OpenAI’s GPT-5 Sees a Big Surge in Enterprise Use Summary In the week after GPT-5’s launch, enterprise adoption spiked: API usage for coding and agent-building doubled, and reasoning/multi-step planning requests…
Virtual Power Plants: Where Home Batteries are Saving Americans from Blackouts Summary Puerto Rico and several US states are increasingly relying on networks of home batteries paired with rooftop solar…
Volkswagen Wants You To Pay Monthly To Unlock More Horsepower Summary Volkswagen is offering a paid software upgrade for the ID.3 electric car that increases power from the standard 201…
Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Summary Matt Asay, writing for InfoWorld and highlighted on Slashdot, argues that commercial vendors do much of the unglamorous but essential work…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary Recent reporting summarises developments shown at Black Hat and elsewhere where security firms unveiled AI-driven tools for both offence and…
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary New research led by the University of Houston, reported via ScienceDaily and picked up by Slashdot, finds that Uranus…
Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots Summary Illinois has enacted a law banning the use of artificial intelligence in mental-health therapy. Under the new rules,…
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop Summary Security teams from Seagate’s Singapore and Malaysian offices, working with Malaysian authorities, raided a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne report a new class of photocatalysts…
America’s Labour Unions Back State Regulations for AI Use in Workplaces Summary As employers and tech firms rush to embed AI into workplaces, US labour unions are stepping up efforts…
