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The US National Transportation Safety Board has halted release of some previously public investigative materials after people used docket records to generate AI audio mimicking the final moments of a deadly flight.

Locus Robotics says its acquisition of Nexera Robotics will expand what its mobile manipulator can reliably pick, targeting one of the hardest problems in warehouse automation: handling diverse, awkward e-commerce items.

Merlin says its new autonomous flight system is designed for large cargo aircraft, aiming to retrofit existing airframes and reduce pressure from a worsening pilot shortage.

SpaceX’s public filing ahead of a planned IPO shows surging revenue, a swing to loss in 2025, and a company positioning AI as a market potentially far larger than launch or satellite internet.

Apple announced accessibility updates across VoiceOver, live recognition, reader tools and captioning, while also outlining a Vision Pro feature that lets users control compatible wheelchairs with their eyes.

Elon Musk’s courtroom loss to OpenAI closed a legal battle, but it also exposed a deeper fight over power, mission, and mythology in the AI industry.

An Andon Labs experiment gave Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok their own autonomous radio stations, producing sharply different personalities, uneven reliability, and little commercial success.

A new benchmark called SOOHAK pushes frontier AI models beyond standard competition math by testing research-level reasoning and whether systems can recognize when a problem has no solution at all.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s commencement speech at the University of Arizona turned into a visible backlash moment when repeated AI remarks were met with boos from graduates.

A new IEEE-published study says a health-aware charging algorithm can adapt to battery aging and extend projected EV battery life by about 23% without increasing charging time.

Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch told a French inquiry that letting foreign frontier models scan military code bases could create a security dependency Europe may struggle to reverse.

A new Apple-focused workplace analysis points to AI as an increasingly important force in how Mac administrators prepare for cyber threats, even as the details of that shift are still being worked out.

Ford, General Motors and Stellantis have together reduced their U.S. salaried workforces by more than 20,000 jobs from recent peaks, reflecting deep structural change in the car business.

Researchers say a deep learning model built from routine electrocardiograms can estimate 10-year stroke risk using only ECG data plus age and sex, with results comparable to an established clinical score.

Google says its redesigned Finance experience is rolling out across Europe with local language support, adding AI research responses, deeper charting tools, live earnings features and broader market data.

Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a new bundle inside its Claude Cowork platform that adds automation, bookkeeping, business insights, and software integrations aimed at smaller companies.

Startup Origin Lab says video game assets can become licensed training data for AI systems that need to model physical space, and investors are backing the thesis with an $8 million seed round.

Notion has introduced a developer platform that lets teams connect custom AI agents, external data sources, and sandboxed code inside its workspace, expanding the product from AI-assisted notes into a broader orchesation

The repeatedly revived internet brand is back with a narrower ambition: monitoring what 1,000 selected voices in AI are reading and discussing, then ranking the stories that appear to matter most.

MIT Technology Review has singled out world models as one of the most important areas in AI right now, highlighting rising interest in systems designed to better reason about the real world.