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Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.

Proteins: A Mosaic Pattern to Rule Them All?

For decades, the existence of the hydrophobic core, a region in the 3D structure of proteins where hydrophobic amino acids reside together, has been considered a general property in proteins. What we have found now may extend that model. In particular, the rest of amino acids also seem to cluster...

Stellantis, Wayve and Uber to Develop Global Robotaxi

Three auto industry heavyweights collaborate on an ambitious plan.

Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die

Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.

If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

Dispatching the Parsed RAG Question: Chunk Strategy, Model Tier, Activations, Audit

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #6c] - The decisions the parser makes on top of the user string, using the document’s profile: dispatch, activations, full schema, three approaches to deciding what fires, the audit _meta block, and a broker-corpus walkthrough The post Dispatching the Parse...

Salesforce’s Internal AI Leaderboard Has Teams Competing for Little Trophies

The leaderboard, sorted by executive and the teams underneath them, has a feature that shows users which employees have not earned the badges. “click to see who 👀,” the leaderboard says.

The Power and Pitfalls of Vector-Based Image Search

A hands-on guide to setting up image similarity search in Milvus, and why visual replication isn't always enough. The post The Power and Pitfalls of Vector-Based Image Search appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

HSBC expands AI banking partnership with Google Cloud

HSBC has entered a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to develop and deploy artificial intelligence tools across its global operations. Announced at Google Cloud Summit London 2026, the agreement covers work in wealth management, financial crime risk management, and internal decision suppor...

Microsoft sells OpenAI models in China. OpenAI and Anthropic won’t.

Microsoft has quietly become the main supplier of OpenAI models in China, selling the technology to the country’s largest internet companies even as OpenAI and Anthropic keep their own models out of the market on intellectual-property and misuse grounds. The arrangement, detailed this week by Blo...

Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

Hulk, Punisher join Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer

Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

Is it agentic enough? Benchmarking open models on your own tooling

Beyond LoRA: Can you beat the most popular fine-tuning technique?

Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy

Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."

Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX’s board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.