1+ hour, 13+ min ago   (163+ words) BabyIAXO at DESY Hamburg begins operations searching for axions, hypothetical particles that could explain dark matter and solve a decades-old puzzle in particle physics. Its predecessor CAST at CERN searched for nearly two decades without success. BabyIAXO is CAST's successor…...

10+ hour, 40+ min ago   (371+ words) Google released three new Flash models in July. DeepSeek's budget model then outperformed its own flagship on all benchmarks. The era of bigger models being inherently better is over. Ten days after Google's Flash wave, DeepSeek delivered a result that…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (483+ words) Ultrasound Patch Triggers REM Sleep 43 Minutes Earlier Denkstrom A skin patch delivering focused ultrasound deep into the brain shifts sleep architecture: 28 subjects reached REM sleep 43 minutes earlier. The Nature Communications study shows that deep brain regions can now be accessed…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (532+ words) Stanford's Merlin analyzes 3D CT volumes and classifies 692 medical diagnoses with 81% accuracy. In validation testing on 44,000 external scans from four hospitals, it outperformed single-task AI systems, establishing a foundation model approach for radiology. Merlin is a 3D vision-language foundation model: an AI…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (551+ words) Anthropic became the first major AI company to embed imperceptible watermarks in all Claude-generated text on August 2. The marking travels with copied text globally, driven by Article 50 of the EU AI Act's transparency requirements. What happens to a text that…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (323+ words) Amazon Web Services and Instructure announced a partnership to reach 900,000 learners, including 280,000 from underserved communities across the US, Brazil, Mexico, and the UK. AI-powered migration tools aim to help schools transition from outdated systems to Canvas. The digital education gap…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (307+ words) 3D printing and AI are dramatically reducing the cost of arm prosthetics. Since 2025, US insurers cover 3D-printed prosthetics, and Open Bionics now supplies bionic arms to more than 800 clinics worldwide. Between 30 and 40 million people globally need a prosthetic device, yet according…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (242+ words) Two AI systems solved longstanding mathematical problems in 12 days. Claude Fable 5 disproved the Jacobian conjecture; OpenAI's Astra tackled ten additional unsolved problems from eight fields for $2,000. Alpöge described the process directly: Claude Fable 5 generated candidates, he handled mathematical verification. Other…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (242+ words) An AI model discovered a fundamental weakness in the HAWK post-quantum encryption candidate in 60 hours, a flaw that human cryptographers missed over two years of expert review. The finding strengthens confidence in new encryption standards before they are deployed globally....