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What’s next for AI in 2026

Our AI writers make their big bets for the coming year—here are five hot trends to watch. This story was written by Rhiannon Williams, Will Douglas Heaven, Caiwei Chen, James O'Donnell, Michelle Kim and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com.

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  The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis

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  Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

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  Stratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year

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  How next-generation nuclear reactors break out of the 20th-century bluepri…

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  China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to deal with their aging bat…

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  This Nobel Prize–winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

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  Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens

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  How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet

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  Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory

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  AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

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  How these two brothers became go-to experts on America’s “mystery drone” i…

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  Is this the electric grid of the future?

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  The quest to find out how our bodies react to extreme temperatures

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  How to fix the internet

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  Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow