US holiday retail sales to top $1 trillion for first time as online shopping leads

US retail sales in November and December will grow between 3.7 per…

Meta bets on ‘fun’ for new video feed as Vibes hits Europe amid slop backlash

Meta is launching its new Meta AI app across Europe today, rolling…

Chinese OS model beats GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on key benchmarks

A new open source AI model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI has…

UK grid ‘overwhelmed’ as data centre power requests triple in one year

The UK’s electricity grid is “overwhelmed” by a flood of connection requests,…

Asthma misinformation on TikTok gets 3x more likes than accurate videos

Misleading TikTok videos about asthma are not only common but also significantly…

AI tools unlock DNA’s hidden 3D ‘instruction manual’ to fight disease

Understanding how DNA is folded in 3D is “crucial for figuring out…

Microsoft AI boss rejects ‘AGI race’, warns ‘no one has a reassuring answer’

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, has explicitly rejected the industry’s…

AI stress for students jumps to 78% amid ‘crisis of connection’ in the US

Americans are grappling with a “crisis of connection”, and surging anxiety over…

CZI unites scientific teams as Biohub in AI push to cure all diseases

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is uniting its multidisciplinary scientific teams into a…

Collins names “vibe coding” Word of the Year as AI reshapes language

Vibe coding, a term capturing the use of artificial intelligence prompted by…