Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster […]

GPT-5 is here. Now what?

At long last, OpenAI has released GPT-5. The new system abandons the distinction between OpenAI’s flagship models and its o series of reasoning models, automatically routing user queries to a fast nonreasoning model or a slower reasoning version. It is now available to everyone through the ChatGPT web interface—though nonpaying […]

Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama’s newest version (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama’s newest version  —  Group is spearheading work on the latest version of Llama, the large language model that is Meta’s answer to […]