Four representatives of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force have been installed at the National Institutes of Health, according to multiple sources. WIRED reporting shows not only which DOGE members are at the NIH but also the sensitive financial system at least some of them... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic just fired a warning shot at OpenAI, DeepSeek and the entire AI industry with the launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a model that gives users unprecedented control over how... Read more

Elon Musk’s xAI announced its latest artificial intelligence flagship model, Grok 3, on Monday. The company also announced Grok 3 mini, a scaled-back version, plus the addition of DeepSearch, a new tool that the company calls a next-generation search engine. xAI has added new functionality for Grok 3 web... Read more

Bongino pushed the conspiracy theory that the Trump campaign was being spied on, a situation he dubbed “spygate” and called “the biggest scandal in American history.” During one show, discussing the pushback against the nomination of Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, Bongino said, “My entire life right now is... Read more

Balatro, the wildly successful indie game that portrays a mystical and decidedly fictionalized deck of cards dependent on the magical powers of various Joker cards, has finally had its age rating re-evaluated in Europe by the Pan-European Game Information (PEGI) board months after it was classified as a game... Read more

2025 includes a full schedule of meteor showers. They come around every year like clockwork and that means planning shooting star trips can be done months in advance. Here’s a look at what’s happening when, and how you can watch. Tips for watching To have the best odds of seeing... Read more

The difference between a conventional model and a reasoning one is similar to the two types of thinking described by the Nobel-prize-winning economist Michael Kahneman in the book 2011 Thinking Fast and Slow: fast and instinctive System-1 thinking; and slower more deliberative System-2 thinking. The kind of model that... Read more

Acid Labs has raised $8 million in funding for its instantly playable Web3 games on social messaging platforms. The company’s mission is to build viral instant games where people already connect. The studio already has a breakout hit in Boinkers.io, which has 11.5 million monthly players on Telegram. The... Read more

Apple’s newest phone, the $599 iPhone 16E, breaks with the company’s usual September launch timeline and instead will be released on Friday, Feb. 28. In fact, you can preorder the 16E right now. The new iPhone offers a unique appeal: Get some of the iPhone 16’s best features (a... Read more

The basic machine for grinding a steel ball bearing has been the same since around 1900, but manufacturers have been steadily automating everything around it. Today, the process is driven by a conveyor belt, and, for the most part, it’s automatic. The most urgent task for humans is to... Read more