The SpaceX Starship V3 Set for Liftoff Today: What to Know

SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, is getting ready for the 12th test flight of its Starship rocket ahead of the company's plans to go public in June. [...]

IBM settles its DEI lawsuit with the DOJ for $17 million

IBM has agreed to settle the US Department of Justice's accusations that the company violated civil rights laws with its DEI practices. According to a press release from the DOJ, IBM will pay mor [...]

Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money

“Too many GPUs makes you lazy,” says the French startup's vice president of science operations, as the company carves out a different path than the major US AI companies. [...]

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's "for you" algorithm last month, Elon Musk said the move was a victory for transparency. "We know the al [...]

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies

Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more [...]

Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina

In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare but serious complication called encephalitis. [...]

NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time

NASA used Anthropic's Claude for an experiment in plotting the rover's course, which the agency deemed successful. [...]

Let Tom Hiddleston be your guide to Pompeii's final day

NatGeo's Pompeii: Out of Time fuses historical fact and imagination to bring city's last 24 hours to life. [...]

Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data

The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital canv [...]