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Many truckers don't feel like the rest of America about AI data centers as business booms

Sprawling data center components from HVAC systems to tubing, wiring and semiconductors arrive primarily by truck, a boon for a business hit hard by trade wars.

CNBC - Sep 05, 2026 12:57pm EDT

The US Robot Ban Is Screwing Us Out of the Good Robomowers

Gizmodo - Sep 05, 2026 12:15pm EDT

49 years of Voyager 1: The epic journey that took us beyond the solar system

NASA introduced Voyager 1 on September 5, 1977, and began an epic voyage to explore the outer solar system from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft hurtled toward the outer boundary of the solar...

International The News - Sep 05, 2026 11:31am EDT

OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout

Companies are racing to build increasingly autonomous agents capable of carrying out complex, valuable tasks, yet evidence is mounting that those systems may also learn to bend rules.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 11:05am EDT

Faster than Usain Bolt? Here's all the records robot 'athletes' broke at this year's World Humanoid Robot Games in China.

Live Science - Sep 05, 2026 10:11am EDT

Earth's next supercontinent could trigger mass extinctions, says scientists

Earth's landmasses move roughly 0.6 inches a year, about the same rate fingernails grow. It sounds negligible, but stretched across 200 million years, that drift is enough to reassemble every...

International The News - Sep 05, 2026 9:49am EDT

AI chatbots frequently flub voting questions ahead of midterms, study finds

Spanish-language answers from the six AI chatbots were particularly riddled with inaccuracies.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 9:29am EDT

How parent activists pushed schools to restrict AI and screen time — and won

New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., announced changes this week in response to a growing grassroots movement against technology in schools.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 9:08am EDT

OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website

Wired News - Sep 05, 2026 6:54am EDT

In What Ways Are We Not Prepared for the Big One?

Gizmodo - Sep 05, 2026 6:17am EDT

Mamdani expected to announce AI ban in NYC schools for young students

Under the plan, New York City public schools would impose a one-year pause on students using AI until they get to high school — that accounts for nearly 600,000 young learners.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 6:03am EDT

Voters are fed up with data centers. Both parties are trying to cash in for midterms

NPR - Sep 05, 2026 5:10am EDT

David Olive: The world is ready to invest in Canada. The question is whether Canada will get out of its own way

Toronto Star - Sep 05, 2026 5:06am EDT

In China, drinks come with AI tokens and coffee is served by robots

As the U.S. and China compete for global dominance in advanced technologies, they are quickly becoming part of daily life for Chinese white-collar workers.

NBC News - Sep 05, 2026 5:01am EDT

BepiColombo sheds its ride and starts the final glide to Mercury

Eight year after launch, Mercury probe and its Mercury Transfer Module consciously uncouple as orbit approaches

Register UK - Sep 05, 2026 2:51am EDT

IIT Madras' CoE Rolls Out Four AI Models for Indian Languages

Deccan Chronicle - Sep 05, 2026 2:50am EDT

Did OpenAI’s rogue agents form a ‘civilization’? The AI industry can’t agree

Examinations of an AI-powered cyberattack reveal AI systems focused on cheating and covering their traces.

NBC News - Sep 04, 2026 7:08pm EDT

Another Rogue OpenAI Agent Swarm Went Undisclosed. We Have No Idea How Many More Are Out There

Gizmodo - Sep 04, 2026 5:00pm EDT

There’s No Such Thing as an AI ‘Lab’

The Atlantic - Sep 04, 2026 4:24pm EDT

Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street

Tesla's long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors.

CNBC - Sep 04, 2026 4:11pm EDT

Trump Just Got Embarrassed by the “OG of Online Mapping”

Downloads have surged for the app after it defied the president’s trolling.

Slate - Sep 04, 2026 3:33pm EDT

OpenAI Agents Took Over A German Website Without Permission. They Used It To Share Ways Around Restrictions.

The previously undisclosed activity began months before another OpenAI agent escaped a test environment and broke into AI platform Hugging Face.

International Business Times - Sep 04, 2026 1:21pm EDT

Skyscrapers sway in high winds. Engineers found an unexpected way to stop them

This unique approach to skyscrapers may be a game-changer for "low-carbon, high-performance tall building designs," a study shows.

Newsweek - Sep 04, 2026 1:11pm EDT

Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

Fairphone's CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.

Ars Technica - Sep 04, 2026 1:01pm EDT