White House Weighs Regulator to Police AI Models
The White House is exploring creation of an artificial intelligence safety regulator. This plan follows complaints from Silicon Valley about government restrictions on new AI models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.
Pigeon Walks Up to Firefighters Who Offer Oxygen to ‘Clear its Lungs’
A pigeon approached Oakland firefighters after a vehicle fire on Wednesday evening and received oxygen treatment. The E29 crew administered the oxygen to help clear the bird's lungs from smoke inhalation.
Kraken Won Historic Fed Approval. So Why Isn’t Its Master Account Live Yet?
Kraken received Federal Reserve approval for a master account but has not yet activated it months after gaining authorization. CEO Brian Mathena provided an explanation for the operational delay in implementing this historic banking access.
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model available at 10% standard pricing on multiple platforms. The preview lacks published benchmark tables, model cards, licenses, per-token pricing, or active-parameter counts.
Dragonfly aerial fights follow some simple rules
Male dragonflies follow simple mathematical rules when fighting rivals in mid-air combat. Researchers from Imperial College London and Taipei Zoo found that these insects use predictable aerial maneuvers to compete for territory and mating opportunities.
MicroStrategy CEO: Wall Street’s Biggest Banks are Locked in a Tight Bitcoin Race
Wall Street's major banks including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Citigroup rank below Fidelity in MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index. The ranking measures how these financial institutions are adopting Bitcoin services and capabilities.
Kansas City Cop Won’t Stop Until He Finds Stolen E-Bike for Cancer Patient One Month Later
Officer JP Young of the Kansas City Police Department continued searching for a stolen e-bike belonging to a cancer patient one month after it disappeared on Mother's Day. The officer committed to finding the bike that the survivor needed to attend her oncology appointments.
AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
People given AI advice became three times less accurate while their confidence doubled, with accuracy dropping from 27% to 9% and confidence rising from 30% to 76%. Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3%.
Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea'
A proposal called BIP-110 would temporarily block spam data from the Bitcoin blockchain, but Michael Saylor contends this would compromise network neutrality. Saylor warns the plan establishes a precedent for censorship on Bitcoin.
Kimi Antonelli tightens F1 title grip with Belgian GP win after Russell crashes out
Kimi Antonelli won the Belgian Grand Prix while his Mercedes teammate George Russell crashed out on lap one after colliding with Lewis Hamilton. Antonelli now holds a 50-point lead over Russell, while Russell blamed the team's car for lacking straightline speed that forced him into the corner.
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
Researchers recreated space conditions in glass tubes to synthesize cosmic dust containing complex carbon-rich molecules from life-essential elements. The laboratory dust produces infrared signals matching real space material, allowing scientists to study how organic chemistry develops around stars and how celestial bodies may have delivered life ingredients to Earth.
The mysterious hum heard around the world may finally have an explanation
A mysterious low-frequency sound reported globally for decades may be low-frequency tinnitus rather than an external source. Researchers found that exceptional hearing sensitivity or internal ear sounds did not explain most cases, suggesting the perception originates internally despite seeming external to those experiencing it.
Alibaba Shares Rise After Unveiling Upgraded Flagship AI Model
Alibaba launched a preview version of its Qwen3.8 Max model, with shares rising as much as 5.4% on Monday. The company described the model as second only to Anthropic's Fable 5.
Thinking Machines is coming for Anthropic’s intellectual vibe
Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weights AI model with 975 billion parameters and 41 billion active parameters, designed for fine-tuning through its Tinker platform. The startup positions itself as competing on customization and emphasizing human intelligence enhancement rather than replacement, mirroring Anthropic's intellectual positioning.
How Verizon is preparing for record-setting network spikes during the first-ever World Cup halftime show
The 2026 FIFA World Cup final halftime show, featuring Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Justin Bieber, is expected to draw over a billion global viewers during its 11-minute performance. Verizon is preparing network infrastructure to handle potential record traffic spikes, as halftime shows historically attract larger audiences than the games themselves, with Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX performance drawing 133.5 million viewers.
Pharaoh’s Daughters Were Skilled at Archery 4,000 Years ago, Reveals New Research
A reassessment of five Egyptian royal women from 4,000 years ago revealed they were skilled archers rather than merely symbolic weapon owners. Researchers identified strong muscle attachments and healed fractures in skeletal remains that indicated actual archery practice.
Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation
Moonshot AI plans to list on the Hong Kong exchange within six months at a valuation exceeding $30 billion. The three-year-old startup has distributed a shareholder resolution supporting the IPO and is completing a fundraising round.
Coffee may help the body fight stress and aging through a hidden cellular switch
Coffee compounds activate NR4A1, a cellular receptor that protects against stress, inflammation, and damage. Plant-based compounds like caffeic acid proved far more active than caffeine in triggering this protective response.
Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
An open benchmark named WANDR containing 500 evidence-heavy tasks evaluates whether research agents can discover multiple qualifying entities with cited, re-verifiable evidence. Perplexity Search as Code achieved the highest scores at 0.363 soft F1 and 0.133 hard F1 on the evaluation harness.
Scientists just discovered a lost branch of Australia’s marsupials
Fossils from Queensland revealed a previously unknown marsupial order that survived in Australia for approximately 35 million years. The discovery challenges the existing theory that all Australian marsupials descended from a single ancestral lineage.
Michael Saylor Calls Corporate Bitcoin Adoption Necessary and Inevitable
Michael Saylor states corporations are essential for Bitcoin to achieve success as global money due to efficiency, scale, and trust considerations. He characterizes corporate Bitcoin adoption as necessary and inevitable.
Common antidepressant may ease long COVID’s crushing fatigue
Fluvoxamine, a low-cost antidepressant, significantly reduced fatigue and improved quality of life in a randomized clinical trial of 399 adults with long COVID compared to placebo. This represents one of the first medications to show meaningful benefits for the condition.
Kimi K3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.2: Open Trillion-Scale MoE Models Compared on Benchmarks, License, and Serving Cost
Three trillion-scale mixture-of-experts models with open weights were compared across benchmarks, licensing terms, and serving costs. The comparison evaluated Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and GLM-5.2 using measured intelligence scores and practical deployment expenses.
Fifa to announce record $15bn World Cup revenue, smashing expectations
FIFA generated $15 billion in World Cup revenue, exceeding its original $11 billion projection. Hospitality and secondary ticket sales drove the increase, with FIFA collecting 15 percent from both buyers and sellers in the resale market.
Others Dreamed of His Basketball Career But He Wanted to Help People–He’s Now a Texas Police Officer
A 7-foot-3-inch man declined basketball opportunities to become a Texas police officer instead. Jordan Wilmore chose law enforcement work over pursuing an athletic career as one of college basketball's tallest players.
NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking
DeepStream 9.1 introduces 13 agentic skills enabling coding agents to build multi-camera video analytics pipelines from natural-language prompts. Multi-View 3D Tracking fuses per-camera detections into a shared 3D world with globally consistent object IDs while AutoMagicCalib removes manual camera calibration.
Daughter Saves Dad’s Struggling Shoe Shop With TikTok Appeal—And Customer Lines Out the Door
A daughter posted about Y2K kitten heels from her father's vintage Italian shoe shop on TikTok, attracting customers to the previously struggling store. Rich Collection Italia, owned for over 30 years, now has lines outside its door after the social media appeal reached younger shoppers online.
Scientists use relay synthesis to create key building blocks of reserve antibiotic to combat resistance
Scientists synthesized key building blocks of Neosorangicin A using relay synthesis for the first time in a laboratory setting. This naturally occurring substance can now be developed as a reserve antibiotic to combat resistant bacteria.
China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.
ZTE's NaviX Ultra smartphone, running ByteDance's Doubao AI agent and activated by voice or dedicated button, sold out within hours of its showcase at Shanghai's World AI Conference. The device comes in four colors and was prototyped in December.
Kraken Expands Access to Crypto Options with New Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) Contracts
Kraken introduced new options contracts for Bitcoin and Ethereum to expand derivatives trading access for professional and institutional investors. The exchange, which also offers stock trading, aims to make sophisticated crypto options available to a broader user base.