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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has put into writing what many analysts have quietly suspected for months. A 20-page memo drafted by the firm in March 2026 identifies critical vulnerabilities in the financing structures behind AI infrastructure and warns they could trigger “cascading insolvencies.” The document began recirculating in October 2026, and its conclusions remain … Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation has spent months absorbing automated traffic its servers were never dimensioned to handle, and on October 5, 2026 it went public. In a formal statement, the non-profit confirmed that AI agents had hammered Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with millions of automated requests — and that some of them tried, without success, … Read more
Eight of eleven runs ended in a collision before the vehicle had cleared its opening corner. That is the headline result from DrivingBench, an experiment built by researchers Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns and Tobias Gessler to establish whether today’s leading general-purpose AI agents are ready for tasks in the physical world. The testbed was a … Read more
Voice AI has crossed from pilot projects into production: enterprise platforms now handle millions of calls a month, per-call costs keep falling, and many customers never realise they are talking to a machine. Yet the technology still trips on the words that matter most — an unusual medication name, an alphanumeric tracking reference, a request … Read more
Finland’s national authority LVV has ordered Tuike Finland Oy, Google’s Finnish subsidiary, to immediately suspend land-preparation work at two planned data center locations: Muhos, where roughly 330 hectares are affected, and Kajaani/Otanmäki, covering about 200 hectares. The reason: trees were felled before the mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) had been completed. Google has until 14 … Read more
The race to build a more potent obesity drug has a new benchmark. A combination therapy called EloraTZP, developed by Eli Lilly, produced 23.3% average body-weight loss over 48 weeks in a mid-stage trial — the strongest result the company has reported for any incretin-based programme to date. The findings were presented at the European … Read more
Samsung’s Android 17 generation has moved past its flagship debut and into a full fleet-wide rollout. One UI 9, which first shipped on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 family, is now reaching a steadily widening pool of Galaxy phones and tablets — and the gap between devices that make the cut and those that don’t … Read more
A team at MIT has identified a striking parallel between artificial intelligence and biology: six large language models exhibit the same modular organization of four cognitive domains that neuroscientists have described in the human brain. The study, authored by Pengrui Han, Jacob Andreas, Evelina Fedorenko, and Andrea Gregor de Varda, was submitted to arXiv on … Read more
A superconducting quantum processor can now hold its coherence long enough to run roughly 5,000 consecutive two-qubit operations plus 5,000 measurement-and-reset cycles without collapsing. That is the headline finding from IBM and five US academic institutions in Nature Physics — and it points to an error-correction mechanism that seems to grow stronger, not weaker, as … Read more
Engineers at the University of California San Diego and the Toyota Research Institute of North America have developed a battery binder that dissolves in plain water at room temperature — a seemingly minor change of ingredient that could strip toxic solvents, high-temperature furnaces and hazardous waste out of both lithium-ion manufacturing and recycling. The work … Read more