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AI accelerating research, exploring space and decoding the natural world
Can AI crack the ancient writing systems that stumped linguists for a century?
Two of history's most mysterious scripts, Linear A and Etruscan, have resisted every attempt at translation. Researchers are now asking whether AI can succeed where humans alone have not.
OlmoEarth Platform Scans an Entire Continent in 30 Hours Using Nearly 1,000 GPUs
The Allen Institute for AI has built a system that can run an AI wildfire-risk model across all of North America in about a day, at a cost of fractions of a penny per square kilometre. Here's what that actually means.
The US Military's Top Graduate School Just Switched On One of the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputers
Jensen Huang flew to Monterey to personally commission an AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School. Here is what it does, and why it reaches well beyond the military.
Nvidia chips are heading to the Moon on a robot rover
Lunar Outpost plans to run Nvidia Jetson processors on its next Moon rover, which could make them the first AI chips to operate on the lunar surface.
NASA Ran a Google AI Model Inside a Satellite. Here Is What It Found.
A small, efficient AI model analyzed real images from orbit and sent back plain-text descriptions instead of raw data. It could cut wildfire alerts from 90 minutes to near-instant.
Google is putting $40 million of AI credits into America's national science labs
The Genesis Mission gets access to AlphaFold 3, AlphaEvolve and Gemini for Government, and one lab has already cut a 90-minute task down to 13 minutes.
US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug Discovery
Fifteen federal agencies will share the funding and gain access to government supercomputers to run AI experiments on some of science's hardest problems.
Apple Researchers Found a Smarter Way to Make AI Video Generation Much Faster
A new technique from Apple ML Research cuts the time it takes AI to turn text prompts into video, by teaching the model to skip calculations it doesn't actually need.
The secret ingredient keeping AI running: advanced materials science
Chips and software grab the headlines, but a quieter race is under way in the labs developing the physical materials that let AI hardware exist at all.
AI Could Mistake Dead Rocks for Alien Life, New Research Warns
Scientists tested an AI on simulated lifeforms and fooled it every single time. That's a problem if we plan to use AI to hunt for microbes on Mars or in the clouds of Venus.
Researchers Build a Test to See If AI Can Actually Summarise a 16-Minute Video
A new benchmark called LVSum reveals how badly today's AI video tools lose track of when things happen in long recordings.
Apple Researchers Build a Smarter Way for AI to Understand 3D Space
RayRoPE anchors each image tile to a point in three-dimensional space using rays of light rather than flat grid coordinates. It's a quiet but meaningful step toward AI that genuinely understands physical space.
Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on a Startup That Hunts for New Materials Using AI
Cambridge-based CuspAI wants to be the search engine for rare materials, cutting the time and cost of finding the physical stuff that powers chips, batteries and beyond.
First wildfire-detecting satellites reach orbit as fires rage across North America
Three purpose-built microsatellites launched on 7 July 2026, promising to spot small fires across every fire-prone region on Earth at least twice a day before the year is out.
Do AI Models Really Need to Forget Everything? Apple Researchers Say No
A new study finds that much of what we ask AI to 'unlearn' barely mattered to the model in the first place, which could cut the cost of privacy fixes dramatically.