Futurism

The Grand Designs host on lonely houses, brave buildings and why Australia is on the cusp of radical change to the idea of home

Chrome gets Auto Browse, AI Skills, Gemini side panel, and $6/month enterprise DLP. Google says the browser is no longer a window but a workplace AI platform.

Google Cloud hit $70B+ revenue, 48% growth, and a $240B backlog. Pichai says Search will become an agent manager. CapEx doubles to $185B.

Alibaba integrated Qwen AI with Taobao's 4 billion products. Alipay processed 120 million AI-agent transactions in one week. China is rewriting how e-commerce works.

The Turing Award winner launched nonprofit LawZero with $30M to build safe-by-design AI. He says the industry's race toward agentic systems is turning theoretical risks into practical ones.

The Stripe co-founder argues that keyword search is a "ridiculous" way to buy things and AI agents will force retailers to rethink everything.

Abundance is in our future, but the path getting there is going to be a bumpy ride.

All seven cofounders pledged to donate 80% of their wealth in a 38-page essay warning “wealth concentration will break society.” Each is…

From Gen-Z riots to AI terrorism and delanguaging, it’s going to be a wild ride

Why did Amazon announce another round of mass layoffs? Because why not.

AI keeps consolidating jobs, so mass unemployment might be just around the corner.

PsiQuantum has raised $1bn in a Series E round, dubbed by the Financial Times as the largest funding round for a quantum computing start-up.

Honeywell-controlled Quantinuum, the quantum computer developer, has confirmed its latest funding round of $600m, with Nvida's venture arm among investors.

The first computer system in Europe to achieve exascale threshold was inaugurated in Germany late last week.

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When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel

The AI Agent Revolution and the Future of Human Experience

The controls demonstrated by the Meta Neural Band offer an exciting new answer to the question of how we’ll interact with the tech of the…

Picture this: You wake up tomorrow and your phone is gone. Not broken, not lost — completely unnecessary. Your smart glasses show…

IDC forecasts that the number of people involved in software design will increase from 2025 to 2029—signaling the rising importance of design as a competitive differentiator.

An advanced wearable brain scanner has just arrived in Trinity College Dublin, which uses quantum tech to track changes in the brain network.

Software swag has upped its swag factor. Here’s why wearing your app on your sleeve has gone from cringeworthy to cool.

One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

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What might Windows 12 or even Windows 13 look like? Microsoft CVP David Weston has some ideas, and they strongly revolve around AI.

Dr Mazena Mackoit-Sinkeviciene discusses the rapidly evolving quantum space and the innovations that most excite her.

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Scientists suggest quantum entanglement in myelin sheaths generates consciousness, offering a groundbreaking new perspective on brain function and cognition.

You have every right to fear the future.

Gen Z is, according to Joseph Semrai, losing out on career opportunities in the workplace, due to rapid digitalisation.