Turns out Dead Internet Theory was right: AI agents are eating the Web, growing by nearly 8,000% and rewiring the Internet’s business model

SEATTLE, April 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Slalom, the global business and technology consulting company, has entered Q2 2026 with new partner milestones, workplace recognitions, thought leadership launches, and expanded social impact investments. In the first quarter of the year, Slalom earned new recognition from Microsoft and Snowflake, was named a top workplace in multiple…

India also summoned Iran’s senior diplomat in New Delhi on Tuesday to protest after attacks on two commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz killed an Indian seafarer and injured several others. The US military said its five-hour operation struck targets across Iran, including Bushehr and Bandar Abbas, to “degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial…

Researchers at McGill University have developed a new quantum device that generates tiny sound-like particles called phonons at temperatures just above absolute zero. The advance could help pave the way for phonon lasers, a technology with potential uses in communications, medical diagnostics, and advanced sensing. “Modern communication is largely based on light, including electromagnetic waves…

Superconductors could one day help power a new generation of ultra-efficient electronics, but major technical hurdles have kept the technology largely confined to research labs. Now, scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new approach that tackles one of the field’s biggest challenges: maintaining superconductivity at higher temperatures while also resisting…

According to many true-believers, the biggest promise of AI is its potential to accelerate scientific discovery; once-in-a-generation breakthroughs could one day become routine, thanks to algorithms. By extracting patterns from troves of data far too vast for any human mind to fathom, so the thinking goes, AI scientists could eventually help solve some of humanity’s…

In the United States, Google’s (now Alphabet) Debug initiative has asked the federal government for permission to release up to 32 million sterilised male mosquitoes in California and Florida. Male mosquitoes don’t bite or carry disease. The hope is these millions of male mosquitoes will mate with disease-carrying females, the eggs won’t hatch and mosquito…