Mona Sloane’s debut book, “Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life,” examines how artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping society through what she calls the “prediction paradigm.” The University of Virginia sociologist argues that AI should be understood not as an inevitable technological force, but as social infrastructure that people can collectively govern and reshape. Published by University of California Press, the book explores AI’s influence on everyday social relations, policy, and public life.

The new data storage technology is up to 30 times more radiation-resilient than current data storage.

NIMS developed TEGNet (Thermoelectric Generator Neural Network), a neural network for designing thermoelectric generators by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI). TEGNet can predict performance of a power generator, a process which used to take enormous computational time with traditional simulation techniques, with only about 1/10,000 of the time conventionally needed, while maintaining over 99% accuracy. This technology significantly accelerates optimization from material development to device design, and is expected to be applied to waste heat recovery and stand-alone power supply for IoT sensors, for example. This research result was published in Nature at 11:00 U.S. Eastern Standard Time, April 15, 2026 (0:00 Japan Standard Time, April 16, 2026).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Glowbug-2 instrument successfully launched on board the Department of War (DoW) Space Test Program – Houston 11 (STP-H11) payload at approximately 6:05 p.m. EDT on May 15, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla.

Open-source AI agent ChatCPR beat human dispatchers at CPR coaching in every head-to-head test, delivering guideline-based help that could save lives in the 350,000+ U.S. out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year.