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The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI

President Donald Trump said he's discussing deals "where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."

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Who Will Win the 2026 Soccer World Cup?

Building a forecast from Elo, Poisson, and 10,000 simulations The post Who Will Win the 2026 Soccer World Cup? appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Scientists Discover Hidden Symmetry on Earth That Nobody Can Explain

The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker.

My SciPy ODE Solver Was Killing My Bayesian Inference: A Cosmologist’s Honest Account of Discovering Diffrax

what it costs, what it gains and the three mistakes that I make The post My SciPy ODE Solver Was Killing My Bayesian Inference: A Cosmologist’s Honest Account of Discovering Diffrax appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Persona Atlas: Mapping How Famous Minds Think

LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)

A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem?

Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it

In the end, the three companies involved all point the finger at each other.

Thousand Token Wood: shipping a multi-agent economy on a 3B model

Highly reviewed speaker can be hacked over the air to infect connected devices

Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn't consider the behavior a vulnerability.

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Now’s not the time to wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.

Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test

The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.

The saga of the International Space Station air leak took a worrying turn Friday

"We look forward to working with Roscosmos on a collaborative approach to address the leaks."

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.

S&P 500 blocks fast SpaceX entry, won’t waive rule for unprofitable AI firms

SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.

"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

Developer felt "beaten up," with "no choice" but to shrink data center.

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck creators are going ...

Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era

Nicolas Cage was born to play 1930s PI Ben Reilly/The Spider: part Bogart, part Bugs Bunny, 100% Cage-y.

ICE’s Plan to Let Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify Immigration Status

ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.