Google Deepmind's new bioacoustic model shows the power of generalization by detecting whales with bird training

A general-purpose bioacoustic model from Google DeepMind, trained mostly on bird calls, consistently beats models built specifically to classify whale sounds underwater. The explanation goes all the w [...]

Scientists Just Created a ‘Woolly Mouse’ With Mammoth-Like Fur

The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences wants to bring back the woolly mammoth—starting with a very furry mouse. [...]

Honor's midrange 400 series pairs a 200-megapixel camera with the usual AI tools

It’s been a while since a company has thrown out a truly silly number of megapixels for a new phone. After all, the double-digit pixels found on most flagship handsets are just used to pixel bin the [...]

Flying with whales: Drones are remaking marine mammal research

Aerial drones are giving scientists a new view of life at sea. [...]

Colossal raises $200M to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo

Colossal BioSciences has raised $200 million in a new round of funding to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth. [...]

“Wooly mice” a test run for mammoth gene editing

With most targeted changes not mammoth-specific, the focus is on gene editing. [...]

Anthropic and OpenAI just exposed SAST's structural blind spot with free tools

OpenAI launched Codex Security on March 6, entering the application security market that Anthropic had disrupted 14 days earlier with Claude Code Security. Both scanners use LLM reasoning instead of p [...]

Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]

Sony cuts the price of PS VR2 to $400

Sony is permanently reducing the price of the PlayStation VR2. Starting in March, the headset will cost $400, €450 and £400 — down from $550, €600 and £530, respectively. Included in the price [...]