We gave our new C2S-Scale 27B model a task: Find a drug that acts as a conditional amplifier, one that would boost the immune signal only in a specific “immune-context-positive” environment where low levels of interferon (a key immune-signaling protein) were already present, but inadequate to induce antigen presentation on their own. This required a…
Published October 15, 2025 Accessories and jewellery chain Claire’s continues to scale back its international network. After filing for bankruptcy in the US this summer, Claire’s has now added Spain to the list of markets affected by the group’s global crisis. Spain thus joins the UK, Ireland, and other European subsidiaries that have initiated insolvency…
Scala stands out as a versatile programming language that combines object-oriented and functional programming approaches. By running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), it maintains seamless compatibility with Java libraries while offering a concise and scalable development experience. The language has distinguished itself in the realm of distributed computing and big data processing, with the…
A tropical flat-faced longhorn beetle in Malaysia Kim Hui Yu “It had a strange look, like an alien, but it wasn’t angry. It sat still on the branch all the time,” said Kim Hui Yu, who photographed the flat-faced longhorn beetle in the image above on a family trip to Gunung Jerai on Malaysia’s west coast. A lightbulb in a…
Five months ago, we introduced Flow, our AI filmmaking tool powered by Veo, and have been inspired by the creativity it has sparked with over 275 million videos generated in Flow . We’re always listening to your feedback, and we’ve heard that you want more artistic control within Flow, with increased support for audio across…
Illustration of the Triassic dinosaur Huayracursor jaguensis Jorge Blanco. High in the Argentinian Andes, a team of palaeontologists has found a small dinosaur fossil with the first hints of the extended neck that distinguishes sauropod dinosaurs like Diplodocus. Named Huayracursor jaguensis, the fossil is a partial skeleton from a dinosaur that lived in the Triassic…
Published October 15, 2025 Accessories specialist Strathberry has launched its new bag The Barra, inspired by the Scottish island of the same name. It’s a “craft-meets-function” moment for the brand that picks up on Barra’s “rich weaving heritage and artisanal knotting”. Hence, the new design brings these “timeless traditions to life through sculptural, knotted details…
Training state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) demands massive, distributed compute infrastructure. Meta’s Llama 3, for instance, ran on 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs for over 30.84 million GPU hours. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that simplifies the deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters that can scale up to the ranges…
Published October 15, 2025 On the way to becoming a social network: following the launch of Cultural Ties a year ago, Zalando is expanding its AI-powered Discovery Feed to sixteen additional markets and is now live in a total of 22 markets. The new feed aims to transform the shopping experience from the very first…
Published October 15, 2025 Manolo Blahnik has opened its first standalone store in Milan. The 300-square-metre space (200 of which are retail) at Via Pietro Verri 5 is the brand’s largest European flagship, second in size globally only to its New York store, the company’s CEO and founder’s niece, Kristina Blahnik, told FashionNetwork.com. The store’s…
