
The Conversation - 23 hours 6 min ago
A new mission to save NASA's Swift observatory shows why catching a satellite that was never designed for rescue is one of the hardest jobs in spaceflight.

The Conversation - 23 hours 6 min ago
By identifying the genes and molecules crucial to resistance in American chestnuts and other species, researchers hope to use genomic techniques to breed trees that can flourish in the face of blight.

Ars Technica - 1 day 20 min ago
Ukraine's battlefield surge of robots now features airdrops and beach assaults.

ABC News - 1 day 1 hour ago
France's minister for the environmental transition is stepping down over a controversial pesticide bill...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
If you watch YouTube, it may owe you $100...

Sky News - 1 day 2 hours ago
The UK's largest onshore windfarm is set to double in generating capacity as part of a massive 1.5bn rebuilding project.

Sky News - 1 day 4 hours ago
The wreckage of a Pan Am plane that crashed 74 years ago, and led to safety briefings becoming mandatory on flights, has been found off the coast of Puerto Rico.

ABC News - 1 day 9 hours ago
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company...

Newser - 1 day 10 hours ago
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident," the AP reports. "We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 16 hours ago
Sony Music Entertainment on Monday filed a new lawsuit against AI startup Udio, alleging the company infringed on the copyrights of more than 30,000 recordings.

Observer - 1 day 17 hours ago
Blade CEO Rob Wiesenthal says quieter electric aircraft will open new landing zones and reshape short-haul travel between Manhattan and the Hamptons.

The Atlantic - 1 day 17 hours ago
The new career path for professors: join Anthropic.

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 17 hours ago
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient. There's often a gap between one person's request and another's understanding. Most of the time, we bridge it using general knowledge. For example, if you ask a friend to get you coffee, they'll pour a cup from the pot or buy one from a coffee...

Observer - 1 day 18 hours ago
Daphne Koller built Insitro on a bet against her industry's fastest move.

Newser - 1 day 21 hours ago
A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot. District Judge Araceli Mart nez-Olgu n said in a Monday ruling that the...

The Atlantic - 2 days 35 min ago
The "plunk factor" is getting out of hand.