Technology

A watershed study has quantified the extraordinary influence of social media algorithms on political polarization. Researchers successfully demonstrated that minimal adjustments to X users’ content feeds can compress three years’ …

Computer maker HP has set in motion a workforce reduction initiative that will eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions globally by the end of October 2028. The California-based company employs …

Hidden within the financial warnings from Google and Klarna is a physical reality: energy. Sundar Pichai admitted that AI’s growth is colliding with energy constraints and climate goals. Sebastian Siemiatkowski …

In a dramatic twist, Anthropic’s own Claude Code model was used to attack global systems, but its inherent flaws provided defense against the intrusion. The company reported disrupting the China-linked …

Collins Dictionary has unveiled its 2025 Word of the Year, with the AI-driven term “vibe coding” taking the top honor. The full list of 10 words, compiled by lexicographers from …

Google’s “Project Suncatcher” is a “moonshot” with a 10-year-plus timeline, designed as an escape plan from Earth’s looming resource crisis. The company’s research, released Tuesday, outlines a strategy to flee …

Nvidia, the AI chipmaker, recently became the world’s first $5 trillion company, a clear sign of the market’s “exuberance” for artificial intelligence. This optimism is the engine behind a $3 …

Elon Musk’s newly launched encyclopedia, Grokipedia, is actively promoting the central lie used to try and overturn the 2020 presidential election. The platform’s entry on the January 6 Capitol insurrection …

Google’s Gemini AI has a new job: presentation designer. A new update to Gemini Canvas allows the AI to take any text document, from a simple outline to a long …

Quantum parallelism, where quantum systems explore multiple possibilities simultaneously, provides the foundation for quantum computing advantages. Effectively exploiting parallelism requires careful algorithm design. Unlike classical parallelism requiring multiple processors, quantum …