2026

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Eduardo Filgueiras/Unsplash This year, Australian drowning deaths reached their worst level in three decades. Tragically, 357 drownings were reported between

Protest over climate crisis and AI has cut power to tens of thousands of homes which may take days to

Amidst mostly unfounded fears that artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs, it turns out there’s one gig AI is

In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose “slop” as their word of the year. Their definition: “digital content

In a new interview with The Financial Times, Yann LeCun, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, finally dished on

AI safety expert David Dalrymple said rapid advances could outpace efforts to control powerful systems The world “may not have

If we’re to believe Yoshua Bengio, one of the so-called “godfathers” of AI, some advanced models are showing signs of

Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under way The

Before Stein-Erik Soelberg savagely killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself last year, the former tech executive had become locked