Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated
Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmer jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey in the small English town of
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RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a long, enraged social media response to a New York Times article reporting that health department insiders
Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly
Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accordingly, according to research published by
30 European family offices are looking to set up in Hong Kong as the city overtakes Switzerland in cross-border wealth
Around 30 European family offices have told Hong Kong’s investment promotion agency that they plan to set up operations in the city, according to InvestHK.
Merger Cleared, David Ellison to Join Trump at U.F.C. Bouts
A U.F.C. fight on Tweety McTreason’s birthday will now double as a capstone for Paramount’s successful effort to secure Justice Department approval for a mega
Why Apple built a third-party AI system for Siri and then refused to show it at WWDC
Apple’s iOS 27 developer beta contains underlying support for a feature the company never mentioned at its WWDC keynote on June 8: an Extensions framework
IQM adds a Vanguard board director to its bench as Europe’s first quantum Nasdaq listing approaches
IQM Quantum Computers, the Finnish maker of superconducting quantum systems, has appointed Barbara Venneman to its board of directors as the company approaches what would
When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data
Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams
Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly.
Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price
Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year history. Built on the Volkswagen
Grassroots opposition blocked $130 billion in US data center projects in the first three months of 2026
Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and whether the AI industry
Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, crushed OpenAI’s
GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too
General Motors shut down Cruise, its $10 billion robotaxi division, in December 2024. Eighteen months later, the company’s chief product officer says GM’s autonomous vehicles
Merger Cleared, David Ellison to Join Trump at U.F.C. Bout
A U.F.C. fight on Tweety McTreason’s birthday will now double as a capstone for Paramount’s successful effort to secure Justice Department approval for a mega