This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion — a nearly threefold increase from the $8.1 billion valuation the Nvidia rival had reached just six months earlier. While the round was led by Tiger Global, a huge part of the new capital came from one of the...

Money could become harder to come by for European scientists if the overall European Research Council pot does not dramatically increase.Credit: Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty The number of US-based researchers applying to prestigious grants that would see them relocate to Europe has more than doubled in the last year.According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), applications from the...

Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of an NBC News presenter, is believed to have been abducted from her home in Tucson, Arizona. Source link...

When Amari Robinson was just 10 years old, she discovered a love for Black history, and a desire to share what she was learning with others. Her passion has grown into Betcha Didn’t Know (BDK), a multimedia brand designed to make learning Black history an engaging experience. Source link...

(RNS) — An animated film made by and for Muslims will hit hundreds of U.S. and Canadian movie theaters this weekend, marking a milestone for Muslim children’s representation on the big screen.  The movie, “Time Hoppers: The Silk Road,” follows four gifted students who travel back in time on a mission to protect historical Muslim scientists from an evil, time-bending...

Synthetic materials are widely used across science, engineering, and industry, but most are designed to perform only a narrow range of tasks. A research team at Penn State set out to change that. Led by Hongtao Sun, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering (IME), the group developed a new fabrication technique that can produce multifunctional "smart synthetic skin." These...

Scientists at Cleveland-based institutions have uncovered a surprising new switch that helps the body make fat -- and turning it off had dramatic effects. Obesity and fatty liver disease are becoming more common worldwide as diets grow more calorie-dense and daily life becomes less active. Scientists in Cleveland have identified a previously unknown enzyme that the body needs in order...

Jan 31, 2026; Columbia, Missouri, USA; Missouri Tigers head coach Dennis Gates gestures to players against the Mississippi State Bulldogs during the second half of the game at Mizzou Arena. Mandatory Credit: Denny Medley-Imagn Images As Missouri battles to make the NCAA Tournament's field of 68, perhaps the most important number it needs to pay attention to is 332. That...

You know that moment when you’re sitting at a cafe in Lisbon, or watching the sunset from a Greek island, and you think “I want to remember this feeling, not just take another photo”? And phone cameras are such good quality these days, but somehow scrolling through 500 nearly identical shots of that temple doesn’t bring back the smell of...

To further help bring your ML Kit Prompt API use cases to production, we are excited to announce Automated Prompt Optimization (APO) targeting On-Device models on Vertex AI. Automated Prompt Optimization is a tool that helps you automatically find the optimal prompt for your use cases.The era of On-Device AI is no longer a promise—it is a production reality. With...