I visited the 'world's first' AI art museum. It was dazzling, strange, and more thought-provoking than I expected.

Dataland, "the world's first museum of AI arts," opened in Los Angeles. The art was often beautiful but hard to connect with.
techtimes

AMPERA Unveils First 3D-Printed Thorium Reactor Core: Subcritical Design Targets AI Power

A Florida energy startup pulled the cover off a basketball-sized silicon carbide sphere on July 1, 2026, and claimed a manufacturing milestone that the nuclear industry has been working toward for ...

OASIS Smart ring hides a trackpad and it lets you whisper-control your computer

OASIS has unveiled the OASIS 1 smart ring, featuring a built-in microphone and miniature trackpad that lets users whisper ...
Savvy Gamer on MSN

What was the first computer actually able to do?

The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, and definitely no controller waiting beside it. Early computers were built ...
MIT Technology Review

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in ...
Microsoft

Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models

By: Ahmed Awadallah, Sahil Gupta, Yash Lara, Yadong Lu, Hussein Mozannar, Akshay Nambi, Zach Nussbaum, Yash Pandya, Aravind Rajeswaran, Corby Rosset, Alexey Taymanov, Luiz do Valle, Vibhav Vineet, ...
The New York Times

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years

Using a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box dimensions to answer longer queries, adding a video-generation tool and simplifying online shopping. By Tripp Mickle Kate ...
Bleeping Computer

5 Steps to Managing Shadow AI Tools Without Slowing Down Employees

When an employee installs an AI writing assistant, connects a coding copilot to their IDE, or starts summarizing meetings with a new browser tool, they are doing exactly what a productive employee ...
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...
No Jitter

Computer-Using Agents: Visualizing access to legacy systems

Computer-Using or Computer Use Agents (CUAs) are agentic AI capabilities that enable an AI model to perceive a screen “visually” and control it like a person would — clicking, typing, navigating an ...
ZME Science

Scientists Built a Working Computer Out of Springs That Doesn’t Use a Single Watt of Electricity

The setup of the ingenious computer that works with tension and springs. Credit: St. Olaf College It has no wires, no silicon chips, and needs zero electricity. Yet, it computes. Researchers from St.