Lionel Messi’s Final World Cup—and the Death of Early Retirement

Argentina’s Lionel Messi was supposed to be done years ago. Now, sports science is helping soccer’s biggest stars rewrite the rules of aging. [...]

Gong study: Sales teams using AI generate 77% more revenue per rep

The debate over whether artificial intelligence belongs in the corporate boardroom appears to be over — at least for the people responsible for generating revenue.Seven in ten enterprise revenue lea [...]

Musk's xAI launches Grok 4.1 with lower hallucination rate on the web and apps — no API access (for now)

In what appeared to be a bid to soak up some of Google's limelight prior to the launch of its new Gemini 3 flagship AI model — now recorded as the most powerful LLM in the world by multiple ind [...]

Ysios Capital launches €100M fund to build biotech companies from Spanish science

Spain’s largest life sciences VC is moving upstream with InceptionBio, its first fund dedicated to the riskiest stage of biotech: company creation from university and research centre spinouts. CDTI [...]

Unlocking science: building AI researchers can trust

Over half of researchers now say they use AI tools in their work, but only two in ten believe generic AI tools are trustworthy. [...]

20 things science has learned about longevity in the last decade

From the gut microbiome to the mechanics of cellular aging, here is what a decade of longevity research has revealed about how and why we age [...]

Google’s Gemini can now run on a single air-gapped server — and vanish when you pull the plug

Cirrascale Cloud Services today announced it has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to deliver the Gemini model on-premises through Google Distributed Cloud, making it the first neocloud provi [...]

Beyond math and coding: New RL framework helps train LLM agents for complex, real-world tasks

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks beyo [...]

Quote of the day by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk: "If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you'd be burned at stake for" — echoes of science fiction

Elon Musk reflects on advances we've made in the 21st century and how, in times gone past, they would be considered "indistinguishable from magic" [...]