
Do reasoning models really “think” or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response
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Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment
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Evening Brief: Nuclear-Armed States Spent Over $100 Billion in 2024, North Korea Refloats Warship After Failed Launch
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Prepping for Starship, SpaceX is about to demolish one of ULA’s launch pads
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OpenAI launches o3-pro AI model, offering increased reliability and tool use for enterprises — while sacrificing speed
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IBM is now detailing what its first quantum compute system will look like
To address this, IBM has developed a message-passing decoder that can perform parallel evaluations of the syndrome data. The system

Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research
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U.S. Army Secretary Refers to Astronaut “On the Moon Who’s a Soldier,” Igniting Secret Space Program Conspiracies
Statements by U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll this week ignited speculations on social media about what some suspected to involve secretive U.S. military operations on the Moon. “Young Americans across the country get to see all of the amazing things that the Army has done, whether it’s helping with floods in North Carolina or wildfires in California,” Driscoll said during an appearance on Fox News. However, it was what he said next that raised so many eyebrows. “We talked to an astronaut yesterday who’s on the Moon who’s a soldier,” Driscoll said, “including actually going to war and fighting to defend the freedoms that are,

These VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp
Unlike standard fog harvesting technologies, “We’re trying to use clever geometric designs in place of chemistry,” Boreyko told Ars. “When I first came into this

U.S. Army Secretary Refers to Astronaut “On the Moon Who’s a Soldier,” Igniting Secret Space Program Conspiracies
Statements by U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll this week ignited speculations on social media about what some suspected to involve secretive U.S. military operations on

Rocket Report: New delay for Europe’s reusable rocket; SpaceX moves in at SLC-37
SpaceX tries something new with Falcon 9. With nearly 500 launches under its belt, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket isn’t often up to new tricks. But the

James Webb Space Telescope Spots Source of ‘Extreme’ Redshift 7 Ultraviolet Light Powering Cosmic Reionization
Scientists studying data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope believe they have identified extremely bright galaxy clusters formed in the redshift 7 phase of

Experimental retina implants give mice infrared vision
Finally, the tellurium meshes, especially the infrared vision capability they offered, were tested on healthy macaques, an animal model that’s much closer to humans than

Scientists built a badminton-playing robot with AI-powered skills
It also learned fall avoidance and determined how much risk was reasonable to take given its limited speed. The robot did not attempt impossible plays

Evening Brief: Nuclear-Armed States Spent Over $100 Billion in 2024, North Korea Refloats Warship After Failed Launch
As the week wraps up, catch up with SOFREP’s Evening Brief, delivering the top defense and global affairs stories for June 13, 2025. Nuclear states

James Webb Space Telescope Spots Source of ‘Extreme’ Redshift 7 Ultraviolet Light Powering Cosmic Reionization
Scientists studying data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope believe they have identified extremely bright galaxy clusters formed in

Formidable Shield 25: Italian Navy participation with the first Full PPA a success
The first Italian Navy Full-configuration Multi-Purpose Combat Ship (MPCS)/PPA (Pattugliatore Polivalente d’Altura) Giovanni delle Bande Nere (P 434), delivered by

U.S. Army Secretary Refers to Astronaut “On the Moon Who’s a Soldier,” Igniting Secret Space Program Conspiracies
Statements by U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll this week ignited speculations on social media about what some suspected to involve secretive U.S. military operations on

James Webb Space Telescope Spots Source of ‘Extreme’ Redshift 7 Ultraviolet Light Powering Cosmic Reionization
Scientists studying data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope believe they have identified extremely bright galaxy clusters formed in the redshift 7 phase of

TEMPS (Transportable Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator) Final Reports, 1973
The two volumes of the TEMPS (Transportable Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator) Final Report, dated August 1973 and prepared for the Defense Nuclear Agency by Physics International

FBI Releases Internal Emails on Comey Following FOIA Appeal Win by The Black Vault
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Newly Released Navy Emails Reveal UAP Coordination, Five Eyes Briefings, and Forgotten Redactions
In a newly released batch of internal U.S. Navy emails, obtained by The Black Vault through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed in

What the U.S. Military Now Says About TTSA’s Anomalous Artifact
The U.S. Army has officially closed out its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA), ending

Do reasoning models really “think” or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response
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Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment
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Red team AI now to build safer, smarter models tomorrow
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The Download: gambling with humanity’s future, and the FDA under Trump
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with

Meta’s new world model lets robots manipulate objects in environments they’ve never encountered before
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Cloud collapse: Replit and LlamaIndex knocked offline by Google Cloud identity outage
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