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Webb finds a tiny galaxy behind the most distant radio burst
The signal came from an era when the universe was about 3 billion years old.
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SPHEREx reads the chemistry of 37 brown dwarfs
The observations expose gaps in models of the clouds surrounding these star-like objects.
Business & Startups
Atomic Machines unveils a fast switch built from digital code
The company says tiny moving contacts let PrimeSwitch open in 50 microseconds.
Business & Startups
Type One Energy raises $200 million for stellarator fusion
The funding supports a prototype and a planned power plant at Tennessee’s Bull Run site.
Business & Startups
Oratomic reports $775 million raised for quantum computers
The figure is total funding since March, rather than the size of a single new round.
AI
Reflection previews Beam, with downloadable weights due in October
Its own tests show that efficiency claims do not mean it beats the strongest rivals.
AI
Mistral opens Large 4 preview, with model downloads still to come
The model reads text and images, but its weights are due at the end of October.
AI
Anthropic cuts the price of small AI tasks with Haiku 5.5
Requests with prompts over 100,000 tokens use a higher price tier.
Science
Venomous snakes are more likely to stand out than hide
A study of more than 450 species found that venomous snakes contrast more with their surroundings, often in red and yellow.
Security
Times Car breach exposes 6.6 million accounts, 1.6 million ID images
Attackers got into the Japanese car-sharing service's web systems. Driver's license images and other identity documents were among the data.
Science
Two new giant stick insects found in Australia, one with lidded eggs
What scientists thought were two species turned out to be five. One lays eggs with a ringed lid never seen before in stick insects.
AI
MIT tool lets people fix AI-made 3D models before printing them
Nearly 80 percent of the 3D models an AI generator made had structural flaws. Novices using InstructMesh found and fixed them about 90 percent of the time.