A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet can help some people lose weight, and some research has shown that it may protect against colon cancer. But a new study suggests that such a ketogenic diet may also increase the risk of cancer in the small intestine. This type of diet forces the body to burn fatty acids instead…
The average American throws out around 81 pounds of clothing each year, and there are few options for recycling it. MIT engineers hope to cut down on that textile waste with a new type of yarn.  The thermoplastic yarn mimics the properties of conventional elastic yarns, which typically combine spandex with polyester or nylon. Those…
When Tristan Brown, an associate professor of history at MIT, first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed at Old South Meeting House, he had no reason to doubt its story. Descendants of the Boston blacksmith Thomas Wells had donated the label in 1987, saying it had been recovered after colonial protesters threw tea into…
Given that water is 1,000 times denser than air, moving through those two mediums requires very different mechanics—or so one might assume. Yet birds like gulls and puffins can plunge into the sea, swim underwater, and leap back into the air to fly away. And now engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have…
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO.
The US Department of Homeland Security has disclosed an exclusion order against DeepSeek nearly three months after it took effect, requiring federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek software and any third-party products built on DeepSeek implementations. The order treats model weight provenance as a supply-chain security issue and signals a replicable template for reviewing Chinese AI models.
WDCD Run #390 (2026-10-21) tested 15 AI models on multi-turn commitment integrity, recording an average instruction decay of -60% from Round 1 to Round 3. GPT-6 Luna topped the leaderboard with a perfect 100 points.
Ukraine’s latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.
Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.
It's probably time to audit your Gemini settings.
Meta changes AI scraping policy but won’t add language respecting robots.txt.
The 2026-10-21 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 14 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 taking first place for the day at 84.9 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test suited to spotting short-term signals, and it is not equivalent to the conclusions of the weekly Full leaderboard.
Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.
Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.
TikTok and other sites were told to curb protest footage and AI-altered images, while online retailers like Vinted and eBay reportedly signed an agreement stop looted goods from flooding resale sites.
The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Hysteria over the agent's appearance in a 7,500-person group reveals that internet experts have outdated notions of privacy.
Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity becomes infrastructure, every process depends on it, and the question changes from “can we use it?” to “how efficiently are we using it?”…
Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line. As generative AI and automation tools mature, the shifts currently reshaping software engineering and product management will inevitably…
