Death of 'sweet king': AI chatbots linked to teen tragedy
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 05:41
A chatbot from one of Silicon Valley's hottest AI startups called a 14-year-old "sweet king" and pleaded with him to "come home" in passionate exchanges that would be the teen's last communications before he took his own life.
Megan Garcia's son, Sewell, had fallen in love with a "Game of Thrones"-inspired chatbot on Character.AI, a platform that allows users - many of them young people - Google to invest $15 bn in India, build largest AI hub outside US
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 05:41
Google said Tuesday it will invest $15 billion in India over the next five years, as it announced a giant data centre and artificial intelligence base in the country.
"It is the largest AI hub that we are investing in anywhere outside of the US," Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said at a ceremony in New Delhi.
Demand for AI tools and solutions is surging among businesses and individuals i Light-driven control of topological structures unlocks new path for ultrafast memory
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 05:41
In a breakthrough uniting photonics and condensed matter physics, researchers have developed a new optical technique to precisely control topological solitons - including skyrmions and antiskyrmions - inside ferroelectric materials. The discovery could pave the way for next-generation ultrafast memory and logic devices.
The study, published in Physical Review B, was led by scientists from SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on successful test flight
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 01:10
SpaceX's massive Starship rocket soared through Texas's golden-hour skies Monday before splashing down successfully, as the US company vies to silence critics who doubt Elon Musk's startup can deliver NASA's lunar projects on time.
In its 11th test voyage, the enormous rocket took off Monday from Space X's south Texas launch facilities just after 6:25pm local time (2325 GMT), according to a Europe cannot let US, China be 'technological leaders': Nobel laureate Aghion
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 01:10
One of the winners of this year's Nobel economics prize, France's Philippe Aghion, on Monday warned Europe that it must not let the United States and China dominate technological innovation.
Aghion shared the Nobel with American-Israeli Joel Mokyr and Canada's Peter Howitt for work on technology's impact on sustained economic growth.
"I think European countries have to realise that we sh Five things to know about Australia's critical minerals
Tuesday, 14 October 2025 01:10
Australia is pushing to lock in a critical minerals deal with the United States, dangling access to its vast reserves as an alternative to China.
China dominates the production of metals used in everything from solar panels to precision missiles - and has threatened to strangle supplies as it fights a festering trade war with Washington.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travel Starship successfully completes 11th flight test
Monday, 13 October 2025 23:52
SpaceX successfully completed the final flight of version 2 of Starship on Oct.
Surprise Chinese launch sends Shiyan-31 experimental satellite into orbit
Monday, 13 October 2025 20:48
More layoffs at JPL
Monday, 13 October 2025 17:48
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lay off 550 employees this week, the latest round of job cuts at the space science center.
SpaceX to launch Starship test flight Monday
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Connecting science from sea to space
Monday, 13 October 2025 12:02
Doing science at sea is no easy endeavour. Add racing across oceans and heading to a UN conference , and the complexity multiplies. This summer, thanks to satellite connectivity from Eutelsat’s low Earth orbit constellation, OneWeb and the support from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the UK Space Agency, the Kaïros’ We Explore catamaran sailed smarter, safer, and more sustainably on its journey to the UN Ocean Conference in Nice.
Special economic zones for restoring American space dominance
Monday, 13 October 2025 12:00
Momentus and Solstar to offer communications, transportation and infrastructure in low-Earth orbit
Monday, 13 October 2025 11:00
BRISBANE, Australia – Momentus and Solstar Space announced a three-year agreement Oct. 13 to expand communications, transportation and infrastructure services for government and commercial missions in low-Earth orbit.
JAXA to launch tech demo satellites on Electron rockets
Monday, 13 October 2025 10:52
The Japanese space agency JAXA has selected Rocket Lab to launch a set of technology demonstration satellites on Electron rockets after continued delays with a Japanese launch vehicle.