AI & Society
MIT CSAIL researchers report that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can read and edit another neural network's weights directly, with no training. One edit to 0.016% of a small Qwen model stopped it looping and lifted its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1%.
Space
After almost 22 years and a failed robotic rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory burned up over Sumatra on November 4, 2026. Now NASA is asking industry how to boost, service or safely retire Hubble before drag brings it down around 2033-34.
AI & Society
From Project CETI's sperm whale "vowels" to Google's DolphinGemma and elephants that call each other by name, AI is finally helping us hear what animals say. Here's what has been decoded, what hasn't, and how far we are from a real two-way conversation.
AI
Thinking Machines' 594B-parameter Inkling 2 Small scores 31 on Artificial Analysis' index, matching Gemini 3.8 Flash at low cost. But it trails the closed frontier, uses many tokens, and its Apache 2.0 weights are still a promise.
Technology
Headsets already fool our eyes and ears. Now labs and startups are going after touch and smell, the last senses keeping us anchored to the real world. Here's how close we actually are, and what changes when the line between playing and living disappears.
Space
The Mars launch window is open and no Starship is going. A full audit of what a human civilization on Mars would take: the engineering problems and whether they're solvable, a global dream team, the real budget, and what daily life would feel like.
AI
For years the AI industry assumed bigger is always better. Liquid AI's compact, adaptive Liquid Foundation Models challenge that Transformer playbook and aim to put capable AI on every device.
AI & Society
Between August and October 2026, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, SpaceXAI and a wave of startups shipped AI agents that work on their own cloud computers and act inside your accounts. Here is how they work, what people use them for, and what can go wrong.
Physics
After a 42-year hunt, CERN's LHCb experiment has the first single-experiment evidence that B-zero mesons decay into two muons, about once in ten billion times. The rate matches the Standard Model, and that tells physicists where new particles can and cannot hide.