AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence ...
Quanta Magazine

Distinct AI Models Seem To Converge On How They Encode Reality

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they ...

Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 2 Gives Baby Mobs a Visual Glow-Up

Check out all the new features in the latest Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 2, such as baby mob visual upgrades, Name Tag crafting ...

Hidden in storage, a University of Utah research associate happened upon the only known copy of this ‘revolutionary’ software

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

Traces of Leonardo da Vinci's DNA May Have Been Discovered on a Red Chalk Drawing Called Holy Child

Researchers suggest that they have recovered sequences from ancient works and letters that may belong to the Renaissance ...
Science Daily

These mesmerizing patterns are secretly solving hard problems

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...
Hackaday

The Rise And Fall Of The In-Car Fax Machines

Once upon a time, a car phone was a great way to signal to the world that you were better than everybody else. It was a clear ...

AI-Generated Sensors Open New Paths for Early Cancer Detection

MIT and Microsoft researchers developed an AI model that designs peptide-based molecular sensors to detect cancer-linked proteases, enabling highly sensitive, specific early cancer detection through ...

Oxford Professor Christian Rupprecht Joins Third Dimension AI as Chief Researcher

Third Dimension AI, a pioneering company in spatial generation and neural simulation, today announced that Dr. Christian ...
Leadership

Federal Civil Servants Empowered With Digital Skills

The federal government, in collaboration with the Aig-Imoukhuede Foundation, has reaffirmed its commitment to driving digital ...
XDA Developers on MSN

My home lab taught me more than my computer science degree

I studied computer science at University College Dublin, where the four-year course covered a broad range of topics. We ...

TEGUAR and SORBA.ai Bring Industrial AI to Critical Environments

TEGUAR and SORBA.ai Announce Strategic Hardware Partnership to Accelerate On-Prem Industrial AI Deployment in Critical Environments JACKSONVILLE, FL, UNITED STATES, January 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ ...