Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
Organizers of the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) used a watermarking system to catch the use…
Major Turing computing award goes to quantum science for first time
Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard pose for a photograph next to a cryptography quilt. Credit: Lise Raymond…
‘The Karpathy Loop’: 700 experiments, 2 days, and a glimpse of where AI is heading
Earlier this month, Andrej Karpathy, a well-known AI researcher who was one of the founding employees of OpenAI…
‘Am I Recyclable?’; Local College Seniors Develop Recycling App | Community
CLINTON, N.Y. — When it comes to certain items, you might not know if they should be recycled…
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage
Key metrics We evaluate the Silica storage system against the following metrics: Voxel quality, Q = B/nV, is an average…
The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash,…
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley.…
Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right
OpenScholar is an LLM that performs scientific literature reviews using a database of 45 million open-access articles.Credit: dpa…
Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models
OpenScholar OpenScholar (detailed in Extended Data Fig. 1) is a new retrieval-augmented LM designed to ensure reliable, high-quality responses…
Palantir’s stock surges as AI demand drives another record quarter
Last Updated: Feb. 2, 2026 at 8:15 p.m. ETFirst Published: Feb. 2, 2026 at 4:13 p.m. ET Palantir Technologies reported…
How DeepMind’s genome AI could help solve rare disease mysteries
Researchers at a Hackathon used AlphaGenome to search for the genetic causes of 29 undiagnosed diseases.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy…
Apple’s stock can climb 35% this year — if these four scenarios play out
Published: Jan. 11, 2026 at 9:42 p.m. ET Wall Street’s biggest Apple bull thinks the stock can log big…