Japanese company Kawasaki Heavy Industries has begun sales of the first commercial gas engine capable of operating on a fuel mix containing up to 30% hydrogen blended with natural gas. The new design is offered with a warranty and retrofit options for existing installations, which could accelerate industrial adoption of hydrogen as a transitional fuel across multiple energy sectors.
The U.S. Department of Defense has been actively lobbying leading artificial-intelligence companies — including OpenAI and Anthropic — to allow their AI tools to be deployed on secret, classified military networks without the standard usage restrictions applied to civilian customers. The move is intended to extend the integration of advanced generative-AI systems across all levels of military operations — including the most sensitive ones.
Ukrainian engineers have developed and tested a new laser-based counter-drone system known as Sunray, which is intended to provide an effective response to small unmanned aerial threats at a much lower cost than comparable Western systems. Work on the solution has been under way for several years and forms part of a broader wave of innovation in Ukraine’s air-defence capabilities.
YouTube has always presented itself as a vast library of human experience: tutorials, vlogs, explainers, music, children’s stories, news. But in 2025–2026, this library rapidly developed an extension that resembles a vending machine for text and images: press a button — get a video. This wave is increasingly being called AI slop, or “neuroslop”: content that looks like a video “about something,” but is in fact assembled from templates, repetitions, and crude but effective attention-holding tricks. It isn’t necessarily malicious. It’s simply abundant, cheap, and surprisingly sticky.
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.
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.
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.
AI models for healthcare are proliferating, but most never leave the labs. Real-world deployment is far more complicated than any multiple-choice graduate exam – hospitals use different systems, data formats, and security protocols that resist standardization. Kaapana, an open-source platform developed at the German Cancer Research Center, addresses translation barriers by providing standardized infrastructure for medical AI research.
Android Auto users are reporting a growing number of problems with the built-in voice assistant, particularly when trying to use Gemini Live, the newest AI feature in the in-car interface.
Nvidia announced on Monday the launch of Earth-2, a new family of open AI models, libraries, and tools designed to make advanced weather and climate forecasting accessible to a broader research, business, and government community.