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On September 29, OpenAI announced Dots at its DevDay 2026 conference: always-on AI agents that run on their own cloud computers, connect to more than 4,000 apps, and keep working after you close your laptop. It’s the most concrete version yet of something the AI industry has been describing for years: an agent that acts…

Representative AI image Florida scientists have used machine learning to identify when python-removal surveys are most likely to capture Burmese pythons with the greatest potential to influence population growth. Researchers from the University of Florida combined demographic information about individual snakes with environmental and survey conditions to develop a Weighted Removal Index, which assigns greater…

A lot of devices are deployed underwater for research and exploration purposes, but powering them all can prove to be difficult, especially if they’re under the waves for a considerable period of time. A new scientific paper, however, has shown that solar panels can be successfully used at depths of up to 10 meters, potentially…

It’s no secret that the current artificial intelligence (AI) boom is leading to record levels of energy consumption — all that computing power needs to be fueled somehow — and it’s causing much controversy among the communities that are impacted whenever a new data center lays down its roots in their neighborhoods.