How an Oregon court became the stage for a $115,000 showdown between Meta and Facebook creators

Some of the most successful creators on Facebook aren't names you'd ever recognize. In fact, many of their pages don't have a face or recognizable persona attached. Instead, they run pa [...]

NASA's Perseverance rover finds potential signs of ancient life on Mars

NASA just announced that its Perseverance rover recently found some promising signs of ancient life on Mars. The rover obtained a sample of rock formed billions of years ago from sediment and there ar [...]

Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?

Interpreting the data is tricky because other non-biological processes could account for the findings. [...]

Apple seeks AI researchers for reasoning - despite its own skepticism

Apple recently published a widely discussed study revealing major weaknesses in current reasoning models. Now, the company is hiring for exactly this area.<br /> The article Apple seeks AI resea [...]

Tesla’s FSD rollout in Europe runs into the regulator scepticism Musk has been projecting through

Elon Musk’s public confidence about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving rollout in Europe is, on the available evidence, not shared by the European regulators who would actually have to approve it. Reuters [...]

Anthropic's planned mega-IPO faces investor skepticism over Chinese rivals and political headwinds

Anthropic is preparing an IPO for September or October, according to the Wall Street Journal, potentially the largest ever. During investor meetings, the company, valued at $965 billion, is fielding t [...]

Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof.

A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constrai [...]

What’s going on with Donut Lab?

In January, a Finnish-Estonian startup proclaimed it had developed a truly solid state battery, a holy grail for the technology industry. Donut Labs’ cell wasn’t just solid state, however. It clai [...]

Latest Webb telescope image shows a cosmic phenomenon called an 'Einstein ring'

The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, pictured above, also happens to be a stunning illustration of Einstein's theory of general relativity. So much so that the cosmic ph [...]