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Grading Our 2025 AI Predictions: How Did We Do?
Making predictions is easy. Getting them right is harder. How did we do this year?
New artificial intelligence tool helps UH researchers unlock sun’s magnetic secrets
These advances allow researchers to see the sun’s magnetic landscape more accurately and improve predictions of solar activity that impacts life on Earth, including solar flares and coronal ejections that...
If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation
Schumer slams alleged Instacart artificial intelligence-powered price changes
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is accusing Instacart of ripping off consumers by charging different prices for the same product to different customers. “This is jacking up grocery costs across...
AI agents are starting to eat SaaS
Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.
Opera launches Neon browser globally with paid early access
Opera Neon is now available globally with a $19.90 monthly subscription, offering AI-powered agents, premium models, and experimental workflows.
Kindle’s in-book AI assistant can answer all your questions without spoilers
Amazon’s latest feature lets you use AI within your Kindle to refresh your memory on character or plot points.
HyperCard on the Macintosh
How do we approach the challenge of helping non-programmers build software? Do we throw up our hands at today’s complexity and say, “Just let an AI do it.” Or, do...
Google Paid to Fete Key Lawmakers at a Secret Summit
Google recently paid state lawmakers upward of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions discussing artificial intelligence and other issues that many...
Humanoid robot fires BB gun at YouTuber, raising AI safety fears
A viral experiment shows a humanoid robot firing a BB gun after a role-play prompt overrides its safety rules, sparking major concerns.
Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide
A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist
AI was not invented, it arrived
AI was not invented, it arrived
Beware of Agents: A Cautionary Tale
Every few years, a new category of technology arrives with an irresistible promise. Fewer steps. Less friction. More autonomy. AI agents arrived with exactly that pitch. Describe the outcome, turn...
Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Brian Merchant has been collecting personal stories for his series AI Killed My Job – previously covering tech workers, translators, and artists – and this latest piece includes anecdotes from...
Inside the AI-powered assault on SaaS: why identity is the weakest link
AI makes identity the easiest, and deadliest, SaaS attack vector
Want job security in the age of AI? Get a state license
The coming tech boom is about to launch a boom in people who do things with their hands and minds
Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool
You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts...
Robotics Is About to Become America’s Most Important Industry
As the Genesis Mission accelerates, robotics is emerging as the keystone industry in America’s next moonshot.
The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All The AI-Generated Apps?
In 1950, while discussing the recent wave of flying saucer reports over lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple question....
AI on a Triple Zero call? Australians are open to that
Could artificial intelligence speed up emergency responses by receiving a caller’s video or smartwatch data and capturing words like “knife” and “collision”? Most people think so and welcome the technology’s...
Why Japan’s robotic pioneers are ceding the humanoid stage to China and the US
Japan’s university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of AI talent.
European firm 1X to deploy 10,000 ‘home’ humanoid robots in factories
1X has partnered with EQT to make up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots available to more than 300 companies between 2026 and 2030.
The 5 most innovative tech products that surprised us this year (including a first for robot vacs)
From AI glasses with digital overlays to robot vacuums that can pick up your leftover laundry, here are ZDNET’s Breakthrough Award winners for 2025.
China’s Unitree teases platform allowing users to control robots via smartphones
Hangzhou robotics unicorn’s platform is designed to bring embodied intelligence into everyday life.
Stuck in the factory: how robotics pioneer Japan missed the AI-driven humanoid boom
While humanoid robots from China and the US have captured the imagination of people for their skill at serving drinks, taking part in boxing matches and running marathons, and entertaining...
For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn’t the brain?
In 2023, Meta researchers were able to decode images in thoughts from the brain’s magnetic fields. What if that’s how the brain coordinates it’s own global state?
How ‘long’ are web pages?
Metric Value Min 0 Max 3,004,502 Avg 10,403 Median 3,201 Metric Value Total Pages Analyzed 44,684 Page Content Tokens 464,854,727 Total Tokens (all) 541,062,817
UH scientists help unlock sun’s magnetic secrets with artificial intelligence
These advances allow researchers to see the sun’s magnetic landscape more accurately and improve predictions of solar activity that impacts life on Earth, including solar flares and coronal ejections that...
GitHub – mozilla-ai/llamafile: Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.
Distribute and run LLMs with a single file. Contribute to mozilla-ai/llamafile development by creating an account on GitHub.
Data centers for AI could nearly triple San José’s energy use. Who foots the bill?
The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is “the West Coast’s premier destination for data center development.”
Are Generative AI Wildlife Videos Art or Slop? We Went Looking for Answers.
You’re not crazy—the critters on Instagram are wilder than ever, thanks to artificial intelligence-generated video. Our articles editor takes a deep dive into the technology, culture, and ethics around this...
Why is RAM so expensive right now? It’s way more complicated than you think
Yes, AI is partly to blame for surging prices and DRAM shortages, but that’s not the whole story
WATCH: Kraken Robotics, TKMS ATLAS UK test KATFISH USV-LARS on ARCIMS USV
Kraken Robotics and TKMS ATLAS UK have demonstrated the KATFISH unmanned surface vessel launch and recovery system (USV-LARS) from TKMS ATLAS UK’s ARCIMS USV.
AI data center boom could be bad news for other infrastructure projects
Improvements to roads, bridges, and other infrastructure could take a hit as data center construction accelerates.
Exclusive: Washington Post’s AI-generated podcasts rife with errors, fictional quotes
Errors in the Post’s new AI-generated podcasts have frustrated the paper’s journalists.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 for ChatGPT Users a Week After Declaring…
Just a month after introducing GPT 5.1, OpenAI introduced GPT-5.2, the next-generation model that will power its popular chatbot. GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s “most capable model series yet for…
Ensuring A National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.