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A new Pew Research Center survey suggests only 16% of Americans—just under 1 in 6—believe AI will have a positive impact on society over the next 20 years. Around 40% explicitly anticipate a negative impact, while the rest either expect a mixed outcome or say they are not sure. The …

On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, which come in new colorways and contain an upgraded processor—but watch out for a steep price hike. The new 13-inch Surface Pro comes in Platinum, Black, and Dune (copper). It starts at $1,499 for a Snapdragon X2 Plus (10 …

Anthropic has taken its newest and most powerful AI models, Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, offline worldwide following the Trump administration’s order imposing strict export controls on the systems for national security reasons. The directive required Anthropic to block access to the models to any foreign national, including those …

A new paper in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics has put forth an intriguing theory: A so-far unexplainable neutrino could have been blasted at Earth by a cosmic particle accelerator known as a “blazer.” But let’s back up.For a while now, we’ve been reporting on a watershed 2023 …

On Wednesday, the Russian space agency (commonly known as Roscosmos) streamed a 5-hour spacewalk on the exterior of the International Space Station. Dubbed Roscosmos Spacewalk 66, the event saw cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev perform necessary maintenance to the station.NASA’s summary says the walk primarily aimed to “install a …

Spotify, which has offered access to audiobooks (including its own first-party titles) for a few years now, has begun offering long-form magazine articles in audio format. The new “Articles” category dishes up more than 650 English-language pieces from publishers like The Atlantic, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Wired, Vanity Fair, Variety, Billboard, …

Unitree might be looking to make its fortune in humanoid robotics, but it’s also playing around with niche projects, like this $650,000 humanoid mecha robot you can sit in and drive yourself. The GD01—the “world’s first production-ready manned mecha”—is on sale now, and could be used for construction purposes, a …

Another day, another issue with Tesla’s Cybertruck. The blocky, stainless steel truck is facing a fresh recall, warning that some trucks risk losing their wheels on the road. Regulators say a defect in the brake rotors on 173 Cybertrucks with 18‑inch steel wheels could cause cracks around the stud holes, …

On Tuesday, Google announced the Googlebook, its new AI laptop line that succeeds a decade and a half of Chromebooks. The company positions Googlebook as a laptop line built around its Gemini intelligence system and an Android‑based OS. While existing Chromebooks will continue to receive updates, the Googlebook will sit …

OpenAI has introduced a new safety feature to ChatGPT that lets users add “trusted contacts” to their profiles. These contacts will receive alerts if a user’s ChatGPT exchange points to signs of self-harm—one of many changes OpenAI is making to its best-known product after multiple suicides that allegedly involved the …