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EU rules will make Google share anonymized search data and give rival AI assistants broader access to Android features across Europe. The post EU Orders Google to Open Android AI Features, Share Search Data With Rivals appeared first on TechRepublic.

Apple has reportedly delayed its Baltra AI server chip as it explores chip startup acquisitions to strengthen the infrastructure behind its AI ambitions. The post Apple Reportedly Delays ‘Baltra’ AI Server Chip Amid Infrastructure Challenges appeared first on TechRepublic.

Microsoft is reportedly developing Project Perception, a lower-cost AI security tool that would use multiple models to identify enterprise vulnerabilities. The post Microsoft’s ‘Project Perception’ Could Challenge Anthropic’s Mythos in AI Security appeared first on TechRepublic.

Environmental pollution is accelerating as manufacturing, industry, and daily life expand, and one stubborn contributor is volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These gases can harm human health, and their rising emissions have become a persistent environmental and biomedical concern. Monitoring VOCs in real time requires sensors that can quickly translate chemical interactions at a surface into […]

While ChatGPT remains the leader in AI traffic referrals, Meta AI bot activity has grown considerably, and now dominates.

A reverse prediction test suggests that supposedly brainlike AI models may rely on visual strategies the primate brain does not use. Artificial intelligence can sometimes predict how the brain responds when people recognize objects. But that resemblance may hide an important weakness: the internal workings of today’s vision models do not necessarily match the processes [...]

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San Francisco city attorney David Chiu has sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google, demanding that they remove several “nudify” apps from their app stores. Here are the details.

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world's largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing protons together at nearly the speed of light, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations and entered a long shutdown.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp estimated that AI could make him “20x wealthier,“ implying a fortune approaching $300 billion, up from roughly $15 billion today. Middle-class workers, he said, might simply see their salaries double over the next decade. Karp called the disparity “a complete decoupling of unimaginable wealth and normal wealth” and said it is […] This story continues at The Next Web

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.

When supermassive black holes (SMBH) in a certain mass range eat a star, they first tear it apart in a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). By detecting TDE across cosmic time, astronomers can chart the growth of SMBH as the Universe aged. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help, by finding about 100 TDEs every year.

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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.

Discover the top stories from July 11 to July 17, 2026, including new details about the effects of long COVID and ​an elusive orange-faced ​monkey species.

Helical carbon nanotubes (HCNTs) bring an inherently coiled geometry that sets them apart from conventional straight carbon nanotubes. While straight CNTs are well studied, HCNTs have remained comparatively underexplored in terms of functionalization routes and how those surface changes translate into real composite performance. Their spiral structure can mechanically entangle within host matrices, potentially increasing […]

A unified system for the training of unmanned aerial vehicle specialists has been created in the Russian Armed Forces, Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said

You can still land $300 price drops on Google Pixel 10 Pro and this rare deal on Google Pixel Flex Dual Port 67W USB-C Fast Charger, but today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by unlocked Google Pixel 10 Pro XL up to $365 off and Galaxy Buds 4 Pro at up to $120 off (some Best Buy members are even scoring a FREE $30 gift card as well). From there, we have loads of Nothing gear at up to $200 off this week – Headphone (a), Phone, buds, and more from $44 – as well as Acer’s Chromebook Plus 516 laptop with Google AI down at $329, plus plenyt of charging gear, accessories, and more waiting below. 

Electrical interconnects may very well be the unsung heroes of modern microchips. These tiny wires—typically made of copper due to its high conductivity—string together the billions of transistors that drive our computers and electronic devices. But as the technology advances and additional transistors are piled on, the components must shrink to the nanoscale. And that's when copper begins to fail.

Quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QD-LEDs) are poised to become a cornerstone of next-generation displays and solid-state lighting, but their performance has long depended on how precisely charge carriers move and recombine inside nanoscale junctions. In a recent study published in Light: Science & Applications, researchers introduce a nanocrystal-based p–n junction model designed to capture the […]

Technological advances in autonomous truck technology are poised to have significant economic ripple effects on U.S. interstate commerce, highway infrastructure and labor costs, according to new research co-written by a team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign economists.

While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloomberg reports. The plan is a secondary listing on top of its existing Shenzhen shares. It […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers in the U.S. have carried out the most stringent tests to date of the idea that an ultraviolet glow in the atmospheres of giant planets could partly arise through the indirect interaction between dark matter and ordinary matter. Led by Carlos Blanco at Princeton University, the team's results place some of the tightest constraints yet on the strength of this interaction.

Engineered E. coli cells can now “self-clear” synthetic nanoassemblies by switching on an internal redox repair program, according to a report published in Nature Chemical Biology. The study links photo-oxidative damage directly to an influx–efflux feedback loop in which bacterial enzymes both neutralize reactive oxygen species (ROS) and physically expel intracellular nanoparticles (NPs) to regain […]

Some of my favorite new features in iOS 27 are flying under the radar, but no less impactful.

Also, we try to make sense of OpenAI's rumored AI smart speaker.

Insilico Medicine founders Dr. Alex Zhavoronkov and Dr. Feng Ren have been invited to the inaugural China Pioneer Innovative Drug Global Congress (CPIC 2026) in Shanghai, scheduled for July 22–24, 2026. The event will convene international stakeholders at the National Exhibition and Convention Center to accelerate dialogue on how advanced AI can translate into real-world […]

New, never-before-seen images provide a glimpse into the secretive lives of a clouded leopard species found in the dense rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra

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.

A new study in npj Flexible Electronics reports an electromechanical way to “snap” thin-film robotic and electronic modules together—and to separate them again—without relying on bulky connectors or manual alignment. The work, led by Uchima and colleagues, targets a key bottleneck for modular flexible technology: how to achieve reliable electrical contact while keeping devices thin, […]

Matt Burgess / Wired: San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it has deleted the apps  —  The City Attorney's Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 …

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Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported. BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Meta will start telling parents when a teenager discusses suicide or self-harm with its Meta AI chatbot. The company set out the change in a blog post on Thursday. The alerts go to parents who use Instagram supervision tools. They are live now in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, TechCrunch reported. They will reach […] This story continues at The Next Web

The MIR dental robot prototype from the University of Basel could prepare teeth for crowns with digital precision, but major safety hurdles remain.

Clothing That Dresses You A team from South Korea’s KAIST and Stanford University has built clothing that puts

Gemini 3.5 Pro Slips Alphabet’s Google is months behind on shipping Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship

Google DeepMind has launched a programme to turn AI on biological threats. The London lab and its sister company Isomorphic Labs call it bioresilience, and set it out in a joint blog post. The aim is twofold. DeepMind wants to stop people misusing its models, and to help governments, scientists and biosecurity groups use AI […] This story continues at The Next Web

What does a company that builds game-playing AI need with a philosopher? That question sits at the heart of a Guardian long-read on Iason Gabriel, who has worked inside Google DeepMind since 2017. For a time, the Guardian reports, Gabriel was the only philosopher at a frontier AI lab. His job was to anticipate the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Andrew James (from left), Neil Morrison, Natalia Kurz and Michael Neiss work on a prototype of their weed-killing robot ahead of The Farm Robotics Challenge, which they won on May 21. By Holly Hartigan A team of Cornell undergraduates beat 95 other teams to take the grand prize at The Farm Robotics Challenge with their […]

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out  —  The social media giant's ambitions in developing data centers and computing resources are growing

Google has reportedly delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro after the AI model failed to meet internal coding goals, raising concerns about its pace in the AI race.

China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports. The patient had lost hand function after a spinal cord injury in a car accident a decade ago. The procedure […] This story continues at The Next Web

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.

Author(s): Zohreh Davoudi, Christopher Jarzynski, Niklas Mueller, Greeshma Oruganti, Connor Powers, and Nicole Yunger HalpernThe authors examine three definitions of internal energy, work, and heat that have been used for quantum systems coupled strongly to the environment. Their study focuses on quenches, processes in which the Hamiltonian changes abruptly. In these processes, the first law of thermodynamics holds for each set of definitions by construction. The authors show that only two sets of definitions obey the second law. They illustrate their findings with a model of two coupled spins. #ClearMotivation #AdvancingField [Phys. Rev. E 114, 014133] Published Thu Jul 16, 2026

Author(s): Yiming Gong, Kai Wang, and Steven T. CundiffUsing higher-order quantum interference, an “electron lighthouse” is created with the capability of optically steering highly directional 2D beams of photocurrent in semiconductors. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 036901] Published Thu Jul 16, 2026

Chinese chip designers Moore Threads Technology and Hygon Information Technology – both positioning themselves as home-grown alternatives to Nvidia – have projected double- to triple-digit revenue growth for the first half of the year, fuelled by surging domestic demand for AI computing power. Beijing-based Moore Threads, a graphics processing unit (GPU) developer, stated in a stock exchange filing on Thursday that it expected revenue for the period to jump 135.1 per cent to 149.4 per cent year...

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

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

Aaron Holmes / The Information: Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective Mythos alternative  —  Microsoft is preparing to release a new AI security product, internally codenamed Project Perception, to capture a piece of companies' rising cyber defense spending.

The AI-powered image creation and editing application Google Pics was first made available in Gemini Alpha in May, and the company now plans to release it to all paying Workspace customers starting in August.

Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.

Researchers benchmarked nanopore methylation callers across bacterial, plant, mouse, and human datasets, comparing accuracy, speed, memory use, coverage, read quality, and sensitivity to nearby modifications. Older Dorado v4r1 and RockFish models led CpG analysis, while newer Dorado models performed best overall for non-CpG 5mC, 6mA, and 4mC.

Rocket Drew / The Information: Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September  —  Humanoid raised $150 million in the first tranche of a Series A funding round that values the London-based robotics company at $1.2 billion …

Researchers utilized 30 years of Landsat satellite imagery to analyze the color and spectral signatures of Adélie penguin guano across Antarctica, marking the first time space-based observations have captured food-web and population dynamics at a continental scale.

Ukraine might have greenlit combat humanoid robots, but battlefield realities favor economies of scale for much simpler contraptions.

Chase DiBenedetto / Mashable: A New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes  —  A New York school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher to help students with summer school classes.  —  Announced earlier this year …

Data center-related policy proposals, protests and litigation are underway across the country citing Colossus and Memphis as a cautionary tale.

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Benjamin and Chance talk about their latest experiences with iOS 27 and Siri AI, with Apple releasing the public betas this week so anyone in the whole world can give the new software a go. The company also sued OpenAI this week in a high-profile case over alleged trade secrets theft. And, as is tradition, the Apple Store Back to School offer underwhelms. And in Happy Hour Plus, Mayo gets a new work laptop which complicates his future Mac buying decisions. Subscribe at 9to5mac.com/join. Sponsored by Shopify: All you need is the idea. Shopify handles the rest. Start your free trial at shopify.com/happyhour. Sponsored by Quince: Refresh your wardrobe with Quince. Visit quince.com/happyhour for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Sponsored by Framer: The only free design tool that brings your ideas to the web. Visit framer.com/happyhour for 30% off a Framer Pro annual plan. Sponsored by Square: Get up to

Google's NotebookLM started off as a small Google Labs experiment back in 2023, but it has grown tremendously since then, reaching more than 30 million people and over 600,000 organizations. Thus, the company has realized that the product has basically outgrown its name. So, today, Google is announcing that it is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. It will (at least for now) remain a standalone product "focused on being your premier research tool", but it will also "do more across the Google ecosystem, including inside the Gemini app and Google Search", the company says. ...

Neo Beta hands may be the most human-like we've seen on a robot yet.

University of Arizona researchers have demonstrated a promising new application for graphene nanoribbons, a nanoscale semiconductor material with the potential to withstand extreme environments. The team's findings could help clear a key hurdle to bringing fusion energy to the electric grid.

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate  —  Recently, I received a strange text from a new acquaintance.  “You have your own biography???” it read.

Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported on Thursday citing 10 current and former employees. The company was widely expected to release the upgrade at its May developer conference but has been […] This story continues at The Next Web

No more digging through months of ChatGPT history, this new sidebar search finds chats, files, and images in seconds, with filters to narrow results.

PrismML's AI model is small enough to run entirely on an iPhone, potentially reducing Siri's dependence on the cloud.

The 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures a vibrant scene filled with swirls and stars reminiscent of Van Gogh's The Starry Night. This new cosmic masterpiece features the glowing nebula NGC 6729 on the left and the globular star cluster NGC 6723 on the right. DECam is mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a program of NSF NOIRLab.

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.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording  —  OpenAI's Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there's still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is also investigating the crash

Regulatory approval of brain implants in China mean they can now be fixed to the brains of anyone who wants to try them.

Elon Musk flew under the radar with his recent purchase of a $1 billion energy company, according to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) documents. Transaction number 202612350 listed Tesla and SpaceX frontman Elon Musk as the acquiring party and CF APR Super Holdings LLC as the seller, with New APR Energy, LLC as the acquired entity. […] The post Elon Musk secretly acquires $1B energy company to power the AI future appeared first on TESLARATI.

Google Search's AI Mode can now connect to apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music to complete tasks for you.

The Trump administration is testing the use of AI in Medicare to approve some medical services.

Researchers have restored hand movement and the sense of touch to a man paralysed from the chest down. The results, published in Nature Medicine, suggest the technology partly rewired his nervous system. The system, called a “double neural bypass,” comes from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, the team […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google will have to let rival AI assistants run on Android the way its own Gemini does. It must also hand some of its search data to competitors. The European Commission set out both requirements on Thursday. The two decisions fall under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Commission said. The law forces “gatekeeper” […] This story continues at The Next Web

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Although this strategy had some success in the aerospace ...

In their Research Article “Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence” (26 March, 10.1126/science. aec8352), M. Cheng et al. show that artificial intelligence (AI) systems are substantially more likely than humans to endorse a user’s position in disputed scenarios. Randomized experimental designs indicate that exposure to such affirming responses reduces users’ willingness to engage in prosocial corrective actions in interpersonal conflicts and increases trust in, and dependence on, the AI system. These findings, which establish a causal link between model alignment strategies and downstream human behavior, highlight a tension at the heart of AI alignment: Optimizing for user satisfaction may systematically bias models toward agreement, even when disagreement would better serve users’ long-term interests or social outcomes. Sycophancy is not merely a failure mode but a predictable by-product of reinforcement signals derived from user preference. However,

We thank Meng for articulating important methodological and interpretive questions about our findings. The appropriate human baseline depends on the expected social role of artificial intelligence (AI). In real-world use, AI models are perceived to serve a variety of purposes, such as adviser, neutral outside opinion, editor, and assistant (1, 2). These roles come with different expectations for how often agreement, validation, or corrective feedback should occur. To complicate matters, users often view a single AI system as fulfilling multiple roles (3, 4). Because of the ambiguity of AI’s social role, any single human baseline is an imperfect comparison point. The baselines we used—judgments from third-party humans with no personal stake in the conflict or scenario at hand—explore one common and societally meaningful expectation: Do AI systems—despite often being seen as external, neutral, and objective information providers (5–7)—disproportionately side with the user? Our findings

Bloomberg: Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro because the company has been trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro, its most powerful flagship AI model …

Karissa Bell / Engadget: Meta's Oversight Board says top AI models may be restricting free expression in its first evaluation of LLMs, as it seeks to expand its influence beyond Meta  —  The group is trying to extend its influence beyond Meta.  —  The Oversight Board, the independent content moderation organization created …

After releasing two new options after I/O, Google might soon let you customize Gemini voice across four parameters.

Some researchers are leaning into biology for inspiration in computing. In particular, neuromorphic computing offers a brain-inspired approach to hardware that replaces traditional binary processing with systems that function more like neurons and synapses. Now, a new study, published in Nature Communications, describes an innovative design for a fluidic memristor that uses its own self-heating mechanism to induce a history-dependent memory effect.

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding one of its most popular AI products into the Gemini brand while keeping it as a standalone tool. The company said on Thursday that the rebrand reflects how deeply the research assistant has been woven into the broader Google ecosystem, including the Gemini app and Google Search. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music  —  Google announced on Thursday that it now allows users to link and interact with some of their go-to apps right in AI Mode, the tech giant's conversational search experience.

Cancer therapy is increasingly limited by two stubborn realities: tumors change their phenotype as they evolve, and they rarely share a single genetic blueprint. That plasticity makes “one-and-done” treatments less effective, while the genetic heterogeneity of malignant cells complicates attempts to precisely reprogram their behavior. Against this backdrop, a new proposal aims to upgrade CRISPR-based […]

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