Author: Mikolaj Laszkiewicz

SpaceX is changing the order of its long-term exploration goals and will focus first on building permanent infrastructure on the Moon, postponing its ambitions for Mars to a later stage. The new direction was publicly confirmed by Elon Musk, who explained that the Moon offers a realistic chance to build a self-sustaining base much faster than Mars.

A new online platform, RentAHuman.ai, allows autonomous artificial-intelligence agents to recruit real people to carry out tasks that AI cannot perform on its own — from simple shopping and parcel collection to unusual requests and activities in the physical world. The service, which has already attracted tens of thousands of people willing to work, may signal a new stage in human–AI interaction.

Global equity markets suffered sharp losses on Wednesday after technology companies unveiled huge investment plans for artificial intelligence infrastructure, triggering investor concerns about profitability and the long-term sustainability of such spending. As a result, the combined market value of major Big Tech firms has fallen by more than $1 trillion over the past week, with shares of companies such as Amazon and Oracle coming under particularly strong pressure.

Perplexity has announced a new feature called Model Council, which allows users to query multiple advanced AI models simultaneously and receive a single, synthesized result highlighting both agreements and disagreements between the models. The new tool is primarily designed to support research, in-depth analysis, and strategic decision-making.

The world’s largest battery manufacturer may be about to trigger the large-scale adoption of sodium-ion batteries in electric passenger vehicles. The development of this technology is expected to improve EV costs and performance in the near future, particularly in challenging climate conditions.

A group of U.S. senators has introduced an amendment to online child-protection legislation that would require accounts belonging to users under the age of 18 on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram to be set to private by default.

YouTube is rolling out a restriction that prevents background video playback in third-party mobile browsers, even when users rely on Picture-in-Picture mode. The change mainly affects people who access YouTube through mobile web browsers instead of the official app — and may push them toward installing the native app or subscribing to YouTube Premium.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that it will release hundreds of millions of sterile, fluorescent New World screwworm flies along the Texas–Mexico border to maintain a barrier preventing the parasitic fly from spreading north. The move comes in response to a growing outbreak in Mexico and the serious threat the pest poses to livestock, the agricultural economy, and public health.

The full results of the first randomized controlled trial show that the use of artificial intelligence in screening mammography leads to the detection of fewer advanced and aggressive breast cancers, suggesting that AI may improve the quality of early diagnosis and potentially reduce the number of advanced-stage cases.

A US federal vaccine advisory committee has announced that it will re-assess all existing vaccination recommendations. Statements from its new chair have triggered strong reactions from the public-health community, which warns that a shift in the committee’s operating philosophy could accelerate declines in vaccination coverage and increase outbreaks of infectious diseases in the United States.