Will the start of 2026 see a change of fortune for BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton, whose title hopes are fading fast? After Sutton made a strong start to the season, AI has taken charge of the predictions title race, clinching another win last week. It's been a bad start to the new year for me, with AI top of the table, Sutton said. I also lost to my daugher Sophia at cards over Christmas. We played rummy and I think she was cheating - a lot like AI, she was definitely getting some help from somewhere. Sutton is making predictions for all 380 Premier League games this season, against AI, BBC Sport readers and a variety of guests. For week 20, he takes on singer-songwriter Andrew Cushin, who is a Newcastle fan.

Grok has a history of failing to maintain its safety guardrails and posting misinformation. Grok has a history of failing to maintain its safety guardrails and posting misinformation. Elon Musk's Grok AI generates images of'minors in minimal clothing' Elon Musk's chatbot Grok posted on Friday that lapses in safeguards had led it to generate "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X. The chatbot, a product of Musk's company xAI, has been generating a wave of sexualized images throughout the week in response to user prompts. Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab filled with such images.

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The new designs honor the Constitution, Civil War, and more. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. While we've said goodbye to both the year 2025 and the penny, five new United States quarters will be finding their way into your pocket soon enough. The designs of each new quarter will honor the country's 250th anniversary (aka its semiquincentennial). According to a press release from the U.S. Mint, the coins "commemorate 250 years of American Liberty by reflecting our country's founding principles and honoring our Nation's history."

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Valve has spent the last decade tunneling into Microsoft's vault. Now, the heist is on. Microsoft's big focus for Windows is AI integration . Meanwhile, Valve has been not-so-quietly pilfering the entire PC gaming ecosystem from Microsoft, turning the Linux-based SteamOS into a real competitor to Windows.

Why do elephants have such big ears? The multi-use appendages are kind of like their superpower. The African elephant has some of the world's biggest ears, measuring more than six feet long and more than four feet wide. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. While real life elephants can't fly, they certainly have enormous ears.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. CES 2026 will bring faster, stranger laptops. Just don't expect them to be cheap From bold OLED designs to pricier RAM, here's everything I'm expecting to see with laptops at CES 2026. CES (Consumer Electronics Show), the world's largest consumer tech expo, will kick off on January 6th, 2026. It's a notoriously gigantic event packed with everything from robotic pet doors to self-driving cars, and there's always a ton of laptop news amid the noise.

Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has a dream to extend life by swapping someone's head (or at least their brain) onto a new body. The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged heads between two corpses. But he never convinced skeptics that his technique could succeed--or to believe his claim that a procedure on a live person was imminent. The labeled him the "P.T. Barnum of transplantation." Canavero withdrew from the spotlight.

MIT Technology Review's senior editor for AI shares what he's been thinking about lately. My daughter introduced me to El Estepario Siberiano's YouTube channel a few months back, and I have been obsessed ever since. The Spanish drummer (real name: Jorge Garrido) posts videos of himself playing supercharged cover versions of popular tracks, hitting his drums with such jaw-dropping speed and technique that he makes other pro drummers shake their heads in disbelief. The dozens of reaction videos posted by other musicians are a joy in themselves. Garrido is up-front about the countless hours that it took to get this good. He says he sat behind his kit almost all day, every day for years.

NVIDIA is showcasing robotics, simulation, gaming and more at CES 2026. Last year during CES 2025, NVIDIA spent most of the time during its keynote touting its leading position in artificial intelligence. It threw in a few hardware announcements, including its RTX 5000-series GPUs and Project Digits desktop supercomputer (later redubbed Spark). For CES 2026, the company promises to light up the show with the power of AI. It seems NVIDIA will be going big in Las Vegas this year, with hands-on demos in its Fontainebleau booth, replete with the latest NVIDIA solutions driving innovation and productivity across industries.