Welcome back to the Abstract! We’re back to our regularly-scheduled programming this week, so here are the studies that flooded the zone, joined the chorus, reminisced about the past, and gave live birth. First, scientists reconstruct a devastating series of floods that swept across Europe in the 1340s, offering lessons for our present-day climate crisis. […]

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’ Secondhand booksellers in the UK and Ireland are reporting a flurry of bulk orders from mystery buyers, amid speculation AI companies are acquiring the tomes for their data. Bookshops contacted by the Guardian say they have been receiving

Beyond single agents: Coordinated AI teams now deliver complete healthcare solutions, for payers, providers, and life sciences, including AI Readmission Reduction, AI Star Ratings and HEDIS Improvement, AI Chronic Care, AI Trial Enrollment Hippocratic AI, which delivered healthcare’s first generative AI agents in 2023, today announced the next generation of that technology: Agentic Orchestrators, teams of

AI has become an integral part of modern IT transformation. The 2026 International IT Transformation Study by Natuvion and NTT DATA Business Solutions found that 76 percent of more than 1,100 executives and IT specialists across 15 countries have already used AI in transformation projects. A further 34 percent expect AI adoption to continue growing

As Innovaccer extends its autonomous healthcare operations platform globally, Mastek joins its Platinum GSI program, bringing four decades of global delivery expertise and institutional relationships to accelerate deployment at international scale Innovaccer, the autonomous operations platform for healthcare, today announced a strategic partnership with Mastek, a global digital, cloud and AI services company with more

New Offering, Unveiled at Black Hat USA 2026, Brings Integrated Solution for Performance Optimization, Budget Management, Real-time Observability, and Governance Running Entirely within the Customer’s Environment A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) today announced the general availability of the A10 AI Gateway, a centralized, intelligent control plane that gives organizations unified routing, cost management, and governance across every

We should, in theory, be happy. Thanks to our phones, we can do practically anything – listen to our favorite bands’ entire discographies, have extravagant meals delivered to our door, travel the world through an endless scroll. So why do so many of these experiences feel so joyless? Why do so many of us feel

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five years that the company has begun flying the rocket dozens and then hundreds of times a year. As a result, SpaceX has very rapidly become responsible for more than three-quarters