LLMs’ ‘Simulated Reasoning’ Abilities Are a ‘Brittle Mirage,’ Researchers Find Summary Researchers (University of Arizona, preprint) examine so-called chain-of-thought (CoT) or “simulated reasoning” in large language models. Their experiments show…
Amazon’s Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites Summary Amazon launched 24 more Kuiper internet satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 after several weather delays, bringing its in-orbit total to 102. The…
Electrolyte Highway Breakthrough Unlocks Affordable Low-Temperature Hydrogen Fuel Summary Researchers at Kyushu University have engineered a solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) electrolyte that achieves high proton conductivity at about 300°C —…
Physicists Create Quantum Radar That Could Image Buried Objects Summary Researchers have demonstrated a prototype quantum radar that uses a glass cell filled with cesium atoms in Rydberg states as…
Mozilla Under Fire For Firefox AI ‘Bloat’ That Blows Up CPU and Drains Battery Summary Firefox 141 introduced an AI-powered smart tab grouping feature that uses a local ‘Inference’ process…
Musk Threatens ‘Immediate’ Legal Action Against Apple Over Alleged Antitrust Violations Summary Elon Musk has publicly threatened “immediate” legal action against Apple, alleging antitrust behaviour tied to App Store rankings…
Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories Summary Character.AI, once a startup chasing artificial general intelligence, has repositioned itself as an entertainment company. Under CEO Karandeep Anand, the…
How does a forest return to abandoned land? I travel to find out Summary This Nature feature follows ecologist Jennifer Khattar as she studies secondary forest succession on abandoned agricultural…
No more ‘Sanity Checks.’ Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms Summary The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), a Linux Foundation project, has published an updated Inclusive Language Guide that extends…
Biochar From Human Waste Could Solve Global Fertilizer Shortages, Study Finds Summary A Cornell University study, published in PNAS and reported by Slashdot via The Guardian, finds that producing biochar…
