Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in minutes. This phenomenon sits at the heart of the challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Can today’s AI revolution produce models…
Hasbro’s Nano-Mals are a virtual pet that rewards fidgeting
Since the original Tamagotchi landed on store shelves 28 years ago, not much has changed in the world of virtual pets. The basic gameplay remains, with players being asked to feed, groom and play with small digital creatures inside a handheld…
This real ‘Eye of Sauron’ spits out ghost particles in space. Here’s what it looks like
For about 15 years, a powerful radio telescope on planet Earth dutifully recorded data about a location in the cosmos billions of light-years away from us — and, at last, astronomers managed to stitch together those extensive observations to reveal a…
How to run gpt-oss-20b on Mac
OpenAI’s newest gpt-oss-20b model lets your Mac run ChatGPT-style AI with no subscription, no internet, and no strings attached. Here’s how to get started. On August 5 OpenAI released its first open-weight large language models in years, allowing Mac users to…
The best Prime Video movies aren’t always loved by critics – here’s my underrated pick for August 2025
Prime Video has added 56 new movies and 13 new TV shows in August, and one title in particular really stood out to me. Even so, its poor Rotten Tomatoes score might put you off. Wolf Man is the latest Leigh…
The Download: Meet the judges using AI, and GPT-5’s health promises
The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes that humans miss has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers submitted documents citing cases that didn’t exist. Similar mistakes soon spread to…
Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1
Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and…
Hubble spots stars forming in the Tarantula nebula photo of the day for Aug. 12, 2025
Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. What is it? The Tarantula nebula is home to some…
Elon Musk cries antitrust as X & Grok can’t compete with OpenAI
Elon Musk says xAI will ‘take immediate legal action’ against Apple, which allegedly favors ChatGPT and OpenAI by never featuring Grok or X in the App Store. X is a social media app that has reached number one in the top…
I learned all about cheese with Gemini’s Guided Learning feature, and it was so easy, I’m thinking of making my own cheese
Google Gemini introduced a new feature aimed at education called Guided Learning this month. The idea is to teach you something through question-centered conversation instead of a lecture. When you ask it to teach you something, it breaks the topic down…