Open with CtrlK — press Esc to close
A ball comes in at a humanoid robot standing in a Caltech lab. It has no motion-capture rig watching the room, no external tracker, no operator feeding it coordinates. All it has is a camera on its…
Every quantum computer that corrects its own errors is running a race against itself. The hardware measures its qubits over and over, thousands of times a second, and each round produces a small…
Put a drop of nutrient solution on this cloth and, a few days later, fine fuzz has grown exactly where the drop landed. Its makers have written their institute's logo that way, along with snowflakes,…
The hardest part was never the motor. It was the listening. When a person's hand still works, the brain sends a clean order down the nerves and the muscles snap to it. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…
Time on a synchrotron beamline is one of the scarcer resources in experimental science. These facilities (building-sized machines that whip electrons around a ring to produce intense X-rays) are…
Ask a large language model why it answered the way it did and it will happily tell you. The problem is that the answer it gives and the computation it ran are not the same thing. Somewhere inside, a…
A launch chart and an independent audit looked at the same model this week and came away telling almost opposite stories. On 26 June, OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 "Sol," presenting its own benchmark…
When a new large language model launches, the release blog almost always comes with a table of benchmarks colored in its own favor. Kimi K3's did too. Moonshot AI, the Beijing lab behind the Kimi…
Every quantum engineer spends their career at war with the same opponent. A qubit holds its delicate state for only so long before energy bleeds away into its surroundings and the information…
Quantum computers have a fragility problem. The quantum states that give them their power are easily disturbed, and a stray bit of noise can scramble a calculation before it finishes. One of the most…
Picture a cloud of specks too small to see without a microscope, drifting through a maze of obstacles none of them has ever encountered. No one is at the joystick. The specks fan out, squeeze through…