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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China. Beijing quickly accused the U.S. of protectionism.... Read more

Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, launched its own bank account-like product where users can send money to one another.... Read more

Moving away from oil and gas and toward solar, wind and hydropower: that is the energy transition. To stop global warming, we must shift our energy infrastructure toward renewable sources in the coming years. The large-scale construction of solar cells and wind turbines requires, among other things, minerals and metals.... Read more

Artificial intelligence has triggered a new gold rush. This time, companies are competing not for land or minerals, but for access to electricity.... Read more

China's leading memory chipmaker CXMT became the most valuable company in mainland China after soaring more than 500% on its market debut Monday, underscoring how AI demand is boosting the semiconductor sector.... Read more

As retailers increasingly embrace artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and autonomous vehicles, a new retail model is beginning to emerge: mobile stores that drive directly to customers instead of waiting for customers to come to them.... Read more

A series of recent AI security lapses—including the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach—is raising a fundamental question: Can tech companies safely govern the powerful AI systems they build, or is stronger outside oversight now essential?... Read more

The European Union on Thursday hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors.... Read more

In an increasingly competitive job market, some applicants are quietly trying to outsmart AI hiring tools. Now, new research focused on rooting out the practice of "prompt injection" shows how widespread this tactic is.... Read more

Racing against a stopwatch, a group of women folds bed sheets as they train to join an Indian startup that offers instant home services, transforming a traditionally word-of-mouth sector and promising better pay.... Read more

South Africa's mining industry risks increased inequality through the adoption of fourth industrial revolution technologies unless automation is matched by stronger governance and workforce support, according to a review published in the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering. The fourth industrial revolution refers to the growing use of digital... Read more

Generative AI is built on the work of humans, but these creatives are rarely paid. If we don't protect them now, entire categories of labor risk being obliterated.... Read more

A new modeling study finds that weak AI regulation may be worse than no regulation at all when it comes to the safety of AI products and services.... Read more

The more Yoriko Kitagawa learns about a massive data center to be built near her home in Hino, on the outskirts of Tokyo, the more she worries.... Read more

The European Union issued two new rules for Google on Thursday to force it to share search data and open up its Android operating system to rival AI companies.... Read more

The European Union announced Wednesday that it had accepted a plan by Elon Musk's X social media platform to correct digital-content violations that led to a 120 million euros ($138 million) fine.... Read more

German food delivery group Delivery Hero said Thursday it has agreed to be acquired by U.S. ride-hailing giant Uber in a 12.7 billion euro ($14.6 billion) deal.... Read more

Can playing against AI make people more social? New research suggests the answer may be yes.... Read more

Twenty-six Meta employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, a claim strongly denied by the trillion-dollar company.... Read more

Shares in PayPal surged as much as 13% on Wall Street Wednesday after reports that payments firm Stripe and private equity group Advent International had made a joint offer to buy the digital payments pioneer.... Read more

IBM shares plunged 25% Tuesday after the U.S. tech giant released disappointing preliminary second-quarter results, blaming a shift in customer spending because of expected higher prices for memory chips and other AI-related infrastructure.... Read more

The Swiss competition authority announced Tuesday that it had opened a preliminary investigation into Google's removal of the "choice screen" feature on Android devices in Switzerland.... Read more

Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well-positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) with higher returns, according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens, one of the largest datasets of real-world AI consumption ever studied.... Read more

Apple on Friday accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets as it seeks to build its own hardware for ChatGPT, a major rupture in a partnership between the iPhone maker and the artificial intelligence company.... Read more

The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable "key addictive features" like infinite scrolling.... Read more

Top Silicon Valley executive Fidji Simo announced Wednesday she is leaving her full-time role at OpenAI to go part time as an adviser and focus on recovery from a chronic illness.... Read more

South Korean chip giant SK hynix set pricing for its mega U.S. listing on Friday, raising $26.5 billion as it takes advantage of the AI boom in what will be one of the world's biggest-ever stock sales.... Read more

Researchers have developed a benchmarking framework to assess whether artificial intelligence (AI) can generate decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contracts that are efficient and cost-effective, lowering computational costs, known jargonistically as "gas." The work might address a key problem seen in blockchain-based financial systems.... Read more

The case for investing in direct air capture weakens substantially once it is directly compared against solar and wind, according to an analysis published in Communications Sustainability. The paper is titled "Direct air capture has substantial health and climate opportunity costs."... Read more

Have you ever paid more for a product because a brand told you it was good for you and the planet? Many activewear shoppers do exactly this, trusting that the "healthy" image on the label matches what is actually in the fabric. That trust is now being questioned.... Read more

With the release this week of the government's News Bargaining Incentive, it's worth reconsidering the origins and achievements of its predecessor, the News Media Bargaining Code.... Read more

Production of drones and autonomous robots is expected to explode by the late 2030s—by up to 10× for commercial drones and 100× for humanoid and quadruped robots. Publishing in Chem Circularity, researchers estimate how this boost in production could impact US and global supply chains of 18 raw materials used... Read more

Electric vehicle sales in China and Europe have reached a threshold or "tipping point" that has triggered an irreversible shift away from their petrol and diesel-powered equivalents. For their article published in Nature Communications, researchers analyzed global sales from 2016–23 and observed that EV sales were increasing exponentially across 32... Read more

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in critical decisions about health, safety, finance, and governance, a key challenge is no longer whether people and AI will collaborate, but rather how to structure this collaboration to achieve true complementarity. In the new paper, "Toward a Science of Human–AI Teaming for Decision... Read more

A woman strolls into a grocery store, thinking about grabbing some apples. Before she even reaches the produce aisle, a security camera has scanned her face. Whether the system is checking for shoplifters or simply logging her arrival, her face has joined a digital ledger, a trace she can't easily... Read more

Half of the world's largest digital platforms fail to meet minimum standards of transparency regarding the advertising they carry. This is one of the main findings of the study Data Not Found carried out by our research group at NetLab—the Internet and Social Media Research Laboratory at the School of... Read more

In a new analysis, two UCL researchers argue that the present system used to allocate billions in research funding was designed for a world without AI agents and may no longer be fit for that purpose.... Read more

Australia unveiled draft laws on Tuesday that would tax tech giants Meta, Google and TikTok unless they voluntarily strike deals to pay local outlets for news.... Read more

Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance, making them a tempting audience to target with potentially below-the-radar advertising. Indeed, our research suggests AI chatbots could easily be used for covert advertising to manipulate their human users.... Read more

The US Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday about law enforcement's use of "geofence warrants"—the collection of smartphone location data about everyone who was near a particular place at a specific time.... Read more

Taylor Swift has filed applications with the US intellectual property office to trademark her voice, a move similar to one made by actor Matthew McConaughey, as AI-generated content surges.... Read more

Microsoft said Monday it will no longer pay a share of its revenue to ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the latest move to untether a close partnership that helped unleash an artificial intelligence boom.... Read more

The EU on Monday laid out measures it wants Google to take to open up its operating system to rival AI services, in a move slammed by the US tech giant.... Read more

OpenAI officially discontinued its video generation tool, Sora, on April 26, 2026. I'm a computer scientist who's been developing AI tools and studying their evolution and adoption for the past decade, and I wasn't surprised by OpenAI's decision to shut down Sora.... Read more

Across the business world, companies often double down on struggling ideas, retreating only after clear evidence shows they won't work.... Read more

China on Monday blocked U.S. tech giant Meta's acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup Manus, in an unexpected move to reverse a deal that apparently aroused Beijing's concerns about the transfer of advanced technology.... Read more

In late 2024, a new building broke ground in Western Sydney that will draw more electricity than 140,000 homes—roughly the power demand for a mid-sized Australian town like Geelong.... Read more

The legendary American bank robber Willie Sutton spent 40 years robbing banks because, as he claimed in his autobiography, he loved doing it. And when asked why he chose banks of all places to rob, he allegedly replied, "Because that's where the money is."... Read more

Meta and Microsoft are the latest software companies to announce big cuts to their global workforce. Both companies are also making big investments in artificial intelligence (AI).... Read more

Jury selection is to begin Monday in a high-profile legal battle between billionaire Elon Musk and artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, which he accuses of betraying its nonprofit mission.... Read more