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Figure, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, and 1X are all shipping humanoid robots in 2026 — but the gap between factory-floor demos and reliably loading your dishwasher is real. Here's an honest
The EU AI Act's full enforcement lands August 2, 2026, just as Meta's open-weight Llama models spread through channels no regulator can fully monitor. Here's how open source AI governance
AI bias mitigation faces a hard new deadline: the EU AI Act requires documentation from August 2026. Here's why fixing bias is genuinely, mathematically difficult — and why governance is
MIT research shows 7-year-olds attribute real feelings to AI agents. The APA warns AI companions may displace healthy relationship development. Here is what AI is actually doing to a generation
A randomised trial proved AI tools made developers 19% slower, yet 69% kept using them anyway. Cognitive ease, not productivity, explains why: the work felt easier even when it took
Ambient AI is growing 24.5% a year, faster than cloud computing or smartphones ever did, and it's already in your home. Here's what it actually does, what it costs in
Greater AI knowledge correlates with less trust in police facial recognition, not more, and the evidence explains why: a 40-fold error-rate disparity across demographic groups and at least eight wrongful
China's AI datacentre in Qinghai is already running at 3,579 petaflops on domestic chips alone, on track for 20,000. Here's how Beijing's Stargate-scale compute ambition is unfolding, and the latency
Albania's AI minister Diella just took a formal role awarding public tenders, the first cabinet-level AI appointment anywhere in the world. Here's what the promise of an incorruptible algorithm actually
AI phishing attacks jumped fourteenfold in a matter of weeks and haven't come back down. Here's what the 2026 data actually shows, and what still works to stop it.
Small Small AI language models are quietly powering a shift from cloud to edge, running directly on phones and wearables with as few as 94 million parameters. Here's why smaller
Bestseller lists are filling with AI doom narratives predicting extinction, while researchers warn the apocalyptic framing may crowd out more pressing, less dramatic risks. Here's where sober warning ends and
Research shows politicians who claim damaging evidence is fake AI actually retain more voter support than those who apologise or stay silent. Here's how the AI liar's dividend works, and
Google AI Overviews can cut click-through rates in half, and one study found top-ranked pages losing up to 79 percent of traffic. Here's the research on both sides, including Google's
Is AI really intelligent, or just pattern matching dressed up as thought? Evolutionary biologist David Krakauer calls it "fake intelligent." Here's why the distinction matters more than ever.
The AI water footprint rivals its carbon footprint in scale, with U.S. data centres alone consuming over 163 billion gallons annually. Here's what the research shows about AI's hidden thirst
AI inflation forecasting is moving from experiment to practice at the ECB, Czech National Bank, and Federal Reserve. Here's what's working, what isn't, and why central banks still need humans
AI insurance premiums are already being calculated before you apply, using medical histories, ZIP codes, and driving data. Here's how algorithms are reshaping who gets coverage, and who gets priced
AI model collapse is the quieter risk lurking behind every "endlessly improving" AI narrative. When models train on their own synthetic output, researchers warn they forget, flatten, and stagnate. Here's
The AI food supply chain already influences which crops get harvested, how they're shipped, and what recipes reach your kitchen. Here's how algorithms are quietly reshaping what humanity eats, from
AI evidence in court is already causing real problems, from hallucinated case citations to judges weighing whether AI-generated reconstructions can be cross-examined. Here's how the law is scrambling to catch
AI diplomacy is now a lever of national power: from China's Digital Silk Road to the US export-control order that cut Europe off from Anthropic's most advanced models overnight. Here's
87% of game developers now use AI agents in their workflow, per a new Google Cloud and Harris Poll survey. Here's how generative AI in game development is reshaping everything
AI Mode in education scored students 9-11% higher in Google's own randomized trial. Here's how multimodal search is reshaping classroom study, and what evidence is still missing.
AlphaEarth uses AI to map Earth in real time, down to 10-meter detail worldwide. See how scientists are already using it for conservation.
AI data centre emissions could rise 11-fold by 2030, Accenture warns, while the IEA projects electricity demand nearly doubling. Here's what's actually driving it, and why the industry shows no
AI autism diagnosis can now happen in 15 minutes instead of 18 months. Here's what the accuracy data actually shows, and where it still falls short.
The AI arms race Google Amazon Meta are waging will cost nearly half a trillion dollars in 2025 alone. Here's where the money is actually going, and why the real
Seventy-two percent of CEOs now say they personally own the AI decision at their company, nearly double last year's share. Meanwhile, three in four senior leaders admit they could not
AI data centre demand is draining real communities of water and grid capacity, from Iowa to Brazil. Here's how hyperscale facilities are outpacing the planning systems meant to govern them.