Trump's defunding of NASA would be catastrophic

"This is probably the most uncertain future NASA has faced, maybe since the end of Apollo," Casey Dreier tells me over the phone. Dreier is the chief of space policy at The Planetary Society [...]

Google’s new framework helps AI agents spend their compute and tool budget more wisely

In a new paper that studies tool-use in large language model (LLM) agents, researchers at Google and UC Santa Barbara have developed a framework that enables agents to make more efficient use of tool [...]

The White House's proposed budget would cancel NASA's Gateway space station project

The Trump administration's preliminary 2026 budget proposes the biggest single-year cut to NASA funding in the agency's 67-year history. The cuts are part of the White House's broader g [...]

ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 1979 Video Chess engine

ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 1979 Video Chess engine. It gave solid advice and explained tactics, but couldn't track the game.<br /> The article ChatGPT lost badly to Atari's 197 [...]

Will AI revolutionise drug development? Researchers say it depends on how it’s used

The potential of using artificial intelligence in drug discovery and development has sparked both excitement and skepticism among scientists, investors and the general public. “Artificial intelligen [...]

Stanford researchers will discuss their agentic 'scientists' that are on course to reshape drug discovery at VB Transform 2026

Drug discovery is notoriously inefficient. Pharmaceutical projects span years, moving from one specialized human team to the next through disconnected workflows that result in knowledge loss during ea [...]

The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down

It's been almost one year since Intuit shut down the popular budgeting app Mint. I was a Mint user for many years; millions of other users like me enjoyed how easily Mint allowed us to track all [...]

Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts

After a tumultuous 2025 that saw it lose around 4,000 employees, NASA finally has an operating budget for 2026, and one that largely preserves its scientific capabilities. On Thursday, the Senate pass [...]

AI coding tools hurt learning unless you ask why, Anthropic study finds

Developers who learn new programming skills with AI assistance score significantly worse on knowledge tests, according to a new Anthropic study that raises concerns about pushing AI integration too ag [...]