Advertising is shifting its emphasis from websites to social media influencers, as we reported in “Artificial Intelligence Eats the Ad Industry” (17 Jun 2025). Unilever, the global conglomerate owning more than 400 brands of consumer products, is using AI to make the most of the transfer.
At Australia’s Monash University, biologists and computer scientists collaborated to create an AI that, in a few seconds, designed a protein that can kill e. coli and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Media companies are tired of having their websites scraped and rescraped and they’re reaching for new tools to stop the bleeding.
“Vibe coding” is dramatically reshaping the coding profession. In vibe coding, a person tells an AI in conversational language what he or she wants an app or software program to do.
A newly released study that examined the health outcomes of people who lived near a nuclear waste site in Missouri that was produced during the Manhattan Project found that they had a higher risk of cancer than the general public.
U.S. President Donald Trump billed himself as a peacemaker during his campaign in 2024, and crystallized his message on 6 November 2024, just after winning the presidency.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice requested grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein case to try and calm the outrage among his supporters who believe his administration is covering up for the pedophile, but a former prosecutor said the testimony will likely provide little new information.
U.S. President Donald Trump last week called anyone who questioned his past relationship with Jefferey Epstein, the late pedophile, disloyal and “PAST supporters” because they bought the hoax “hook, line, and sinker.”
There is one thing for certain in the White House: President Donald Trump wants to put the Epstein Files controversy behind him as soon as possible.
Ekrem Imamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and top opponent of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was sentenced to 20 months in prison last week for calling out a prosecutor for targeting opposition leaders in the country earlier this year as he waited in jail for his own trial on corruption charges, which was seen as the latest attempt by the country’s president to snuff out his chief rivals.