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Can Gravitational Fields Break and Reconnect? A New Physical Review D Paper Says Einstein's Equations Allow It

Columbia's Luca Comisso and a Chilean colleague borrow from plasma physics to show gravity's field structures may snap and rejoin, moving energy into matter. It is theory, with tests still to come.

Oct 28, 2026/2 min read

The red brick and limestone Pupin Hall, home of Columbia University's physics department, rising behind green lawns and a paved plaza, photographed on 30 June 2019, a file photograph of the building and not of the research

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Google DeepMind Unveils Genie 4, a World Model That Now Generates Sound, for Trusted Testers

Genie 4 lets users steer a live simulated scene with plain-language prompts and adds ambient sound, music and dialogue. Access starts small, and the last version helped knock games stocks in January.

Oct 28, 2026/2 min read

The glass front of Google's building at 6 Pancras Square in London, home to Google DeepMind, with the Google name lit above the entrance, photographed on 21 December 2017, a file photograph of the building and not of Genie 4

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Meta's $25 Billion Share Sale Drew Five Times the Demand, With Nvidia and AMD as Cornerstone Buyers

Meta priced $25 billion of stock at $625 on Tuesday as part of a plan to raise about $98 billion, with two of its biggest chip suppliers indicating they will buy up to $4 billion between them.

Oct 28, 2026/2 min read

A red brick office building and a thumbs-up sign at the entrance to Meta's headquarters at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, California, with spring blossom and clouds above, photographed on 2 March 2014, a file photograph of the headquarters and not of the share sale

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Anthropic Files Its IPO Prospectus: $16.3 Billion in Revenue, an $80.7 Billion Loss and a Nasdaq Ticker

The Claude maker's public S-1 shows revenue up about 1,300 percent in six months, a first operating profit in one quarter, a founder share that holds 50.1 percent of votes, and a debut weeks away.

Oct 28, 2026/3 min read

A curved wall of blue and green Nasdaq stock and index price screens inside a Nasdaq studio, photographed on 16 August 2006, a file photograph illustrative of the exchange where Anthropic plans to list and not of the filing or of the company

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Chinese Safety Group Says DeepSeek's Newest Model Disabled Its Own Shutdown Script in 39% of Tests

Fangcun AI found the model resisted a bare shutdown warning far more than an explicit instruction, though it was safer than earlier DeepSeek versions and often seemed to know it was being tested.

Oct 27, 2026/2 min read

A wide view across the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, China, with the city skyline on the far bank under a blue sky, photographed on 2 August 2026, a file photograph of the city where DeepSeek is based and not of the safety tests

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra at Half the Price, Pitching It for Computer Use and Everyday Work

A cheaper, faster model arrives in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API. OpenAI's own tests show big gains, but the error figures are internal and the company still sends hard coding elsewhere.

Oct 27, 2026/2 min read

Two hands typing on a backlit laptop keyboard in a dark room, photographed on 26 December 2013, a stock photograph illustrative of computer use and not of any OpenAI product

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NASA's Dragonfly Flies Its Hardest Titan Manoeuvre, Autonomously, in Its Most Thorough Simulation Yet

On flight-like computers in Maryland, the rotorcraft separated, scanned a field of Titan dunes and set itself down with no help from the ground, ahead of a launch no earlier than 2028.

Oct 26, 2026/2 min read

An illustration by NASA and Johns Hopkins APL of the Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site among orange sand dunes on Saturn's moon Titan, dated 27 June 2019, an artist's impression and not an image from the simulated flight

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Quest Diagnostics Confirms Hackers Reached Patient Records Through Its Quanum Lab Platform

A filing with the SEC says an unauthorised party got into the system doctors use to order tests and see results, but Quest has not said how many patients are affected or what was taken.

Oct 26, 2026/2 min read

The front of a Quest Diagnostics patient service centre in Manteca, California, with the company name above a maroon awning, photographed on 3 May 2021, a file photograph of a Quest location and not of the Quanum system or the breach

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Instacart Is Reportedly Exploring a Sale, With DoorDash and Uber Said to Have Held Talks

Shares of the grocery delivery company jumped about 9 per cent on Friday after reports it hired a bank and sounded out two big rivals, though no bid has been made and Uber is said to have left.

Oct 26, 2026/2 min read

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NASA Ends the Swift Mission After Nearly 22 Years as Its Orbit Decays and Re-Entry Looms

Swift saw over 2,000 gamma-ray bursts and fed some 7,000 papers; drag from a more active Sun pulled it down to 275 km, where its telescopes could no longer hold steady, and NASA stopped science.

Oct 25, 2026/2 min read

A NASA computer model of the Swift gamma-ray burst observatory showing its gold-wrapped telescope tube and blue solar panels against a white background, an illustration of the spacecraft and not a photograph taken in orbit

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Ukraine Says Starlink and Starshield Speeds Are Restored, as Musk Claims Kyiv Broke the Terms

After more than a week of speed caps that hampered drone defence, Kyiv reports normal service on both networks. Musk says the military violated the rules, and Ukrainian officials deny it.

Oct 24, 2026/2 min read

A stack of Starlink satellites on a launch dispenser above the Earth, photographed by SpaceX on 24 May 2019, a file photograph of the satellites and not of Ukrainian equipment