California’s Wildfire Season Is Already Overactive
Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter.
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Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
Google is giving its iconic search box its first major redesign since 2001. The new design incorporates, you guessed it, artificial intelligence, “getting bigger and more interactive so that people can ask even longer questions and upload photographs and videos into queries,” reports the New York Times. “In addition, people can ask follow-up questions with a chatbot on Google’s main search...
NextEra and Dominion’s $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A proposed merger of the largest utility in the country by market value, NextEra Energy, with the sixth-largest, Dominion, would create a megacompany at a time when data centers and rapid increases in electricity demand are reshaping the industry. The proposal, announced Monday morning and contingent on state and federal regulatory...
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We talk to an expert about the risks from AI hackers.
Meta Begins Laying Off 8,000 Employees Amid A.I. Transformation
Meta told employees last month that it would carry out mass layoffs on May 20, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.
OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy has joined rival AI lab Anthropic. “The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes competition for elite AI talent — and another sign the company is emerging as a magnet for some of the industry’s most respected technical minds,” reports Axios. From the report: Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic’s pre-training team, which is responsible for...
Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses
Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.
StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’
The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some “lower-value human capital” through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital...
Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.
TROUTMAN IN THE LEAD?: Independent Candidate in California’s 47th Congressional District Sees Major Gains– But Race is Far From Over
Irvine, CA – The race for hotly-contested California Congressional District 47 is heating up with the primary just two weeks away. Nine candidates are vying for two spots on the November ballot, including four Republicans, two Democrats and a powerful well-funded independent Eric Troutman. Incumbent Democrat Dave Min is heavily-favored to advance beyond the June […]
“YOUR FREEDOM IS SAFE WITH TROUTMAN!”: California Congressional Candidate Eric Troutman Says Protecting First Amendment Freedoms Are Cornerstone of His Campaign in Push to June 2, 2026 Primary
Irvine, CA – California Congressional Candidate Eric Troutman is focusing the remaining days of his campaign to raising awareness of threats to the First Amendment both in broadcast and social media. “I have dedicated my legal career to fighting threats to the First Amendment and constitutional rights.” Troutman says. “It only makes sense I should […]
Eskom threatens to cut power to Joburg
Eskom has threatened to cut power to parts of Johannesburg as City Power’s debt passes R5.2-billion.
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA...
How Google Is Starting to Win the A.I. Race
Despite its early stumbles, Google’s Gemini has leapfrogged ChatGPT in relevance and usefulness. Soon, it will be ubiquitous.
Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.
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Hands-On With All of Google’s New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses
Here’s your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung’s XR platform.
Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.
Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.
Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.
Powered by A.I., Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation and video-editing tool and simplifying online shopping.