The latest developments in artificial intelligence, ethics, and digital society.
The cryptographic substrate of digital civilisation is on a known retirement schedule. The question is who is in the room when the standards are set. U.S. National Institute Read more…
When quantum methods get embedded inside the everyday toolchain of engineers, the social meaning of the technology changes overnight. Quantinuum + bp · Quantinuum + Synopsys · 19–20 Read more…
Eighty years after ENIAC, a Penn lab demonstrates all-light switching at four quadrillionths of a joule — and the redistribution-of-power case for photonic AI. University of Pennsylvania · Read more…
Five universities, a quiet refusal of the prevailing tempo, and a wager on the quantum-AI hybrid future of scientific discovery. Google Quantum AI & Google.org · 11 May Read more…
A Stanford team has published the first credible signal that quantum infrastructure could one day belong to publics, not only to platforms. Stanford University · Nature Communications · Read more…
In the last weeks of May 2026, four announcements quietly redrew the map of what AI will become. None of them is the news you have been told Read more…
AI News · May 2026 If a single phrase captures the mood of artificial intelligence in 2026, it is the quiet shift from tool to partner. For several years the dominant Read more…
A landmark paper by HCI researchers proposes a unified framework for the next generation of AI — one that learns alongside humans, not just from them. Artificial Intelligence Read more…
Understanding a problem is not the same as solving it. The world does not lack people who can articulate the risks of unguided AI. It lacks the institutional Read more…
