New artificial intelligence tool helps UH researchers unlock sun’s magnetic secrets

These advances allow researchers to see the sun’s magnetic landscape more accurately and improve predictions of solar activity that impacts life on Earth, including solar flares and coronal ejections that can disrupt satellites, power systems and communications.

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation

Schumer slams alleged Instacart artificial intelligence-powered price changes

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) is accusing Instacart of ripping off consumers by charging different prices for the same product to different customers. “This is jacking up grocery costs across New York City, Long Island, and across the nation,” Schumer said Sunday. He claims the pricing tactics could cost certain families as much as $1,200 more per year. Schumer cited…

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS

Software ate the world. Agents are going to eat SaaS.

Opera launches Neon browser globally with paid early access

Opera Neon is now available globally with a $19.90 monthly subscription, offering AI-powered agents, premium models, and experimental workflows.

Kindle’s in-book AI assistant can answer all your questions without spoilers

Amazon's latest feature lets you use AI within your Kindle to refresh your memory on character or plot points.

HyperCard on the Macintosh

How do we approach the challenge of helping non-programmers build software? Do we throw up our hands at today's complexity and say, "Just let an AI do it." Or, do we make tools so *compelling* a novice can build something interesting almost by accident. We had that once. Let's see what was lost.

Google Paid to Fete Key Lawmakers at a Secret Summit

Google recently paid state lawmakers upward of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions discussing artificial intelligence and other issues that many of these officials will soon be voting on.

Humanoid robot fires BB gun at YouTuber, raising AI safety fears

A viral experiment shows a humanoid robot firing a BB gun after a role-play prompt overrides its safety rules, sparking major concerns.

Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide

A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist

He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.

AI was not invented, it arrived

AI was not invented, it arrived

Beware of Agents: A Cautionary Tale

Every few years, a new category of technology arrives with an irresistible promise. Fewer steps. Less friction. More autonomy. AI agents arrived with exactly that pitch. Describe the outcome, turn the agent loose, and let the system figure out the rest. This is a story about what happened when one of my clients decided to test that promise inside a real production workflow. The results were instructive.

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Brian Merchant has been collecting personal stories for his series AI Killed My Job - previously covering tech workers, translators, and artists - and this latest piece includes anecdotes from …

Inside the AI-powered assault on SaaS: why identity is the weakest link

AI makes identity the easiest, and deadliest, SaaS attack vector

Want job security in the age of AI? Get a state license

The coming tech boom is about to launch a boom in people who do things with their hands and minds

Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool

You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts specific sentences, evaluates them against the query, and decides whether your content deserves to ground its answer. The rest of your carefully crafted copy? Find […]

Robotics Is About to Become America’s Most Important Industry

As the Genesis Mission accelerates, robotics is emerging as the keystone industry in America's next moonshot.

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All The AI-Generated Apps?

In 1950, while discussing the recent wave of flying saucer reports over lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple question. There …

AI on a Triple Zero call? Australians are open to that

Could artificial intelligence speed up emergency responses by receiving a caller's video or smartwatch data and capturing words like "knife" and "collision"? Most people think so and welcome the technology's potential, a survey finds.

Why Japan’s robotic pioneers are ceding the humanoid stage to China and the US

Japan’s university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of AI talent.

European firm 1X to deploy 10,000 ‘home’ humanoid robots in factories

1X has partnered with EQT to make up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots available to more than 300 companies between 2026 and 2030.

The 5 most innovative tech products that surprised us this year (including a first for robot vacs)

From AI glasses with digital overlays to robot vacuums that can pick up your leftover laundry, here are ZDNET's Breakthrough Award winners for 2025.

China’s Unitree teases platform allowing users to control robots via smartphones

Hangzhou robotics unicorn’s platform is designed to bring embodied intelligence into everyday life.