Forrest spent a week on the run in southeast Mississippi last October. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A rhesus macaque who spent a week on the lam in Mississippi in late October is finally settling into a new home over 990 miles from the original site of his escape. Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Forked River, New Jersey, is now caring for Forrest, a young monkey from the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana. "The secret is out!" Popcorn Park posted to social media on December 2. Forrest's stressful saga began on October 28, 2025, when a transport truck crashed along Interstate 65 while carrying 21 monkeys from the Tulane Primate Research Center destined for a Florida biomedical research facility.

Xpeng's Next Gen Iron humanoid robot fooled viewers who thought it was a human actor, prompting CEO He Xiaopeng to cut into the robot's leg to prove its authenticity.

What happens to your body during a panic attack? 'Just breathe' is more than just a nice saying. Up to one third of people experience at least one panic attack in their lifetimes. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It happens all at once--your heartbeat becomes a jackhammer, your body closes in on you like a corset.

Plus: the FDA's newly-appointed head drug regulator is out AI has already transformed how code is written, but a new wave of autonomous systems promise to make the process even smoother and less prone to making mistakes. Amazon Web Services has just revealed three new "frontier" AI agents, its term for a more sophisticated class of autonomous agents capable of working for days at a time without human intervention. One of them, called Kiro, is designed to work independently without the need for a human to constantly point it in the right direction. Another, AWS Security Agent, scans a project for common vulnerabilities: an interesting development given that many AI-enabled coding assistants can end up introducing errors. To learn more about the exciting direction AI-enhanced coding is heading in, check out our team's reporting: Are we ready for what could happen next? They remember previous sessions and continuously learn from a company's codebase.

Well, Who Do You Know? AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. Now, it wants to be in your ears. A secret is percolating at dinner parties, salons, and cocktail gatherings among the august New York City elite. It's whispered in the circles of financial masters of the universe, Hollywood stars, and owners of sports teams. Many haven't--or if they did hear, they might not have made out the words through noisy cross-conversations. Once they do know--particularly if they're boomers--they want it desperately. Fortell is a hearing aid, one that claims to use AI to provide a dramatically superior aural experience. The chosen few included in its beta test claim that it seems to top the performance of high-end devices they'd been unhappily using. These testers have made pilgrimages to Fortell's headquarters on the fifth floor of a WeWork facility in New York City's trendy SoHo neighborhood, where they were fitted for the hearing aids--which from the outside look pretty much like standard, over-the-ear, teardrop-shaped devices. But the big moment comes when a Fortell staffer takes them down to street level.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth highlighted the nation's "Drone Dominance" push for mass U.S. military drone adoption, noting plans to deliver tens of thousands in 2026.

Adverts for Nike, Superdry and Lacoste have been banned for making misleading claims about their green credentials. The UK's advertising watchdog challenged the brands over the use of the word sustainable in paid-for Google ads which were not backed up by evidence of their sustainability. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) identified three adverts from the retailers promising customers sustainable materials, sustainable style and sustainable clothing. The UK's advertising code states that the basis of claims about environmental sustainability must be clear and supported by a high level of substantiation. In each case, it asked the companies for evidence to back up the claims about the sustainability of the products.

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology's impact on society. Oliver Bridge is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator specialising in morality studies. During his PhD he focused on the intersection of the philosophy and psychology of education and morality. Since then his research interests have evolved to include Machine Ethics, where he aims to apply lessons learnt from the sociological and psychological studies of morality in the context of AI. He is also interested in Systems Theory as a framework for understanding morality and moral development in psychological, social, and artificial systems.

South Korea has one of the lowest debt burdens among developed nations, but its debt-to-GDP ratio has been climbing. South Korea's parliament approved a 727.9 trillion won ($495.8 billion) budget for next year on Tuesday, endorsing President Lee Jae Myung's sweeping plan to revive the economy through aggressive investment in artificial intelligence and other strategic sectors. The outlay represents an 8.1% increase from this year's initial budget plan and will increase at a rate more than triple the pace of expansion of the 2025 budget. The acceleration comes as the country confronts U.S. tariff pressure and growing welfare costs associated with one of the world's fastest-aging populations. Lee has vowed to transform Korea's industrial base, defense capabilities and public services by more than tripling AI-related investment to 10.1 trillion won next year.

What is in the 28-point US plan for Ukraine? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' Can the US get all sides to end the war? Why is Europe opposing Trump's peace plan? Here's where things stand on Wednesday, December 3: Russian forces attacked Ukraine's Kherson region, using "rocket launchers, mortars and drones", killing a 76-year-old woman and injuring at least two other people, the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office said in a post on Telegram. A Russian drone attack killed one person and injured five people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the head of the city's military administration, Oleksandr Honcharenko, wrote on Facebook.