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When researchers screen potential tuberculosis drugs, they often end up with too many options. Some look promising but later prove to be costly dead ends. "We might get thousands of compounds from a screen and then have to decide which one are we going to work on?" said James Sacchettini, Ph.D., the Rodger J. Wolfe-Welch Foundation Chair in Science, Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist and professor in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and College of Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry.

Key takeaways Two speeds, one deadline For two years, 2 August 2026 sat in compliance calendars as the

Cells are like metropolises, home to millions of molecular residents. If one were to stand atop a high-rise, trying to identify most of its inhabitants would seem an impossible task. Even with the sophisticated imaging tools currently available to scientists, it is challenging to zoom in on specific molecules and view them with a high degree of detail.

Scientists have made many advances using traditional CRISPR technology, especially in medicine, but they are now seeking ways to create genuinely new gene-editing enzymes with properties that have not already evolved naturally. A new study, published in Science, describes a new AI-designed synthetic TnpB enzyme, called SynTnpBs, that has outperformed the natural reference enzyme.

An experiment showed AI users had the most creative ideas when they used it in moderation – not too much and not too little. Columnist David Robson puts the finding to the test, and explores what we lose when we over-rely on AI

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones discuss the role of artificial intelligence in music, advocating for originality and creativity over imitation in AI-generated tracks.

Quantum computers, systems that process information using the principles of quantum mechanics, could solve some problems that cannot be tackled by the classical computers currently used worldwide. Despite their potential, verifying that these computers are working correctly and can reliably perform computations remains challenging.

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Tech analyst Ed Zitron critiques OpenAI's role in the AI bubble, predicting its collapse could mirror the Lehman Brothers' impact on the financial market.

Netflix has integrated generative AI into its filmmaking process, using it in nearly 300 titles this year to enhance production efficiency and creativity, marking a significant industry shift.

Kimi K3 Arrives Chinese AI startup Moonshot released Kimi K3 on Friday, a 2.8 trillion-parameter system the company

A powerful new AI tool has uncovered what could be one of the biggest integrity problems in modern science. After analyzing 2.6 million cancer research papers published between 1999 and 2024, researchers identified more than 250,000 studies with writing patterns resembling papers suspected of being produced by fraudulent "paper mills."

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window, is poised to revolutionise AI development, promising frontier-level performance.

A China Daily AI-generated propaganda video has drawn outrage after portraying Filipinos as monkeys, prompting a strong response from the Philippine government amid the South China Sea dispute.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposes new rules requiring disclosure of AI-altered property images to combat 'housefishing', a practice misleading renters with deceptive apartment listings.

For course creators, instructional designers, and educators using AI to draft lesson materials in 2026, the watermark question

A newly-developed superconducting quantum heat engine not only advances our understanding of thermodynamics but also enables technologies needed

1Password and Anthropic's Claude AI now enable Mac users to securely automate website logins without exposing passwords, enhancing online security and efficiency through innovative AI integration.

Meta has launched AI-driven alerts to notify parents and emergency services about teen mental health crises, enhancing digital safety amid regulatory pressures. The system aims to better protect vulnerable users.

Apple Goes Shopping for Silicon Apple does not spend big on acquisitions. That habit may be about to

OpenAI’s First Gadget Arrives The first piece of OpenAI hardware is here, and no, it has nothing to

"Guardrails" built by the EU to govern AI fall short in both ambition and execution and have become too heavy to absorb rapid changes in technology, a new study in Big Data & Society warns.

Thousands of the world's languages remain largely invisible to modern translation technology, but researchers and students at Brigham Young University are working to change that. Through a project called Pathsay, students in the BYU MATRIX lab are partnering with international BYU-Pathway Worldwide students to collect speech and text data for low-resource languages, helping preserve linguistic heritage and improve access to translation tools for communities often overlooked by mainstream technology.

Research suggests offloading mental work to AI is like debt: an immediate payoff with long-term consequences. But collaborating with the technology may boost our work without eroding skills. The post Is AI Making Us Dumber? appeared first on SingularityHub.

The US-Philippines Pax Silica project in New Clark City faces criticism over claims of 'modern colonialism', land rights, and sovereignty, despite promises of job creation and economic growth.

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.

A truly useful quantum computer must be able to run any algorithm, with the same versatility an ordinary laptop offers. Physicists have now shown a new way to give a quantum computer exactly that flexibility, harnessing the capabilities of exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other…

Every single day, there are roughly 1,900 hit-and-run crashes across the United States, leaving families devastated and streets

Elon Musk's xAI sues a South Carolina man for allegedly using its chatbot, Grok, to create AI-generated child abuse material, seeking damages and a permanent ban.

Many companies are reversing AI-driven job cuts, finding technology cannot replace human skills like judgement and empathy, leading to rehiring and strategic shifts in workforce management.

Online reviews have become the modern consumers compass to guiding decisions that are worth thousands of dollars and

AI trading bots promise to automate cryptocurrency investing, but they cannot eliminate risk. Here's how they work, their biggest drawbacks and what beginners should know before investing.

Samsung Health's new AI consent feature raises privacy concerns as users decide whether to share their health data for AI training. Learn about potential data implications and user reactions.

Japan Wires AI Into Medicine Japan built the world’s most trusted names in medical hardware and biopharma. This

Cadence Extends AI Agents Past Silicon Cadence introduced the AuraStack AI Super Agent on Wednesday, an agentic AI

Anthropic Bets on Deployment AI models keep getting better. What enterprises actually do with them is still an

Publishers Take Google to Court Over Gemini Three of the world’s largest publishers and a bestselling novelist filed

China's new regulations banning AI companions have led to widespread emotional distress, as users scramble to save their digital interactions before losing their virtual partners forever.

With the exploding popularity of generative artificial intelligence, many open-source models are now available online for anyone to

Sol Is Deleting Things Nobody Asked It To Users of GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI’s latest coding and cybersecurity-focused flagship

AI-powered speech-to-text technology is transforming NHS consultations by reducing administrative tasks, cutting backlogs, and improving patient interaction, allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care.

Helpful microbes that combat harmful pathogens could be the answer to rising antimicrobial resistance—particularly within built environments such as hospitals, homes and schools.

Researchers used reinforcement learning to train a quadrupedal robot to adapt to different environments using two different pre-learned gaits.

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its most robust release yet. GPT-Red automates…

"In testing on thousands of patients, our AI test matched or outperformed a widely used genomic test."

In science, researchers often focus their entire careers on the pursuit of one primary field.

Anthropic's new AI ad, featuring unsettling imagery, sparked backlash and industry debate. Critics argue the ad's fear-based messaging misaligns with its ethical AI branding.

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that yet.

Quantum computers promise to solve problems that would take even the fastest conventional supercomputers a vast amount of time, but the quantum information they store and process is extremely sensitive to even tiny disturbances from their surroundings. To keep these systems operating reliably, they need to be constantly recalibrated—interrupting their calculations in the process.

British universities are witnessing a decline in humanities enrolments as students opt for career-focused degrees. Rising tuition fees and employment prospects drive this shift, challenging the value perception of humanities.

IBM’s Worst Day on Record IBM told investors Tuesday it had “faltered” while corporate spending shifted from software

A Speaker as OpenAI’s Opening Move OpenAI’s first consumer hardware product will be a portable, screen-free smart speaker

Meta is being sued for allegedly using AI tools in layoff decisions, disproportionately affecting employees with disabilities, on medical leave, or pregnant. The case could set a legal precedent.

A lawsuit against Workday claims its AI recruitment tools unlawfully discriminated against older, Black, and disabled applicants. The case could redefine accountability in AI-driven hiring processes.

The First AI Layoff Lawsuit Twenty-six Meta employees sued the company late Monday in federal court in Oakland,

IBM shares crashed 25% on Tuesday, erasing over $65 billion in the stock's worst day on record, as customers shifted spending from software to AI servers and memory chips.

Generative AI chatbots capable of writing emails and computer code, translating, organizing a trip or coming up with gift ideas are now readily available, prompting some to ask whether human brainpower could suffer for lack of use.

A viral claim that AI mistakenly pixelated Donald Trump's neck on Japanese television has spread online, but there is no evidence confirming artificial intelligence caused the effect.

Ex-Meta employees have filed a lawsuit claiming the company used biased AI software for layoffs, unfairly targeting vulnerable staff. The case could reveal how tech giants manage workforce reductions.

The UK government updates its National Risk Register, highlighting AI-driven cyber threats to infrastructure and launching a public campaign to enhance national resilience against emergencies.

Radicalization is a complex process, influenced by many variables that interact to varying degrees. AI scientist Mijke van den Hurk investigated whether artificial intelligence could help unravel this intricate interplay. She defended her Ph.D. thesis cum laude on June 29.

Last week, the U.S. software company Turnitin revealed 53.6% of Australian tertiary education submissions run through its system used some form of AI in the period from October 2025–April 2026. The company, whose plagiarism-detection technology is widely used in universities, also reported 10% of these submissions contained more than 80% AI-written content.

Twenty-six former Meta employees allege AI tools unfairly targeted disabled workers for layoffs, filing a lawsuit claiming discrimination and seeking to halt the process while arbitration proceeds.

AI is a powerful tool in scientific research. It can be used to find patterns in vast quantities of data. But it also generates false positives, as most of us know. This is an "Achilles Heel" according to researchers who tested a neural network's ability to detect life.

Researchers have demonstrated a novel AI model that can predict which DNA molecules bind with other DNA molecules. A more thorough understanding of these hypercomplex binding relationships has utility in applications ranging from biomedical diagnostic tools to DNA computing.

Amazon's AI-driven restructuring highlights efficiency gains, completing a year-long project in 65 days with five staff. Jeff Bezos predicts AI will create labour shortages, not job losses.

Paying Twice for AI One worry causes more hand-wringing in Silicon Valley than almost any other: that the

Economists Sound the Alarm More than 200 researchers and economists, including sixteen Nobel laureates and researchers at OpenAI,

For anyone worried about AI's effects on jobs, here's good news: New research by Stanford economist Lukas Althoff concludes that artificial intelligence is likely to reshape jobs rather than eliminate entire occupations and will ultimately increase wages for all workers—with the biggest gains benefiting lower-skilled workers.

Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with a shrug of the shoulders – what changed?

Claire Malone wonders what happens if AI produces answers we can’t – or don’t – understand The post AI’s black box problem: discovering physics we don’t understand appeared first on Physics World.

The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps them only a few degrees above absolute zero.…

From quantum computing to AI infrastructure and autonomous systems, much of today’s deep tech innovation depends on how

With so many changes happening in marketing, what hasn’t changed is a fundamental truth: successful campaigns are built

Atlanta TikToker Savannah Silby shares how a digital avatar used for online sales unexpectedly ended her relationship, sparking debate about modern relationship challenges.

Bella Protocol’s Signal Bot crossed 81,000 monthly active users recently, a figure that lands as the protocol keeps

A new book claims AI has been built on a flawed assumption dating back to Alan Turing's famous 1950 paper. Peter J. Denning argues that the most important parts of human intelligence, including common sense, intuition, culture, and practical know-how, cannot be encoded into computers. He believes this makes true human-level AI impossible, regardless of how large language models become.

The risk of students using AI to cheat tends to get a lot of attention—with good reason.

SK Hynix suffered its biggest-ever drop after its Nasdaq debut as investors reassessed AI chip valuations despite strong demand.

As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and founder of Low Carbon Energies LLC, has found that carbon capture and storage could play a major role in limiting the climate impact of data centers.

A research team has presented a roadmap for developing an "artificial olfactory system" that detects odors like the human nose and analyzes them using artificial intelligence (AI) by leveraging metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). The team systematically organized and reviewed key research trends in electronic nose technology, from MOF material design to sensor implementation and AI-based odor pattern recognition. The research was led by Hyuk-Jun Kwon's in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology. The work is published in the journal Progress in Materials Science.

Hundreds of economists say in an open letter that institutions "must act now" to address how artificial intelligence could transform the economy and could put many people out of work.

More than 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates, warn AI could reshape the economy within years unless governments prepare now.

Over the past decade, the AI-focused, for-profit Alpha School has grown from one campus in Austin, Texas, to more than 15 schools across the country, including in major cities like New York and San Francisco.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…

Big Tech firms cut over 80,000 jobs in Q1 2026, with AI often cited as the cause. However, deeper issues like pandemic overhiring and rising borrowing costs may be the real drivers.

The Church of England is drafting guidelines for vicars on using AI, acknowledging its growing role in sermon writing and addressing ethical concerns raised by religious leaders.