
New Scientist - 1 day 5 hours ago
NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-hacking AI models like Mythos. Opposition is growing among those who say the move is bad for transparency and efficiency, and will also do nothing to improve security...

Sky News - 1 day 6 hours ago
"Scores" of workers at Google DeepMind, the company's British AI research arm, are demanding union recognition over the use of their work by Israel and the US military.

Tech Meme - 1 day 7 hours ago
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch : Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire — Many companies today provide AI simply as a chatbot inside their apps: you type in (or dictate) what you want it to do, and the AI bot goes and tries to do it.

Tech Meme - 1 day 8 hours ago
Alexandra Alter / New York Times : Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg — The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors' copyrights.

Tech Meme - 1 day 8 hours ago
Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu : Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility — QuantWare will use new funding to scale its quantum processor technology, expand manufacturing capacity, and accelerate …...

Newser - 1 day 8 hours ago
Washington's thinking on artificial intelligence appears to be changing quickly. After years of championing a mostly hands-off strategy, the Trump administration is expected to require that new AI models undergo a federal safety review before they hit the market, reports the New York Times . The outlet sees the shift as...

Sky News - 1 day 10 hours ago
A new tiny ice world has been discovered beyond Pluto surrounded by a thin atmosphere, scientists revealed.

Newser - 1 day 10 hours ago
Meta is facing a fresh legal barrage over how it built its AI. Five major publishers Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage along with novelist Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan accusing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg of mass copyright infringement tied to...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 11 hours ago
Jeff Bezos' participation in this year's Met Gala sparked protests that threatened to overshadow the event itself.

Newser - 1 day 14 hours ago
Cellphones may now be shoved into pouches during the school day, but test scores aren't exactly soaring as a result. A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that school cellphone bans, now in place in some form in about two-thirds of states, have "consistently close...

New York Times - 1 day 20 hours ago
Elon Musk arriving at federal court in San Francisco in March.

GeekSpin - 1 day 21 hours ago
Imagine scoring free meals from Wendy's every single week for an entire year no gimmicks, no catch, just a golden ticket that keeps on giving. It sounds almost too good to be true, but a limited-time promotion is doing exactly that for a lucky few, turning an ordinary visit into a year-long feast. With only a […] Read the original article here: Wendy's is giving away free food for a year...

The New Yorker - 1 day 23 hours ago
From the daily newsletter: a special issue dedicated to our complicated past, present, and future.

New York Times - 2 days 14 min ago
OpenAI's Greg Brockman enters federal court on Monday with his wife, Anna Brockman.

NY Post - 2 days 2 hours ago
Many are split on whether AI is good for humanity, but a new AI-powered tool could prove revolutionary when it comes to cancer screenings.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 3 hours ago
More than 30 years ago, in the mountain village of Mbem in northwest Cameroon, the moon and stars in the night sky were the only light young Jude Numfor knew after the sunset. Electricity had not yet reached his rural community. "There was one person in the village with a petrol generator and a small television," Numfor says. "When he turned it on, all the children would run to his house and peep through the window." That memory became the spark for Numfor's mission: to bring...

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 10 hours ago
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics . This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity , which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding laundry at home to manufacturing on factory assembly lines. The project is supported by collaborative efforts of partners across China and the globe, including Google DeepMind, Northwestern University, and...