A four-month-old startup just raised $650 million to build AI that improves itself

  The idea that an AI system could improve itself, then use those improvements to improve itself again, faster, in an accelerating loop that eventually outpaces every human researcher on earth, has b [...]

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms. [...]

Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype

Study suggests "the bias is real but socially constructed, rather than grounded in how women actually sound." [...]

Trump's Federal Gas Tax Holiday Isn't Likely to Bring Down Prices

Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads. [...]

Build a Radio Wave Detector With Balls of Aluminum Foil!

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless. [...]

Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane

New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI [...]

Making cement from a different type of rock could clean up emissions

Limestone might not be the only source for Portland cement. [...]

Casimir force co-opted to generate free energy, midichlorians not included

The vacuum giveth, the vacuum taketh, but the vacuum doesn’t let you taketh. [...]

Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations

One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media. [...]