A mysterious death at a Russian anti-plague institute is putting modern disease surveillance in the spotlight. AI, genomic sequencing, wastewater monitoring, and other technologies are incredibly powerful, but they cannot compensate for missing information.
Amazon says misinformation and outright lies are fueling opposition to data centers. Its response includes more than $1 billion in community spending and a lengthy defense of the infrastructure powering the AI boom.
Trump wants the US executive branch to stop calling AI artificial intelligence and start calling it Super Intelligence, or SI. Despite the dramatic new name, the technology itself has not suddenly changed.
AMD is acquiring Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion, adding spatial AI research expertise and bringing Li aboard as chief scientist.
Google is sending its AI chips into orbit next week. Project Suncatcher will test whether TPUs can survive space and potentially pave the way for orbital AI data centers.
AI tools are helping researchers uncover Linux vulnerabilities at a faster pace. Canonical is responding by changing Ubuntu’s kernel release strategy to get security fixes into users’ hands sooner.
OpenAI says its new internal AI model has resolved more than 100 long-standing mathematical problems, surprising its own mathematicians and raising questions about whether humans can keep up.
Mozilla is putting $5 million into Mozilla Data Collective as it tries to build an alternative to the scraping-heavy approach that has fueled AI training.
AI can eliminate tedious entry-level work and cut costs, but companies may be creating a much bigger problem. New Talogy research suggests automation could weaken the pipeline that produces future business leaders.
Americans increasingly use AI for financial questions, but most aren’t ready to trust a chatbot with their money without checking somewhere else first.
Someone bought LimeWire. BabyDoge has acquired the resurrected file-sharing brand and plans to push it further into crypto, decentralized storage, and AI.
NASA and IBM have released an open source AI foundation model trained on massive amounts of lunar data. It could help scientists detect craters, study the Moon’s geology, and identify promising locations for water ice.