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Is there a python loose in Des Moines? What to know about the large snake species
The Des Moines Police Department said its Animal Services Unit has yet to find the snake despite multiple searches since initial reports on Aug. 1.
Meet Meschers, MIT’s Tool for Building Paradoxical Digital Objects
A new tool developed by MIT researchers enables users to create detailed computer representations of mathematically ...
OpenAI returns to its open-source roots with new open-weight AI models, and it's a big deal
The company unveiled two new open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marking its first public release of ...
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OpenAI's New Models Aren't Really Open: What to Know About Open-Weights AI
Despite the company's name, OpenAI hasn't dropped an open version of its AI models since GPT-2 in 2019. That changed on ...
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
The two new models from OpenAI are available under the Apache 2.0 license, a popular choice for open-weight models. With ...
Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to)
In May, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, which the company dubbed its most powerful model yet and the best coding model in the world. Only three months later, Anthropic is upping the ante further by ...
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Human muscle-inspired paper-thin robot can bend, crawl, and clean tight spaces with ease
A team of researchers from South Korea has developed a paper-thin actuator that could enable advanced robotic surgeries.