New trial of AI-powered traffic lights will be a test for who gets priority on public roads
Australia’s first AI traffic-light trial could cut delays. It also raises hard questions about fairness, safety and who gets priority on public roads.
The U.K. is getting a new prime minister, but bond investors are really in charge and ‘hyper-reactive,’ Wall Street veteran says
"But investors know it’s the bond market that will call the shots in the $4.2 trillion economy no matter who sits in the prime minister’s office."
Shocked AWS customers receive astronomical bill estimates
Billing estimate engine update goes wrong.
Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
Trump Administration Scales Back Endangered Species Protections—Again
The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service revised regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act. Conservationists warn the changes could put vulnerable species at greater risk.
An Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grant Funding
An Agency That Supports Health-Care Improvement Cuts Off Grant Funding Ryan Quinn Sun, 07/19/2026 - 02:30 PM The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sent researchers letters last week saying they wouldn’t receive long-awaited funding continuations. The agency cited the “best interest of the federal government.” Byline(s) Ryan Quinn
‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Sued For Claiming Utah Data Center Opposition Has Ties to China
Kevin O’Leary is being sued for defamation by a group fighting data center construction in Utah after the “Shark Tank” star went on Fox News and claimed some of the individuals involved with the opposition have ties to China, according to The Hill. The suit, which was also against Fox News, was filed on Wednesday […]
USAF Chief Wilsbach on hardened shelters, T-7 flight and F-35 delays
In a one-on-one with Breaking Defense, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach laid out his big concerns for the service.
Los expertos creen que nos faltan árboles: "Una zona verde sin arbolado suficiente pierde gran parte de su capacidad para actuar"
Las olas de calor extremo son un desafío estructural cada vez más intenso y duradero y, ante unas ciudades convertidas en trampas de asfalto con una clara falta de árboles, el concepto de "refugio climático urbano" ha ganado fuerza como infraestructura de emergencia. Sin embargo, no cualquier espacio verde actúa como escudo térmico, puesto que una reciente investigación liderada por la Universidad de Granada evidencia que el diseño, la morfología y, sobre todo, el tipo de arbolado son factores c
Morning Bid: Rising oil, yields rain on AI party
The rise in 30-year Treasury yields above 5.0% carries a warning for equity valuations. Just a glance at a chart shows yields have spent little time above that barrier in the past two decades, and ...
Conflicts, aircraft orders in focus as Farnborough Airshow kicks off
Farnborough Airshow opens on Monday with Boeing and Airbus pursuing aircraft deals and defence firms vying for a share of booming military budgets fuelled by wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Asia shares shaky as oil climbs, earnings loom
Asian share markets slipped on Monday as the escalating conflict in the Gulf lifted oil prices and fanned fears of inflation, while a packed week of major tech earnings will further test investor ...
TSMC sees multi-year demand for AI chips, ramps up Arizona investment
TSMC is seeing strong, multi-year demand for its AI chips as it invests a further $100 billion to expand its Arizona facilities, but it needs to address several challenges, such as a shortage of ...
Could AI chip boom make ASML Europe's first trillion-dollar firm?
AMSTERDAM, July 20 (Reuters) - The global artificial intelligence boom has propelled ASML (ASML.AS), opens new tab to the top of Europe's stock market, as soaring demand for AI computer chips flows to ...
Seoul AI ETF howler morphs into zombie volatility
Wild price swings already have watchdogs rueing their May approval of leveraged funds tracking mega-cap stocks SK Hynix and Samsung. But the limits they’re now imposing don’t address the root of ...
Book Bans, Censorship and Funding Fears Challenge Ohio Public School Librarians
Public school librarians in Ohio are raising alarms about book bans and funding cuts. School librarians have been navigating challenges in their work as long as they’ve been among the stacks in their local districts. Proposed legislation to filter the reading choices students can make has brought concern, and budget reductions make some worry about […]
Trump pushes UN ‘free speech’ declaration in veiled attack on EU tech regulation
The White House has repeatedly condemned EU rules that govern online platforms as censorship. Now they want the world to put the critique into writing.
AI job worries grow. But some human skills can’t be replaced by machines | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough
The fear of becoming obsolete is a rising source of anxiety as artificial intelligence emerges in the workplace. Staying strongly connected with others will help The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Earlier this year Paul* discovered via a flurry of media stories that his business group had been targeted for job cuts, alongside a number of other public-sector agencies. For him, this was the second time, after his technical managemen
Top Pentagon official blasts OpenAI's Dean Ball
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Emil Michael, under secretary of defense, at the Pentagon last year. Photo: Win McNamee/ ...
The World Cup Ends Today. The Surveillance Will Continue.
Alibaba says newest Qwen AI model is second only to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5
Alibaba Group Holding has previewed its next-generation artificial intelligence model Qwen3.8, which the company says is “second only” to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5. Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, the preview version of the strongest model of the Qwen family, had been made available on Alibaba’s Token Plan subscription service, as well as its Qoder and QoderWork agentic platforms, the Chinese tech giant said on an official X post on Sunday. With 2.4 trillion parameters, it was “one of the most powerful...
Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitoring agent
When you run Kubernetes at the scale we do on Amazon EKS, nodes break constantly. GPUs fall off the PCIe The post Self-healing GPU nodes in Kubernetes: What we learned building the EKS node monitoring agent appeared first on The New Stack .
ICE and the Architecture of Authoritarianism
Step Into the ‘Zone of Genius’ (Before A.I. Takes Your Job)
A decades-old self-help concept is gaining new purchase among people searching for meaningful work in the age of artificial intelligence.
US renews strikes on Iran after two military personnel killed by Iranian attack
The U.S. said it had completed an eighth straight night of attacks against Iran after earlier announcing that two U.S. military personnel were killed in Jordan, while U.S. allies in the region ...
Government use of automated AI decision-making to be curbed under new Australian rules
New national plan is accompanied by Labor push for digital duty of care legislation Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The use of AI in automated decision-making by government departments and agencies will be subject to tough rules under a new national plan, expected to extend to consumer protections, workplace safety and privacy. As the Albanese government grapples with the rapid growth in the use of artificial int
How Chinese tech giants from Ant to Tencent use AI agents to win over enterprise clients
Chinese tech giants are doubling down on enterprise artificial intelligence agents with new products unveiled at the country’s top AI summit, signalling heightened domestic rivalry to win over business clients as agent-based AI adoption accelerates. At the four-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai which concludes on Monday, major tech companies including Ant Group, Tencent Holdings, Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu launched or showcased offerings designed to integrate..
The Silent World Cup Winners are the Companies Normalizing Surveillance
Europa tiene un problema con el tamaño de sus coches: el "carspreading" amenaza con devorar miles de aparcamientos
Los coches nuevos que se venden en Europa son cada año un poco más largos , más altos y más anchos. El fenómeno tiene ya nombre propio, "carspreading", y según un nuevo informe de las organizaciones ecologistas Transport & Environment (T&E) y Clean Cities, si esta tendencia no se frena, tendrá consecuencias directas tanto en la seguridad vial como en el aparcamiento disponible en nuestras ciudades. Te contamos los detalles. Qué está pasando. El informe, publicado por T&E y Clean Cities, ha anali
NYC’s Mayor Asked for Parents’ Opinions on Schools. Here’s What Some Have to Say
When Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City, he vowed to gather community feedback on how the public schools are working. His chancellor, Kamar Samuels, has assembled working groups “tasked with creating customized proposals to accelerate the work of building a stronger school system, rooted in academically rigorous, safe and integrated schools.” So I […]
Meta avisa: "Llevamos 20 años construyendo infraestructura para humanos, quizás tengamos 20 meses para reconstruirla para los agentes"
Las empresas han abrazado el boom de la IA agéntica, hasta el punto de que algunas se están ahogando en tantos agentes de IA . Los empleados están creando agentes sin control, disparando el consumo de tokens y provocando que muchos de esos agentes dupliquen tareas. Pero el verdadero problema de fondo es otro: la infraestructura sobre la que está corriendo todo esto no está preparada para soportarlo. La advertencia de Meta. Lo cuentan en Venture Beat . Durante la charla VB Transform 2026, el vice
Google's AlphaEvolve Reaches General Availability with Evolutionary Code Optimization as a Service
Google's AlphaEvolve reached general availability on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, turning the DeepMind research project into an evolutionary code optimization service. Evaluators run client-side so code never leaves the customer's infrastructure. Klarna doubled ML training throughput; practitioners note it only works where a measurable evaluation function exists. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Divide grows between AI employees and executives over policy battles
Tech employees in Silicon Valley are increasingly finding themselves at odds with industry executives who are spending millions to push for light-touch AI regulation. The latest disagreement is playing out in a new political spending fight between OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees and the firm’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman. A group of current and former OpenAI...
These Parents Are Asking Reddit to Photoshop the Most Painful Pictures They Own. The Reason Why Is Tragic.
After losing a child, many parents turn to one online community—and find unexpected support.
"Lanzamos nuestro primer robot hace 20 años y seguimos intentando perfeccionarlo": Will Kerr, VP de nuevos productos de Dyson
¿Cómo se gestiona una de las empresas de hardware más innovadoras del mundo? En un mercado tan feroz como el de los aspiradores por la saturación de marcas, competencia y guerra de precios, la multinacional británica Dyson ha comenzado una profunda reestructuración estratégica para tratar de esquivar los males que acechan al sector tecnológico: la dependencia de un solo producto, la pérdida de agilidad operativa y la dosificación de lanzamientos. Viajamos a su sede central de Singapur para
El salario de los junior lleva años en caída libre. Un nuevo estudio sugiere que el impacto de la IA no es tan obvio
Llevamos un par de años viendo titulares sobre el destrozo que la IA está haciendo en el empleo junior . Y la réplica habitual: que no, que es excusa, que las empresas recortan cuando suben los tipos y la IA solo es una justificación cómoda. Las dos lecturas tienen su parte de razón. Ese es justo el problema. El estudio . El Stanford Digital Economy Lab ha estado analizando nóminas reales. No encuestas ni estimaciones: nóminas. Publicó un estudio a finales de 2025 pero mantiene actualizado un da
China state investors pledge further purchases of stocks
Chinese state-owned capital operators China Reform Holdings Corp (CRHC) and China Chengtong Holdings Group on Sunday announced fresh purchases of Chinese equities, according to separate statements, ...
Changzhou says it is building China’s first city-level clean-power AI token factory
The Chinese city of Changzhou is building what it claims will be the country’s first city-level “green token factory”, as local governments race to answer Beijing’s call to power massive artificial intelligence computing demands with clean energy. The project would be powered by green energy and could produce 60 trillion tokens per year once completed, the municipal government said in a statement on Sunday during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. The city in the eastern..
AI chatbots reading X-rays can be dangerously confident even when they're wrong
The RadLE 2.0 benchmark tests whether AI models in radiology can tell when they should leave a diagnosis to a human. Many models deliver wrong findings with full confidence, and human radiologists are still well ahead. Before AI can diagnose on its own, it needs to learn when it's better to say nothing. The article AI chatbots reading X-rays can be dangerously confident even when they're wrong appeared first on The Decoder .
Victoria announces new social media ‘demasking’ powers for accounts accused of vilification
New laws would give Vcat power to force social and AI platforms to identify anonymous users in move premier says will protect children Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Social media companies could be forced to identify anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, under new laws being proposed in Victoria. The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, announced a suite of social media reforms on Sunday, saying families needed new ways to protect their children online. Co