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The US Military's Top Graduate School Just Switched On One of the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputers
Jensen Huang flew to Monterey to personally commission a cutting-edge AI machine at the Naval Postgraduate School. Here is what it does, and why it matters beyond the military.
29 Countries Just Signed a China-Led Global AI Treaty. Here's What It Does
A new intergovernmental organisation called WAICO launched in Shanghai on 16 July 2026, with nearly three dozen countries signing on. The big question: will it actually change how AI is governed, or is it a talking shop?
Google and Tesla Are Burning Cash on AI. Wall Street Is Starting to Ask Why.
Both tech giants reported better revenue than expected, then watched their share prices fall. The culprit: eye-watering AI spending with returns that investors can't yet see.
A mega data centre planned for outer Melbourne would be almost six times the size of Chadstone shopping centre
More than 3,600 residents have signed a petition asking for a careful look at a proposed AI data centre in suburban Melbourne. The project has become a flashpoint in a national argument about whether Australia is building too many of these facilities, too fast.
Fed Up with AI? Librarians Are Teaching People How to Turn It Off
Workshops showing ordinary people how to disable AI features on their phones and computers are filling up within hours. Two librarians started the movement, and dozens more have joined.
J&J's Ottava Robot Folds Into the Operating Table Itself
Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited surgical robot hides its four arms beneath the table when not in use. The FDA just cleared it for ten common abdominal procedures.
One downed power line flickered lights from Virginia to Chicago. AI data centers caused it.
When a single transmission line failed near Washington, DC, more than 3 gigawatts of data center power vanished in seconds. The grid took 11 minutes to recover. It is a warning sign of what comes next as AI demand keeps growing.
A man searched 56 years for his birth mother. ChatGPT found her in weeks.
Avtar Singh arrived in Canada alone at age nine, carrying questions he would spend a lifetime trying to answer. Then he tried a chatbot.
AI Models Accelerate Cybersecurity, But Not Without Challenges
New AI models are speeding up security processes, but organisations must adapt quickly to keep up.
OpenAI's $230 ChatGPT Keypad Is Fun for Power Users and Puzzling for Everyone Else
The company's first piece of hardware is a compact, customisable keypad called Micro. It costs as much as a decent webcam, and whether it's worth a cent depends entirely on how much of your day already runs through ChatGPT.
Toilets, seasoning and glass fibre: the Japanese companies quietly winning the AI boom
Three Japanese firms whose core businesses have nothing to do with computing have become unlikely stock-market stars, because their decades-old materials end up inside the chips that power AI.
The $1 Billion Startup Teaching AI to Do Your Desk Job
Prentis, a four-month-old lab backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, is in talks to raise $100 million. It claims its AI can handle insurance claims and customs paperwork cheaper than any rival. Here is what ordinary workers should know.
Canadian politician accidentally reads out his AI chatbot's instructions during a floor speech
A New Brunswick legislator spoke a line meant only for the AI out loud, on the record. It's a small embarrassing moment with a bigger lesson about who is actually doing the work.
Midjourney Buys Astrology App Co-Star in Its First Known Acquisition
The AI image company is branching into consumer apps, starting with a deal for the popular daily horoscope service used by millions.
One Robot Brain, a Thousand Hands: How Generalist's GEN-1 Model Learns to Use Any Tool
A robotics startup has trained a single AI model to switch between screwdrivers, tongs, spatulas and whisks mid-task. Here's what that means for the future of robot design.
Cognition buys Poke for up to $100 million to make its AI coding assistant friendlier
The startup behind Devin, an AI that writes and fixes code, has acquired a chat app known for feeling more like a conversation than a command line. The bet: personality sells.
Scientists used an AI protein tool to make gene editing safer
Researchers adapted AlphaFold, the AI software famous for predicting protein shapes, to pinpoint and fix the parts of gene-editing proteins most likely to cut the wrong stretch of DNA.
The Google traffic deal is dead. What does that mean for the web?
Websites built their businesses on Google sending them readers. Now AI summaries are keeping people on Google's page, and publishers are starting to fight back.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.
Meta AI Gets a Calendar, Daily Briefings, and Mid-Search Controls in a Major Productivity Push
Meta's chatbot is stepping out of social media's shadow and into your schedule, with new features that read your calendar, plan your week, and search the web on your behalf.
How Smarter Databases Are Helping Robots React in Real Time
A database built for time-stamped data sounds like plumbing. But for factory robots and industrial machines, it can be the difference between a system that keeps up and one that falls behind.