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A $200 ChatGPT Pro subscription could represent as much as $14,000 a month in equivalent API-priced usage if pushed to its limits…

Aug 30, 2026

Humans are still cheaper than AI for most work involving tasks that computer vision could technically automate, MIT researchers found

Aug 29, 2026

Many AI reasoning models burn through long chains of intermediate tokens before answering

Aug 29, 2026

Antibiotic resistance directly kills more than a million people annually, while antibiotic discovery has stagnated

Aug 26, 2026

Singapore ranked first in Counterpoint Research’s 2025 Global AI Cities Index, ahead of Seoul, Beijing and San Francisco

Aug 19, 2026

At the bottom of the Black Sea, below about 150 metres, the water contains no oxygen at all, and shipwrecks preserved in that dead zone…

Aug 16, 2026

We tend to picture the Sahara as an eternal desert, but sediment cores and cave paintings show that as recently as 6,000 years ago it was a…

Aug 16, 2026

Microsoft's AI diagnostic system correctly solved up to 85.5% of 304 exceptionally difficult medical cases adapted from the New England…

Aug 14, 2026

The boiling river of the Peruvian Amazon runs hot enough to cook small animals that fall in, reaching 86 degrees Celsius along a four-mile…

Aug 8, 2026

In 1970, Soviet engineers landed a bathtub-sized rover called Lunokhod 1 on the Sea of Rains, drove it 10.5 kilometres across the lunar…

Aug 8, 2026

At birth, a human infant has roughly 300 separate bones held together by cartilage that will slowly fuse

Aug 8, 2026

Sardinian shepherds in the Ogliastra highlands carry a rare variant of the M26 Y-chromosome haplogroup found almost nowhere else on Earth…

Jul 18, 2026

Margaret Hamilton was 32 years old when her Apollo 11 flight software began throwing 1202 alarms during the lunar descent, and the…

Jul 17, 2026

In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher started collecting pus-soaked bandages from a nearby surgical clinic, dissolved the…

Jul 11, 2026