Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it. [...]

Webb telescope spots a new moon orbiting Uranus

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to bear fruit. Images captured by the floating watchtower revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. The discovery, made on February 2, increas [...]

Dr. Gladys West, whose mathematical models inspired GPS, dies at 95

Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has passed away at the age of 95. Her name may not be familiar to you, but her contributions certainly are; West's work laid the foundation for the global [...]

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 is here: what enterprises need to know

The rumors were true, and the "Code Red" is over: OpenAI today announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family: GPT-5.2.It comes at a pivotal moment for the AI pi [...]

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

Congressional Democrats host scientists whose grants have been canceled. [...]

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope launched into orbit by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

NASA's SPHEREx observatory is now in space for a two year year mission to create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky. The telescope left the ground on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad [...]

NASA resurrects its VIPER moon rover for a 2027 mission with Blue Origin

NASA is apparently giving its ice-scouting moon rover mission another try. The space agency has announced that the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) project — which was called [...]