So far, Department of Justice-led efforts to sow chaos, even as Americans are already voting, have fallen flat. Polls are looking pretty bleak for Republicans --and the Trump administration's various attempts to interfere with the elections haven't been too successful either. In recent weeks, the Department of Justice, helmed by Attorney General Todd Blanche, a proponent of conspiracy theories about widespread noncitizen voting in the 2020 election, has pulled out all the stops to sow doubt in voters' minds about the security and validity of the electoral process. To do this, the DOJ has spent the last year demanding unredacted voter rolls, issuing executive orders to wrest control of elections from states, raiding election offices, proposing new laws to disenfranchise millions of citizens, and claiming that noncitizens were voting en masse across the country. There have also been escalating threats by the DOJ against election officials. On Thursday, the DOJ sent letters to election officials in all 50 states warning them that they would pursue criminal action if they failed to preserve election records for 22 days.

Birdbuddy Nook vs. Birdfy Rookie: Which Budget Smart Feeder Should You Buy? After four weeks with each, I found one better equipped for life outdoors. Hard to believe, but smart bird feeders have been around for six years. The idea started with Birdbuddy (then styled Bird Buddy), which launched a Kickstarter campaign in November 2020 for the world's first app-connected, AI-powered smart bird feeder . Birdfy followed in 2021 with its first camera-equipped feeder, and today the two companies remain the most popular brands in the smart bird-feeder space, with a sizable catalog of offerings, including smart bird baths and smart nesting boxes .

Trade unions are expected to make further inroads into big tech companies in the UK after new rights for unions to access workplaces came into force, with Google UK signing an agreement on Monday. The Prospect union has reached an agreement with Google to begin organising among about 7,000 workers across its UK operations, including YouTube but excluding DeepMind . Google DeepMind is expected to strike a separate agreement, with the Communication Workers Union seeking recognition there. The deal follows a similar agreement between Prospect and Meta, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram and employs about 5,000 people in the UK. The agreements will allow unions to communicate with non-unionised workers and encourage them to join.

Chatbots are often quite good at retrieving the information you want from the web. But sometimes you'll get better results by typing your query into a good old search engine. If you've interacted with the likes of Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, you've noticed that in addition to everything else they do, these AI chatbots can search the web for you. Depending on what you're looking for, it can be easier to find more relevant results through a chatbot, which may explain why Google is so keen to push AI Mode for its own search engine. When asked to search the web, the latest versions of these bots are combining elements of traditional web search (they're essentially just googling on your behalf) with knowledge they are able to pull out of their training data.

Shock, vindication, regret: Scientists react to AI roiling life's work OpenAI and Anthropic each said on Monday that one of their AI models had disproved the exponential time hypothesis. San Francisco - For decades, three computer scientists built their careers around an idea about the limits of what computers can do. Artificial intelligence may now have shown it to be wrong: OpenAI and Anthropic each said on Monday that one of their AI models had disproved the "exponential time hypothesis" (ETH). The hypothesis holds that some problems are so hard that computers can solve them only by trying nearly every possible answer. Hundreds of studies in computer science and biology rely on it.

Western Australia police used cameras with facial recognition technology on marked vans at 43 locations across the state including the Perth royal show. Western Australia police used cameras with facial recognition technology on marked vans at 43 locations across the state including the Perth royal show. More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts. WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations. Alongside the 122 arrests, the alerts led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders and locate 10 people for a welfare check.

Jianghao Huo, the chief technology officer of Dreame's embodied intelligence business, sees an opportunity to use breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and robotics to free people from any task they consider drudgery. At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing this August, spectators flocked to the unique display of emerging tech -- robots sprinting at superhuman speeds and soaring to new records in the high jump. But perhaps more important for the future of mankind was the subdued training for mundane tasks people do every day. In one sedate section of the convention hall, robots competed to make beds neatly, serve drinks without spilling and tidy rooms like Marie Kondo. One Chinese-designed humanoid hung laundry and folded clothes, then paused mid-chore to collect a package at the door before resuming laundry duty.

China's robot makers have mastered the moves. Now comes the race for brains. A Spirit AI's Moz1 humanoid robot serves candied hawthorn on sticks, simulating a cafe as a demonstration, at the 2026 Zhongguancun forum, in Beijing on March 25. Beijing - After years of building humanoid robots capable of running, dancing and performing backflips, Chinese companies are pouring resources into a different challenge: developing the artificial intelligence that could make those machines useful across a wider range of jobs. The shift is fueling an investment boom in embodied AI, a field focused on software that allows robots to understand their surroundings, learn unfamiliar tasks and adapt without having to be programmed for every job.

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The legal battle revolves around the AI company's operations in southern Memphis. A federal judge's latest ruling has denied xAI's request to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges its data center campus in Memphis, Tennessee is running turbines without proper permits and violating the Clean Air Act. The decision, from US District Judge Debra M. Brown, allows the lawsuit, which was filed by the NAACP, to move forward. The organization filed its legal action against xAI in April, accusing the company that's now known as SpaceXSI of using unpermitted methane gas turbines to power data centers in the Memphis area. Despite the ongoing lawsuit that also claimed it's violating the Clear Air Act, Elon Musk's company continued to add more gas turbines to another AI data center site in the nearby Southhaven, Mississippi community.