April 9, 2026 OpenAI is proposing a four-day, 32-hour workweek as part of a broader policy plan to ensure workers benefit from AI-driven productivity gains. The company suggests running pilot programmes with no loss in pay, allowing reduced more...
April 2, 2026 Researchers from California Institute of Technology and start-up Oratomic have demonstrated a new error-correction approach that could cut the number of qubits needed for a fault-tolerant quantum computer from millions to as few as 10,000–20,000. more...
March 31, 2026 A U.S. woman spent nearly six months in jail after being misidentified by an AI facial recognition system in a bank fraud investigation. She was later cleared only after records proved she was far away more...
March 27, 2026 Google has warned that quantum computers could break widely used encryption systems by 2029, urging organisations to begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography now. The warning reframes quantum risk from a long-term research problem into an more...
March 26, 2026 U.S. lawmakers have introduced a proposal to halt new AI datacentre construction nationwide until federal safeguards are in place. The plan would immediately pause development of facilities critical to AI infrastructure, citing rising energy demand, more...
March 23, 2026 This is another in our series of "Expert Voices" where we tap into our community of experienced IT professionals for advice, input and observations on technology. This is another piece from our regular contributor, Yogi more...
March 23, 2026 OpenAI has warned investors that its close relationship with Microsoft represents a material risk to its business, citing reliance on the company for financing and compute resources. The disclosure comes as OpenAI raises more than more...
March 19, 2026 Arizona has filed criminal charges against prediction market platform Kalshi for allowing users to bet on elections, escalating a broader regulatory push against event-based trading. At the federal level, lawmakers have introduced new legislation to more...
March 10, 2026 A London surgeon has remotely guided a robot to remove a patient’s cancerous prostate at a hospital 1,500 miles away in Gibraltar, marking the first successful remote robot-assisted telesurgery conducted by a UK hospital. The more...
March 10, 2026 Canada is moving forward with a domestically built low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite network that Prime Minister Mark Carney says will be critical for national security and communications infrastructure. The system, expected to launch next year, is more...
March 9, 2026 Prediction market platform Kalshi says it will not pay out roughly $54 million in potential winnings tied to a market predicting the removal of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, arguing the event contract did more...
March 6, 2026 Chinese automaker BYD has introduced a second-generation version of its Blade Battery, claiming electric vehicles equipped with the new cells can charge from 10 to 70 per cent in about five minutes. The update focuses more...
