farley spoke with Fox News about rising car prices… Read more: US jobs too important to risk Chinese car imports, says Ford CEO

Enterprise cloud environments now have access to an undo feature for AI agents following the deployment of Commvault AI Protect. Autonomous software now roams across infrastructure, potentially deleting files, reading databases, spinning up server clusters,… Read more: Commvault launches a ‘Ctrl-Z’ for cloud AI workloads

Microsoft has taken over Norway data center capacity once earmarked for OpenAI’s Stargate project, adding 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips. The post Microsoft Takes Over Key Stargate Site in Latest OpenAI Pullback appeared first on… Read more: Microsoft Takes Over Key Stargate Site in Latest OpenAI Pullback

How do you file taxes on prediction market profits? It seems like the type of straightforward question any halfway decent bookkeeper should be able to answer. Right now, though, it’s a conundrum for tax experts… Read more: It’s Tax Day, and no one knows how to file for prediction market winnings

Blue Origin released details about a new stock option plan in an internal communication on Tuesday. Ars was able to review the materials and connect with some employees to gather their thoughts. Some of the… Read more: Blue Origin has a new employee stock plan, but not everyone is happy

At the end of last month, a scientific journal pulled a research paper on Alzheimer’s disease. The retraction came from Neurobiology of Aging, which removed a 2011 paper claiming to show that a version of a… Read more: What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?

Cuts by Snapchat’s parent company come in response to a declining stock price and pressure from an activist investor Snapchat’s parent company plans to lay off 16% of its employees, around 1,000 people, citing “rapid… Read more: Snap Inc blames AI as it lays off 1,000 workers

A vibe-coding application creation company, Emergent, has released Wingman, an autonomous agent that can address and take control of the applications used to manage daily tasks. The company’s press release states: “The best technology should… Read more: Citizen developers now have their own Wingman

Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service” company. Hey, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

Hundreds of students at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston have signed an online petition protesting a new course on generative AI music and songwriting, marking another salvo in the continuing battle between… Read more: Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It’s Offering an AI “Songwriting” Class

Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts If you’ve never seen… Read more: ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage

A new study proposes detecting life in space by spotting patterns across many planets instead of focusing on one at a time. If life spreads and changes planetary environments, it could leave behind statistical clues… Read more: Scientists think alien life might be hiding in patterns

Feeling mentally “on” isn’t just in your head—it can significantly boost what you accomplish. Researchers found that sharper thinking on a given day leads people to set bigger goals and actually follow through. That edge… Read more: The surprising reason you’re so productive one day and not the next

A massive, bus-sized “terror croc” that once preyed on dinosaurs has been brought back to life in stunning detail with the first scientifically accurate full skeleton of Deinosuchus schwimmeri. Stretching over 30 feet long, this… Read more: This 31-foot “terror croc” ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back

📄 This article was primarily reported using public records requests. We are making it available to all readers as a public service. FOIA reporting can be expensive, please consider subscribing to 404 Media to support… Read more: Emails Reveal Space Force’s Hardest Mission Is Writing a Song

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous dinosaur with… Read more: A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed

Regulator says tool, which creates reports for humans to review, has helped classify entire UK catalogue of HBO Max TV shows including Game of Thrones and Euphoria have received age ratings for the first time… Read more: Game of Thrones and Euphoria given age ratings as BBFC deploys new AI tool

Enterprise AI sales leader with 20+ years of Fortune 500 transformation experience joins Trustwise to scale go-to-market operations as demand for AI trust and runtime control accelerates Trustwise, the AI trust management company, today announced… Read more: Trustwise Appoints Gina Carfagno as CRO to Lead Growth and GTM Expansion

Google Photos fixes Android crop tool bugs and adds smoother animations. Here’s what changed and why it matters for users. The post Google Photos Fixes Android Image Editing Tool: Here’s What Changed appeared first on… Read more: Google Photos Fixes Android Image Editing Tool: Here’s What Changed

When it comes to machine-produced ‘literature,’ does it really matter whether the outputs can pass for original art? J Studios/Digital Vision via Getty Images At some point in the next several months, I am hoping… Read more: Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’

We start this week with Joseph’s story on the inherent friction between secure chat apps like Signal and the phone they’re running on. Incoming message content can be stored in a phone’s internal notification database.… Read more: Podcast: How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages

Traditionally, young people have eagerly embraced hot new technologies — think Sony’s Walkman, Apple’s iPhone, or Napster — and become major drivers of their success in the workplace and society. And if they spurn a… Read more: Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z’s Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry

Narwhal Labs advert depicts woman next to strapline: ‘She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise’ An AI company which recently secured millions of pounds of investment has been accused of running a… Read more: ‘Misogyny with a marketing budget’: UK AI firm accused of sexist advert

Singapore-based DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to be called GEODASH Aerosystems, to build an agricultural spraying drone for large industrial farms. The companies say the near-production drone technology is designed to… Read more: Drones get smarter for large farm holdings

We would like to hear your experience of job interviews that were conducted partially or wholly by AI Companies are increasingly using AI in their hiring processes – including conducting job interviews themselves. With this… Read more: Tell us your experience with AI in job interviews

A new study examines the impact of the rise of AI-generated websites on the internet—and found some surprising results.

The assumption that the US holds a durable lead in AI model performance is not well-supported by the data, and that is just one of the uncomfortable findings in Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report,… Read more: The US-China AI gap closed. The responsible AI gap didn’t

An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

In the Arizona desert, scientists have uncovered a bizarre and almost unbelievable partnership between ants: tiny cone ants acting as “cleaners” for much larger harvester ants. Instead of attacking, the smaller ants crawl over the… Read more: Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why earlier fossils are so scarce. This supports… Read more: Scientists just solved a 160-million-year fossil mystery “I’ve never seen anything like it”