The Heliostar 76 brings you the Sun

Although I’ve spent decades as a deep-sky observer, I’ve always been fascinated by the Sun. Solar observing offers clear advantages: It’s accessible anywhere, immune to light pollution, and doesn’t require staying up late. Best of all, the Sun is dynamic. The view changes daily. While white-light filters are great for […]

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train  —  Chinese startup Moonshot on Thursday released its latest generative artificial intelligence model which claims to beat OpenAI’s ChatGPT in …