Cobalt Clean Bolsters Team With Talented New Hires

The US Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rates for the first time in three years, as it seeks to bring down high inflation. The policy decision sets up a potential confrontation between Chairman Kevin Warsh and President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly called on the central bank to cut interest rates. Also in the show - France extends fuel subsidies as fishermens' protests gather momentum, and Hong Kong seeks to fall in line with Beijing's economic vision.

Divisions emerge in the tech industry over calls for a coordinated AI slowdown

Now you have no excuse for not knowing the meaning of “cuffing season,” “shishito” or “glow-up.”

UN chief urges global AI cooperation saying world can't afford 'a race to the bottom on AI safety'

“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk.

Scientists have long discussed whether and which dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Now, researchers say they have used chemistry to take the temperature of two T. rexes. Here's what they found.

In recent months, various pictures of mysterious new aircrafts have been captured around remote facilities in the desert in China and experts say they are cause for concern.

A diver was transported to hospital after being injured by a great white shark in Percé, Que., in the province’s Gaspé region.

A mysterious job listing online has been tied to the infamous Air Force base that whistleblowers claim is home to secret government research on alien technology.

AI-DISCLOSURE/ (EXPLAINER, PIX):EXPLAINER-Do AI companies have to disclose dangerous incidents?

AI-REGULATION/SACKS:Trump adviser Sacks says AI fears driven by 'fear-mongering playbook'

According to new research based on satellite data Greenland and Argentina have lost vast amounts of ice over recent decades dating back to the 1970s with studies documenting major polar ice-sheet ablation.The data from 27 satellite missions between 1979 and 2023 shows that Greenland and...

These cold-blooded killers were probably as warm-blooded as mammals, according to new research.

On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have transplanted laboratory-grown human brain tissue with genetically modified mice in what they called a breakthrough for studying human brain development which may accelerate research into the etiology and pathogenesis of severe diseases such as autism,...

The company is developing an artificial intelligence server that could use either two or four M8 Ultra chips, which are expected to be Apple's most powerful processors.

It may look like a bizarre cross between a pig, a turtle and a sabre-toothed cat - but this was one of the most formidable herbivores of the Triassic.

Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception.

Researchers at Stanford University genetically altered mice to be able to receive and function with human brain cells.

A critical security flaw in Issabel Framework, a web-based framework for the open-source unified communications PBX software, has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-89026 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4.0 score: 9.3), which can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary operating system (OS) commands by taking advantage of a hard-coded

A new simulation suggests little red dots, unusually compact objects seen in photos from space, might be one stage in the evolution of black holes.

Enterprises in Russia have emerged as the target of three threat activity clusters tracked as NightEagle, Hacking Cat, and Toy Ghouls, according to multiple reports from Kaspersky. The cybersecurity vendor said it has identified attacks mounted by NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95), a threat actor known to be active since at least 2023, that involve new techniques for persistence and lateral movement.

Security researchers at Forever Security have shown that one ordinary browser extension could take control of the AI assistants built into five Chromium-based products: Gemini Live in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon and the Claude in Chrome extension. Once the extension was installed, it could access each product's built-in AI with a single click. On Comet, Edge,

Mustafa Suleyman says he believes the AI giant is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".

Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code repositories. Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai has raised its year-end annual recurring revenue (ARR) outlook by 25 per cent to US$3 billion, as the firm indicated its fresh US$5 billion war chest had helped clear its computing capacity bottlenecks for the time being. The updated ARR projection, up from a previous estimate of about US$2.4 billion, was disclosed during an investor call on Wednesday, according to a transcript seen by the South China Morning Post. The revised guidance comes days...

Brighton Marina wants to restart dredging next year but still needs a site to dispose of the silt.

Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog said this week. The attack needs code already running on the machine as a normal user, so it does not work over the network. JFrog says the fix is in Parallels Desktop 27, a version that Intel Macs cannot install. Yuval Moravchick, who leads

New discovery forces scientists to rethink how Earth formed A new research study has challenged what scientists think about Earth’s origin and how it came into existence. For years, the origin of raw material responsible for Earth formation has been a contentious issue. Scientists...

The disruption has been reported across several countries, including India, the US, Japan, the UK, France and Germany.

China is bracing for a potential massive sell-off of a high-profile artificial intelligence chip stock on Thursday, when a lock-up period affecting 14 million shares in MetaX Integrated Circuits is set to expire. Analysts expect MetaX to face “significant selling pressure” when the restricted shares are released for trading, after the expiry of a similar lock-up period for shares in fellow AI chip firm Moore Threads last week sparked an avalanche of sales that wiped nearly 49 billion yuan...

Efforts are being made to reintroduce the locally-extinct species back to the River Wey in Surrey.

Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms released its latest smart glasses as its Meta Ray-Ban Display continues to face privacy concerns.