Quanta Magazine

Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to ...

World Models Are AI’s Next Frontier

The potential for solving problems in climate, oceans, the biosphere, and the biology of disease is vast, writes Celine ...

The hottest AI models in Silicon Valley face a powerful source of competition

Burdened by rising costs from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, U.S. companies have begun to shift to Chinese models in a ...

First-of-its-kind computer model tackles antibiotic resistance

Faster and more effective ways to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

The AI race is shifting from bigger models to cheaper, smarter systems

AI companies are moving beyond a simple race over who has the biggest or newest model. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says ...
Digital Photography Review

Insta360 and Bambu Lab challenge you to 3D-print your own Luna Ultra camera accessories

Insta360 and Bambu Lab have launched a contest built around official Luna Ultra design files on MakerWorld, inviting creators to submit 3D‑printable accessories and related content ...

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) stressed out the ...
Decrypt

Perplexity Fine-Tuned a Chinese AI Model to Match Claude Opus 4.8 at One-Third the Cost

Perplexity's post-trained GLM 5.2 preview pairs a cheaper open-source base with a frontier advisor—and it's already live in ...
Decrypt

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol: Here’s How It Stacks Up Against Other AI Models

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6 Sol, alongside the cheaper Terra and Luna, ending a two-week preview the Commerce Department kept ...
Crypto Briefing

Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 as its new agentic AI model

Meta launches Muse Spark, its first proprietary AI model with a paid developer API tier, reversing its open-source strategy ...

Young job-hunters are searching for an edge. How about an AI class?

As students confront an uncertain job market, TCU, SMU and UNT are launching AI offerings focused on how to leverage the ...
TMCnet

Where Deep Computer Science Meets Mainstream Culture: Kaon AI Closes Series B to Define Content Engine of the Generative AI Era

Backed by Leading Investors Including B Capital, Redpoint Ace, Goodwater Capital, and DCM, Kaon's Berkeley-Educated Founders are Outpacing Big Tech in Building a Vertically Integrated AI Entertainment ...