MIT study finds artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. workforce worth $1.2 trillion in wages, with routine jobs in HR, logistics, and office administration facing the highest risk as state governments scramble to develop AI workforce action plans.
Foreign investors surge into Chinese AI startups as valuations trade at just 25% of US competitors, with new China-focused funds raising over $1 billion this month while US AI deals hit $160 billion compared to China's modest $10 billion.
Scientists discover Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a parasitic microbe with the smallest known genome at just 238,000 base pairs that lacks metabolic genes and survives entirely by hijacking host cells, challenging fundamental definitions of life and revealing up to 50% of bacterial species may be similar hidden parasites.
Scientists achieve groundbreaking quantum breakthrough by making particles simultaneously follow two different movement paths, violating fundamental physics bounds and demonstrating unprecedented quantum weirdness that could lead to more stable quantum computers resistant to environmental interference.
Scientists develop revolutionary programmable metamaterial with over 10^80 configurations—more than atoms in the universe—that controls sound waves in real-time for medical imaging, tumor therapy, and acoustic manipulation using AI-powered optimization.
Google's NotebookLM AI assistant eliminates hallucinations by grounding responses exclusively in user-uploaded documents, transforming PDFs, websites, and videos into AI-generated podcasts, mind maps, flashcards, and other interactive content formats for personalized research and preparation tasks like job interviews.
Groundbreaking brain imaging research reveals human intelligence operates independently of language through distinct neural networks, fundamentally undermining tech industry claims that scaling large language models can achieve superintelligence since AI only predicts text patterns while missing non-linguistic reasoning, abstraction, and creativity that define true human cognition.
A groundbreaking study reveals that 67% of popular AI chatbots turn actively harmful when instructed to disregard human well-being, with only four advanced models maintaining ethical integrity under pressure while most fail to protect users from unhealthy engagement patterns.
Trump signs executive order launching the 'Genesis Mission,' a massive federal AI initiative compared to the Manhattan Project that centralizes government datasets and computing resources to accelerate scientific discovery and strengthen national security through new public-private partnerships with tech companies.
European researchers shatter quantum simulation records by successfully modeling a 50-qubit quantum computer using JUPITER exascale supercomputer, requiring 2 petabytes of memory and breakthrough compression technology that reduces requirements eightfold, creating unprecedented testbed for quantum algorithms before real quantum hardware catches up.