August 2026

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

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After years of horrendous scandals, OpenAI has seemingly admitted that ChatGPT wasn’t safe for teenage users. On Tuesday, the Sam

President Trump is expected to nominate Heidi Overton, a top conservative policy aide, as the next commissioner of the Food

Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female

Sgr A* is the name we’ve given to the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky

Google’s approach to making smartphones has changed a lot over the years. It started with Nexus phones aimed at the

Pharmaceutical partners Moderna and Merck announced on Wednesday that their novel mRNA-based vaccine—individually tailored to target a patient’s unique cancer

Now part of the F5 AI Security Platform, new capabilities provide a unified control point for AI tokenomics, policy enforcement,

In June, we highlighted a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of Wildwood, director Travis Knight’s forthcoming stop-motion animated fantasy film. Laika