Research Correspondent
Elena Voss covers model development and the ideas behind new research. Her beat follows the distance between a promising paper and a result that holds up outside the lab. She favors clear explanations, original sources and questions that a benchmark score alone cannot answer.
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The world of typography just got a little more interesting, and a whole lot more programmable. A new monospaced font, Xenia, has emerged from the digital workshop of Loretta1982, and it's not just the...
Read article →The cryptocurrency market, never one for the faint of heart, is experiencing a brutal reckoning. According to a new analysis by CoinGecko, a staggering 53% of the 20.2 million crypto tokens launched s...
Read article →The promise of AI-powered search took a hit today as DuckDuckGo abruptly disabled its AI-Assisted Answers feature. The move, announced late last night, comes after a period of user feedback suggesting...
Read article →Elon Musk is setting an aggressive pace in the AI silicon race, revealing plans for a new AI processor release every nine months. This cadence significantly outstrips industry stalwarts like Nvidia an...
Read article →The convergence of artificial intelligence and robotics is generating significant buzz, now dubbed "Physical AI." But is this a genuine paradigm shift, or just the latest tech industry hype cycle? Fro...
Read article →RunPod, the AI application hosting service, has announced a $120 million annual revenue run rate. This milestone, achieved just four years after its launch, highlights RunPod's rapid ascent in the bur...
Read article →Greenpeace has launched an ambitious pilot project bringing heat pumps and solar power to a Ukrainian community, aiming to provide sustainable energy solutions amidst ongoing challenges. The initiativ...
Read article →In a breakthrough that could redefine the speed and efficiency of reinforcement learning (RL), Perplexity AI has announced a novel weight transfer technique enabling RL post-training in under two seco...
Read article →The hype surrounding artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, reminiscent of the dot-com boom of the late 90s. But beneath the surface of soaring valuations and breathless media coverage, a ...
Read article →The race to build the next generation of AI tools is heating up, but one crucial element is often overlooked: privacy. Moxie Marlinspike, renowned cryptographer and founder of Signal, is stepping into...
Read article →For years, the image of the software engineer has been that of a coding wizard, head down in the IDE, churning out lines of code. That stereotype, while never entirely accurate, is becoming increasing...
Read article →The lines between design and artificial intelligence continue to blur with the emergence of Figma-use, a command-line interface (CLI) that allows AI agents to directly interact with and manipulate Fig...
Read article →Eight years ago, the first dedicated AI chips, or Neural Processing Units (NPUs), began appearing in our smartphones, promising a revolution in on-device intelligence. Today, while these chips have un...
Read article →January 2026 was poised to be a pivotal month for the cryptocurrency industry. After years of lobbying and debate, the CLARITY Act, designed to establish a clear regulatory framework for digital asset...
Read article →A piece of computing history has finally sprung to life. After being incorrectly assembled nearly half a century ago, a vintage 1974 Altair 8800 computer has successfully executed its first program in...
Read article →Reliance Retail, India's largest retail chain, has announced a peak of 1.6 million daily quick commerce orders in Q4 2025, signaling a potential shift in the rapidly evolving Indian market. This figur...
Read article →Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy Z TriFold, expected to be a centerpiece of CES 2026, is generating buzz, but not all of it is positive. The core issue? Its size. It seems Samsung is walking a tigh...
Read article →The AI landscape is about to shift again. OpenAI, the company behind the groundbreaking ChatGPT, has announced it will begin testing advertisements within its free and 'Go' subscription tiers. This mo...
Read article →The ongoing feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI has taken a dramatic turn. According to recent court filings, Musk is now seeking a staggering $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming...
Read article →Black Forest Labs (BFL), a German AI startup formed by ex-Stability AI engineers, just dropped FLUX.2 [klein], a new open-source AI image generator promising blazing-fast speeds. We're talking sub-sec...
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