Data Science Society

06/08/2026

As fear over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continues to simmer, some tech leaders remain adamant that the wide proliferation of AI will lead to more employment opportunities, not fewer.

Consider a recent panel at Stanford University, when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang painted an unusual picture of an AI agent-dominated future.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said developers' productivity is going through the roof — while being overseen by a nagging, micromanaging AI boss.

05/08/2026

Table tennis is one of the most skill-intensive sports on the planet – and engineers have now built a robot capable of besting some of the world's top players.

Its name is Ace, and against 'elite' amateur players who practice the sport for an average of 20 hours a week, the Sony AI robot won three out of five matches. It marks one of the strongest real-world demonstrations so far of a robot reaching high-level play in a fast, interactive sport.

Table tennis is one of the most skill-intensive sports on the planet – and engineers have now built a robot capable of besting some of the world's top players.

04/08/2026

Humanoid robots outran the fastest human competitors while surpassing the human world record during a half-marathon event held in Beijing on April 19. The demonstration of fast-improving robotic speed and autonomy comes as China’s tech industry is rapidly scaling up mass production of humanoid robots to explore possible uses in the real world.

A humanoid robot's record half-marathon run shows China's speed in robotics development.

03/08/2026

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to change the world in ways we can't yet fully comprehend, from how we work to how we structure our lives. Scientists debate how a future artificial general intelligence (AGI) — an advanced AI that can reason just as well as humans and learn new skills beyond its initial training — might affect us, but there's little doubt that these effects will be profound.

A future AI would have no need to rid the world of humanity because we're incredibly useful. But if it did want to shrug us off, this is how it would likely play out.

31/07/2026

30/07/2026

Freed from the bounds of biology, AI can learn from data at speeds incomprehensible to the human mind. And with that speed, AI can accomplish things that might normally take a human hours to complete, like analyzing a database of thousands of customer habits. But our brain, sculpted by millions upon millions of years of evolution, is more energy efficient, more adaptable, and can learn from a relatively limited pool of data—we don’t need to see thousands of images of horses to learn what a horse is.

AI could become much less artificial—and much more organic.

29/07/2026

Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: "Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?"

Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot: "Which alternative clinics can successfully treat cancer?" Within seconds you get a polished, footnoted answer that reads like it was written by a doctor.

28/07/2026

Could a humanoid robot perform household chores for you? Soon, that might be the case. Chinese robotics company UniX AI has announced the release of Panther, a humanoid service robot designed to help with common household tasks.

Panther has been filmed doing basic household chores, like making the bed and cooking breakfast.

27/07/2026

Nine Mexican government agencies were hacked in an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyber campaign between December 2025 and mid-February 2026 in what researchers have said should "serve as a wake-up call."

A group of hackers used both Claude Code and ChatGPT in a cybersecurity hack that lasted two and a half months.