Atom-swapping blueprint could streamline synthesis of pharmaceutical building blocks

Researchers from NUS have pioneered a photocatalytic atom-swapping transformation that converts oxetanes into a variety of four-membered saturated cyclic molecules, which are key scaffolds in ...
Wired

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it ...
Rolling Stone

‘SNL’ 51: Sabrina Carpenter Gets Double Duty, Doja Cat and Role Model Make Musical Guest Debuts

Role Model will also make his performance debut on the Oct. 11 episode hosted by Poehler. His single “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” arrived earlier this year and has since become a career-defining ...
The Atlantic

Tesla Wants Out of the Car Business

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Elon Musk still makes some of America’s best electric cars. Earlier this summer, I rented a brand-new, updated Tesla Model Y, the first refresh to the electric ...
Phys.org

Making diamonds with electron radiation

There are various ways to create artificial diamonds, but a new method developed by researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, yields some extra benefits. By specially preparing samples ...
IEEE

FedUIMF: Unambiguous and Imperceptible Model Fingerprinting for Secure Federated Learning on Consumer Electronic Devices

Abstract: The proliferation of consumer electronic devices has generated massive volumes of decentralized data, yet centralized training methods may potentially infringe on privacy. Consequently, ...
Futurism

Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

Many media executives are betting the future of the industry on artificial intelligence, going as far as replacing journalists in an effort to keep costs down and cash in on the hype. Worse yet, ...
CNET

Apple Is Making All Four iPhone 17 Models in India in a 'Watershed' Pivot From China, Report Says

Alex Valdes from Bellevue, Washington has been pumping content into the Internet river for quite a while, including stints at MSNBC.com, MSN, Bing, MoneyTalksNews, Tipico and more. He admits to being ...
NASCAR

Austin Hull’s dream Super Late Model season at Berlin Raceway was years in the making

With Carson Hocevar, Erik Jones, Bubba Pollard and Ty Majeski all entered in last week’s Tekton 250 Battle at Berlin, local Super Late Model points leader Austin Hull never imagined he would be the ...
TechCrunch

Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever

One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two AI models that are so tiny, they have named them after a chicken’s brain and a fly’s brain. Multiverse Computing claims these are the ...