Africa is witnessing an AI revolution, fueled by governments crafting policies to attract investment and nurture talent, and tech giants like Cassava and Huawei establishing AI hubs, as exemplified by a major summit in Rwanda bringing together over 1,000 stakeholders.
SoftBank Group plans to invest up to $40 billion in OpenAI, with $10 billion upfront and up to $30 billion more by 2026, to support OpenAI's quest for Artificial General Intelligence and ultimately Artificial Super Intelligence for the advancement of humanity.
Google-backed AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs secured a staggering $600 million in funding led by Thrive Capital, fueling its AI engine's development and advancing partnerships with pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly and Novartis worth billions to revolutionize drug design.
Prototaxites, enigmatic fossilized 'tree trunks' dating back over 400 million years, may represent an entirely new branch of life, distinct from fungi and other known organisms, challenging our understanding of Earth's ancient biodiversity.
Intensifying the global AI race, Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled a powerful upgrade to its language model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities while offering cost advantages.
OpenAI's groundbreaking o3 model, combining deep learning and program search, shattered records with a remarkable 75.7% score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, showcasing unprecedented task adaptation capabilities, yet falling short of true AGI as tougher challenges loom.
A bizarre glitch caused the word 'yes' to be replaced with 'forks' in some online surveys, including a Pew Research Center survey in 2024, due to a browser auto-translation error, but Pew ensured data quality by assessing the issue's scale and comparing response patterns.
In a groundbreaking discovery that challenges cosmic evolution models, two teams of astronomers have detected oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant known galaxy, suggesting galaxies formed and matured much faster than expected in the early Universe, with ALMA playing a crucial role.
ReCamMaster, a groundbreaking AI technique, enables generating novel camera trajectories for in-the-wild videos through video conditioning, backed by the MultiCamVideo dataset and open-source code, pre-trained models, and training instructions for the Wan2.1 model.
AI startups are facing backlash from academics for exploiting the peer review process by submitting AI-generated studies to conferences without consent, undermining the volunteer-based system and prompting calls for a regulated agency to evaluate such papers and compensate reviewers.