A new fire-extinguishing hydrogel completely eliminates PFAS, the “forever chemicals” in traditional foams. With the EU implementing restrictions and a total ban proposed, this clay-based alternative could change fire safety.
Mozilla has named Laura Enzor-DeMeo, the former general manager of Firefox, as its new CEO. The move comes as the company pushes to integrate AI features into its flagship browser under her leadership.
The shift from AI coding assistants to autonomous agents is hitting a wall in enterprises. According to a new analysis, the failure isn’t due to model capability but a critical lack of structured context and redesigned workflows. Success requires treating context as an engineered system.
Google is testing a new feature that turns your earbuds into a real-time interpreter. It’s a step toward sci-fi dreams, but with real-world limits. The feature supports 70 languages and is expanding to iOS in 2026.
A backstage look at five 2025 Uncommon Thinkers honorees reveals groundbreaking work in space logistics, AI drug design, decentralized social media, AI agents, and toxic waste destruction. The common thread? A pragmatic, steward-minded approach to solving huge problems.
A bipartisan commission warns China is closing in on dominating biotechnology, putting US health and national security at risk. The solution, argues former ambassador Gary Locke, isn’t just more funding—it’s fixing a broken patent system that’s stifling American innovation.
A new approach called P4 programming is letting companies redefine network hardware on the fly. It’s catching transaction delays traditional monitoring misses and moving security directly into servers.
Merchants are losing an estimated $50 billion to wrongly declined orders. A new report details how fragmented fraud tools are creating friction and failure, pushing the industry toward unified “fraud orchestration” platforms to fight back.
Google is finally giving its highest-paying AI customers a reason to subscribe. NotebookLM, its AI research assistant, now offers exclusive, massively expanded limits for users on the $200-per-month AI Ultra plan.
Google announced a major upgrade to its Gemini Deep Research agent, built on Gemini 3 Pro. The launch was strategically timed against OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 release, highlighting the intense, tactical battle in the AI agent space.
