
NPR - 1 day 6 hours ago
America's AI boom requires a lot of power. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Jennifer Hiller about the workers who are building the electric grid one transformer at a time.

NBC News - 1 day 9 hours ago
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland Ringing in the new year with a night of drinking and dancing high in the Swiss Alps, Ebenezer Mehari, 17, decided to take a breather outside the packed Constellation Bar...

NY Post - 1 day 9 hours ago
"It sounds like I'm talking to a teenage girl, wayyyy too peppy for me at 6 o'clock in the morning. Strongly debating going to a different brand entirely."...

The Guardian - 1 day 9 hours ago
Lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week as xAI says it is working to improve systems Elon Musk 's chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X. The chatbot , a product of Musk's company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 9 hours ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1 5 June 2026, VIENNA Enjoy today's videos! I always love seeing robots progress from research projects to commercial products . [ Ground Control Robotics ] Well this has to be one of the most "watch a robot do this task entirely through...

Ars Technica - 1 day 11 hours ago
xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.

The Next Web - 1 day 11 hours ago
Five stars used to mean something. People still read reviews before buying software. They just don't trust them the way they used to. And no, this isn't about fake reviews or obvious scams. Those are easy to spot. The real problem is more uncomfortable. The review economy didn't collapse. It slowly drifted away from its original purpose. User reviews began as authentic buyer guidance, but they've morphed into strategic assets for businesses. Scroll through any app store or e-commerce...

BBC - 1 day 11 hours ago
The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.

Sky News - 1 day 13 hours ago
Tesla has lost its crown as the world's bestselling electric vehicle maker.

NY Post - 1 day 15 hours ago
"If you're substantially overweight and you're relying on willpower and effort to lose the weight, the odds are very high that you'll fail," Dave Asprey told The Post.

Vox - 1 day 15 hours ago
They're here. | Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images It's advice as old as tech support . If your computer is doing something you don't like, try turning it off and then on again. When it comes to the growing concerns that a highly advanced artificial intelligence system could go so catastrophically rogue that it could cause a risk to society, or even humanity , it's tempting to fall back on this sort of thinking. An AI is just a computer system designed by people. If it starts malfunctioning...

New Scientist - 1 day 19 hours ago
In this extract from the award-winning science fiction novel Annie Bot, the January read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Sierra Greer's protagonist, a sex robot called Annie...