October 2026

Scientists have discovered a way to operate multiple silicon qubits simultaneously with remarkable accuracy, overcoming a major challenge in scaling up quantum computers. Their new technique maintained accuracy of approximately 99.9% even when all five qubits were running at once, opening the door to larger and more powerful quantum processors.

Despite all of the hype and the multiple millions of dollars invested in artificial intelligence, most of corporate America outside of its biggest technology firms is yet to see any financial payoff, according to an analysis by one of the world’s largest investment firms. In the analysis published on Saturday, Apollo Global Management Inc. said

Hemmingway-1 is a 27-billion-parameter, text-to-text causal language model built on Qwen3.8-27B and tuned for everyday English writing: messages, emails, workplace notes, difficult requests, and persuasive communication. It is published by HemmingwayAI; the model page lists The Commons Lab in Bülach, Switzerland as its maker. See the HemmingwayAI maintainer profile. The key reason to consider it

Authentic Brands Group says AI company infringed on rights of songs by the King such as Can’t Help Falling in Love The owners of Elvis Presley’s music catalogue are suing artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic for allegedly using Presley’s songs to train their models without permission. Authentic Brands Group, the licensing organization that has ownership

In case there was any doubt over the powerful tide of anti-AI sentiment, a new poll shows that most Americans are incredibly pessimistic about the technology. The poll, conducted in a collaboration between the Washington Post, ABC News, and the research and consulting firm IPSOS, showed that 57 percent of Americans now believe AI is

Robbie’s storylines in the famous soap will be recut into vertical micro-episodes to be watched on phones – but her fellow cast members say they haven’t been consulted The long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours is being recut with AI into a microdrama designed to be watched on phones, sparking a debate among the show’s actors

WA paid Deloitte $166,000 for flawed feasibility study on merging the University of Western Australia, Curtin university and Murdoch university Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in

A superconducting material studied for 40 years has turned out to be far more complex than scientists believed. Advanced 3D imaging revealed a hidden patchwork of crystal structures, with unusually wide boundaries that may weaken superconductivity. The discovery challenges decades of scientific assumptions and could explain why some superconductors outperform others.

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a bizarre, potentially historic discovery: the first moon ever detected beyond our Solar System. Unlike familiar moons, this mysterious object is at least as massive as Jupiter and orbits a brown dwarf, which itself circles a star. The unusual arrangement challenges traditional definitions of planets and moons, leaving scientists unsure

For nearly a century, people in distant parts of the world have reported a bizarre experience after eating certain wild mushrooms: seeing dozens or even hundreds of tiny, colorful humans moving through the real world. Now, scientists have identified a mushroom species, Lanmaoa asiatica, responsible for these extraordinary hallucinations in China and the Philippines.