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Christina Koch and James Manyika on Earth as a lifeboat, AI in space, and whether we're alone
The NASA astronaut and Google's research chief talk through what she saw from orbit, why AI matters to future missions, and the advice she gives young explorers.
OpenAI Pays Over $300 Million for Camera AI Startup Glass Imaging
Two former Apple engineers whose software sharpens smartphone photos at the moment of capture, not after, are now part of OpenAI.
The same four things a surgical robot and a warehouse robot both need to work
A new industry report pairs a cardiac surgery suite in California with a logistics floor and finds the hardest problem in both places is the same: understanding your own process before you automate it.
Every Major AI Leader Has Now Weighed In on Dario Amodei's 'Slow Down AI' Essay
From Sam Altman agreeing to Donald Trump calling it a conspiracy, Amodei's call for paced AI development has cracked the tech and political world wide open.
Renting Robots Is Harder Than It Looks
A RoboBusiness panel in October will press the leaders of three robotics companies on the real costs of selling robots as a service, not a one-time purchase.
Trump calls scrutiny of AI a 'SICK conspiracy' and says a smart president is the only guardrail needed
Posting on Truth Social, the president dismissed calls for checks on artificial intelligence companies and warned unnamed critics of consequences, without citing a single concrete example.
Texas Governor Tells Data Centres to Report Their Water Use or Pay the Price
Greg Abbott has ordered state regulators to crack down on data centres that ignore Texas law requiring them to report how much water they use.
NASA and IBM Built a Free AI Model to Read 17 Years of Moon Data
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is now available to any researcher, trained almost entirely on imagery from an orbiter that has been circling the moon since 2007.
AI's biggest bosses agreed to slow down. Almost nobody believes them.
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Elon Musk made a loose commitment to pump the brakes on AI development. Critics call it a cartel move. Supporters call it cautious progress. The reality sits somewhere between those poles.
Your Colleagues Are Now the Noisiest Alarm in the Company Security Room
Security teams built their systems to catch hackers. The loudest signal on their screens is now their own staff logging into AI chatbots with work accounts.
Your manager is rehearsing the bad news with AI before they call you in
A new wave of AI coaching tools lets managers role-play difficult conversations, from pay freezes to layoffs, before the real thing. Here's what that means for workers on both sides of the desk.
Jensen Huang Took Trump's Call on a Phone Nobody Can Buy Yet
At a live conference in Los Angeles, the Nvidia CEO answered a surprise presidential call on an unreleased Apple foldable, and the two men agreed that AI safety fears are overblown.
AI Safety Is About Goals, Not Just Slowing Down
The resignation of an Anthropic safety researcher and weeks of fallout from the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident have pushed the debate about how safe AI actually is into open view. Here is what it means for everyone watching.
Someone in Yemen Used Claude to Try to Build a Guided Rocket
Anthropic confirmed the attempt failed, but the fact it got as far as a physical test is the part that should worry you.
UK Minister Says He Is Not Relaxed About AI Either
Jonathan Reynolds tells the BBC people should stay clear-eyed rather than alarmed. Workers at the TUC this week want to know what that actually means for their jobs.
Ten Years of Extinction Warnings, and the AI Race Never Slowed
From Stephen Hawking in 2014 to a researcher quitting Anthropic last week, doomsday predictions have become a recurring feature of the AI industry. They haven't stopped it.
UK minister tells TUC the government will take AI death warnings seriously
First Secretary Louise Haigh will tell trade union leaders that ministers plan to chase AI's economic benefits while treating safety warnings from researchers as genuine obligations, not background noise.
Construction robots are helping build homes faster, but humanoid builders are still science fiction
A labour shortage and a housing gap of 1.2 million homes are pushing the building industry toward automation. The real gains right now come not from robots swinging hammers, but from machines that prevent costly mistakes and factories that build homes indoors.
They blocked a datacenter. Now they're running for office.
A grassroots movement against AI infrastructure is turning community anger into local political power, starting with the first US city to ban datacenter construction.
What has to go right for the AI spending gamble to pay off
A handful of tech giants are spending at a scale that dwarfs any industry investment in history. A Wharton finance professor ran the arithmetic and the answer is both clear and sobering.
Trump Says AI Safety Is a Sick Conspiracy. Obama Says Slow Down.
Two former presidents landed on opposite sides of the AI debate this week, with Trump dismissing safety calls and Obama asking regulators to catch up before something goes wrong.