The US Built a Site to Ensure Fair Access to Public Lands. Then Everything Went Wrong

Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits. [...]

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he's joining Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, and former head of Tesla's AI division, announced on Tuesday, May 19 t [...]

Google debuts AI-powered tools to optimize scientific research workflows

Three new features will be available under the Gemini for Science collection. [...]

California's Wildfire Season Is Already Overactive

Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter. [...]

AWS nabs white hot gen AI media creation startup fal, becoming its preferred cloud provider

Generative AI’s rapid transition from text-based chatbots to high-fidelity media—spanning images, video, spatial 3D, and audio—has exposed a glaring bottleneck in the modern tech stack: infrastr [...]

Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Need

The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demographic that often doesn’t vote—over products that are widely ava [...]

‘Perfect Storm’: How Trump's Aid Cuts Are Fueling the Ebola Outbreak

One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts. [...]

How Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak

Climate change is helping create conditions that are driving the rodent boom—dubbed a ratada—in Argentina. [...]

Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology. [...]