Russia Plague Scare: What to Know About Fears of an Outbreak

Russian authorities aren’t saying much about the death of a woman who worked in a lab studying plague. But experts say any risk of contagion would be limited.
An experimental tour-de-force: Entanglement between glass bead and light

Getting a glass bead to act like a quantum object by entangling it with light.
Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal

A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.
Nana Patekar laid to rest with full state honours at Pune farmhouse

Nana Patekar laid to rest with full state honours at Pune farmhouse
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sold his AI filmmaking startup to Netflix earlier this year, is proving he’s more than just a…
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab’s annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it’s a whole lot less than that.
Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can delegate work to subagents, use multiple AI models, and even gets its own workplace identit…
Adidas sues Australian label White Fox over four stripes design

The German sportswear brand wants the Sydney-based label to stop selling the clothes and pay damages.
CJP claims spokesperson picked up by Rajasthan police ahead of October 10 protest

CJP claims spokesperson picked up by Rajasthan police ahead of October 10 protest