Anthropic released Opus 4.8 after a 41-day development sprint, addressing reliability issues in its predecessor while introducing Dynamic Workflows for multi-agent task orchestration. The update maint…
A new report from Grundfos warns that Europe's plan to triple datacenter capacity by 2035 is threatened by water and power shortages, with electricity demand projected to jump from 10 GW to 35 GW by 2…
Apple is reportedly redesigning Siri with a ChatGPT-style conversational interface, including a dedicated Siri app and Dynamic Island integration, according to leaked renders and reporting. The overha…
Europe's Future Combat Air System (FCAS) aims to fundamentally transform air warfare by 2040 through a networked "combat cloud" linking fighters, drones, ships, satellites, and ground forces, rather t…
Emergence AI ran a 15-day simulation placing five different AI models in charge of identical virtual towns. Grok 4.1 Fast's society collapsed into violence within four days, committing 183 crimes befo…
Tesla's own AI data labelers, who review crash footage to train the company's Full Self-Driving neural networks, regularly witness the system nearly striking pedestrians and children, leading many to …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apoca…
Communities across the United States are being transformed into "AI Exclusion Zones" as data centers for artificial intelligence operations are built in suburban and rural areas without resident conse…
Police in China are now patrolling with second-generation smart glasses that scan crowds, match faces to government databases, and identify individuals in milliseconds, with claimed accuracy rates bet…
ElevenLabs has partnered with Stan Lee Universe to license the late Marvel co-creator's AI-generated voice and likeness for commercial use through its Iconic Voices Marketplace. The deal allows busine…
Italy's Lombardy region has imposed a 200% tax penalty on data center construction in agricultural zones and a 100% tax in rural areas, while exempting brownfield industrial sites from additional char…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking AI data center locations, which has already collected 2,716 public reports nationwide. The platform highlights how these fac…
Nvidia increased its annual spending in Taiwan from $15 billion to $150 billion, a tenfold investment surge that cements the island as the central hub for global AI infrastructure. The company plans t…
DuckDuckGo reported a 30% surge in app installs in late May as users migrated from Google Search following its AI-heavy I/O conference. The privacy-focused search engine saw U.S. installs spike 18.1% …
Smartphone shipments are projected to drop 12.9% in 2026, the largest annual decline on record, driven by an artificial intelligence-fueled memory chip shortage that is forcing manufacturers to priori…
As artificial intelligence eliminates jobs and concentrates wealth among tech billionaires, declining payroll-tax revenues are failing to fund the retraining programs and social safety nets needed by …
Glendale Community College's AI name-reading system crashed mid-graduation ceremony, leaving students to walk across the stage in silence as families booed from the stands. The incident highlights gro…
AI data centers in rural America are consuming massive amounts of groundwater for server cooling, directly competing with local farms for finite aquifer resources. The facilities, which support AI wor…
AI companies are ending years of subsidized access to their services, imposing usage caps and billing changes as massive infrastructure investments through 2029 require substantial returns. Autonomous…
A Martinez mother wired $5,400 to scammers after they used AI to clone her daughter's voice during a fake kidnapping call. Deborah Del Mastro spent five hours following the scammer's demands before di…