What you need to know about Warner Bros.’ landmark Discovery Sale
The streaming and entertainment industry witnessed its most high-stakes mega-deal ever, surprising industry insiders. Not only is its scale historic, it is predicted to disrupt Hollywood and the media business as we know it. Warner Bros. Discovery has struggled for years with declining cable viewership, fierce competition from streaming platforms and billions of dollars in […]
ClawJacked flaw allows malicious sites to hijack local OpenClaw AI agents via WebSockets
OpenClaw has fixed a high-severity security issue that, if successfully exploited, could allow a malicious website to connect to and take control of a locally running artificial intelligence (AI) agent. “Our vulnerability resides in the core system itself, with no plugins, marketplaces, or user-installed extensions, just a bare OpenClaw gateway that works as documented,” Oasis […]
OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces agreement with Department of Defense on ‘technical safeguards’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced late Friday that the company has reached an agreement that will allow the company to use its AI models within the Department of Defense’s classified networks. This follows a high-profile conflict between the department, also known as the Department of the Army under the Trump administration, and OpenAI rival Anthropic. […]
Scientists made AI agents rougher and improved performance on complex reasoning tasks
Scientists have found that when artificial intelligence (AI) is able to act like human communicators, it reaches more accurate conclusions and becomes more effective debate partners. Human communication is full of stops and starts, impassioned interruptions, uncertain silences and ambiguity. AI, on the other hand, follows the formal communication style of computers: processing commands, formulating […]
Xiaomi launches 17 Ultra smartphone, AirTag clone and ultra-slim power bank
Xiaomi today launched a number of gadgets ahead of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, including a camera-focused flagship smartphone, an AirTag clone, the Xiaomi Watch 5 smartwatch, and an ultra-slim power bank. The China-based company has partnered with camera maker Leica to co-brand the smartphone “Xiaomi 17 Ultra.” As part of the partnership, we […]
Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning in the nascent market
China’s humanoid robot captured the world’s attention with a kung fu flip during a televised Lunar New Year celebration, while Chinese mobile phone maker Honor plans to unveil its first humanoid robot at MWC in Spain. Robotics was marked as a priority under the country’s “Made in China 2025” plan, but the focus was initially […]
Giant columns of organic molecules on Mars may be one of the best signs of life ever
Organic molecules found in Martian rocks cannot be fully explained by non-biological processes, and it is “reasonable to hypothesize” that life could have formed these strange organic molecules, a NASA-led team reports in a new study. However, he cautioned that this does not mean that scientists have found definitive evidence of life on Mars. In […]
‘We’re starting to discover even more strange things’: These strange animals can control their body temperature
In 1774, British physician and scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician. They would spend time in a small room that was “hotter than previously thought any living creature could tolerate.” While many may have been appalled by the offer, Blagden welcomed the opportunity for self-experimentation. He was surprised to find […]
Paleolithic humans invented ‘early predecessors of writing’ at least 40,000 years ago, engraved sign suggests
Humans first developed complex, information-rich writing around 3000 BC, when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) invented cuneiform. But new research suggests that precursors to writing can be found tens of thousands of years ago in carvings and tools made by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe. When modern humans (Homo sapiens) first arrived in […]
This week’s science news: Spider webs on Mars, tigers returned to Kazakhstan, 2,000-year-old skull with permanently blackened teeth
This week’s science news is full of surprising space discoveries, led by the largest map of the chaotic gas cloud at the center of the Milky Way. New images captured in stunning detail by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Telescope (ALMA) radio telescope show a 650-light-year structure of gas surrounding the galaxy’s central black hole. This […]