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NASA firmly debunked claims by influencer Laysa Peixoto, who portrayed herself as a career astronaut selected for lunar and Mars missions. Clarifying that Peixoto had no official affiliation, NASA explained she participated only in a student workshop. Additional claims of university credentials were also proven false, intensifying the controversy. -Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out, The Verge reported. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is developing. It says its new, experimental AI-based model for forecasting cyclones —
Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney, a generative AI company accusing it of copyright infringement according to a copy of the complaint obtained by Axios.
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Meta has developed plans to create a new artificial research lab dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,”according to reporting from The New York Times. The social media giant chose 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, founder of CEO and Scale AI, to join the new lab as part of a broader reorganization of Meta’s AI efforts under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ArsTechnica reported.
Apple introduces its most extensive design overhaul with Liquid Glass, a transparent, glass-like UI coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, and more. Inspired by visionOS, it adapts to light and dark modes and brings real-time rendering across apps like Safari, Camera, and FaceTime. Developers get early access to APIs to align with this dynamic new interface launching
The stakes are higher than usual at this year’s WWDC. Major Apple Intelligence features the company teased at last year’s conference are stalled out, the company got a stern talking-to from a federal judge a couple of months ago over its App Store policies, and then there’s everything going on with tariffs. It’s not an entirely enviable position, but the show must go on, The Verge reported.