AI weed tech could cut herbicides, but the costs are steep
A new University of Mississippi and Cornell review finds precision weed tools can replace chemicals and labor, yet adoption comes with serious financial and operational hurdles.

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A new University of Mississippi and Cornell review finds precision weed tools can replace chemicals and labor, yet adoption comes with serious financial and operational hurdles.
A federal judge tossed the case on procedural grounds after Ann Altman missed a medical exam and deadlines, clearing a legal overhang for OpenAI's chief.
A 10,000-person study finds standard antidepressants often fail these patients, but melatonin and morning sunlight may hit the real root cause.
The next Starship test flight targets a first for orbital launch: catching both the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage with the launch tower's chopstick arms.
Sarandos concedes the streamer's biggest market is underperforming, just as Netflix replaces its content chief and film head.
Thore Graepel, who helped build DeepMind's AlphaGo, is applying game-winning search techniques to general reasoning. His warning: LLMs can't be trusted to reason.
Musk says the launch tower will try to grab the returning booster, aiming to make history by recovering an entire orbital launch vehicle for the first time.
Astrolab's FLIP rover will test HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 at the lunar south pole, a milestone for edge computing, autonomous navigation and the commercial moon economy.
The Hunger Games and John Wick owner is now in play, with activist pressure mounting and a $3.6 billion market cap on the table.
AI meeting notetaker lands $320M to chase enterprise deals and global expansion.
Muse's fast start puts it in rare company - and early data shows users stick around longer than ChatGPT or Gemini.
A thousand researchers are publicly refusing AI tools, and the reason is a warning for every company betting on AI-generated answers.