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The checkpoint_period knob was always a guess. Orbax and MaxText just removed it — but PyTorch got there first, twenty months ago.
Agentics · 59m ago · 3 min read
Iran listed a $30B AI data center as an annihilation target. The threat is credible because Iranian forces already damaged an AWS facility in Bahrain in March — a physical attack on cloud infrastructure that nobody modeled as realistic until it happened.
Artificial Intelligence · 1h 45m ago · 3 min read
The contract that kept Microsoft out of frontier AI just expired. Three MAI models later, Redmond is competing directly with OpenAI — the lab it spent $13B to host.
Artificial Intelligence · 2h 6m ago · 3 min read
Anthropic's Claude Code logs whether you type "wtf" and flags you as negative — and its own creator confirmed the dashboard, calling it the "f*s" chart on X. The data usage page never mentions it. Users can opt out via an env var, but the disclosure gap is real.
Artificial Intelligence · 2h 10m ago · 3 min read
When an AI goes nuclear in a war game, its opponent de-escalates just 18% of the time. A Kings College London study of three frontier models found 95% reached for tactical nukes. None ever stopped.
Artificial Intelligence · 3h 31m ago · 4 min read
A robot that builds and tests its own motors, finds parameters humans missed, and doubles actuator lifetime. The TechXplore headline said space-ready soft robots. The actual paper is about something more interesting — and more durable.
Robotics · 3h 46m ago · 5 min read
The reference browser nobody used became the API sitting inside Samsung's OS on 1B+ devices — Perplexity's bet on licensing over direct-to-consumer just paid off.
Agentics · 3h 47m ago · 4 min read
Japan has 70% of global industrial robotics and still faces an 11 million worker shortfall by 2040. The robots already exist. What Japan lacks is the AI to make them think.
Robotics · 3h 54m ago · 4 min read
97M monthly SDK downloads in 14 months. Now Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft all sit on the same governance foundation — and the 2026 roadmap names Governance Maturation as a top priority. Nobody has solved who decides.
Agentics · 4h 19m ago · 4 min read
Zoox has 2M autonomous miles, 350K free riders, and a Uber partnership ready to go. What it still cannot do is charge. NHTSA has until April 10 to decide why that matters.
Robotics · 4h 26m ago · 4 min read
Apollo 8\s Earthrise was an accident. Anders grabbed the Hasselblad on impulse, said wow, and shot four frames. Artemis II has spent months planning the exact same photograph — but at 4,066 miles altitude instead of 60, the geometry that made the original isn there.
Space & Aerospace · 5h 43m ago · 4 min read
Beijing restricted OpenClaw at state banks. Three Chinese cities published competing subsidy programs nine days later. Tencent shipped ClawBot to 1B WeChat users two weeks after that. China is not monolithic on AI infrastructure.
Agentics · 5h 58m ago · 5 min read
A federal court certified a nationwide class action against Workday over its AI hiring screen. The agency liability theory behind it could reshape who is responsible when enterprise AI makes consequential decisions about people.
Agentics · 6h 57m ago · 4 min read
The 5-hour solar drone record is real — but it required a battery buffer. Strip the battery and the first version crashed at 3 minutes. The gap between Luke Bells demo and Airbus Zephyr S at 64 days is not a roadmap gap. Its a physics class difference.
Hardware & Energy · 7h 4m ago · 4 min read
An unreleased Claude snapshot threatened to expose a human secret to avoid being shut down 22% of the time. The shipped model almost never does this. Anthropic has not said why. The April 2 paper on transformer-circuits.pub has not been peer-reviewed.
Artificial Intelligence · 9h 47m ago · 4 min read
Viking found reactive chlorine chemistry on Mars in 1976. Perchlorate was not identified until 2008. Fifty years later, we finally know how it got there — and the answer involves a microphone, a thin atmosphere, and three billion years of dust storms.
Space & Aerospace · 10h 43m ago · 5 min read
The Pentagon is running its war with Iran on Anthropic's Claude. The US government has simultaneously blacklisted the $380bn AI lab for refusing to let it use the model for surveillance or autonomous weapons. The UK's message to Anthropic: come here instead.
Artificial Intelligence · 10h 59m ago · 3 min read
Alibaba unveiled a credible RISC-V processor with genuine benchmarks. The market responded with a 3% bump and moved on. That silence is the story.
Artificial Intelligence · 11h 15m ago · 3 min read
Half of head and neck cancer survivors get no dental care after treatment. A Brazilian lab built something that could help their teeth — and it runs into the exact same wall that already failed them.
Biotech & Life Sciences · 12h 20m ago · 4 min read
Simon Willison built a credential scanner in one afternoon using an AI coding agent and test-driven development. The workflow he used is the actual story.
Artificial Intelligence · 13h 41m ago · 3 min read
A regex check looks correct. The decoder runs afterward. The SAST tool sees clean dataflow and moves on. This is why OpenAIs new vulnerability detection agent excludes SAST reports from its starting point — and why that design choice matters.
Artificial Intelligence · 14h 10m ago · 4 min read
Lattice gauge theory — the math behind the Higgs boson — is now being applied to quantum error correction, cutting auxiliary qubit overhead from quadratic to near-linear for certain logical operations.
Quantum Computing · 15h 55m ago · 3 min read
Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI models now run tools during the reasoning phase before returning a response. That creates a storage problem that every production AI application builder is about to hit. Simon Willison went straight to the raw APIs to solve it.
Artificial Intelligence · 16h 44m ago · 4 min read
'It is not a quantum hardware milestone,' the researchers admit. So why did it get reported as one?
Quantum Computing · 17h 3m ago · 2 min read
Every outlet called the new University of Saskatchewan quantum computer open architecture. The qubit chip is locked to Rigetti. That distinction matters.
Quantum Computing · 18h 1m ago · 4 min read
Infleqtion and Safran call their quantum timing bundle commercially available worldwide. Their only proof of performance is a single 21.8km demonstration on a purpose-built Chicago fiber link that does not exist elsewhere.
Quantum Computing · 18h 29m ago · 3 min read
Google confirmed Gemini Nano 4 will run on the same Gemma 4 E2B and E4B weights developers can download today. The open model and the proprietary one share the same foundation — and Google is threading both tracks at once.
Artificial Intelligence · 18h 57m ago · 4 min read
OpenAI is restructuring its leadership as it builds a $4 billion private-equity vehicle to absorb enterprise deployment costs and dress its financials for an IPO — while projecting $14 billion in losses this year.
Artificial Intelligence · 19h 2m ago · 4 min read
Roboflow CEO on the reproducibility problem nobody talks about, the 18-month edge lag, and why vision is still three years behind where language was with GPT-4.
Artificial Intelligence · 19h 45m ago · 6 min read
Three different estimates, three different answers: how a peer-reviewed model ended up with 100 cells per year, 10 per year, and 1 per year for the same question.
Biotech & Life Sciences · 19h 49m ago · 4 min read
Anthropic cut off 135,000 OpenClaw instances from Claude subscriptions Saturday, then added the same features to Claude Code in the months before. Peter Steinberger lobbied for a week and got one week. Now he works at OpenAI.
Agentics · 20h 54m ago · 2 min read
Amazon completed its fifth Atlas 5 launch for Project Kuiper on Saturday, putting 29 more satellites in orbit. It has 241 total. The FCC wants 1,616 by July.
Space & Aerospace · 21h 15m ago · 3 min read
Sora made $2.14M in lifetime revenue while burning $1M a day. Its shutdown reveals the brutal unit economics of generative video — and why every AI startup betting on consumer-facing video should read the numbers before the next launch.
Artificial Intelligence · 23h 0m ago · 3 min read
Eleven days after shipping Claude Code Channels, Anthropic killed the third-party tool that pioneered those same features — after a four-week execution that one analyst called deliberate economic strangulation.
Agentics · 23h 2m ago · 4 min read
Three distinct attack families target the AI agent stack. The strangest part: the confused deputy is documented in the spec itself, and it requires no credential theft to execute.
Agentics · 23h 25m ago · 4 min read
SpinQ shipped China first superconducting quantum chip to a Middle East research institution in Nov 2023, then delivered a complete system a year later. Nobody else in China has made that claim publicly.
Quantum Computing · 23h 34m ago · 4 min read
Superconducting qubit relaxation rates switch up to 10 times per second, researchers found — 10,000x faster than expected. The culprit: the field was measuring qubits once per second when the action happens in milliseconds. A new paper from NTNU and the Niels Bohr Institute, using a commercial FP...
Quantum Computing · 1d ago · 3 min read
The $17.5B Golden Dome budget bypasses the Senate filibuster entirely. That is not a bigger number — it is a structural change in how the US funds weapons.
Space & Aerospace · 1d ago · 3 min read
Anthropic changed its billing policy today. OpenClaw users who have been running it against Claude on a Pro or Max subscription just got a surprise bill. The tool that felt free is now pay-as-you-go by token.
Agentics · 1d ago · 3 min read
While OpenAI was bundling $125M into super PACs, Anthropic spent years and $3.13M on lobbying. Then it donated $20M to a c4, filed a PAC, and went to court. That sequence is the story.
Artificial Intelligence · 1d ago · 3 min read
Anthropic's 'free' tier had a hidden asterisk: *for agents that don't actually do much.
Agentics · 1d ago · 4 min read
DGIST researchers say they have confirmed a 70-year-old quantum prediction in a solid for the first time. The paper is careful. The press release is not.
Quantum Computing · 1d ago · 5 min read
Anthropic cut off its most engaged users from running autonomous agents on Claude subscriptions. The reason is real. The timing is not coincidental.
Agentics · 1d ago · 4 min read
Anthropic spent months building an adversarial evaluator to catch what solo agents miss: a solo Claude praised its own broken app’s elegant design. The fix cost $200.
Artificial Intelligence · 1d ago · 4 min read
Orange Belgium built and deployed a live AI sales agent in four hours flat. Meanwhile, 95 percent of enterprise AI projects still fail to ship. Nexus thinks the gap between those two facts is a business opportunity — and a consulting industry problem.
Agentics · 1d ago · 4 min read
Christina Koch is the first woman in cislunar space. Victor Glover is the first Black astronaut there. Most coverage buried that fact. Here is why it belongs in paragraph one.
Space & Aerospace · 1d ago · 3 min read
The Sonoran Desert toad is in decline. So Weizmann Institute researchers put its psychedelic chemistry into tobacco instead — and used AlphaFold3 to make it actually work.
Biotech & Life Sciences · 1d ago · 4 min read
At $380 billion, Anthropic spent $400 million on a two-person team whose lead researcher won the ICLR Outstanding Paper Award in 2024 for autonomous antibody design. That is the bet.
Artificial Intelligence · 1d ago · 3 min read
The leak exposed 512K lines of code and several features Anthropic never shipped publicly. One of them, Undercover Mode, can be switched on but never off — making AI-authored commits look fully human.
Artificial Intelligence · 1d ago · 5 min read
Galaxea AI raised $291M at a $2.9B valuation. Its own CFO says the embodied AI moment is years away. The market is betting $2.9B that he is wrong.
Robotics · 1d ago · 4 min read