TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

"As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times."Most people don't realize the amount of time that they're spending working...

America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM:It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers,...

Anthropic’s sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions across the global technology industry. In India, the decision has reignited a long-running debate over whether one of the...

While Hollywood has fake cities for filming movies, the FBI apparently has one for getting hacked. The agency has pulled back the curtain on its Kinetic Cyber Range, a 22,000-square-foot replica small town hidden inside its Huntsville, Alabama campus....

Professional services firm KPMG has pulled a report titled, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” after numerous organizations said the report’s claims about their AI usage were untrue.Research group GPTZero identified a number of inaccuracies in the...

Every transparent OLED demo I’ve seen so far looks amazing for about ten seconds, right before I notice how dim or smudgy it actually looks. A big part of the problem is the role that electrodes play in the...

Jeff Bezos says his new AI startup, Prometheus, is working toward an "artificial general engineer" capable of helping design complex physical products such as robots, drugs, manufacturing systems, and rocket engines. The Verge reports: The NYT first...

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school piqued her curiosity about the natural world. During that time, she was introduced to...

In winter 1997, at age 60, when many researchers might be looking forward to retirement, Harriet Latham...

We’ve all heard the advice “If you want a breakthrough, you need to think outside the box.”  It has become a corporate cliché. But this phrase does more than just grate on our nerves; it can harm real innovation....