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Deep dive: This is the expert companion to our plain-language guide. For the short version — water’s strange chemistry in everyday terms — see: Why Is Water So Weird? The Chemistry That…
Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab’s second-generation AI model: a 594-billion-parameter system built to work on its own for hours, writing software, doing research, and using tools without constant supervision. Announced…
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is Google’s newest AI video model. Announced on 5 November 2026, it generates and edits video from text prompts, images, video clips and audio — and it is…
On 5 November 2026, Perplexity launched Teammates: AI agents that hold a job, remember what they have done, and keep working when you are not looking. Instead of answering a question and…
GPT-6 Cyber is OpenAI’s newest specialised AI model, built for one job: finding software vulnerabilities, proving they can be exploited, and helping fix them. It launched on Thursday 5 November 2026, and…
On 4 November 2026, OpenAI gave ChatGPT a new trick: the ability to turn a sentence or a photograph into a short animated GIF. The feature arrives with Images 2.6, the latest…
Tencent Hy4 is Tencent’s latest flagship artificial intelligence model, released in full on 4 November 2026. It is the successor to the Hy4 Preview from August 2026, and it is the first…
Deep dive: This is the expert companion to our plain-language guide. For the short version — why stars twinkle and planets do not, in everyday terms — see: Why Do Stars Twinkle…
The story goes that when the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258, they threw the city’s books into the Tigris until the river ran black with ink, and that so many volumes were…
In June 1919, two British airmen climbed into a converted First World War bomber in Newfoundland and pointed it at Ireland. Captain John Alcock flew. Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown navigated, using a…