Study finds humans will talk to AI ghosts of the dead as reincarnations, and it’s pretty grim

CU Boulder’s first AI ghost study found unanimous preference for first-person simulations of the dead, with every participant saying they’d come back.

China’s UBTech unveils eerily lifelike companion robots, and yes, they want to move in with you

UBTech’s new Uworld U1 humanoid robots are designed to live alongside people, learning routines, recognizing emotions, and holding natural conversations. The company even envisions customized versions that can recreate a person’s face and voice.

This $249 LED sign wants to fix your work-life balance

The Busy Bar display will finally go on sale in July. It looks irresistibly productive, but $249 is just too much

FAA clears the runway for Mach flights that could cut travel times nearly in half

The FAA has announced new proposed rules to enable supersonic passenger flights in the U.S., paving the way for aircraft that could cut travel times nearly in half.

NotebookLM’s 60-second videos turned my doomscrolling curse into something useful

What if the same 60 seconds you spend doomscrolling could help you ace a test instead? NotebookLM’s newest feature makes a pretty convincing case.

You can now generate images with Gemini’s memory without paying a dime

Gemini’s most personal image generator is no longer locked behind a subscription. If you’re in the U.S., your AI art just got a whole lot more familiar for free.

Meta’s Brain2Qwerty v2 turns thoughts into text, and it doesn’t need brain implants

Meta has unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that converts brain activity into text without surgery, bringing assistive communication a step closer to reality.

AI chatbots can often feed into your delusions. Researchers say you should look for three signs

Researchers have proposed a new framework explaining how AI chatbots can reinforce delusional thinking, highlighting three behaviors that may create an “amplification spiral.”

Lost access to your crypto wallet? Don’t Google your way out of it

A new scam is targeting cryptocurrency owners by disguising malware as wallet recovery software for forgotten seed phrases.

Chinese AI lab says it can match Anthropic’s all-poweful Claude Mythos at sniffing security bugs

The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s GLM-5.2 AI model can match Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity tasks, signaling a rapidly narrowing AI gap.