
Vox - 1 day 10 hours ago
For many people, using AI chatbots is incredible at first. It makes them feel productive, confident, maybe even smarter. But later, there's a hangover. Perhaps there are problems with their memory, or certain skills, like writing or coding, don't seem to be as sharp as they once were. Maybe they feel like they can't solve problems or make decisions or remember facts as well as they could before they had the help of AI. Susette Brooks, a marketing director living in Philadelphia, said...

Newser - 1 day 12 hours ago
President Trump's push to rebrand artificial intelligence appears to have sent internet entrepreneurs rushing to Slovenia. The country's domain registry says sign-ups for .si websites exploded in September, jumping from fewer than 2,000 the previous month to 44,000 an increase it called "unprecedented" over the past year, reports...

Newser - 1 day 14 hours ago
Pope Leo XIV is pitching a new kind of holy alliance: the Catholic Church and artists teaming up to keep human creativity from being drowned out by artificial intelligence. In a message posted on X on Friday, the pontiff argued that it's now "urgent" to tell the difference between art...

NBC News - 1 day 19 hours ago
A Bay Area startup is building "mechanical bison" autonomous robots that inject woodchips 60 feet deep to literally raise sinking land. Father-son inventors hope this terraforming tech can save flood-prone cities from rising sea levels.

BBC - 1 day 19 hours ago
Alasdair Keane heads to the Pok mon World Championships in San Francisco.

Ars Technica - 1 day 21 hours ago
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

Vox - 1 day 22 hours ago
Anthropic's Christopher Olah shakes hands with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 25, 2026. | Alberto Pizzoli / AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here . Hi readers, happy Friday! It's been a big week for the AI debate not the one about whether it will cause the robot apocalypse, though there's still plenty to worry about there, but instead about whether...

NY Post - 1 day 23 hours ago
A former Amazon machine-learning scientist with a PhD, who quit to launch a startup that failed, said he applied for 120 jobs in two months but has not had one offer.

Ars Technica - 2 days 9 min ago
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 11 min ago
Smart glasses can make people uncomfortable. Here's how to use them without freaking out your friends, neighbors, and folks walking down the street.

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 1 hour ago
These electronic copilots pick up incoming speed traps and red-light cameras and that's just the beginning.

Ars Technica - 2 days 1 hour ago
Critics say workers are still owed far more.

Popular Mechanics - 2 days 1 hour ago
Gadgets and accessories complete the experience of owning an Apple Watch.

Science Alert - 2 days 5 hours ago
(Silvia Ma Lu) Could this be the future of solar farming? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

The New York Observer - 2 days 5 hours ago
Jassy sold Wall Street on Alexa as a shopping engine. At Amazon's fall hardware event, it mostly learned to pick movies.

GeekSpin - 2 days 6 hours ago
New York City now requires companies to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for one. The Click to Cancel rule, which took effect on October 1, covers automatic-renewal and continuous-service subscriptions (including those started online or via app), and the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection is enforcing it. "No one […] Read the original article here: New law requires companies to let you cancel in one click...

Variety - 2 days 6 hours ago
"God of War Laufey" will release Feb. 16, 2027 from PlayStation’s Santa Monica Studios. Pre-orders go live on Sept. 29. The prequel game in the action-adventure franchise centers on Laufey, also known as Faye. "God of War Laufey" follows the legendary warrior beyond death through the Everywhen, the afterlife of the gods. Fans who pre-order […]...

New York Times - 2 days 7 hours ago
A data center owned by Amazon in Ashburn, Va.

GeekSpin - 2 days 8 hours ago
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is stepping back into the government fold, and this time he's taking aim at the future of high-tech defense. Musk, who owns X, has landed a brand-new advisory role with the Pentagon to help guide the Trump administration on how advanced technology will reshape modern warfare. Joining forces for Project Meridian Rather […] Read the original article here: Elon Musk lands new Pentagon role shaping future of AI warfare...

GeekSpin - 2 days 9 hours ago
Google is exploring a future where AI data centers could operate far beyond the Earth's surface. The tech giant has launched satellites to test a bold idea: placing powerful computing hardware in space, where constant sunlight could provide an enormous source of energy for AI systems. The project could eventually change how massive amounts of […] Read the original article here: Google is planning AI data centers in space...

NPR - 2 days 11 hours ago
Google has launched an experimental satellite that will test the feasibility of putting AI data centers in space.

BBC - 2 days 12 hours ago
The former employees were investigated for sharing data with an outside AI evaluation group.

Sky News - 2 days 16 hours ago
Astronauts on board a SpaceX flight, including the first black woman to lead a crew to orbit, has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after setting a US speed record.

NBC News - 2 days 19 hours ago
California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about issuing an investigative subpoena to OpenAI regarding cybersecurity risks and legal concerns.