A 67-year-old farmer in Chuzhou, Anhui province, lost nearly 25 acres (101,171 square metres) of sesame seedlings overnight after following pesticide advice from an AI app, which recommended a mixture…
Truthout reports that Palantir will design and deploy a tool to track USDA employees' return to the office, as AI-driven workplace surveillance intensifies. Jay Stanley of the ACLU warned that AI has …
Palantir Technologies reached a $300 billion market capitalization after reporting Q1 2026 revenue of $1.63 billion, up 85% year-over-year, driven by strong adoption of its Artificial Intelligence Pla…
The New World screwworm, a deadly parasite fly, has been detected in Texas for the first time in 50 years, with over 30 cases confirmed in livestock. Experts are uncertain how the pest entered the U.S…
Vertical AI startups like Harvey ($11B) and Abridge have proven that wrapping a foundation model with proprietary data and domain workflow logic creates billion-dollar companies. Agriculture is the ne…
Humboldt County Sheriff's Office investigators exhumed at least 117 dogs from Miranda's Rescue this week, with many showing bullet fragments, confirming allegations of animal cruelty and fraud detaile…
Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and USDA, executed a second search warrant at Miranda's Rescue in Humboldt County on Tuesday, excavating the property for additional buried animals…
A solo developer built goNutriTrack, a free multilingual PWA nutrition tracker that uses AI for meal logging via photo, voice, barcode scan, and text search. The app, powered by Anthropic Claude and a…
HayWire co-founder and CEO Aiden Johnson is using AI to parse complex USDA data into plain-English newsletters, making the fragmented and hyperlocal U.S. hay market more transparent. The startup targe…
U.S. beekeepers lost an estimated 55.6% of managed honey bee colonies from April 2024 to April 2025, the highest annual loss since record-keeping began, yet the total number of colonies remained stabl…
Federal agencies using large language models to categorize public comments face a hidden risk: different models can produce fundamentally different categorizations of the same input, yet standard accu…