Michael Burry — the Big Short investor who famously predicted the 2008 housing collapse — broke a two-year silence this week to deliver another stark warning: that Big Tech’s AI-era profits are built on “one of the most common frauds in the modern era” — stretching or manipulating depreciation schedules.

Russia’s first domestically produced artificial intelligence–powered humanoid robot faceplanted during its debut public demonstration this week, underscoring the challenges the country faces in competing with established leaders in AI and robotics.

A team led by Rice University physicist Frank Geurts has achieved a breakthrough by measuring the temperature of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at multiple points during its evolution.

Elon Musk has spent recent weeks outlining a vision for an economic future with Optimus robots that he claims will “eliminate” poverty.

The progressive media outlet CounterPunch, which has been in operation for nearly 40 years, has vowed to uphold the two mottos on its masthead: “Power and Evil in Washington” and “Tells the Facts, Names the Names.”

Major investors—spooked by AI exuberance yet wary of betting against it—are shifting from hyped-up stocks into potential next-in-line winners, reviving a strategy from the 1990s dot-com era that helped some sidestep the crash.

The Trump administration is opening the entire coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden-era decision that had placed the pristine wilderness area off limits.

Hundreds of public figures, including Nobel Prize-winning scientists, former military leaders, artists, and British royalty, have signed a statement calling for a ban on work that could lead to computer superintelligence.

A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm.

Nvidia’s smallest supercomputer officially hit the market on Wednesday. The DGX Spark, which the company says delivers data center-class performance, features Nvidia’s GB10 Grace Blackwell superchip, along with ConnectX-7 networking capabilities and a full software stack.

U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed pro-life concerns within his coalition over the White House’s recently announced initiative to increase access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

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The Philippines’ first-ever electric passenger ferry is set to serve the public beginning in November and is projected to significantly ease traffic congestion in Metro Manila while promoting sustainability by eliminating fossil fuel consumption.

Jack Clark, co-founder of the high-flying AI startup Anthropic, told Fortune Tech’s Andrew Nusca, that “what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine. And like all the best fairytales, the creature is of our own creation.”

In Silicon Valley, debate over whether AI companies are overvalued has taken on new urgency.

As the artificial intelligence boom grows, so do fears that it’s a bubble waiting to burst.

Intel has revealed new details about its upcoming Panther Lake processor, the company’s first PC chip built on its next-generation 18A manufacturing process.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their work on the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

While investors are pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist with three decades of experience claims they are wasting their money.

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have confirmed that the Red Sea once completely dried up around 6.2 million years ago, only to be suddenly refilled by a catastrophic influx of water from the Indian Ocean.

Huawei Technologies Co. used advanced components from Asia’s largest technology firms in at least some of its leading Ascend AI processors.

Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91.

Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a warning for investors pouring billions into humanoid robot startups: You’re wasting your money.