Data centres on the ballot: could the AI infrastructure shape US midterms?

One morning in my teenage years, I awoke gripped by terror. My eyes were wide open, but my body wouldn't move - frozen from head to toe.

It's one of the most iconic maps in the world. But would you be able to navigate using the London Underground map...if it had no colour?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now one of the fastest-growing industries on Earth, with investors ploughing in over £432.8billion ($580billion) during the last year alone.

Staff at Plymouth's aquarium pay tribute to a sand tiger shark believed to be almost 30 years old.

Using artificial intelligence to build even smarter systems will make artificial general intelligence (AGI) more achievable, though it would need to be done safely, leading Chinese computer scientist Tang Jie said at an event in Shanghai on Saturday. The remarks underscore how AI companies in the US and China are both chasing the holy grail of recursive self-improvement (RSI), where increasingly powerful AI systems also become better at improving themselves in an ever-accelerating...

The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.

The man who helped develop the technology for liquid crystal displays — the screens in flat-panel televisions and laptops — has died at 101.

The cartoonist Peter Kuper has filled a corridor with drawings of monarchs, depicting the beauty of the annual mass migration to Mexican forests — as well as its perils.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has previewed a plan for a more autonomous AI agent that can handle multiple tasks with minimal human intervention, as it steps up competition with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic in developing coding assistants. The proposed system, dubbed super agent, aimed to reduce the need for humans to coordinate multiple AI agents and monitor their progress, addressing a key bottleneck in managing today’s increasingly complex workflows, according to a...

Millennials are leading the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for shopping in India, with 84 per cent using AI-powered tools to search for products, compare options or make purchase decisions, ahead of 74 per cent of Gen Z consumers, according to a report by McKinsey & Company.

A number of birds are also injured after the spill from the oil tank earlier this week.

A critical flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud let an attacker log in as a trusted client without holding that client's private key. To do it, the attacker had to reach their HTTPS API over the network and have the trusted client's public certificate. Once in, the attacker would act as that client, with access to the cluster and its virtual machines. If the impersonated account is