1. TIME지 선정 2026년 가장 영향력 있는 AI 100인 (TIME100 AI)기술의 일상화와 거시적 패권 다툼: AI가 단순한 흥미를 넘어 업무와 지식 탐색의 메인 프레임으로 안착한 가운데, xAI의 상장 추진, 데이터센터 확충, 지정학적 갈등이 복합적으로 작용.혁신 리더군과 비판적 진영의 첨예한 대립: Dario Amodei, Larry Ellison, 양즈린 등 프론티어 리더들과 함께 슈퍼지능 개발 중단을 촉구하는 정치권, 노동계, 문화계의 견제 목소리가 결합.미디어 저널리즘 및 글로벌 공론장 확장: AI가 재편하는 사회 구조를 밀착 취재하기 위해 취재진을 워싱턴 D.C., 런던, 샌프란시스코로 확장하고...

We started the TIME100 AI three years ago with the goal of determining who were the most influential leaders in artificial intelligence, knowing that such a list would serve as a guide for our readers seeking to understand a booming field. Since then, if your experience with AI is anything like mine, the technology has gone from a curiosity to a constant in how we work and organize our lives. It’s become a primary way the world seeks out knowledge.The activity in AI has been explosive and divisive, filled with big promises and big fears. Th...

Hugging Face has unveiled the Microduck, a small open-source robot designed to make physical AI more accessible to developers and researchers.Developed with French robotics company Pollen Robotics, the duck-shaped robot is priced at $399 and is expected to begin shipping before Christmas.The Microduck can be programmed and trained by developers, with its software, simulation tools and reinforcement-learning stack made available for experimentation and further development.The launch adds another low-cost hardware platform to Hugging Face’s g...

The share of Americans who say they drink alcohol remains at a record-low 54% for the second consecutive year, the lowest reading in Gallup’s trend dating back to 1939.54% of U.S. adults say they drink alcohol, matching last year’s low13% say they sometimes drink too much, also a record low17% of Americans have substituted nonalcoholic beverages for alcoholSelf-reported drinking fell over the previous three years, from 62% in 2023 to 58% in 2024 and 54% in 2025, before holding steady this year. Gallup based the latest results on interviews...

‘Collapsible scissored surfaces’ complete trilogy of metamaterial design principles.Over the past decade, Professor L. Mahadevan’s Soft Math Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has helped establish how the ancient Japanese paper arts of folding or cutting can be used to inverse design structures that transform dramatically in shape and function.Now, the researchers have created a new class of shape-changing matter, based not on folds or cuts, but linkages — networks of interconnected sciss...

Many research teams have been exploring ways to passively monitor people’s movements, which could be used in rehabilitation or improving interactions between humans and robotic systems. However, these systems often require a lot of power or interfere with a person’s natural movement, making it challenging to find a solution that works well outside of laboratory conditions.In a recent study, one team in India tested a motion-sensing system that is easily incorporated on top of a person’s clothing, requires very little power, and offers hig...

Despite the tech industry’s conviction that the rise of AI is an inflection point that will change the course of humanity, many humans remain skeptic whether the new direction we’re headed in is the right one. The pace at which AI seems to be taking over parts of our lives, whether we like it or not, is especially worrisome to many.In a recent Statista Consumer Insights survey, 31 percent of U.S. respondents said that they were worried about the speed at which AI is developing and 25 percent of respondents claimed to be avoiding AI whereve...

You get light from above. You get wind from above too. So at some point, somebody was bound to ask the obvious next question, why not sound from above as well? Ceiling fans have spent years quietly doing side quests with built-in lamps, remote controls, and the occasional smart feature, but this feels like the first time one has aimed for proper living room territory. The lamp-plus-fan combo has always felt like a polite upgrade to an appliance nobody was particularly excited about.WindGroove’s AirFi One takes that idea and runs with it, fo...

MONTHLY TREND REPORT - September. 2026 Edition Released !TRENDBIRD (What's the Next Big Thing ?) is a Global Trend Sensing & Market Intelligence Service that Instantly Delivers Industry Expert Information on Emerging Trends & Future Business Opportunities from Around the World, Always Ahead of The Curve." Executive Summary & Key Insights1. 비즈니스 및 전략 트렌드 (Business & Strategy) ▸AI 전환의 성패가 '기술 구매'에서 '조직 실행'으로: 기술 1:프로세스 3:인적 역량 5의 배분을 제시한 McKinsey와 성공의 70%를 사람/조직에 둔 BCG의...