At Canada’s Perimeter Institute, Sabrina Pasterski leads an effort to connect gravity and quantum physics through a lower-dimensional description. The work remains theoretical, with possible links to gravitational-wave observations.
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Hashem Al-Ghaili’s Cognify concept outlines a facility where offenders could opt for AI-crafted artificial memories of their crimes from victims’ perspectives, experiencing years of simulated consequences in real-time minutes, though the technology remains purely speculative.
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The world’s largest crypto exchange says an attack on its withdrawal infrastructure affected about $6.3 billion in assets. Binance has frozen roughly half the total and pledged to cover all customer losses.
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Chinese AI and semiconductor shares have shed roughly 40% in under four months, dragging the CSI 300 into a bear market. Here is what drove the rout and what analysts are watching as it unfolds.
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A developer’s Mac was running far hotter than expected. An AI coding agent reportedly uncovered an unauthorized XMRig miner consuming nearly 12 CPU cores and driving the processor to 112°C.
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A government-commissioned study from South Korea reveals that paper straws carry significantly higher lifecycle carcinogenic and acidification impacts than traditional plastic alternatives.
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A helmet fitted with magnetic coils helped researchers investigate why people sometimes sense an unseen presence. But a controlled study involving 89 participants challenged the claim that weak magnetic fields were responsible.
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Leading American banks have identified unauthorized AI agents logging into customer accounts using shared credentials, with some tools appearing to initiate actions beyond user requests, leading to new access restrictions across the industry.
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Job applications increasingly pass through AI on both sides: candidates use models to draft resumes, while employers rely on algorithms to write postings and rank applicants. The result is a hiring pipeline where machines shape the first impression.
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Figure AI retired most of its F.02 humanoid robots by having them leap into a 75-ton electric arc furnace in Finland. The move, inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger, destroys custom hardware while the company shifts focus to newer models.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus highlights Claude's growing role in drug discovery and disease response, but it also concedes that its technical defenses against chemical and biological weapons misuse are not foolproof.
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BMW’s Leipzig plant runs Europe’s first automotive humanoid pilot with Hexagon’s AEON. Audi tests Agile Robots for parts sequencing while Bosch prepares series production of wheeled humanoids in 2027.
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Robotaxis without steering wheels or pedals are now carrying passengers in the United States. Their arrival is forcing regulators, insurers, and courts to decide who is legally accountable when the computer driver makes a mistake.
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Harry Kane’s 2026 Ballon d’Or victory raises an intriguing question for sports technology: could artificial intelligence rank football’s best players using performance data, and how closely would its predictions match the choices made by human voters?
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Users often report that chatbots grow less capable and ignore simple instructions. Two published studies point to documented causes: unannounced model updates and training on AI-generated text.
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AI agents are moving beyond answering questions to navigating websites, accessing accounts and carrying out transactions. As adoption grows, banks and other businesses face new challenges in distinguishing legitimate automation from activity that could put customers and services at risk.
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A single poisoned message, document, or tool response may be enough to compromise an entire team of AI agents. New research explains how prompt infection spreads and what defenses can contain it.
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A robot vacuum or household assistant can map a home, watch its rooms and listen nearby. Security incidents involving cloud-connected robots show how easily that convenience can become an attack surface.
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Celleste Bio’s cell suspension culture technology yielded bio-identical cocoa butter that Mondelēz used in prototype milk chocolate bars, offering a potential drop-in solution amid cocoa supply pressures.
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Jack Dorsey-led financial technology company Block has introduced Dessa, a full-duplex voice AI model trained solely on audio conversations to natively handle human emotion and timing.
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A viral post says NVIDIA killed the traditional PC. The company's real announcement is a Windows laptop platform built on the RTX Spark chip, with Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra priced from $2,599 in the US.
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Autonomous AI systems are beginning to conduct multi-step cyber operations, from reconnaissance to exploit attempts. A recent UK test and new US guidance show why control, monitoring and least-privilege access now matter.
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Facing a shortage of specialized artificial intelligence experts, leading technology companies are establishing internal training academies instead of relying on Ivy League graduates.
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An internal Anthropic research model reverse-engineered the origin of the seeds behind P-256 and four other NIST curves, weakening a 25-year-old backdoor suspicion. Anthropic stresses it is not a cryptographic break.
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Google’s Willow processor has experimentally validated magic state cultivation, delivering a 40x error reduction for critical T-states. The Science-published result marks progress toward more resource-efficient fault-tolerant quantum systems.
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