Mathematicians breathe new life into ancient enumerative geometry by using motivic homotopy theory to solve decades-old counting problems across multiple number systems, transforming a once-stagnant field into an exciting frontier that attracts young researchers.
AI companies burn through hundreds of billions in investor funds with no profitability path, needing to generate $800 billion to $2 trillion by 2030 while currently making only $45 billion annually, creating a massive bubble that threatens economic catastrophe affecting hundreds of millions when it inevitably bursts.
US military's revolutionary Epirus Leonidas microwave weapon achieves flawless 100% accuracy rate by destroying 61 drones in live testing, including simultaneously downing 49 drones with one pulse, marking a breakthrough in anti-swarm defense technology.
RNA structure prediction remains far behind protein prediction as AlphaFold3 struggles with RNA's extreme flexibility, with only 7,759 RNA structures mapped versus 216,212 proteins, though most RNA therapeutics like mRNA vaccines rely on secondary structure which scientists can now predict with high accuracy.
Meta unveils 'Vibes,' an AI-powered video platform delivering endless streams of music video-style clips featuring pets and landscapes, but users slam it as an 'infinite slop machine' that prioritizes technical polish over meaningful storytelling in Zuckerberg's quest to create an MTV-like scrolling experience.
MIT spinoff Liquid AI unveils six revolutionary Liquid Nano AI models with up to 2.6 billion parameters that run directly on smartphones and laptops, matching larger cloud-based systems while offering free commercial use for smaller companies under $10 million revenue.
Google launches an AI agent tool that lets users query vast public datasets on health, climate, census, and economics through simple natural language commands, eliminating the need for complex coding and enabling policy analysts to instantly access millions of datapoints for research and analysis.
Companies scramble to address a human skills crisis as AI integration makes creativity and collaboration more critical than ever, yet only 35% offer development programs while breakthrough AI-powered tutoring delivers personalized learning 32% better and 23% faster than traditional training methods.
Scientists develop groundbreaking 'manifold Muon' algorithm that prevents neural networks from breaking down during training by constraining weight matrices to maintain unit condition numbers, achieving higher accuracy than existing methods in early tests.
OpenAI releases GPT-5-Codex, a specialized AI that achieves 51% accuracy on code refactoring tasks and operates autonomously for over seven hours, dramatically outperforming standard GPT-5 while using 94% fewer tokens on simple coding requests.