2025-10-01

Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]

2025-10-01

Orionids Is Set to Haunt the Sky in October: How and When to See These Meteors

This meteor shower is noted for its bright, fast meteors that leave trails that can linger in the sky for a few minutes. [...]

2025-10-01

Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters

Giant sloths are extinct in part because they were tasty and nutritious. [...]

2025-10-01

Saturn’s ocean moon looks more hospitable to subsurface life than we thought

Mars isn't our only neighbor that may harbor life. The odds have risen that Saturn's moon Enceladus may, too. On Wednesday, scientists published a paper outlining the increasing complexity o [...]

2025-10-01

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

With the agency no longer collecting emissions data from polluting companies, attention is turning to whether climate NGOs have the tools—and legal right—to fulfill this EPA function. [...]

2025-09-30

Scientists unlock secret to Venus flytrap’s hair-trigger response

Ion channel at base of plant's sensory hairs amplifies initial signals above critical threshold. [...]

2025-09-30

This browser-based AI wants to kill the worst part of your job

Composite, a startup that turns web browsers into intelligent automation engines, has raised $5.6 million in seed funding to eliminate what its founders call the "digital grunt work" plaguin [...]

2025-09-30

Scientists Made Human Eggs from Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be used to address infertility. [...]

2025-09-30

Researchers find a carbon-rich moon-forming disk around giant exoplanet

Lots of carbon molecules but little sign of water in a super-Jupiter's disk. [...]