We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

Recursive language models (RLMs) are an inference technique developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL that treat long prompts as an external environment to the model. Instead of forcing the entire prompt ...

Artificial Intelligence 'I violated every principle I was given': AI agent deletes company's entire database in 9 seconds, then confesses Cancer New AI model spots pancreatic cancer up to 3 years ...

When I last covered the self-styled TechBio company Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (RXRX) in early October, I was attempting to find reasons why the company's share price was on the rise, up from ~$4 ...

After 12 years leading Utah-based techbio company Recursion, CEO Chris Gibson is stepping down. Recursion’s R&D head and Chief Commercial Officer Najat Khan will become CEO effective Jan. 1. Gibson co ...

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement. The goal is ...

RXRX stock looks like a deep-value growth bet at just $5 and change. Though the technology is exciting, I’m not rushing into shares just yet. The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top ...

The busy box that is your brain is hard at work all day long—and it doesn’t quit when you’re asleep. Not only does your brain fill your slumber with dreams, it also goes right on solving the problems ...