Starcloud plans its next power plays after training first AI model in space

Space startup's CEO talks about putting tens of thousands of satellites in orbit to serve as networked data centers.

Cosmic rays from a nearby supernova may help explain Earth-like planets

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my ...
Morning Overview on MSN

James Webb found a lemon-shaped exoplanet, and scientists are baffled

Far from our solar system, astronomers have spotted a world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed lemon, a ...
Morning Overview on MSN

JWST finds its strongest hint yet of an atmosphere on a rocky world

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest signal yet that a rocky planet outside our solar system is wrapped ...
TMCnet

Alliance for OpenUSD Announces Core Specification 1.0: The Universal Language For Building 3D Worlds

Today, the Alliance for OpenUSD ( AOUSD) announced the first OpenUSD Core Specification, now available as an open standard ...
VentureBeat

Mistral launches powerful Devstral 2 coding model including open source, laptop-friendly version

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie ...
Autoblog

Toyota Debuts 3 High-Performance Models, Including All-Electric LFA Concept

Toyota delivered an adrenaline rush on Friday (Tokyo time), including an all-electric concept expected to go into production as the next-generation Lexus supercar. Anyone who still thinks Toyota is a ...
Wired

Amazon Has New Frontier AI Models—and a Way for Customers to Build Their Own

Amazon has announced a new family of frontier artificial intelligence models—and a new way for customers to build frontier models of their own. The ecommerce giant announced the second generation of ...
Phys.org

First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close

Located in the middle of the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest continent, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is one of the most remote inhabited places on Earth. To visit it and marvel at the ...
Fast Company

Three years in, Patagonia says its radical ownership model is paying off for the planet

Three years ago, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard made an unprecedented move: he and his family gave away the company. Instead of selling the multibillion-dollar retailer or taking it public, they ...
EDN

Mastering multi-physics effects in 3D IC design

The semiconductor industry is at a pivotal moment as the limits of Moore’s Law motivate a transition to three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) technology. By vertically integrating multiple ...
Business Wire

Ai2 Launches OlmoEarth: State of the Art Foundation Models and Open Infrastructure to Tackle the Planet's Biggest Problems

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ai2 (The Allen Institute for AI) today announced the OlmoEarth Platform, the first open, end-to-end solution that transforms global satellite and sensor data into real-time ...