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Vicarious Surgical Plans to Shut Down Next Week as Cash Runs Out
The Massachusetts surgical robotics company has asked shareholders to vote on dissolving the business on July 21. Investors are unlikely to receive anything back.
Babies Learn Faster Than the World's Most Powerful AI. Scientists Want to Know Why.
A new test pits cutting-edge AI models against toddler-level perception, and the toddlers win. Researchers say studying infant brains could make AI cheaper, greener, and smarter.
A Robot Named JOY Is Heading to the Space Station in 2027. Here Is Who Is Paying for Its Batteries.
Startup Icarus Robotics has picked KULR Technology Group to supply the power systems for its free-flying robot. The deal is small but the numbers behind it reveal just how expensive, and how promising, robotic labor in space could become.
A small team, a big bet: Ode and Anthropic want to replace whole consulting firms with a few sharp engineers
A new joint venture is planting AI specialists inside large companies, backed by some of the biggest names in finance. The question is whether a tiny crew armed with the right tools can outperform an army of traditional consultants.
Trump Demands New York Scrap Its Datacenter Freeze 'Immediately'
New York became the first US state to pause construction of large datacenters. The president wants the order reversed before the ink is dry.
Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Inkling: A New AI Model
Ex-OpenAI team launches a large open-weight AI model, aiming for more accessible and flexible AI development.
Mira Murati's AI Startup Just Released Its First Model. It Wants Companies to Own Their AI, Not Rent It.
Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, a free-to-download AI model built for businesses that want to customise their own AI instead of paying a monthly fee to OpenAI or Google.
SpaceX Stock Slips Below Its IPO Price Just Weeks After Going Public
The company's shares dropped under $135 on Wednesday, and a Starship rocket test on Thursday could push them further in either direction.
AI Routing Sounded Like Easy Savings. The Reality Cost Twice as Much.
A team building smart AI systems thought sending simple tasks to cheaper AI models would cut costs. Then the numbers came in.
Inside Shippy: How an Ocean-Monitoring AI Agent Was Built to Be Trusted, Not Just Smart
The team behind Skylight's maritime AI explains why reliability, not raw intelligence, was the hardest engineering problem they faced.
One Layer Does the Job: Apple Research Finds a Smarter Way to Teach AI to Generate Images
A new technique from Apple ML Research lets image-generating AI borrow knowledge from a separate visual understanding model, using just a single adapted layer. The result: sharper, more accurate pictures without the usual trade-offs.
Whatnot Buys AI Startup Shaped to Make Live Shopping Feel Personal
The livestream shopping app is betting that smarter recommendation technology will help viewers find what they want faster, as it pushes into new product categories.
OpenAI Built an AI That Hacks Its Own Models to Make Them Safer
GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming system that attacks OpenAI's own chatbots to find weak spots before real attackers do. It already discovered a trick that human testers had missed.
Suno Hacked: Breach Exposes How AI Music Tool May Have Scraped Millions of Songs
A hacker broke into Suno's systems in November 2025, accessed customer data, and found source code that reportedly shows the AI music generator pulled audio from YouTube, Deezer, and podcast feeds without permission.
Microsoft patches a record 570 security flaws, and says AI found them
The company's biggest-ever monthly security update includes two bugs already being used by hackers. AI tools are why the number is so high, and why it will stay high.
OpenAI's First Hardware Product Is a $230 Button Pad for Its AI Coding Tool
The Codex Micro puts physical controls on your desk to manage AI-driven coding tasks. It is not the secret Jony Ive device everyone has been waiting for.
OpenAI's first piece of hardware is a light-up mini-keyboard for its AI coding agent
The $230 Codex Micro uses colour-coded keys to show you, at a glance, whether your AI coding tasks are running, waiting, or broken.
The Original Chatbot Had Many Faces, and We Never Knew It
ELIZA, the 1960s program that convinced people a computer understood them, turns out to be far stranger and more capable than anyone realised. Newly unearthed source code changes the story.
Apple Intelligence Gets the Green Light in China, Powered by Alibaba's AI
Chinese regulators have approved Apple's AI features for the country, with local tech giant Alibaba supplying the underlying models. It is a significant moment for Apple in one of its biggest markets.
Australia's AI Plan Is Bold. The Tech Giants It Must Deal With Are Bigger Than Most Governments
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to get ahead of artificial intelligence. The companies he will need to negotiate with have revenues larger than many national economies.
Reelful Automates Social Media Video Creation with AI
A new app promises to simplify content creation for busy entrepreneurs.