Peter Thiel is utterly wrong about Alzheimer's

The New York Times ran a lengthy interview this morning between columnist Ross Douthat and venture capitalist and PayPal founder Peter Thiel. There's a reason it was published in the opinion sect [...]

'47 Ronin' director found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million

A director who was charged with defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars has been found guilty, Business Insider reports. Carl Rinsch, director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie 47 Ronin, now faces [...]

Most Frequently Asked Questions About NFTs(Non-Fungible Tokens)

 Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the most popular digital assets today, capturing the attention of cryptocurrency investors, whales and people from around the world. People find it amazing that some u [...]

NIH scientists publish “Bethesda Declaration” rebuking Trump admin

The letter is modeled after the NIH director's controversial "Great Barrington Declaration." [...]

OpenAI's chief scientist says AI progress has been "surprisingly slow" and promises big leaps ahead

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, and the company's leadership says the real breakthroughs are still ahead. Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki expects "extremely significant improvements" in the [...]

ChatGPT and reasoning model expert becomes Chief Scientist at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs

Meta has hired Shengjia Zhao, a key developer of ChatGPT, as Chief Scientist of its new Meta Superintelligence Labs.<br /> The article ChatGPT and reasoning model expert becomes Chief Scientist [...]

IBM announces Nighthawk and Loon quantum chips

IBM has introduced two different quantum chips that it believes could help demonstrate "quantum advantage," or the ability for a quantum computer to solve a problem faster than a classical c [...]

Meta's Chief AI Scientist is leaving the company after 12 years

One of Meta's top AI researchers, Yann LeCun, is leaving after 12 years with the company to found his own AI startup, he announced. LeCun, who is also a professor at New York University, joined t [...]

Chinese humanoid robot maker UBTech is offering $18M to hire a chief AI scientist

UBTech’s salary range for Chief Scientist of Embodied Intelligence runs from $2.2M to $18M. The Shenzhen company’s humanoid robot revenue grew twenty-fold last year. Bloomberg calls the offer unus [...]