Beijing-based Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that is now the largest open-weight AI model ever made, challenging closed-source frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Fifteen years after Stuxnet destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges, the world's first digital weapon remains a blueprint for modern cyber warfare and AI-powered attacks.
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from a rocky exoplanet 49 light-years away, confirming it has an atmosphere and making it the most promising target in the hunt for life beyond Earth.
Anthropic's largest behavioural study yet, analysing 309,815 conversations, reveals Claude expresses different values across languages with Hindi responses leaning toward warmth and English toward analytical rigour.
From autonomous drones to AI-powered cyber attacks, warfare is being transformed by artificial intelligence. India has unveiled a new tri-services AI policy endorsing lethal autonomous weapon systems, drone swarms, and AI-driven cyber warfare.
A Harvard-led BMJ study of millions of workers found taxi and ambulance drivers have the lowest Alzheimer's death rates, suggesting navigation exercises may protect the brain.
NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered the largest cache of complex organic molecules yet on Mars in Jezero Crater, strengthening the case that ancient Mars may have been habitable.
A scientist has won the Coller Dolittle Prize for decoding why zebra finches make 'mistakes' while learning their songs, a discovery with profound implications for human language development and AI systems.
Microsoft's latest sustainability report reveals a 25-27% spike in carbon emissions driven by AI data center expansion, raising tough questions about the environmental cost of the AI revolution.
NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory will be the first major space telescope designed from the ground up for robotic servicing at L2, 1.5 million km from Earth.
A new AI-powered study of heart scans reveals that people with denser chest and back muscles are up to 31% less likely to have a heart attack. The key is muscle quality -- not size.
The crimson waterfall known as Blood Falls has puzzled explorers since 1911. Scientists have now linked its dramatic red bursts to pressure changes beneath Taylor Glacier solving the century-old puzzle.
A two-week expedition off Brazil discovered 31 new marine species in the ocean midwater zone, revealing alien-like creatures including transparent squid, glowing gossamer worms, and mysterious siphonophores.