Ancient Egyptians likely used opiates regularly

Study identified several trace chemical signatures of opium in ancient Egyptian alabaster vase. [...]

Phi-4 proves that a 'data-first' SFT methodology is the new differentiator

AI engineers often chase performance by scaling up LLM parameters and data, but the trend toward smaller, more efficient, and better-focused models has accelerated. The Phi-4 fine-tuning methodology [...]

Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality

A Trump administration pilot program aims for three nuclear startups to reach a key milestone by July 4, 2026. Valar Atomics says it's the first to do so—but it had some help. [...]

UCLA faculty gets big win in suit against Trump’s university attacks

Government can't use funding threats to override the First Amendment. [...]

Google Antigravity introduces agent-first architecture for asynchronous, verifiable coding workflows

Googlefocused launched yet another coding agent platform, this time focusing on developer teams collaborating to create agents that can execute complex tasks automatically.The platform, called Antigra [...]

Artemis II Astronauts Are Using iPhones to Capture Stunning Space Images

After smartphones were cleared by NASA for space missions, the crew members of the Integrity spacecraft are beaming back lots of iPhone photos. [...]

How Louvre thieves exploited human psychology to avoid suspicion—and what it reveals about AI

For humans and AI, when something fits the category of “ordinary,” it slips from notice. [...]

OpenAI debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max coding model and it already completed a 24-hour task internally

OpenAI has introduced GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, a new frontier agentic coding model now available in its Codex developer environment. The release marks a significant step forward in AI-assisted software en [...]

Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start

Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3, a multimodal frontier model trained to understand and generate images, or combined audi [...]