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Tesla’s 2025 profit is expected to fall 46% from the previous year as CEO Elon Musk took over the Trump administration and sales plummeted as federal electric vehicle subsidies were ended by Congress. The electric car company reported Wednesday that it posted a profit of just $3.8 billion for all of 2025, its lowest figure in years. Total revenue from car sales also decreased by 11% year-on-year. Tesla has already revealed that it shipped 1.63 million cars worldwide in 2025. This is the second year in a row that sales have declined, despite Musk’s promise for years of average annual…

Early signs of cognitive decline often appear not in a formal diagnosis but in small clues buried in a health care provider’s notes.A new study published January 7 in the journal NPJ Digital Medicine suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could help identify early signs of problems such as memory or thinking problems or changes in behavior by scanning doctors’ notes for concerning patterns. These may include repeated mentions of cognitive changes or confusion in the patient, or concerns mentioned by family members attending meetings with their loved one.Rather than directly diagnosing cognitive decline or dementia, the system aims to flag…

Greek archaeologists have discovered a 430,000-year-old hand-held wooden tool, making it the world’s oldest surviving tool of its kind, a new study has found. The two tools, found in the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, were created by an unidentified hominin race older than modern humans.”These objects are the oldest hand-held wooden tools ever discovered, extending evidence of the use of these types of tools back at least 40,000 years,” the researchers said in a statement.One of the wooden tools found at the Marathusa site is 31.9 inches (81 centimeters) long and has one end split and frayed, suggesting it…

Over the last year, we’ve seen a number of AI browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company aiming to replace Chrome with features like sidebar assistants and automated tasks. Now, Google is enhancing its AI capabilities by adding similar features to Chrome, the world’s largest browser by market share. Google introduced Gemini to Chrome last September, but the assistant existed in a floating window. With this update, the company will put an AI helper in a persistent sidebar, so you can ask questions about your current website or other open tabs. One interesting feature that Google…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly known as Clawdbot) on the official extension marketplace. The extension claims to be a free artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, but it secretly drops a malicious payload on compromised hosts. The extension was named “ClawdBot Agent – AIcoding Assistant” (“clawdbot.clawdbot-agent”) and has since been removed by Microsoft. It was published on January 27, 2026 by a user named ‘clawdbot’. Moltbot has grown significantly and has over 85,000 stars on GitHub at the time of writing. Created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, this open-source…

Researchers have warned that swarms of artificial intelligence (AI) agents could soon infiltrate social media platforms en masse, spreading false stories, harassing users, and undermining democracy.These “AI swarms” form part of a new frontier in information warfare, capable of mimicking human behavior and evading detection while creating the illusion of genuine online movement, according to a January 22 commentary published in the journal Science.Imagine discovering that the opinions of your favorite online community have hardened around a previously controversial position. Human instinct often follows the “wisdom” of the herd. But in this case, the swarm could be secretly controlled by…

A huge cloud of vaporized metal could be hiding a secret planet or a second alien sun in a nearby star system, new research has revealed.This mysterious cloud is up to 15,000 times wider than our planet, and during the nearly nine months this ghostly object oozed between it and Earth, its host star almost completely disappeared from telescope observations.Astronomers first noticed the existence of this mysterious cloud in September 2024, when they detected a surprising dimming phenomenon around the Sun-like main-sequence star J0705+0612 (also known as ASASSN-24fw), about 3,000 light-years from Earth. The star’s brightness suddenly dropped by a…

Generative AI apps that can create photos, videos, songs, and more are becoming increasingly popular. But with the release of Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro suite, which became generally available on Wednesday, the tech giant has approached adding AI as a tool to aid creators in their process, not to replace it. Instead, Apple is offering a vision that suggests its future productivity suite will focus on the needs of filmmakers, musicians, artists, or other creators caught up in some creative industry, and use AI to help them become more efficient. Bringing AI into the creative world can be difficult,…

According to TechCrunch, the San Francisco Police Department is investigating an accident in which a Zoox self-driving car crashed into the driver’s side door of a parked car. According to the department, officers responded to the crash near the intersection of 15th Avenue and Mission Street on January 17 at around 2 p.m. local time. According to Mission Local, which first reported the incident, the Zoox robot taxi was traveling down 15th Avenue when a street ambassador named Jamel Darden opened the driver’s side door of a 1977 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Darden reportedly suffered a severe hand injury during the…

NASA plans to simulate a test launch of its Artemis II giant moon rocket as early as Saturday (January 31), and engineers say they are on track or ahead of schedule.The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February 6, is intended to send humans around the moon in preparation for the next Artemis III mission, which will land astronauts on the moon’s surface. This will be the first time in more than 50 years that NASA has sent humans back to the moon, and the first time a woman will be on the crew.The Artemis mission aims…