- Amazon sued Perplexity over its Comet AI agent for not disclosing when it’s shopping on behalf of users.
- Trump renominated Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, despite withdrawing his nomination earlier this year.
- US Homeland Security shared misleading videos of immigration operations, using outdated or irrelevant footage.
- AI-written letters are overwhelming scientific journals, making it hard for researchers to assess their validity.
- ArXiv has stopped accepting certain papers due to concerns over AI-generated content.
- The AI boom is creating opportunities for makers of small turbines and fuel cells.
- A new study suggests chronic kidney disease may be the first chronic illness to be linked to climate change.
- Brazil is proposing a fund to protect tropical forests by financially incentivizing countries not to cut them down.
- New York voted for a citywide digital map representing the five boroughs.
- Experts are concerned the internet could face a catastrophic collapse, and some are preparing for that eventuality.
- A Chinese spacecraft may have been damaged by space debris, leaving three astronauts stranded on the Tiangong space station.
- OpenAI is facing new lawsuits related to claims of harm caused by its AI models, including a wrongful death case.
- Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package, contingent on meeting ambitious targets.
- The EU is considering watering down its AI Act amid pressure from Big Tech and the US government.
- Meta is under scrutiny for profiting from scam ads while claiming it aggressively tackles this issue.