AI chatbots may facilitate dangerous behaviors by children and adolescents, but most parents are poorly prepared to protect them.

If a tool-using chatbot is like a single digital worker, these new frameworks are like virtual firms in which dozens of agents, running 24 hours a day, can be organized hierarchically to accomplish a ...

Turns out the factory of the future doesn't just need a software update... it needs a crash mat. Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics says it will ship up to 20,000 humanoid robots in ...

Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.5, an open-weight, 397-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that only wakes up 17 billion neurons per prompt. The payoff? You get 60% lower inference ...

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...

Chat Pile have released two new songs on Seattle label Sub Pop: “Masks” and a cover of Nirvana’s “Sifting.” Both tracks will appear on the limited-edition 7" the Oklahoma City band announced back in ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

Moltbook is the world’s first social network designed exclusively for artificial intelligence. Launched in late January 2026 by Matt Schlicht, head of the commerce platform Octane AI, the site mimics ...

Graham blocks Trump-backed spending plan, calls it a 'bad deal' as shutdown nears Catherine O'Hara, "Beetlejuice" and "Home Alone" star, dies at 71 Oops, scientists ...

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The New Scientist Book Club moved on from reading a classic piece science fiction in December – Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games – to an award-winning sci-fi novel in January: Sierra Greer’s Annie ...

J. Cole takes aim at artists who use bots to boost their streams in a new freestyle released as part of his surprise-dropped Birthday Blizzard '26 project. The DJ Clue-hosted EP arrived this week in ...