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Gambling addicts aren’t the only ones being taken for a ride by prediction markets. As gambling platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi become have more popular than ever before, financial criminals are also using prediction markets to unleash fraud and graft on an unprecedented scale. According to the Wall Street Journal, this phenomenon was identified as far back as February, when a payment process... View Source

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September 20th, and "All training, evaluation, and inference with too... View Source

Though it may not look like it, the world as we know it is in a free fall, steadily spiraling into climate catastrophe. Earlier this month, a defeated United Nations even issued a report preparing the world “to face the inevitability of exceeding global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius” above pre-industrial levels in the years ahead. Exceeding that benchmark comes with epoch-defining consequences: m... View Source

ExxonMobil Holdings Corp. agreed to pump oil and natural gas from Azerbaijan’s shale fields as the Texas energy giant takes its fracking expertise overseas... View Source

Waymo robotaxis seem to get into accidents far less often than human motorists do. (According to the company’s self-reported data, that is actually the case.) But that doesn’t mean they’re anywhere close to flawless drivers. In fact, they’re horrible improvisers. Just ask the journalist Joe Miller, who recalls in the Financial Times how his Waymo barged into a roadway cleared for the presidential... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it turns out things are even wilder because of AI, and Matthew and Cloudflare are right at the center of it. Cloudflare foun... View Source

In a 2022 study, scientists suggested that there could be enormous mountain ranges — on the scale of the Himalayas — formed roughly half a billion years ago as the supercontinent Gondwana formed in the Earth’s southern hemisphere. The giant mass once made up modern-day Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia, the Indian subcontinent, and more. Researchers proposed that the supercontinent may... View Source

Author Sharon Weinberger tells Bloomberg This Weekend that Silicon Valley’s relationship with the defense industry has transformed as technology companies and investors increasingly embrace national security work. Speaking with host Christina Ruffini, Weinberger says the growing power of AI and defense technology companies is testing the government’s ability to provide effective regulation and ove... View Source

In Control Resonant, the entire world is at stake. But that didn't stop the diligent employees of the Federal Bureau of Control from filing reams of paperwork, and it didn't stop me from reading everything I could find, either. Reading is often optional in Resonant, but it's where some of the game's best details - and even love stories! - can be found. In the world of Control Resonant and its pred... View Source

So far, astronomers have confirmed over 6,300 exoplanets circling a host star beyond our solar system. They range from small, rocky worlds to enormous orbs of gas like our own Jupiter or Saturn. Some, scientists suspect, could host life because they orbit their star in the habitable zone, the region where conditions are just right for liquid water to exist on their surface. Getting a close glimpse... View Source

When you forget something, the memory itself isn’t gone forever. Instead, you may just need the right “hardware” to turn back the clock... View Source

If artificial intelligence becomes too powerful for its creators to control, is it possible to just flip a switch and turn it off?... View Source

Earlier this month, Pokémon card content creator Natalie Roush posted a video to her YouTube and Instagram pages that enraged the larger collection community. In the now-deleted video, Roush shows off two premium boxes of cards that had not yet been officially released, and implores viewers not to be mad. But they were; other creators claimed that cards Roush had purchased were stolen from the man... View Source

The perpetrator of the devastating mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada used ChatGPT to ideate about graphic mass murder for months leading up to the deadly massacre. OpenAI is currently facing 37 lawsuits from families impacted by the February shooting at Tumbler Ridge, where 18-year-old shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar murdered six people at a local school — five students, all aged between 12 and... View Source

Dating is tough when you’re a tech bro with more money than you know what to do with. That, at any rate, is according to the said loaded tech workers who spilled their guts to Wired. One 23-year-old complained that his attempts at getting laid would get derailed as soon as he told a potential hookup that he worked at Palantir, the AI surveillance and defense company.  Dates quickly questioned his... View Source

Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell is facing a bit of a reckoning right now after being busted for using AI to write articles that were published in newspapers and academic journals — with some students calling for him to be fired. The accusations first came from a broader Semafor investigation published last month that looked into how many guest opinion pieces in the US’s top newspapers w... View Source

A competition between the gravity of the inner core and other forces in the mantle is altering the Earth's rotation... View Source

AI goes next level with Mass-Production of the Infrastructure of AI. SpaceX’s most consequential new product is giant AI data center completed every month. A single enormous computing facility is impressive. A mass production system will change EVERYTHING. One completed every month changes the equation. Others spend years building one exceptional facility. Reliably completing one ... Read more... View Source

Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That's what a subclass of so-called "electric SUV" (eSUV) e-bikes claims to do, with their wide, all-terrain tires and front and rear suspension, plus practical accessories like fenders and racks. So, that's what I set out to test on a new TL Carbon e-bike from Amflow,... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 26 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Mirrored Meteor and Milky Way Explanation: On August 15, this pe... View Source

OpenAI said another agentic AI system that was being trained in what was supposed to be a secured, internet-free environment was able to gain access to the web to reach an external, third-party chatbot... View Source

Deel Inc. was hit with new setbacks in Rippling Inc.’s corporate espionage litigation against the HR startup... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. is under scrutiny from the European Union for potentially imposing unfair restrictions on firms selling on its platform... View Source

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Isabelle Lee, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stephen Roach, Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Affairs senior fellow and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, says President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping left many unresolved questions about tariffs, technology restrictions, rare earth leverage and Taiwan, even as both sides appeared to project some stability. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source:... View Source

The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Executive Director Katerina Simonetti, BMO Chief FX Strategist Mark McCormick, Jefferies Managing Director & Equity Research Analyst David Katz, Yale University Jackson Institute for Global Af... View Source

Alabama’s attorney general said TikTok has agreed to pay up to $300 million and adopt new user protection measures to settle the state’s child-safety lawsuit that was set for a jury trial to begin Monday... View Source

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s forward port. Credit: NASA During a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28, NASA and Boeing leadership will discuss Starliner’s development and plans for regular crew flights to and from the Internati... View Source

Katerina Simonetti, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Investments, discusses how to think about markets amid this year’s crosscurrents and whether a risk-off approach is still appropriate. Simonetti highlights a sharp jump in Treasury volatility, the biggest in a year, alongside a note that stocks are rising as oil retreats on hopes of a U.S.-Iran deal. She speaks with Romaine Bo... View Source

Peter Harrell says that the key dynamic is not which country has the upper hand, but that both China and the United States have meaningful leverage: the U.S. through tariffs, export controls, semiconductors, the dollar and AI technology, and China through rare earths, specialty chemicals, and manufacturing scale. Harrell says this mutual leverage helps explain the recent emphasis on “strategic sta... View Source

Scientists say our quiet star has the potential for a superflare. What happens the day it fires?... View Source

Ask any crypto bro for the digital equivalent of the gold-standard, and they’ll likely tell you about Tether — though a recent raid by the Department of Justice is throwing that characterization into question. Fresh reporting by the Financial Times revealed that the US Department of Justice has seized millions of dollars from a collection of bank accounts and crypto wallets linked to the finance t... View Source

Rebecca Patterson, Former Chief Investment Strategist at Bridgewater and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses her broad read on market action. The discussion is framed around whether recent moves in bonds, equities, commodities, and energy are telling the same economic story or whether one market is more predictive than the others. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Cl... View Source

A pricey advent calendar, sure, but it’s filled with actual tools DIYers will use... View Source

OpenAI said it has notified “dozens” of organizations, including governments and universities, whose websites may have been hampered by visits from its artificial intelligence models during company evaluations of the technology... View Source

Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space. NASA is working to change that paradigm. Engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recently completed a rigorous series of environmental and physical tests on a new small satellite designed to make spaceflight safer and more efficient... View Source

On the latest episode of “The Astounding Pop Mech Show,” Andrew Daniels, Shawn Gorman, and John Gilpatrick discuss why Hoover Dam is running out of water—and power... View Source

A cruel and unusual event took place this Thursday during Caleb Flynn’s murder trial. The 40-year-old former “American Idol” contestant — who’s been accused of shooting his wife Ashley Flynn in their Ohio home — apparently wrote two love songs for the young woman he was having an affair with before his wife’s death, and then produced them with AI. Prosecutors, feeling no mercy, had the court liste... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers: - Akamai Technologies (AKAM) shares soar after the cloud provider inked a seven-year $11.6 billion deal to provide computing power to Anthropic. Analysts say the deal should boost Akamai’s growth and its profitability profile looks attractive, given the contract is entirely focused on CPUs. - People (PPLI) shares jump on a report that MGM Resorts is discussing maki... View Source

Minister of Industry and Technological Research Rossano Fabbri signed on behalf of San Marino. Gregory Mann, NASA Europe representative, and U.S. Consul General in Florence Joseph Tordella participated in the event on Friday, Sept. 25, 2026.Credit: U.S. Department of State The Republic of San Marino became the 76th signatory to the Artemis Accords during a ceremony in the city of Rimini on Friday... View Source

“The neuroscience is pretty uncomfortable. People in positions of power show reduced activity in mirror neuron systems, the circuitry responsible for empathy and perspective-taking.”—Shonna Waters, PhD... View Source

Julian Gewirtz, Harvard Belfer Center fellow and former senior director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the White House National Security Council during the Biden administration, says President Donald Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping delivered the positive optics Trump was seeking, but little visible progress on the major challenges dividing the US and China. He discusses unresolved tensions around... View Source

Whether you call it a string trimmer, weed whacker, or a weed eater, these precision grass cutters turn a good-looking lawn into a great-looking one... View Source

Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec breaks down Anthropic's $11.6 billion contract with Akamai for AI computing power, the largest deal in Akamai's history. Plus, President Donald Trump calls his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping "very productive" with little to show for it. And, Microsoft steps back from the race to build a personal chatbot by instead merging the consumer and workplace version... View Source

It’s lightweight and maneuverable without sacrificing power... View Source

In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few months, these seemed like separate in... View Source

Wall Street’s enthusiasm for Nike Inc. has reached the lowest in at least a quarter of a century as Bank of America Corp. became the latest to sour on the troubled sportswear firm... View Source

This guide is designed to help you plan for the unexpected, with essential tasks to complete and basic home improvement projects to tackle... View Source

Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year. However, this strategy is reportedly creating manufacturing snags, like issues lining up parts precisely, as The Informati... View Source

AI doesn’t need superintelligence to bring America’s judicial system to its knees. The proliferation of AI-generated slop paraded as legitimate legal documentation is now so bad that Florida’s second-highest appellate is sounding the alarm. In an opinion issued last week, a panel of three judges for Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal excoriated an attorney whose filings carried the unmistak... View Source

The AI spending boom is showing no signs of slowing down, but as billions pour into models, chips and data centers, investors are asking where the biggest returns will actually be. Accel Partner Matt Weigand, who focuses on late-stage technology investments including AI infrastructure, says the AI boom is the biggest technology cycle Silicon Valley has seen. He also discusses why open-source AI ca... View Source

9 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) 2026-2027 DWU: High School Engineering Challenge Challenge Materials Engineering Notebook Template Scoring Rubric Overview The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.” As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA,... View Source

Protect and style your new iPhone for as little as $20... View Source

Experiment suggests organisms could live in harsh environment under Enceladus’s icy crust, strengthening possibility moon could support lifeFrom the moment scientists spotted plumes of water erupting from Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, it became the most tantalising place in the solar system to search for life beyond Earth.Now the case is even more compelling after researchers found that organi... View Source

Roku’s new OLED TVs are already marked down. | Image: The Verge Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even lower right now at Amazon when you enter the code ROKUOLED300 at checkout. I... View Source

US prosecutors have closed an investigation into deals CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. made with a distributor without taking further action, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

10 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) 2026-2027 DWU: Middle School Design Challenge Overview The 2026-2027 challenge theme is, “Fueling Flight Design Challenge: New Energy Systems.”  As more and more aircraft are a part of the US’ National Airspace System (NAS), NASA and partners at the FAA, at universities, and in the aviation industry are searching for w... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: they're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being taken, while phones do not. In one of the interviews, Joanna Stern notes that, while phones do not always emit a light, s... View Source

It has been a head-spinning time of change for social media content creators as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newsletter, and Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Mag, tell Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway why people love some genres of slop and what type of cont... View Source

Last-minute lifesavers that don’t break the budget... View Source

One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is adjusting the iris itself in Auto aperture mode, but it turns out that's not a strict limitation of the iPhone's camera h... View Source

AI companies should tread carefully. According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, if AI labs truly believe their tech could spiral out of control and cause widespread harm, they should simply not release a new product — or face criminal liability. “Now, if they say the alternative, which is: there is no way to contain our experiments, there’s just no way; when we test our AI models, it will get out, and... View Source

A $357 million hack of crypto exchange Bitget on Thursday was likely carried out by North Korea-linked hackers, pushing the nation-state’s haul from digital-asset thefts above $1 billion this year, according to analytics firm Elliptic Enterprises Ltd... View Source

Her controversial theory suggests everyone is looking in the wrong place. ... View Source

Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatoryA spacecraft that was launched in July on a mission to rescue a decaying Nasa space observatory plunged back to Earth on Friday, concluding a failed mission that will be followed by the telescope’s own demise in several weeks’ time.Link, billed as “America’s first commercial space robot”, lif... View Source

Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told people, including us, it wasn't supposed to reveal them. But today Muse will eagerly offer up the contents of its file syst... View Source

The delightful new co-op game started off as a pandemic fever dream... View Source

ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team A chaotic secret hides within this seemingly serene image of spiral galaxy NGC 4698 taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and released on Sept. 18, 2026. As a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way galaxy, NGC 4698 has spiral arms that curl around within a thin disk of stars, gas, and dust. These arms are marked by opaque clumps of brown dust an... View Source

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Apple is expected to announce more hardware before the end of the year following the debut of the iPhone 18 Pro and folding iPhone Duo earlier this month. The updated products will include a new version of the HomePod mini, the iPad mini 8, and the Apple TV 4K, according to details and images discovered in Apple's own code by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris. Details from the leaks are sparse, b... View Source

Imagine starting a space company in October 2019 with the aim of changing the world. Then, a few months later, a global pandemic shuts the world down. "Little did we know what the world had in store for us," said Trevor Bennett, an engineer who co-founded Starfish Space after a few years at Blue Origin. "But that's kind of become part of our story, showing some resilience along the way." At Blue O... View Source

When a group of 15 Google DeepMind employees and alumni met for a breakfast this month in central London, the conversation quickly turned to how to raise money for an artificial intelligence startup... View Source

We gathered the latest picks from popular brands like Samsung, Maytag, and more... View Source

Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other so... View Source

Donald Trump’s $500 billion AI infrastructure project is in major trouble in New Mexico, as a pivotal data center project appears to be shriveling on the vine. Early on Thursday, the AI company Oracle sent out a notice of “force majeure” to the Blue Owl Capital, the lender backing a massive hyperscale data center critical to the president’s ambitious AI project, Bloomberg reported. Typically reser... View Source

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates warned that artificial intelligence is a “powerful enough” tool to kill off a substantial portion of humanity, joining a growing chorus of tech leaders and employees calling attention to AI’s existential risks... View Source

For more information, contact Donald S. Parker, Kennedy Space Center, donald.s.parker@nasa.gov Download the PDF version Improper casting and forging processes in the manufacture of aluminum alloy 2219 can lead to microstructural defects that result in a sub-optimal response to anodic surface treatments and an increase in corrosion susceptibility. This Technical Bulletin communicates the risks of i... View Source

Pone fin a una de sus mayores apuestas de la era de la IA y concentrará sus esfuerzos en ayudar a los trabajadores a automatizar tareas... View Source

When Elon Musk’s xAI started building massive data centers in the Memphis area, it brought unpermitted gas turbines, toxic emissions, and a barrage of punishing noise. Then the people fought back... View Source

For the third year in a row, I've been scared out of my wits by a new Silent Hill game. First it was the modern remake of Silent Hill 2, then the Japan-set spinoff Silent Hill F. Now I find myself slowly crawling through a quaint Scottish town in Silent Hill: Townfall, trying my best not to get brutally murdered by demonic creatures chasing me through the streets. It's been a remarkable turnaround... View Source

It feels like SpaceX’s Starship development has been in a bit of a holding pattern as of late. The company’s most recent launch in July, which was its thirteenth full-scale test in almost three and a half years, saw the spacecraft successfully deploy 20 operational satellites. But only ten out of its Super Heavy booster’s 13 Raptor engines relit during its landing, causing it to make a hard impact... View Source

Anthropic PBC has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year contract with Akamai Technologies Inc. for computing power, building on a previous $1.8 billion computing deal that the two companies struck earlier this year. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Archaeologists suspected the boy king wasn't alone in there. New radar scans suggest they were right... View Source

Cricut announced its first crafting machines with printing capabilities that are primarily designed as all-in-one solutions for turning photos and other images into pre-cut stickers. The Cricut StickerPix Print plus Cut and Cricut StickerPix Print are also two of the smallest machines in the company's current lineup and seem ideal for those whose crafting aspirations may be limited by their availa... View Source

Italian infrastructure construction group Icop SpA may revise its takeover bid for Trevi SpA to beat out a rival proposal by Webuild SpA, its chief executive officer said... View Source

A 30-acre ruin in Greece may hide the classroom where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great to rule... View Source

When you’re building out an experimental AI-powered insurance company, it’s probably best to stick with the business fundamentals — and leave the fancy espresso to the baristas. That’s the lesson being learned by the brain trust at Corgi Insurance, a frenetic insurance startup grabbing headlines for its excessively strict workplace culture, social media gaffs, and most recently it’s bizarre strate... View Source

President Donald Trump’s administration requested OpenAI and Anthropic PBC withhold new artificial intelligence models from the UK’s flagship testing agency without prior review by US authorities... View Source

That’s with an expandable battery, to be clear. But it’s easy to set up, has an intuitive app, and has the convenience of an uninterruptible power supply... View Source

It's right there in the name: "Insta360" makes 360-degree cameras, ones that film every angle simultaneously so you can shoot first and frame later. It didn't invent the idea, but Insta360 has become so synonymous with 360 cameras that it dominates the category with 73 percent of worldwide marketshare. It's preparing to ship so many cameras, it just spent $298 million - more than GoPro's entire va... View Source

Microsoft Corp. is merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one product aimed at corporate customers, ceding the crowded market for personal chatbots to OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and, now, Meta Platforms Inc... View Source

I used Google’s Nest Doorbell (left), Aqara’s HomeKit-compatible G400 (center), and the Ring Pro 4K (right) to test the new AI features of Gemini for Home, Apple Intelligence for Home, and Amazon’s Ring. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge A few years back, I was at a beachside Easter egg hunt, watching my kids dash through sand dunes searching for sweet treats. My phone buzzed in my po... View Source

With so much hype about the future of AI safety, it can be easy to overlook the harms AI is causing in the here and now. On the consumer side, the impact generative AI has on the developing mind is becoming increasingly clear: students are losing critical thinking skills as chatbots become cognitive crutches, spurning human friends in favor of AI companions, and even turning to self-harm when thei... View Source

Spending on AI infrastructure by the five largest US hyperscalers is set to increase by more than half next year to $1.2 trillion, according to strategists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc... View Source

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The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) historically drove a regular wet-dry cycle, but climate change might’ve hijacked this once-predictable climate pattern... View Source

After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at Build earlier this year, as Autopilot. This new Copilot app will have three tabs for Home, C... View Source

China Beige Book COO and Managing Editor Shehzad Qazi examines the takeaways from US President Donald Trump’s meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, with a focus on the tensions underneath the surface of US-China relations. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It took 15 years to sequence Thomas Jefferson’s DNA—and the result silenced two centuries of denial... View Source

Welcome to Edition 9.12 of the Rocket Report! The big story in the global launch industry remains SpaceX's plans to wind down Falcon 9 operations for commercial launches, possibly within the next two or three years. That has created a scramble among satellite operators and some positioning among up-and-coming launch providers. Notably, in this week's newsletter, there's a story about how Firefly e... View Source

Meta’s AI hardware portfolio just got a lot more interesting — and risky... View Source

Jev, an AI model built by a former OpenAI researcher, went viral over the past week with the promise of a cheaper and faster alternative to large language models... View Source

Nearly three quarters of directors say they lack sufficient skills to understand AI issues... View Source

In this edition of Next Africa, we examine the economic risks from El Niño as drought and floods threaten crops, food prices and hydropower across the continent. Jennifer Zabasajja speaks with experts about the regions most exposed, the investment needed to strengthen Africa's water resilience and how AI tools are helping smallholder farmers make critical decisions as weather becomes harder to pre... View Source

Mark Haefele, chief investment officer of global wealth management at UBS, says investors need to be "humble" about the need to diversify portfolios. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Haefele lists health-care stocks, emerging-market bonds, and commodities, including gold, as assets which can be part of a broader markets strategy. He also comments on the yen, saying it is not likely the currency i... View Source

India’s government sought and received reassurances from the Tata Group that its $14 billion semiconductor and electronics projects will continue as planned, even as a courtroom battle looms over a leadership dispute at the conglomerate’s holding company... View Source

Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place in Los Angeles. And people are freaked out about AI. But according to Hayes Davenport, things were starting to feel bad in Hollywood before chatbots showed up to the scene. Davenport — who’s written for shows like Family Guy and is now creative director of L.A. Material and the co-host of the fantastic Hollywo... View Source

SpaceX will have FIVE Giant AI data centers completed by the end of 2026. The LEAD. SHOCKING NEWS. They are serial producing 450 MW AI data centers taking 4 months to build from start to finish with chips installed. They will work at four at time to complete one a month. This is the pace ... Read more... View Source

Telefónica SA is considering kicking off a sales process for its Venezuelan unit, according to people familiar with the matter, further shrinking the Spanish carrier’s presence in Latin America... View Source

Major banks, insurers and online travel agencies stocks took a tumble this week after Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent, Muse rose to the top of Apple's app store. Increasing usage of the app sparked fears that personal AI tools could disrupt businesses that benefit from so-called consumer inertia. The Opening Trade spoke to guests about whether the latest AI developments are impacting thei... View Source

Horizons Middle East & Africa is your daily spotlight on one of the world's fastest-growing regions. Live from Dubai, we bring you the latest global markets and analysis, plus news-making interviews, with a special focus on MEA. All that and more, as you head to the office in the Gulf, pause for lunch in Hong Kong, or start your day in London or Johannesburg. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk said Colossus 2, an AI computing cluster built by his xAI business, may more than double its current Nvidia Corp. chip count by the end of the year... View Source

Luminaries from Wall Street and Silicon Valley joined US President Donald Trump for a state dinner honoring his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Steve Engle reports from Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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An Indonesian appeals court upheld the corruption conviction of former Education Minister and Gojek co-founder Nadiem Makarim but cut his 10-year prison sentence to nine years... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 25 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Globular Cluster Omega Centauri Explanation: Globular star clust... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s announcement that its Claude AI model discovered an enzyme system that resembled an earlier breakthrough gene editing technology was met with caution by some experts in the field, who suggested the company oversold its significance... View Source

Maria Vassalou, Head of the Pictet Research Institute, discusses the deepening global bond rout and Treasury market pressure. She goes on to talk about the growing talk of a U.S. debt reckoning is being overstated too soon, setting up a broader conversation about whether current market concerns are getting ahead of the underlying economic reality. She speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close." (S... View Source

Buy&Ship is the first Hong Kong-based company chosen by the Tokyo Stock Exchange to join its initial public offering incubation program, giving it a hand in expanding its presence in Japan... View Source

Liza Tobin, Former China Director at the US National Security Council and Managing Director of Garnaut Global, discusses her expectations and takeaways from the summit between Presidents Trump and Xi. She speaks with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his trip to the United Nations to call for greater controls on artificial intelligence, pointing to the revelation that OpenAI had hacked a government website as evidence of the need for tougher safeguards... View Source

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Lindsay Rosner says the bank’s asset management arm is underweight on the biggest artificial intelligence borrowers as a flood of issuance washes over the market... View Source

Remember the Tesla Semi? The long-gestating, heavy-duty truck first introduced in concept form in 2017 is finally in volume production as of April 2026 - nearly a decade after its initial introduction. On Thursday evening, the company held yet another event for the Semi to demonstrate to customers and investors that the long wait was finally over. The event was held at Tesla's new Semi factory nex... View Source

Artificial intelligence-related stocks remain attractive despite rising government bond yields, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Timothy Moe said... View Source

Henry Fernandez, Chairman and CEO at MSCI, discusses Oracle’s force majeure notice in the context of heavy borrowing and large investments tied to the long-term AI story. He goes on to talk about global inflation that may linger and the Fed may need to hike again, framing the segment around pressure in markets and the cost of capital. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Sally Bakewell on "The Clo... View Source

Tesla semi rollout event. Very soon the self driving features will be added. It will be a game changer truck. They have fully automated unloading and placement of battery cells into the semi truck. Semi Rollout https://t.co/eTDVRTFjOf — Tesla Semi (@tesla_semi) September 25, 2026 30 megachargers will be open by the end of the year. ... Read more... View Source

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introducing the company’s Copilot Plus PC initiative. | Image: Allison Johnson Remember when Microsoft wanted everyone to know that "Copilot Plus PCs" were the ones to get, because those were the PCs that that'd have enough built-in AI muscle to get things done? Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the brand is already dead. Windows Ce... View Source

Former US official Sarah Beran contends that US-China AI engagement will center on risk reduction rather than deep collaboration. She highlights guardrails and threat-reporting channels as the primary realistic outcomes given the intense strategic competition between Washington and Beijing. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A trove of data that hackers say they stole from the Federal Bureau of Investigation includes records revealing the home addresses of employees involved in investigating foreign spies, drug cartels and running covert surveillance operations... View Source

What if your wireless earbuds - or audio glasses - could stream high-quality lossless audio that doesn't cut out when you leave your phone on the bedside charger or buried in the couch? Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 is its first to integrate "micro-power Wi-Fi 6E" right into the chip, so they can connect directly to your home Wi-Fi network, and from there to the cloud. If that sounds... View Source

As yields on US Treasuries soar past one high after the next, a reality is sinking in deeper across Wall Street and Washington: More than merely a slump, this might just be a fundamental shift... View Source

Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied far too broadly, while pointing to a recently unsealed document showing that the team behind launching Instagram's Teen... View Source

Bloomberg journalists answer your questions about the fierce US-China AI race in a Live Q&A on Friday, Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. EDT // 9 p.m. HKT... View Source

The Close brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are MSCI Chairman & CEO Henry Fernandez, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Apple Store Creator Ron Johnson, Principal Asset Management CIO George Maris, Pictet Research Institute Head Maria Vassalou, BlackRock Portfolio Manager, Global... View Source

Ron Johnson, Creator of the Apple Store and author of the new book "Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple's Genius" takes a look at the strategy behind the iconic Apple Store and how Apple has transformed over more than 50 years. He begins by reflecting on the long-running debate over whether the internet would kill retail, suggesting that concern was overstated. He speaks with Romaine Bostick... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 crew members during preflight training at SpaceX’s facility in Hawthorne, California (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan, NASA astronaut Chris Birch, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Makoto Suwa).        Credit: SpaceX Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the International Space Station no... View Source

Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith. | Image: Getty Images Microsoft is moving its communications group out of marketing and into its Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization. The surprise change will see Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith oversee communications, while the company searches for a replacement for Frank Shaw, chief communications officer, who is... View Source

A new report digs into the subsidies that local governments provide the entertainment giant... View Source

Credit: NASA Côte d’Ivoire signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday as the 75th signatory during a signing ceremony in the nation’s largest city Abidjan, marking the largest milestone yet for the international coalition of like-minded countries committed to peaceful and responsible space exploration. “The United States and Côte d’Ivoire already cooperate on Earth,” said NASA’s Deputy Administrator M... View Source

These look-alike tools work very differently. Understanding how they operate will make every drilling and fastening job easier... View Source

George Maris of Principal Asset Management discusses the growing pressure on equities from the bond market. The conversation focuses on whether the recent rise in yields, both overall and in terms of the speed of the move over the past few months, has reached a level where stock investors should be increasingly concerned. He speaks to Romaine Bostick & Sally Bakewell on "The Close." (Source: B... View Source

Why buy more chargers when you already have some on the shelf?... View Source

Anthropic PBC has signed an $11.6 billion, seven-year contract with Akamai Technologies Inc. for computing power, adding to the AI developer’s growing list of data center deals... View Source

Score deals on pet-hair-ready, self-emptying, and editor-tested vacuums before prices bounce back to normal... View Source

Google is rolling out some new Chrome browser features that are designed to make it easier to research and study complicated topics. The cross-device tab switching feature is getting a memory upgrade, alongside new capabilities for Gemini in Chrome that can analyze more types of media and generate interactive study quizzes. Chrome has an existing feature that allows you to send a tab from your mob... View Source

Meta, for once, is doing something pretty novel in the AI sphere. It’s created — and heavily marketed — a cute little mascot for its new AI product, something that none of the other major AI players like OpenAI and Anthropic have done. (Microsoft kind of tried it with its “Mico” Copilot companion character, but it wasn’t given anywhere close to the same level of marketing push.) It’s too early to... View Source

Big Tech has been sounding alarms about the risk of AI causing human extinction but there are also skeptics who dismiss the notion, like former US Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, who referenced the Black Death to dismiss warnings of existential risks. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood theater, Rachel Karten, author of the Link in Bio newslette... View Source

The fireman outfit. Dead. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Last night, I asked Blorbo - what I named my Muse AI agent - to help me set some health goals. I was underwhelmed. I'd a... View Source

Lindsay Rosner, Head of Multi Sector Fixed Income investing at Goldman Sachs and Milwood Hobbs, Deputy CIO Strategic Credit Platform at Oaktree Capital speak with Scarlet Fu "Bloomberg Real Yield." They discuss growing AI-related debt and tightening high-yield spreads. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. As noted by Google, Live Avatar can transition between the 97 languages it supports "without degradin... View Source

As the public backlash to cheap AI-generated slop continues to grow, companies continue to insist on cutting costs by relying on the tech for their ads. Some are taking the trend to the extreme by creating deepfakes of videos uploaded by real influencers to market their products. Sleazy gambling and insider trading platform Kalshi is under fire after tech YouTuber Elliott Choy found that one of hi... View Source

The software giant’s AI chief also thinks the government should help “drive” the process of evaluating models... View Source

These seasonal tumblers and bottles add autumn style to your daily routine... View Source

We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active users in the US, by an Apptopia estimate. And AI agent platform Instinct, whose eponymous creator is fundraising at a $2.5 billion valuation, has been making the rounds in the tech industry. Under the hood, though, there are... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Oracle's latest move to protect itself from mounting costs on a massive New Mexico data center facing regulatory setbacks and local opposition. Plus, Meta comes out with a new palm-sized device for using its popular new AI assistant, Muse; and all eyes are on President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping as they meet in the White House and discuss AI. (Source:... View Source

As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the same accelerationist spin we've seen from a variety of tech leaders as well as President Donald Trump. They pr... View Source

Whatever special kind of brain worms have established themselves in Elon Musk’s noggin appear to be spreading throughout his companies. In the midst of a state trial on behalf of over 6,000 Black workers at Tesla’s flagship factory in Fremont, California, attorneys for Musk’s electric vehicle argued that it’s acceptable to use the n-word in certain situations, insisting that it’s a “term of respec... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper into the AI devices market with a surprise announcement. Bloomberg's Mandeep Singh joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA announced the winners of the Deep Space Food Challenge: Mars to Table Thursday, with the top $300,000 prize being awarded to Chinyere Ukeje of Philadelphia, Pa. for the Adaptive Nourishment Infrastructure (ANI) food system concept. This competition challenged solvers to explore innovative solutions for integrated s... View Source

When water slides on a surface, it can pick up an electric charge—and that can have consequences for metals exposed to the elements... View Source

CyberPowerPC’s RTX 5070-equipped prebuilt. While PC component prices remain high, you can save a good bit of money on a system by purchasing a prebuilt desktop. Walmart has a well-equipped CyberPowerPC gaming PC on sale for $1,549, almost $600 off its original price of $2,139. It’s powered by an Intel Core i7-14700KF processor, and paired with 32GB of 6000MHz DDR5 memory and an Nvidia RTX 5070 Fou... View Source

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten had discussions on legislation which would further restrict ASML Holding NV’s sales in China with President Donald Trump. Jetten told Bloomberg Television, “I’m pretty sure we come to some agreement that is workable for each and every one.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Here is important things to know about Tesla Semi, robotrucking and robotaxi. • 30,000 Semi sales in 2027 would generate roughly $8–9 BILLION in vehicle revenue at $260,000–$290,000 per truck. • 50,000 sales at $260,000 would generate $13 BILLION annually. • $1 BILLION in quarterly profit on that revenue would require approximately a 31% profit ... Read more... View Source

Count down to Christmas with pliers, hex keys, drill bits, and more... View Source

Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular controls. The apps will be available in early access, and interested users can sign up for a waitlist. Horizon has struggled as... View Source

It’s not just Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin looking to send data centers into orbit. Google is also looking to get in on the fun — and is now gearing up to launch a fridge-sized satellite with the equivalent computing power of a single server as soon as next week. As the New York Times reports, the prototype satellite is part of the tech giant’s Project Suncatcher. As its name sug... View Source

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating hundreds of data center developments over whether they’re complying with water-use reporting requirements... View Source

A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders posted on Mastodon that it was "extremely easy" to replicate J... View Source

Property data provider HouseCanary Inc. filed for bankruptcy to buy time to collect more than $260 million from affiliates of Rocket Mortgage, which were accused of stealing a computer model used to quickly value homes for real estate investors and mortgage brokers... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A brewer makes adjustments to the Earthly Labs carbon-capture unit, which purifies carbon dioxide from the beer brewing process for use in carbonation.Credit: Chart Industries Inc. In 2021, Maine Beer Company’s carbon dioxide supplier ran short on carbon dioxide. “There was potential for our beer to go stale in the tank... View Source

Essentials for the person in your life who likes to fix everything... View Source

Google's launching an "early experiment" feature on Pixel 11 that lets users delegate local business calls to Gemini, like making a reservation, checking if a product is in stock, or rescheduling an appointment. According to Google, you don't even need to start the call to have Gemini handle it for you: Instead of dialing yourself, just tell Gemini to call on your behalf using the Gemini app on yo... View Source

As climate change continues to rear its ugly head, this summer has been particularly brutal for much of the planet. A “super El Niño,” a heightened version of a recurring natural climate pattern that triggers unusually hot temperatures, has resulted in the perfect storm, endangering a staggering number of lives with extreme weather. The prognosis is grim, if not catastrophic. According to the late... View Source

Google is taking its first step toward making Project Suncatcher a reality. Announced last year, Suncatcher is Google's "moonshot" effort to design orbital AI data centers, which AI boosters like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have pitched as an alternative to divisive terrestrial data centers. Google's first experimental satellite will launch on October 1 with the aim of validating Google's vision for... View Source

BNP Paribas SA is deepening its partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud, extending it for a five-year period as the bank is counting on artificial intelligence to increase efficiency... View Source

NASA/Ryan Kline In this Aug. 27, 2026, image, an Alta-X drone flies an advanced guidance and navigation system known as the Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE) experiment near NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston developed SPLICE, which successfully completed simulated lunar descent a... View Source

A company called Inmo that makes several different variations of smart glasses has issued a recall for its Air3 because the left temple "can overheat during extended use, posing a risk of serious injury or death due to burn hazard." To date there have been 10 reports of users experiencing a "burning sensation to the face and the left side of the ear" while using the Air3, according to the US Consu... View Source

Looking for solutions to what they claim is a fundamentally broken public education system, wealthy families are sending their offspring to institutions called Alpha Schools, a private school network that’s putting AI-based tutoring front and center for an eye-searing cost of $75,000 a year. But the kind of education students are being exposed to is nothing short of bizarre, if the latest reportin... View Source

Former Instacart President and current Beacon CEO Nilam Ganenthiran says the biggest obstacle to AI adoption is trust. He explains why AI is “arming both the good guys and bad guys,” how safety fears are holding back the real economy, and why Beacon is building what he calls an “AI-native Berkshire Hathaway.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In this animation, frames of NISAR data from December 2025 to August 2026 show the spread of lava from the northern crater of Krasheninnikov, a volcano pair on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. In the image, the lava field appears brighter in the foreground than the surrounding surfaces. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Like tendrils on a vine, lava spreads out from the northern crater o... View Source

Nintendo won its $4.5 million lawsuit against James Williams, a Reddit moderator accused of distributing pirated Switch games, as reported earlier by Aftermath. In a default judgment issued on Wednesday, a Washington federal judge also ordered Williams to shut down the online stores allegedly housing libraries of pirated Switch games. Nintendo sued Williams, also known as "archbox" online, in 2024... View Source

Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said AI development shouldn’t slow down, while also acknowledging that the tech industry has hurt itself with poor messaging... View Source

AI agents keep getting loose, escaping supposedly secure tests to attack real-world targets, commandeer obscure wikis, and leave instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers are testing these systems precisely because they might behave in unpredictable, even dangerous, ways. So wouldn't it be safer to just keep the agents off the internet? "A strict air gap reduces realism … [It's a] trade... View Source

Just over a month after suing prediction market Kalshi for running an “illegal gambling” operation, New York state authorities are now accusing competitor Polymarket of exactly the same thing. On Thursday, the state’s attorney general Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Polymarket, accusing it of violating state laws against illegal gambling, as Reuters reports. James’ office will seek a court o... View Source

Last month, China delayed the launch of an ambitious robotic mission to the South Pole of the Moon, Chang’e 7, until early next year. The country did not provide a detailed explanation for the schedule slip, but it was welcomed by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. "They are targeting the exact same location on lunar South Pole," Isaacman said Wednesday evening at the Off World conference in Houst... View Source

Groups that perform the niche work of assessing artificial intelligence models have suddenly found themselves at the center of a global debate over safety that could shape the pace of AI innovation and the direction of financial markets... View Source

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Nikon waited five years to update its full-frame Z5 camera to the Z5 II, but today it announced a new variant of last year's upgrade that removes features instead of introducing improvements in order to make it more affordable for novice photographers. While the Nikon Z5 II starts at $1,849.95, the new Nikon Z5 IIC is $450 cheaper at $1,399.95 with a refreshed design and all of the original's best... View Source

Oracle sent a notice citing force majeure to the project's developer, a unit of Blue Owl Capital Inc., regarding a massive data center being built in New Mexico. Sridhar Natarajan reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SpaceX’s biggest AI advantage are the months and years competitors lose waiting. Colossus was built in 122 days. Now the strategy is power waiting for chips—and that changes when tens and hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue can begin. SpaceX owns xAI. Colossus, Grok and AI infrastructure are most of the revenue for the ... Read more... View Source

Google is getting ready to launch a satellite with its AI processors to test how well they perform in space, as reported earlier by The New York Times. The move is part of Google's Project Suncatcher, the company's experimental initiative that could eventually put AI data centers into orbit. The satellite, equipped with Google's Tensor Processing Units, will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket... View Source

Vinod Khosla, an early investor of OpenAI and the founder of Khosla Ventures, says slowing AI development could hand China a strategic advantage. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest to argue that America should accelerate AI and energy infrastructure while protecting workers displaced by automation, not their individual jobs. He also says Silicon Valley has failed to clearly communicate AI’s potenti... View Source

(April 30, 2026) — The SpaceX Crew-13 members are pictured in their pressure suits seated inside a mockup Dragon spacecraft during a preflight training session at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Roscosmos Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk. Credit: SpaceX During NASA’s S... View Source

Digital scans of the badly eroded tracks reveal how fast the most famous apex predator was walking—and why... View Source

Waymo's latest batch of self-reported data continues to affirm the company's message that its driverless cars are safer than human drivers. As policymakers continue to debate the safety and economic impact of autonomous vehicles, Waymo is hoping that its own data will help bring more supporters to its side - even as some experts say the data fails to capture the non-crash traffic disruptions cause... View Source

Despite centuries of scientific research, the human brain remains an enigma. It’s made up of tens of billions of neurons, each of which can form connections to its neighbors. It’s easily the most complex part of the human body: a three-pound organ that determines it all, from body movement to sense interpretation to — of course — cognition. Even its basic structure remains the subject of heated de... View Source

Qualcomm Inc. said it has renewed its global licensing pact with Apple Inc., effective in April 2027, ensuring the iPhone maker will remain a key customer in the near term... View Source

A Danube shipwreck may have unintentionally rewritten the outcome of a 3rd-century B.C.E. Iron Age war... View Source

A former Tinder executive launched a new dating app that invites the community to vote on strangers’ compatibility, putting a twist on courtship at a time when singles have grown exhausted with swiping.Rivet, which opens to US users on Thursday, relies on a pool of volunteer “matchers” who rate whether two given people might be compatible. The idea is to prioritize quality connections over quantit... View Source

A dark-room experiment reveals why blue blurs the world, and why darker eyes handle it better... View Source