The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys combine data from three separate, smaller surveys — the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall Z-band Legacy Survey — to create a catalog of some 4 billion objects in the night sky. This stunning image of spiral galaxy M96 […]
Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data
Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet. This artist’s concept released on Oct. 5, 2026, depicts that possible explanation. The white dwarf is the “dead” core of a star that burned through all of its nuclear […]
Showstoppers: The Most Viewed Custom Motorcycles of September 2026
Hard work doesn’t go unnoticed in the custom motorcycle scene, whether it’s cast…
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge
For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of what the data means in the context of individual organizations. AI agents need this understanding to reason about […]
Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August — Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation, the AI chip startup is already […]