Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly clashes

June 23, 2026
India is home to about 60% of the world’s wild Asian elephants, and around 80% of the animals’ habitat lies outside protected areas, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. That brings people and wildlife into close contact, and clashes can turn lethal: There have been some 3,000 human casualties in the…

The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

June 23, 2026
Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine.  It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is the size of a double-decker bus—more than 150 tons of gleaming precision-milled aluminum covered in thousands of snaking tubes, colored cables, and pressurized tanks. From the ground, it looks like a…

The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

June 22, 2026
The loop takes agentic AI a step further, by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.