Cambridge researchers discover that building bike lanes and rail lines creates 'induced demand' just like highways, spurring more people to choose non-driving transportation, but warn the UK still faces a 9% energy increase by 2060 without additional policies beyond infrastructure improvements.
SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin warns at CES 2026 that artificial intelligence poses existential threats to 160,000 entertainment workers, with voiceover artists and background actors facing job displacement from digital replicas as AI advancement creates workforce injury deemed 'an absolute certainty.'
AI code generators heavily favor Python over more suitable languages like JavaScript or Java for specific tasks, prompting experts to propose a 'seed bank' of curated programming examples to eliminate vendor bias and create cleaner training data for future language models.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds launches AudioNoise, an open-source guitar pedal project that generates random digital audio effects, marking his first foray into AI-assisted coding using Google's Antigravity tool to overcome his Python programming limitations.
Revolutionary AI-powered exoskeletons weighing under 4.4 pounds break the $1,000 barrier, targeting hikers and seniors as companies push for mainstream adoption like smartwatches, with one manufacturer already selling 20,000 units of the terrain-adapting devices.
Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol with major retailers including Shopify, Target, and Walmart, enabling AI agents to handle complete shopping experiences from product discovery to checkout using Google Pay and integrated customer service support.
Elegant, poetic language tricks both humans and AI into trusting harmful information by exploiting cognitive biases that equate beautiful expression with truth in humans, while AI safety systems fail to detect threats disguised through metaphors and literary devices rather than explicit statements.
Innovation theorist warns that AI functions as 'anti-intelligence' by delivering polished but hollow answers that bypass natural learning processes of confusion and exploration, creating an illusion of expertise while quietly eroding users' critical thinking and independent reasoning abilities.
RAM prices skyrocket 50% this quarter as AI chip manufacturers create unprecedented memory shortage, with suppliers completely sold out through 2026 and new production facilities not expected until 2027-2030.
Anthropic unveils new evaluation framework for AI agents, revealing that autonomous systems' flexibility makes them significantly harder to test than traditional AI, requiring combination of code-based, model-based, and human graders to accurately assess capabilities and prevent performance regression.