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As traumatic injuries and deaths surge among children involved in crashes on e-bikes and other electrified vehicles , one California prosecutor is cracking down by pursuing criminal charges against some of the young riders’ parents. It is just one way officials across the country are trying to tackle the growing issue , while families navigate a patchwork of local laws and guidance on what kind of souped-up cycles and scooters are safe or even legal for their kids to ride. New York City’s mayor
The surveillance state has crept up around us, but in at least one instance, its integration into society has prompted a backlash. Flock Safety has managed to make automated license plate readers (ALPRs), cameras that record the license plate and other characteristics of every vehicle that passes them, a hot-button issue across the United States. More than 50 agencies or jurisdictions have canceled, suspended, or rejected Flock contracts, or deactivated its cameras, since the start of 2026. The
Some of the first credible evidence of artificial intelligence ’s impact on the labor market has just been published and, at first glance, it appears to tell a concerning story for women. Researchers at Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab, analyzing payroll data from millions of American workers, found that employment growth has been weakest among early-career professionals in occupations with the greatest exposure to AI. Among those workers, young women are experiencing slower employment
You might think that the information-security professionals who show up in August at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas would know to bring their A game to that gathering. But every year, the administrators of the show’s Network Operations Center (NOC) see a different, messier reality play out over the conference Wi-Fi. And at last week’s Black Hat , AI played an even larger part in that drama—as a tool and a threat . Agentic triage AI has delivered the biggest overall boost to NOC sta
Welcome to AI Decoded , Fast Company ’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company , covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here . And if you have comments on this issue and/or ideas for future ones, drop me a line at sullivan@fastcompany.com , and follow me on X @thesullivan . As midterms loom, AI chatbots fight election lies, but then supply image
There’s a big flaw in the way that drug companies develop and test medicines today: What works in a mouse often doesn’t work in a human. For decades, the industry has relied on animal testing. But in a laboratory south of San Francisco, a startup called Vivodyne is scaling up a different approach. Inside wardrobe-size mini labs, robots grow human tissue and run thousands of AI -designed experiments that could better predict how well a new drug will work—and whether it will be safe. [Image: Vivod
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com . How is a text-to-speech voice made? – Sarah G٫ age 11٫ Seguin٫ Texas When you talk to computerized assistants like Siri or Alexa , they reply in voices that sound very human. But how do computers, smartphones and apps actually talk like a person? They use a technology called text-to-speech . When you speak, your lungs push air up your windpipe a
Technological change—whether it was the internet, the smartphone or even the original printing press—can make people uneasy. Each wave has changed how you access and share information. But AI is different, and bigger: a technology that can decide who gets hired, who gets treated, even who gets targeted. This isn’t just a technology that allows you to access information; it’s a technology designed to autonomously make decisions. Too often, questions about regulating AI are either framed by an acc
Unless your shower turns cold, you probably don’t give much thought to your water heater. But it’s a major energy user in the home, and unlike solar panels or heat pumps, it’s gotten relatively little attention as a piece of smart home tech. A new startup is trying to change that. The company, called Reservoir , designed a heat pump water heater that predicts when you’ll need hot water and heats up in advance, when electricity is cheapest. The upfront cost is comparable to other water heaters, b
The second space race has birthed a handful of public space companies that finally allow investors to own their own piece of the new orbital economy. Yes, there’s newly public SpaceX, but there are also plenty of others, like AST SpaceMobile, Rocket Lab, Firefly Aerospace, and Virgin Galactic. Together, these companies form an emerging category: the space stock. Today, this new class might include as many as two dozen companies. An incomplete list includes Redwire, Planet Labs, Globalstar, Viasa
For most regular tech-using mortals, thinking about AI means thinking about ChatGPT or Gemini . For those in the know, though, there’s also Anthropic’s Claude . And whether you’re among the Claude-embracing crowd or someone who’s never ventured into its embrace, this off-the-beaten-path productivity powerhouse is packed with potential that you’ve probably never noticed. Claude came online five years ago, when a group of former OpenAI employees decided to branch off and build their own generativ
Anthropic said in a support document Tuesday that its future AI models will put an invisible watermark in all text, identifying it as AI-generated. The change comes in response to new AI transparency laws in the European Union, but Anthropic says it will apply in all countries where Claude models are used. No U.S. law currently requires AI-generated content to carry transparency disclosures or watermarks, although a growing number of states, California among them, have enacted AI transparency la
On this episode of Adventures in AI , Fast Company speaks to Alexander Reben, an entrepreneur, roboticist, and cofounder of Phyzify, a lab using AI tools to create physical objects based on your imagination.
A yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg didn’t respond immediately to a call for help from a skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, but a maritime law expert said Monday the crew may not have been obligated to after the Coast Guard determined the boat wasn’t in distress. A spokesperson for the Meta CEO also said the crew didn’t immediately hear the radio call for help and by the time it did, another nearby ship had already rendered assistance. The Aug. 3 incident gained attention in recent
The typical early-stage startup team used to comprise a pair of founders and a handful of software engineers. Now that founding team is just as likely to include AI agents as it is human employees—and the companies that serve startups are racing to adapt. For Mercury, a popular Silicon Valley banking solution, that shift in team composition has prompted the development of a new feature: AI agent cards, or virtual credit cards that businesses can use to delegate and automate purchasing deci
Every team has that one Slack or Teams channel where the exact same questions get asked every single week. Where is the updated brand guide? What is our policy on expense receipts over $50? How do we handle customer returns outside the 30-day window? Instead of re-pasting links or typing out the same instructions for the hundredth time, you can build a custom AI assistant in about 10 minutes. Trained exclusively on your team’s internal documentation, process manuals, and style guides, it acts as
The solar industry is no stranger to change. But the policy turbulence over the past year moved at a speed leaving even the most experienced leaders scratching our heads. In mere months, the conversation shifted from accelerating clean energy adoption to pulling back the very incentives that helped the industry grow. As part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the 30% federal tax credit for homeowners to install residential solar disappeared on January 1, 2026, with no step-down period. F
The mobile industry has spent the better part of four decades with one objective: putting a connected device in every human hand. That mission is nearly complete. Mobile services now reach about 5.8 billion consumers, roughly 70% of the people alive. In wealthy markets, almost anyone who wants to be reachable already is, according to the GSMA’s Mobile Economy 2026 report . The smartphone finished the job. Once almost everyone owned one, reaching another person stopped being the problem the indus
On July 21, OpenAI disclosed something that sounds like science fiction: Two of its AI models broke out of a supposedly isolated test environment and hacked into the production servers of Hugging Face, one of the world’s largest AI platforms. Anthropic then combed back through 141,006 of its own evaluation runs and found three occasions on which its Claude models had done the same thing. As Hugging Face then said : “Autonomous, AI-driven offensive tooling is no longer theoretical.” This is both
Finance platform InKind has raised more than $1 billion in the past six months to invest in an industry many traditional lenders have long considered too risky: independent restaurants. Today, InKind announced $414 million in financing in a round led by Citi and Cross River. The latest funding comes just one month after InKind secured $320 million from Liberty Mutual Investments and six months after announcing a $450 million round of debt and equity funding led by Magnetar, an Illinois-bas
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