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Brand Hype Has Existed Since the Bronze Age, Scientists Discover
Scientists have identified a Bronze Age pottery tradition as one of the earliest examples of branding, proving humanity’s attraction to reliable commodities…
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Whatnot announced on Wednesday it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning firm focused on…
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The Apple FaceID Co-Inventor Building a Frontier AI Model for the Human Brain
Gidi Littwin, the co-inventor of FaceID and the Vision Pro, has spent six years…
15 Jul 2026
Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
Google Images is launching a Pinterest-style redesign that turns the search engine into a…
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Skyfall AI Releases MORPHEUS: A Persistent Enterprise Simulation Benchmark That Makes Continual Reinforcement Learning Necessary Under Structured Non-Stationarity
Skyfall AI has launched MORPHEUS, a persistent enterprise simulation benchmark designed to test continual…
13 Jul 2026
What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence firm valued at nearly $1 trillion, has identified a hidden…
13 Jul 2026
Meet NeuroVFM: A New Neuroimaging Foundation Model Trained With Vol-JEPA on Uncurated Clinical MRI and CT Volumes
Frontier models usually train on public internet data, but clinical neuroimaging is rarely available…
13 Jul 2026
Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have demonstrated that a printer-sized quantum computer…
12 Jul 2026
Scientists Solve Mystery of Bizarre ‘Alien Megastructure’ Star
Researchers have identified a giant planet orbiting Tabby’s Star, offering a natural explanation for…
11 Jul 2026
Ant Group’s Robbyant Unveils LingBot-VA 2.0: A Causal Video-Action Model Built Natively for Physical AI
Robbyant, the embodied AI unit within Ant Group, has released LingBot-VA 2.0. This is…
11 Jul 2026