October 2026

There’s no question that 2026 is the year of the artificial intelligence agent. AI agents are remarkably ubiquitous, as people use them to write code, communicate with customers, identify and resolve issues in their information technology environments, and execute complex tasks within enterprise environments. It seems there’s nothing that agents cannot do. And yet, the […]

We got our first look at Prime Video’s new sci-fi series Blade Runner 2099 in July at San Diego Comic-Con. With the show’s premiere roughly six weeks away, the streamer unveiled the full trailer this weekend at New York Comic-Con. Co-stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) joined showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) onstage for

The United States runs on gas powered generators. As of 2022, the US had nearly 1,000 gas-fired plants, which was already more than the next nine countries combined. Under returning president Donald Trump, the country’s embrace of high-carbon power has only accelerated, as energy developers abandon environmentally-friendly projects like off-shore wind farms in favor of

Happy hormones | Fuel costs | Drive-in parking | Guys and girls | Young or old? | Singapore pollution Re your report (‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms, 6 October), the US neuroscientist Ben Rein has shown that there is a fundamental difference in our cognitive response according to the

AI is helping companies interpret biological data for drug discovery and more personalized care. Healthcare technology company Flahy Inc. is applying that approach to clinical decision support, bringing together information that could affect a person’s next step in prevention or treatment, according to Jagjit Singh (pictured, right), founder and chief executive officer of Flahy. “There’s

Spring and summer of 2026 have seen a sharp increase in the public’s awareness of pervasive police tech in the United States, primarily through the rising infamy of AI surveillance company Flock Safety. But as many Americans now revile automatic license plate readers, privacy advocates say we’ve only just scratched the surface of the web

Against all odds, the US economy continues to grow at a record-setting pace. Yet as new economic data shows, that growth is anything but healthy, and predicated almost entirely on the AI boom. A new essay by podcaster and writer Derek Thompson takes a look at key economic metrics surrounding AI in 2026. Among the

Many large companies have spent the past few years investing in artificial intelligence infrastructure, software and implementation. Boards approved the plans. Finance built the business cases. Procurement negotiated for computing capacity. One question remained. How would they manage the data underneath those systems? This isn’t the kind of failure that makes headlines yet. There is

Most traditional enterprise systems were built around three assumptions: Jobs finish quickly, retrying one is free and the same input always produces the same output. Agentic workloads break all three of these expectations, which is why pilots that perform well turn into operational problems once they run unattended. The difficulty is rarely the model; it’s

As tech companies continue to claim their AI models are capable of cracking some of the toughest problems that have stumped mathematicians for decades, the crypto community is starting to become uneasy. As Business Insider reports, certain luminaries of the scene are concerned that AI could unlock blockchain wallets, whose public keys are currently protected