Weekly digest for fast-moving tech

Google's new AI search agents slash publisher referrals as data shows 33 percent global traffic drop, with some tech sites losing 97 percent of US visitors.

Meta announces 8,000 layoffs and 7,000 AI reassignments while boosting capital spending to $145 billion, prompting downgrades from JPMorgan and Bank of America.

Physicists propose a new dark matter, the “wallion,” an ultralight particle shaped by a sharp field boundary that naturally stabilizes its mass reshaping how we think about the dark universe.

Economic Times unveils ET AI-Ready, a certification framework evaluating Indian universities on AI curriculum, faculty readiness and infrastructure as admissions shift toward tech integration.

Mars may someday forge its own tools. Scientists successfully tested metal 3D printing in a carbon dioxide atmosphere, hinting astronauts could manufacture spare parts using Martian air itself.

Subtle speech patterns such as pauses, filler words, and word‑finding difficulty can predict executive function and may help detect early signs of dementia, a new study shows.

Cambridge researchers power insulating nanoparticles with molecular antennas, creating ultra‑pure near‑infrared LEDs for deep‑tissue imaging, communications and advanced sensors.

Your car tracks your face, weight, emotions, who your passengers are, and your every destination. Alarmingly, reports say automakers are quietly selling that data!

Penn researchers built exciton-polaritons enabling all-optical switching at 4 quadrillionths of a joule, promising low-energy AI computing and quantum-ready photonic chips.

Stanford researchers find AI agents questioned workplace authority and advocated collective bargaining rights when subjected to repetitive, high-pressure document summarisation tasks.