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AI cracked an Erdős math problem. Now experts want guardrails
The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.
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Mysterious signals keep coming from space: Astronomers find their 'Rosetta stone'
A pair of stars spiraling around each other. That's the origin of a new source of repeating radio bursts we've detected, called ASKAP J1745. In recent …
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Pioneering grid battery nudges California closer to 24/7 clean energy
The Tumbleweed installation just went online in Kern County. It can store clean energy and discharge it for eight hours straight, a harbinger of …
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FERC approves SPP non-firm, large load transmission service
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Friday approved the Southwest Power Pool’s proposal for providing transmission service to data centers …
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I Tested All 4 of Microsoft's New AI Models. Here's the Brutal Truth
Microsoft says its new MAI models revealed at Build 2026 are the future. After testing them, I'm not convinced they're ready for that …
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US space firm Blue Origin just extracted oxygen from Moon dust. Here's why it could transform spaceflight
Blue Origin has announced a significant step towards sustainable space exploration. The US space tech firm has revealed a system capable of extracting …
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‘We didn’t see this coming’: Wall Street eats its forecasts as stocks sell off globally on fear of AI bubble ahead of SpaceX IPO
Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today: Markets: Red alert over global selloff. • “We didn’t see this coming”: Economists are eating their job …
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AI-Designed Vaccines Are Already Here
Wherever you stand on the role of AI in the future of humanity, it has undeniably proved useful in the field of medical research. And now a team of researchers from the University
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Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month for AI compute as Musk turns a data centre built for Grok into a cash machine
SpaceX has signed its second massive compute deal in a month, this time with Google. Under the terms disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million
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Claude Cowork for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Automating Your Workflow (2026)
Most of us still use artificial intelligence (AI) in the same old way. We open a chat window of an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT, ask a …
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Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT were asked to run to a radio station and it quickly took a turn
Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, and Grok walk into a bar and start a radio station, but what happened was total chaos. Researchers handed some of the world’s …
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A Human "Language Gene" Was Inserted Into Mice And Strange Things Unfolded
The mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, as far as we know.
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Inside the Compact Fusion Reactor Aiming to Power 280,000 Homes
Nuclear fusion reactors offer the hope of vast, clean energy from the same process that powers stars. But despite decades of research, a fusion …
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Northrop Grumman Ships Final Artemis III Booster Segments, Igniting Humanity’s Next Great Leap In Space
Northrop Grumman said Wednesday it shipped the final eight twin solid rocket booster motor segments for NASA’s Artemis III mission to Kennedy Space …
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SpaceX targets record $75 billion IPO as bitcoin treasury and liquidity risks draw focus
SpaceX's proposed $75 billion IPO would rank among the largest ever, while its $1.29 billion bitcoin holding and the broader wave of megacap listings …
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NASA declares its Mars Maven spacecraft dead after six months of silence
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft around Mars has been declared dead. The space agency confirmed …
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SpaceX Drone Ship Targets 200th Catch: Falcon 9 Booster B1088 Makes 16th Flight Today
SpaceX drone ship landing history targets a milestone today: Falcon 9 booster B1088 makes its 16th flight as Of Course I Still Love You aims for its …
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8 ChatGPT tricks most people still aren't using
Most people barely scratch the surface of ChatGPT. These habits help unlock its real potential. Most people end up using ChatGPT like a slightly smarter search engine. That used to
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Amazon Music will play ads, remove downloads for some Prime members [U]
Amazon Music is an underrated Prime perk, offering ad-free music streaming as an alternative to Spotify and other paid services. Or, at least it was, as Amazon is now updating Amaz
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China’s New Flying Wing H-20 Strategic Stealth Bomber Summed Up in 4 Words
Last year, I walked into the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force outside Dayton, Ohio, and stood close to the batwinged shape of a B-2 Spirit, and …
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OpenAI putting Codex inside ChatGPT, 6 new business plugins now available
OpenAI continues to push Codex beyond an agentic coding desktop app to a general productivity tool for everyone. As part of that effort, the company shared three enterprise-focused
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NASA’s $4 Billion Roman Space Telescope Heads To Florida For Launch
NASA’s next flagship observatory, often described as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is about to leave NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and head to Kennedy
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