A new class of data centers doesn’t run on silicon. It runs on human neurons. Several startups are now developing computing systems built around organoids — lab-grown clusters of human brain cells — arguing that biological processors could dramatically reduce the energy consumption that’s crippling the AI industry’s expansion. The concept sounds like science fiction. […]

Anthropic isn’t just building AI models anymore. It’s building an army of consultants to deploy them. The company behind Claude announced the Claude Partner Network, a formal program that pairs enterprise customers with consulting and technology firms that specialize in implementing Claude across business operations. The network includes heavy hitters: Accenture, Deloitte, McKinsey, BCG, Bain,

Recent findings have raised concerns about everyday consumer electronics, particularly headphones, which many people use daily for music, calls, and entertainment. A study conducted by environmental researchers examined various headphone models available in Central Europe and discovered that every single one contained chemicals known to interfere with human hormones. These substances, often called endocrine disruptors,

When Senator Ron Wyden issues a cryptic warning about government surveillance, history suggests you should pay attention. The Oregon Democrat has spent more than a decade as the most persistent congressional critic of secret intelligence programs, and his track record of being vindicated — sometimes years later — is remarkable. Now, with Section 702 of

The European Parliament just drew a line in the sand on digital privacy. It said no to mass scanning of private messages. No to breaking encryption. No to what critics called the most sweeping surveillance proposal ever floated in a Western democracy. But the forces behind that proposal haven’t gone away. And the legislative machinery

John Carmack doesn’t sugarcoat things. The legendary programmer — co-creator of Doom, former CTO of Oculus VR, and now full-time AI entrepreneur — posted a stark assessment on X that cuts against the breathless optimism saturating Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence discourse. His message, delivered with the matter-of-fact directness that has defined his public commentary for

The most expensive privately funded subsea cable ever attempted is running into trouble that no amount of engineering can fix. Meta’s 2Africa Pearls project, a 45,000-kilometer fiber-optic ring designed to encircle the African continent and extend into the Middle East and beyond, has been delayed again—this time by armed conflict in the Red Sea region.

The email came late on a Sunday evening. Government employees across several Asian capitals were told not to report to their offices the next morning. The reason wasn’t a typhoon or a pandemic sequel. It was war — or the growing specter of one — thousands of miles away in the Middle East. As tensions

Reddit wants to decide who gets to read the internet. Not just who posts on it, or who moderates it, but who — or what — is allowed to look at the publicly available pages its users create. The company’s recent lawsuit against an unnamed data-scraping operation, filed in the Northern District of California, isn’t

A Pennsylvania man spent months trying to get AT&T to reverse a $6,196 charge for equipment he’d already returned. The carrier wouldn’t budge. Then a reporter from Ars Technica got involved, and the bill vanished within days. The case, first reported by Ars Technica, is a case study in how major telecommunications companies handle —