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Elon Musk's SpaceX is putting two billion dollars into his AI company xAI to help it grow and compete with rivals like OpenAI.

Researchers have built more energy-efficient transistors with nanoscale structures that leverage quantum effects.

Legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth is shocked with joy by a significant breakthrough in combinatorial mathematics achieved via AI.

U.S. Senate approves first major stablecoin bill, advancing crypto regulation while sparking partisan disputes over oversight and potential conflicts of interest.

Faster than GPT-4o, rivaling Claude—Mercury Coder Mini and LLaDA prove diffusion-based AI can rewrite the rules of language modeling.

David Ring argues our current value systems are systemically corrupted and are doomed templates for living happily. He thinks blockchain and similar emerging technologies can help us redefine them.

Can controversial “hydrino” states be explained without rewriting quantum mechanics? A new paper argues ordinary physics, under extreme confinement, resolves the decades-long hydrogen mystery.

A NASA-funded study tests whether fungi can grow with planetary regolith to form strong building materials for lunar and Martian bases.

Researchers create a flexible material that allows robots to change shape instantly based on their surroundings, making them more adaptable for various tasks without needing full redesigns.

Looking for suggestions for books to read during a break from your usual activities? Consider these ten books, each of which are eye-opening and thought-provoking in their own ways.