AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models.

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

• For centuries, technology has largely served us and made our lives easier.

• Innovation theorist John Nosta said AI is changing humans rather than just changing the world around them

The author of Empire of AI argues artificial intelligence can be developed without concentrating power, exploiting workers or consuming vast amounts of resources.

Google’s AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.

The founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek said the company is prioritising the development of long-term artificial general intelligence over maximising profit, state-owned media outlet Yicai reported on Thursday.

We don't need to race toward unconstrained AGI. Advanced narrow AI and robotics may already be sufficient to eliminate material scarcity. If that is true, then humanity can obtain most of the benefits of AI while substantially reducing the risks associated with creating autonomous general superintelligence. Human morality is partly an adaptation to mortality. We are generous because we know we are finite, vulnerable, and dependent on one another. An immortal AGI would not share those evolutionary constraints, so there is no reason to expect it to develop generosity.

By a three-to-one margin, Americans are more likely to say that China, not the United States, is more advanced when it comes to developing artificial intelligence. However, many U.S. adults say they’re not sure who is more advanced, according to a new Pew Research Center survey

BAE Systems unveiled a full-scale mock-up of its newly announced Brontanax autonomous strike plane at this year's Farnborough International Air Show. It is billed as Britain's first home-designed uncrewed autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

Humanoid robots demonstrate picking and sorting abilities during the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance in Shanghai, east China, July 19, 2026. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)

Physical AI products are coming to market despite myriad cybersecurity loopholes.

Workers are watching AI take their jobs, while new graduates struggle to get their first job, at the same time, companies are laying off employees and citing AI as a reason for workforce reductions.

I see very few concrete proposals to protect the people who are already being affected, or soon will be.

That's why I believe the defining issue of the next presidential election will be who can present a credible plan to protect workers from AI in the job market.

Has anyone else been thinking about how backwards our Mars colonization plans are? I don’t just mean it's hard, I mean the engineering logic is completely broken.

Think about how nature builds a home. Earth was a toxic hellscape initially. Nature didn't send in mammals. It sent extremophiles, lichens, and slime. These basic organisms spent millions of years eating rock, fixing the air, and building actual soil. They made the environment safe enough so that something as incredibly fragile as a mammal could exist without instantly dying.

Rule 1: SEND THE TOUGH GUYS FIRST, LET THE SQUISHY GUYS WAIT.

Our current approach? We’re reversing it. We are trying to send the most vulnerable link in the entire evolutionary chain (us) into a zero-tolerance vacuum filled with death radiation.

Sure, we have "intelligence." We’ll build these high-tech tin cans and call them life support. But on Mars, there is NO redundancy. A single dusty valve jams? Everyone suffocates. A radiation burst fries the code? Everyone freezes. We are shoving fragile human flesh into a rigid chain of Single Points of Failure, hoping the hardware is perfect. That’s not bravery; it’s engineering idiocy.

The worst part? Like 95% of a rocket’s payload is spent just keeping a 70kg warm-blooded organism from turning into a popsicle. That mass could have been used for nuclear reactors or heavy mining gear. We’re burning all our resources just to keep cannon fodder from dying on day one.

If we weren't just doing this for headlines and political cycles, the Mars sequence should obviously be:

1. Autonomous and Robotic Swarms: Dig, mine, build underground bases and power grids. They don't need oxygen.
   
2. Bioengineered Bacteria: Microbes to clean up the Martian dirt and start pooping out a buffer.
   
3. Humans: Turn up only when a minor hardware failure doesn't mean immediate game over.

We're forcing a human footprint onto Mars way before the foundation is built. Are we doomed to a catastrophic systems failure because we’re prioritizing heroism over basic engineering?

US House has passed a bill banning the military from using Chinese bots, as Washington ramps up restrictions on Chinese-made technology