Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup. Savi Security seeks to protect everyday folks from the new crop of incredibly convincing…
Space is becoming the next frontier in longevity research. A British startup just launched self-run chemical experiments into orbit, in the hopes zero-gravity data might shine a light on a group of disease-causing proteins too difficult to study on Earth. But first they need to check their autonomous laboratory will work in space. Mass Balance’s…
Last week, somewhere amid the World Cup frenzy, a now-viral video circulated of Norwegian striker Erling Haaland mid-mouthful in a restaurant, glancing left and flinching at his own reflection. One post on X sharing the video racked up more than 31 million views in mere days. But here’s the thing: It isn’t him. Fact checkers…
Forterra, a US builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any US defense tech company. “I believe this to…
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp started to roll out username reservations for its 3 billion users earlier in June. The username feature is not active, but you can claim your username and start using it whenever the feature becomes available this year. With usernames, people will be able to share their WhatsApp contact without having to…
Tencent’s Hy team released Hy3. Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model. It activates only 21B parameters per token. The weights ship under the Apache License 2.0. Hy3 is aimed at reasoning, agentic workflows, and long-context tasks. What is Hy3? Hy3’s architecture contains a sparse MoE with 192 experts and top-8 routing. Only 8 experts…
OpenAI has released two new Realtime models in its API. They are named gpt-realtime-2.1 and gpt-realtime-2.1-mini. Both target low-latency voice and multimodal experiences. The mini model is the notable part of this release. It is a mini reasoning model for realtime voice. It ships at the same cost as the earlier gpt-realtime-mini. OpenAI also reduced…
Providing a uncommon glimpse on the priorities of a prime spy group, Canada’s Communications Safety Institution (CSE) stated it performed a handful of state-authorized hacks final 12 months with a purpose to disrupt the operations of drug traffickers, violent extremists, and a ransomware gang. The disclosures within the Canadian intelligence agency’s annual report underscore a…
South Korean reminiscence chipmaker SK Hynix, rival to Samsung and U.S.-based Micron, is planning to promote practically 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, the corporate said on Monday. Ought to its shares promote nicely (and there’s indication that they are going to), the corporate may elevate round $28 billion, based mostly on SK Hynix’s…
banner(“[2/9] BIOACTIVITY MINING (ChEMBL activities -> pIC50)”) def pull_activities(tid, cap): url, rows = f”{BASE}/activity”, [] params = {“target_chembl_id”: tid, “standard_type”: “IC50”, “pchembl_value__isnull”: “false”, “limit”: 1000, “format”: “json”} js = http_json(url, params) pages = 0 while js and pages < 60: rows.extend(js.get(“activities”, [])) pages += 1 if len(rows) >= cap: break nxt = js.get(“page_meta”, {}).get(“next”) if…
