42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation...
Investigators search for cause in Florida plane crash that killed all nine onboard
A private plane headed to the Bahamas from Texas crashed in Palm Beach county and exploded on impact SundayInvestigators are searching for the cause o...
Minns warns expected RBA rate rise will see ‘shops close that don’t reopen’ as pressure mounts on PM
Frustration grows over the economy with one Labor MP saying voter anger is already high ahead of Reserve Bank of Australia decisionGet our daily polit...
Your writing was flagged as AI. What does that actually mean?
As editors turn to imperfect AI detection tools to weed out machine-generated submissions, writers who say they were falsely accused of using AI are l...
Charges dropped against man arrested in mass shooting at Ohio festival that wounded 12
Eljay Crisp-Carr, 20, spent five months behind bars before prosecutors asked to dismiss chargesOhio prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a ma...
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion...
Vivek Ramaswamy discontinues attack ad that prompted wave of revulsion
Candidate for Ohio governor confirms campaign no longer airing ad that smeared rival and was defended by TrumpVivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee ...
New Zelda and GTA represent a games industry that no longer exists
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the biggest game releases of the year, fo...
Hong Kong’s leader apologises for residential fire that killed 168 people
Blaze last year was deadliest housing fire globally since 1980 and some ex-residents and victims’ families say they still need justiceHong Kong’s lead...
The ‘breathing space budget’ – breathing space for the government, that is | John Crace
John Healey aced the morning-after media round because his Martin Lewis measures left nothing to challenge him on Maybe it had been one of the greates...
Erin Foster Details Real-Life Proposal That Inspired Nobody Wants This
This article contains spoilers for Nobody Wants This season three.
It’s safe to say everybody would want a proposal like this.
Erin Foster just reve...
John Healey faces questions over budget leak that moved bank share prices
Treasury select committee asks FCA to investigate whether tax surcharge leak led to ‘improper release of inside information’John Healey is facing pres...
Defence backed claim that social media footage of public servants could invite bullying
Official’s controversial September request for Senate hearing footage to not be shared on social media has been heavily criticisedGet our daily politi...
Albania imposes $6,000 fine for demonstrators present at a protest that turns violent
The fine – six times the average monthly salary – will apply to people present at violent protests, even if they don’t personally commit violent actsA...
Russell Brand tells trial he had sex obsession but that consent is ‘non-negotiable’
Former comedian, in court on rape and sexual assault charges, denies setting goal to sleep with 5,000 womenRussell Brand has told a court he had an ob...
Trump DOE loans $5B to nuclear plants that will power data centers
Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, A...
A US woman feared dead was reported alive in Mexico. But cops now say that isn’t true
Mexican police had said they found Shayna Feinman in Tijuana, raising the hopes of missing Arizonan’s familyArizona authorities say their Mexican coun...
Spending time with the Echo Time — a smart clock that senses you sleeping
Amazon just announced its newest smart alarm clock - the Echo Time. The baseball-sized smart speaker with a screen, the Time looks like an Echo Dot wi...