Uncovering M96’s violent past

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 […]

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 […]