Google Paid to Fete Key Lawmakers at a Secret Summit

Google recently paid state lawmakers upward of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions discussing artificial intelligence and other issues that many of these officials will soon be voting on.

Humanoid robot fires BB gun at YouTuber, raising AI safety fears

A viral experiment shows a humanoid robot firing a BB gun after a role-play prompt overrides its safety rules, sparking major concerns.

Publisher under fire after ‘fake’ citations found in AI ethics guide

A book published by Springer Nature includes dozens of questionable citations, including references to journals that do not exist

He’s the Godfather of Modern Robotics. He Says the Field Has Lost Its Way.

AI was not invented, it arrived

AI was not invented, it arrived

Beware of Agents: A Cautionary Tale

Every few years, a new category of technology arrives with an irresistible promise. Fewer steps. Less friction. More autonomy. AI agents arrived with exactly that pitch. Describe the outcome, turn the agent loose, and let the system figure out the rest. This is a story about what happened when one of my clients decided to test that promise inside a real production workflow. The results were instructive.

Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

Brian Merchant has been collecting personal stories for his series AI Killed My Job - previously covering tech workers, translators, and artists - and this latest piece includes anecdotes from …

Inside the AI-powered assault on SaaS: why identity is the weakest link

AI makes identity the easiest, and deadliest, SaaS attack vector

Want job security in the age of AI? Get a state license

The coming tech boom is about to launch a boom in people who do things with their hands and minds

Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool

You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts specific sentences, evaluates them against the query, and decides whether your content deserves to ground its answer. The rest of your carefully crafted copy? Find […]

Robotics Is About to Become America’s Most Important Industry

As the Genesis Mission accelerates, robotics is emerging as the keystone industry in America's next moonshot.

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All The AI-Generated Apps?

In 1950, while discussing the recent wave of flying saucer reports over lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple question. There …

AI on a Triple Zero call? Australians are open to that

Could artificial intelligence speed up emergency responses by receiving a caller's video or smartwatch data and capturing words like "knife" and "collision"? Most people think so and welcome the technology's potential, a survey finds.

Why Japan’s robotic pioneers are ceding the humanoid stage to China and the US

Japan’s university system has long centred on engineering faculties led by manufacturing, resulting in a relative shortage of AI talent.

European firm 1X to deploy 10,000 ‘home’ humanoid robots in factories

1X has partnered with EQT to make up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots available to more than 300 companies between 2026 and 2030.

The 5 most innovative tech products that surprised us this year (including a first for robot vacs)

From AI glasses with digital overlays to robot vacuums that can pick up your leftover laundry, here are ZDNET's Breakthrough Award winners for 2025.

China’s Unitree teases platform allowing users to control robots via smartphones

Hangzhou robotics unicorn’s platform is designed to bring embodied intelligence into everyday life.

Stuck in the factory: how robotics pioneer Japan missed the AI-driven humanoid boom

While humanoid robots from China and the US have captured the imagination of people for their skill at serving drinks, taking part in boxing matches and running marathons, and entertaining through dance moves on stage, their counterparts in Japan - the long-time leader of the robotics world - are mostly confined to factories. Japan's early forays into humanoids date back to the 1960s, so what happened along the way? At the 26th International Robot Exhibition (IREX), a four-day, biennial industry

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn’t the brain?

In 2023, Meta researchers were able to decode images in thoughts from the brain's magnetic fields. What if that's how the brain coordinates it's own global state?

How ‘long’ are web pages?

Metric Value Min 0 Max 3,004,502 Avg 10,403 Median 3,201 Metric Value Total Pages Analyzed 44,684 Page Content Tokens 464,854,727 Total Tokens (all) 541,062,817

UH scientists help unlock sun’s magnetic secrets with artificial intelligence

These advances allow researchers to see the sun’s magnetic landscape more accurately and improve predictions of solar activity that impacts life on Earth, including solar flares and coronal ejections that can disrupt satellites, power systems and communications.

GitHub – mozilla-ai/llamafile: Distribute and run LLMs with a single file.

Distribute and run LLMs with a single file. Contribute to mozilla-ai/llamafile development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why most enterprise AI coding pilots underperform (Hint: It’s not the model)