A Few Expert Lawyers Dominate Supreme Court Arguments, a New Study Finds
Chief Justice Roberts, once such a lawyer, has said he has mixed feelings about the trend.
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From balloons to pans: in praise of useful tech
Companies developing new materials with previously unknown properties could change the material world
The A.I.-Robotics Job Only a Human Can Do
In India, some people are strapping cameras to their bodies to collect data on how humans move and train A.I.
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted
Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user’s inbox. Now, a separate team has devised a similar attack against Grok. The new data theft hack employs a deceptively simple trick to
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China: Robots box and dance at Beijing’s 2026 World Robot Conference
More than 300 companies are displaying humanoid robots, industrial machines, service robots and other forms of embodied artificial intelligence at the Beijing’s 2026 World Robot Conference. The five-day event kicked off on August 19, coinciding with Unitree’s stock-market debut. The company, China’s best-known humanoid robot maker, saw shares increase nearly six-fold on opening day. The conference
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The Indian City Where AI Is Creating Jobs for Humans
In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people.
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The Teens Taking On A.I. Data Centers
Gen Z-ers are forming after-school clubs, speaking at community meetings — and sometimes wrestling with their own dependence on the technology.
Azure Local and VMware Cloud Foundation: The Shared Operating Model Beneath a Resilient Hybrid Cloud
TL;DR The underwater cloud city in the image is a useful architecture metaphor, but it should not be read as a literal bill of materials. Azure Local and VMware Cloud Foundation are separate infrastructure platforms with their own control planes, lifecycle models, security boundaries, and automation surfaces. A resilient hybrid cloud does not force those
The Agent Sprawl Crisis: How CIOs Should Register, Consolidate, and Retire Digital Workers
TL;DR Sanctioned AI agents can create the same portfolio problems as shadow technology: duplicated capabilities, conflicting actions, unmanaged dependencies, excessive token spend, orphaned identities, and operational debt. The answer is not to stop business units from building. It is to require every agent to enter a governed lifecycle that begins before deployment and ends with
Introducing AI Futures
Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.