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Someone Used a Hairdryer to Fake a Weather Reading. AI Could Make That a Lot Worse.
A tampered thermometer at a Paris airport paid out $20,000 to a gambler. Experts warn that as AI takes over weather forecasting, this kind of data sabotage gets harder to catch and far more dangerous.
Babies Learn Faster Than the World's Most Powerful AI. Scientists Want to Know Why.
A new test pits cutting-edge AI models against toddler-level perception, and the toddlers win. Researchers say studying infant brains could make AI cheaper, greener, and smarter.
SpaceX Stock Slips Below Its IPO Price Just Weeks After Going Public
The company's shares dropped under $135 on Wednesday, and a Starship rocket test on Thursday could push them further in either direction.
Inside Shippy: How an Ocean-Monitoring AI Agent Was Built to Be Trusted, Not Just Smart
The team behind Skylight's maritime AI explains why reliability, not raw intelligence, was the hardest engineering problem they faced.
South Korean Researchers Used AI to Design DNA That Folds Itself into Tiny Shapes
A new AI model cuts the hardest part out of DNA origami, the decades-old technique for sculpting genetic material into nanoscale structures with medical and scientific uses.
Space data centers are a long way off, and most experts already knew it
A weekend spat between Sam Altman and Elon Musk put a spotlight on a quiet consensus among engineers: orbital computing is not a near-term business, no matter what SpaceX's valuation implies.