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Elon Musk's New Grok 4 Takes on ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ as the AI Race Heats Up
11 July 2025 @ 6:30 pm
Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s o3 on tough benchmarks
Marjorie Taylor Greene Plans Hearing on Geoengineering amid Cloud Seeding Conspiracy Theories
11 July 2025 @ 3:30 pm
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has said she will hold a hearing on geoengineering as conspiracy theories have swirled around cloud seeding after the recent floods in Texas
Waste Wars Tracks the 'Wild Afterlife' of Garbage on an International Black Market
11 July 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Alexander Clapp, author of new nonfiction book 'Waste Wars,' tracks the world-wide blackmarket trade of our garbage
We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells
11 July 2025 @ 11:00 am
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series
ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation
11 July 2025 @ 11:00 am
Words frequently used by ChatGPT, including “delve” and “meticulous,” are getting more common in spoken language, according to an analysis of more than 700,000 hours of videos and podcasts
Water on Mars Probably Doesn’t Explain These Weird Streaks
11 July 2025 @ 10:45 am
A new global overview of Mars suggests dust, rather than water, is the source of mysterious streaks there
How and Why Humans Began to Sing, a Musicology and Neuroscience Perspective
11 July 2025 @ 10:00 am
Musicologists and neuroscientists have been trying to understand what turns speech into music.
Trump Names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as Interim NASA Chief
10 July 2025 @ 4:45 pm
The selection of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy to temporarily lead NASA adds to the deep political uncertainties already facing the space agency
Nanoplastics Make Up Most of the Ocean’s Plastic Pollution
10 July 2025 @ 4:30 pm
Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics are spread across just the top layer of the North Atlantic
Extreme Heat Endangers AI Data Centers
10 July 2025 @ 4:00 pm
A new analysis warns that AI facilities could be forced to stop operating because of water shortages and blackouts