2025-10-07

Google's Michel Devoret is one of the 2025 winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Google's Chief Scientist of Quantum Hardware the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside former Google employee John Martinis, and University of Califor [...]

2025-04-02

McDonald's Minecraft Meals Hot Take: Go for the Toys, Stay for the Flame Sauce

Commentary: I tried the Minecraft-themed McNuggets sauce. It might just be the hottest sauce Mickey D's has ever offered. [...]

2025-06-03

Deepmind's "force prompting" lets AI create realistic video motion without physics engines

A team from Brown University and Deepmind has found that generative video models can produce realistic motion when prompted with artificial forces, without needing 3D models or physics engines.<br [...]

2025-07-21

AI training shifts from clickworkers to experts in physics, biology and engineering

Instead of relying on low-cost clickworkers, companies like Scale AI, Toloka, and Turing are now turning to highly skilled experts in fields like physics, biology, software engineering, and finance.&l [...]

2025-09-30

OpenAI unveils Sora 2 video model with realistic physics, high-quality audio, and a new social app

OpenAI's new Sora 2 model pushes AI video closer to the mainstream, adding more realistic physics, better control, and, for the first time, high-quality audio. The launch also includes a Sora iOS [...]

2025-11-23

Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 still fail at complex physics tasks designed for real scientific research

A new physics benchmark called "CritPt" puts leading AI models to the test at the level of early-stage PhD research. The results show that even top systems like Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5 still [...]

2025-12-10

Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same.

A San Francisco-based startup has demonstrated what it calls a breakthrough in hardware development: an artificial intelligence system that designed a fully functional Linux computer in one week — a [...]

2025-04-07

Review: McDonald's Minecraft Meals Feature The Hottest Nugget Sauce We've Ever Had

Commentary: Here's our review of the Minecraft Happy Meals and Minecraft Movie Meals. You've got a month to get them. [...]

2025-04-17

NTT Research Launches New Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group at Harvard

When a parent is teaching their young child to relate to the world, they teach through associations and the identification of patterns. Take the letter S, for example. Parents show their child enough [...]