Former Inditex chairman Pablo Isla to succeed Paul Bulcke as Nestlé chair in 2026
By Reuters Published July 7, 2025 Nestlé has announced that Paul Bulcke, chairman since 2017…
Join Our Next Livestream: Back to School in the Age of AI
Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our…
Beyond the basics: A comprehensive foundation model selection framework for generative AI
Most organizations evaluating foundation models limit their analysis to three primary dimensions: accuracy, latency, and cost. While these metrics provide a useful starting point, they represent an oversimplification of the complex interplay of factors that determine real-world model performance. Foundation models have revolutionized how enterprises develop generative AI applications, offering unprecedented capabilities in understanding and…
What came before the Big Bang? Supercomputers may hold the answer
We’re often told it is “unscientific” or “meaningless” to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King’s College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy Clough, of Queen Mary University of London, UK, and Josu Aurrekoetxea, at Oxford University, UK, published in Living Reviews in Relativity, in…
A star torn apart by a black hole lit up the Universe twice
Astronomers used a UC Santa Cruz-led AI system to detect a rare supernova, SN 2023zkd, within hours of its explosion, allowing rapid follow-up observations before the fleeting event faded. Evidence suggests the blast was triggered by a massive star’s catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, either partially swallowing the star or tearing it apart…
Mysterious “little red dots” could reveal how the first black holes formed
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe’s most puzzling early galaxies, nicknamed “little red dots.” In the study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Authors Fabio Pacucci and Abraham (Avi) Loeb suggest that these galaxies are the result of very slowly spinning…
Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI
Pak would help set the topic, but both he and Zou wanted to see what approaches the Virtual Lab could come up with on its own. As a first project, they decided to focus on designing therapies for new covid-19 strains. With this goal in mind, Zou set off training five AI scientists (including ones…
How Infosys Topaz leverages Amazon Bedrock to transform technical help desk operations
AI-powered apps and AI-powered service delivery are key differentiators in the enterprise space today. A generative AI-based resource can greatly reduce the onboarding time for new employees, enhance enterprise search, assist in drafting content, check for compliance, understand the legal language of data, and more. Generative AI applications are an emerging and sought-after solution in…
Speed up delivery of ML workloads using Code Editor in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is a single integrated development environment (IDE) that brings together your data tools for analytics and AI. As part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, it contains integrated tooling for building data pipelines, sharing datasets, monitoring data governance, running SQL analytics, building artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models, and…
Sussex families feel ‘ignored’ over Brighton maternity review
Michael Buchanan Social Affairs Correspondent BBC The review will look into cases at the Royal Sussex County Hospital Families calling for an inquiry into maternity care in East Sussex say they feel “ignored, exhausted and dismissed” after meeting the chair of a national review. The group met with Baroness Amos on Wednesday, claiming she was…
New ‘sail-backed’ dinosaur named after Dame Ellen MacArthur
PA/James Brown An artist impression issued by the University of Portsmouth of an Istiorachis macaruthurae. A new species of dinosaur that had an “eye-catching sail” along its back has been named after sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur. The dinosaur, unearthed on the Isle of Wight, has been given the name Istiorachis macaruthurae with the first word…
