According to many true-believers, the biggest promise of AI is its potential to accelerate scientific discovery; once-in-a-generation breakthroughs could one day become routine, thanks to algorithms. By extracting patterns from troves of data far too vast for any human mind to fathom, so the thinking goes, AI scientists could eventually help solve some of humanity’s…
Most Americans don’t trust AI. It’s proven that it doesn’t know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don’t even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America’s wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools. Companies like Forge Prep and Alpha…
LIT solidifies its position in the top 100 alts after a major surge today. Bitcoin’s price jumped to $64,000 earlier today for the first time in roughly two weeks, but it was rejected there and now sits over a grand lower. Most larger-cap alts have remained relatively stagnant on a daily scale. Pi Network’s…
Sakana AI has added a new feature called Sakana Translate to its chat service, Sakana Chat. It handles bidirectional translation across Japanese, English, and Chinese. The translation engine is Namazu, the company’s model series adapted for Japanese. Sakana Translate ships as a free web app. A single account unlocks all…
Remember when you were a baby, and someone would cover their face with their hands, thusly disappearing entirely from existence, only to return and scream at you? This is to do with something called object permanence, an idea of understanding that even when you can’t see something, it still exists, something that babies genuinely…
Kayla Solino/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. July 4th weekend is here, and while it’s a great excuse to stay offline, there are some enticing reasons to consider some online shopping. One of the best deals I’ve seen so far is my Hisense Canvas S7 TV on sale for under $1,000, and…
TaiSan has secured £4.65 million in seed funding, with Eos Advisory and Mercia Ventures leading the round through the Midlands Engine Investment Fund II. The company plans to use the money to develop lighter solid-state sodium-ion batteries for e-bikes, scooters, and power tools. Ten investors joined the round, along with a grant from Innovate UK….
That means meeting developers where they work: GitHub, VS Code, Cursor-style environments, CI/CD systems, and AI agents. It means outcome-native starts: deploy this app, connect this data, expose this API, add auth, evaluate this agent, secure this workflow, move this prototype into production. It means fewer scavenger hunts across product pages and establishing more golden…
This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and large humanoid divisions decided. Congratulations to the following teams, who finished in the top three positions in each size class: Small division Invic, Wuhan University, China Hamburg Bit-Bots, Universität Hamburg, Germany…
Red, white, and blue stars glitter like a sparkler being waved on a dark night in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NASA released this image to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary, as the agency carries forward America’s legacy of exploration. Located in the outer halo of our Milky Way galaxy, globular…