Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and in [...]

Windows questions? How Copilot can analyze your PC settings now

Now rolling out to the Copilot Windows app, the new PC Insights skill can answer questions about your Windows system, settings, and more. [...]

12 States Sue Paramount to Block Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

California, New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit over the proposed merger. [...]

AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first

The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fifties, CNBC reports. Workers aged 55 and over in AI-exposed occupation [...]

The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that

For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking IDs at the door and starts watching how visitors behave once they ar [...]

Here’s how America builds again

We need new blueprints to scale production, workforce capability, and industrial competitiveness simultaneously. [...]

Google’s big Waze AI update includes a button that makes the app shut up

Google has given Waze a batch of new features, most of them powered by Gemini. The headline additions are a motorcycle mode, personalised routing, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered destin [...]

Public betas for iOS 27, macOS 27 and more Apple platforms are now available

Try the new Siri AI and system-wide performance improvements. [...]

Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"

New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation. [...]