There's a Growing Weak Spot in Earth's Magnetic Field. What it Means

The weak spot has been known about for over half a century, but it's now getting bigger. [...]

China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry

A new policy document outlines China’s plan to create an internationally competitive BCI industry within five years, and proposes developing devices for both health and consumer uses. [...]

New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur

A species known only by a single rib turns out to be covered with meter-long spikes. [...]

Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky

Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. [...]

Large genome models used to design new viruses

The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus. [...]

Quantum computing stocks surge as U.S. is awarding $2 billion in grants and taking equity stakes

IBM stands to receive $1 billion of the package, which covers nine companies and is funded by the 2022 Chips and Science Act [...]

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities? [...]

From static classifiers to reasoning engines: OpenAI’s new model rethinks content moderation

Enterprises, eager to ensure any AI models they use adhere to safety and safe-use policies, fine-tune LLMs so they do not respond to unwanted queries. However, much of the safeguarding and red teamin [...]

VC Quantonation closes €220M fund to back next-gen physics tech

A Paris-based venture firm that has quietly shaped the quantum technology scenery is now making a much louder statement about Europe’s role in the future of computing, materials science, and sensing [...]