
New York Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
Nigerian soldiers training at a military base in Monguno, Nigeria, last year amid a surge in attacks by jihadists. Extremist groups like Boko Haram are turning to A.I. for tactical on-the-ground advantages, highlighting a broader challenge for the A.I. industry.

GeekSpin - 1 day 15 hours ago
Artificial intelligence has long been promoted as a tool to help doctors and nurses, not replace them. But a controversial decision at a New York hospital is challenging that promise after several veteran nurses were laid off following the rollout of AI-powered review software. The move has ignited a fierce dispute between hospital leaders and […] Read the original article here: New York hospital replaces veteran nurses with AI...

GeekSpin - 1 day 17 hours ago
Your future surgeon might not be a doctor in scrubs. Instead, it might look like a pair of five-foot-tall, 60-pound metallic humanoids named “Surgie.” A historic first for the operating room In a global first for medicine, a team of engineers and surgeons at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) successfully used remotely controlled […] Read the original article here: Humanoid robots just performed live surgery for the first time...

Observer - 1 day 18 hours ago
Power in artificial intelligence no longer moves through the channels everyone learned to watch.

The Atlantic - 1 day 19 hours ago
How a 90-second ad encapsulates the AI industry...

New York Times - 1 day 21 hours ago
An Apple Store in Manhattan. Regulators are starting to pay attention to concerns that iCloud's privacy makes it easier to share child sexual abuse material.

BBC - 1 day 22 hours ago
Share trading in Elon Musk's rocket company has been volatile since it went public a month ago.

NBC News - 1 day 22 hours ago
One company thinks taking a shortcut through space can get allow 45-minute flights anywhere on Earth, while also aiding U.S. missile defense. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz reports on how Inversion, a Southern California space company, is planning to move supplies around the globe by sending cargo into orbit and letting come down by parachute.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 22 hours ago
As of 21 June 2026, a Level 1 Expulsion has been imposed on IEEE Member Dr. Fei-Yue Wang, former editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles . In accordance with IEEE Bylaw I-110.5(D)(i), Dr. Wang is no longer a member of IEEE, and is permanently banned from any type of membership in any IEEE organizational unit or participation in any IEEE activity. The Board of Directors also determined this notice to IEEE membership should be made.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 1 hour ago
ELIZA is remembered as the world's first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users' worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For some, it heralded an age of automated psychotherapy, while others believed the program demonstrated sentience, a fallacy soon known as the " ELIZA effect ." Based on published descriptions, ELIZA has been implemented on many different...

Newser - 2 days 7 hours ago
A familiar Apple app is suddenly at the center of a new banking scam. CBS News reports that fraudsters are posing as bank employees, then shifting routine calls into FaceTime video chats to win victims' trust and watch them enter sensitive information in real time. The playbook: People get a...

New York Times - 2 days 7 hours ago
On July 15, 2006, a new era of provocative hot takes, kneejerk reactions and random thoughts on social media ushered itself in with the public debut of Twitter, after a soft launch that March.

Robb Report - 2 days 9 hours ago
The R&B superstar is the Danish audio brand's new global brand ambassador.