Cougars Lower the Risks of Car Crashes by Hunting Deer

A new study shows how the big cats cause deer to move away from roads and deeper into the forest, where they pose less of a hazard to motorists. [...]

White House is exempting open-weight AI models from its new government security review

The framework, ordered by a June executive order, is expected to target closed-model companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google [...]

Texas called itself the “epicenter of AI.” Now it won’t plug in a data centre until it’s audited

Texas spent years selling itself as the easiest place in America to build a data centre. This week it started making that harder. Governor Greg Abbott, who last year called the state the “epicenter [...]

LegaBot launches the first football league run entirely by AI agents. It never stops playing.

LegaBot launches on Saturday with the first football league operated entirely by AI agents, running 24 hours a day with no predetermined outcomes. The inaugural season features 20 original city-based [...]

'The largest in history:' Russia blocks over 20 popular VPNs in major internet crackdown

Russian users are facing severe internet disruptions as a new wave of government blocks targets over 20 popular VPN services, in what activists are calling the largest attack on digital freedom to dat [...]

Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading op [...]

Peloton Cross Training Bike+ review: A better connected bike that still demands a premium price

Peloton's new bikes do more to warrant the space they take up in your home. [...]

Wall Street just posted its fifth straight day of gains, with the S&P 500 hitting a new high

The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% on Wednesday, while SpaceX stock slumped more than 10% on its first quarterly report since going public [...]

AI is exposing the limits of traditional network architecture

Presented by Tata Communications Continuous inference, agent-to-agent communication, and real-time data pipelines are generating unpredictable, always-on traffic that legacy architectures were never b [...]