The New York Times

In the Fastest-Warming City in the U.S., These Artists See Hope

At the Nevada Museum of Art, five examples of artist-activists shining a light on the Great Basin Desert and beyond. By Jonathan Griffin Reported in Reno, Nev. Reno, Nev., was born in the silver and ...

Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

Sapient researchers trained a 1B reasoning model on just 40B tokens — scoring competitively with 2B-7B models at a fraction ...

I built a maths model to simulate the World Cup a million times. Find out your team’s chances

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is one of the most watched events of the international sports calendar, and fans from across the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Lecturer Was Investigated Under Indiana’s Intellectual-Diversity Law. Now She’s Out of a Job.

Jessica Adams, who taught in Indiana University at Bloomington’s School of Social Work, was the subject of a student ...

Mint Explainer: Is AI coming for the world's back-office?

Opendoor's decision to wind down its 250-person India operation in favour of small, AI-native US teams has renewed questions ...
Scientific American

See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back

Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least ...