Month: October 2026
Someone Posted an Instagram Selfie. Scientists Spotted a Giant New Species in the Background
Sometimes, scientific discoveries can come from the most unexpected sources.
Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website | TechCrunch
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents unveiled during the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial,...
Iron and Viking Age Scandinavians Kept Their Victims’ Bones Around the House
Among the macabre discoveries was a child’s skull planted between the floors, which people walked over for years.
NASA Getting a Little Sumthin’-Sumthin’ from Virgin
NASA and Virgin Galactic (two companies that make for strange bedfellows) are loosely teaming up to develop hypersonic...
Mars’s Weirdest Cloud Forms in a Way Scientists Thought Was Impossible
The physical process likely behind this cloud's formation has never been observed in a planetary atmosphere before.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect | TechCrunch
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published...
A Billionaire Is Fueling a Rat Explosion in a Chicago Park in the Stupidest Way Possible
Undeterred by fines and warnings, 94-year-old electronics billionaire Barre Seid has been accused of creating a “public health...
Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed | TechCrunch
They cast the wrong lead in “Good Will Hunting,” apparently, because it’s Ben Affleck who is the secret...
Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months | TechCrunch
Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models,...
OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected | TechCrunch
A little over a week ago, it was reported that OpenAI’s annualized revenue was approaching $70 billion, a...
