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New Research Answers Lingering Questions About Siberia’s Exploding Tundra

Looking for one more reason to worry about climate change? No? Well, here’s one anyway. Rising global temperatures are causing parts of the Siberian tundra to spontaneously explode. Scientists have been studying this bizarre phenomenon since 2014, when a mysterious 165-foot-deep (50-meter-deep) hole suddenly appeared on the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia. Since then, they’ve identified more than a dozen similar craters on the ​​Yamal and Gyda peninsulas and linked their formation to clima

USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot

The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. “Visitors now have a trusted AI answer engine on our platform for anything they want to engage with, anything they want to ask,” said Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett and the USA Today Network, at the WIRED AI Power Summit in New York, an event that brought tog

Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent

Documenting my journey building a general-purpose deep research agent powered by MCP, and sharing the valuable (and sometimes painful) lessons learned along the way. Background My name is Sarmad Qadri and I'm the creator of the open source project, mcp-agent. My philosophy for agent development in 2025 can be summarized as – MCP is all you need. Or more verbosely: Connect state-of-the-art LLMs to MCP servers, and leverage simple design patterns to let them make tool calls, gather context and m

Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC

Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced Monday that it has gone public in a reverse merger, netting the company $30 million. No, it’s not 2021. The startup is proposing to build small, cylindrical nuclear power plants and lower them into 30-inch diameter holes drilled one mile down into the Earth. By burying the reactors, the company hopes to solve several problems that plague current reactors, including concerns over meltdowns and potential terrorist attacks. Deep Fission’s 15-megawatt reacto

DeepSeek may be about to shake up the AI world again - what we know

picture alliance / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways DeepSeek will reportedly launch an agent by the end of this year. Agents have become a focal point in the ongoing AI race. The company's debut was a turning point in the global AI race. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley earlier this year with its sudden ascent onto the global tech scene, is reportedly gearing up to launch its most powerfu

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Using AI to perceive the universe in greater depth

Our novel Deep Loop Shaping method improves control of gravitational wave observatories, helping astronomers better understand the dynamics and formation of the universe. To help astronomers study the universe’s most powerful processes, our teams have been using AI to stabilize one of the most sensitive observation instruments ever built. In a paper published today in Science, we introduce Deep Loop Shaping, a novel AI method that will unlock next-generation gravitational-wave science. Deep Lo

DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent. Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

DeepSeek Is Working on an AI Agent: Will It Be Better Than ChatGPT?

China-based DeepSeek is working on developing a new agentic generative AI model, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. Agentic AI is the latest wave of AI technology. AI agents are a kind of digital assistant; they can complete tasks without a lot of human oversight. AI agents can do anything from coding to ordering you a pizza, as my colleague Imad Khan recently tested. Details about the specifics of the DeepSeek agent model are still fuzzy. An August update to DeepSeek's V3 model was

Translation startup DeepL launches an AI 'agent' in challenge to players like OpenAI

German startup DeepL on Wednesday said it was expanding beyond artificial intelligence-powered translation into general AI agents focused on businesses. The term "agent" refers to an AI tool that can carry out tasks in the background in response to user prompts. DeepL Agent is designed to complete "repetitive, time-intensive tasks across a wide variety of functions" according to the company. It can responds to natural langauge commands from a users. DeepL Agent can be used in various teams fro

I asked AI to modify mission-critical code, and what happened next haunts me

Tsuba_sa/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways AI repeated major sections in a mission-critical coding plan. Mission-critical coding work is too risky to delegate to AI. AI is fine for new features, not core infrastructure. I woke up in a cold sweat. In my nightmare, I was being chased by tens of thousands of people, all of whom were enraged because I destroyed their privacy. They were all holding laptops over their heads, swin

Fake accounts drove the DeepSeek AI hype and distorted markets

From AI Darling to Disinformation Playbook: How Fake Accounts Managed a Market Frenzy and What DeepSeek’s Hype Teaches Leaders DeepSeek, a new Chinese AI model, stormed app charts and briefly sent shockwaves through global markets. However, our disinformation research team found that much of this excitement was artificial — driven by thousands of fake profiles working in tandem. Their behavior bore the hallmarks of state-linked bot networks, amplifying hype and distorting market perception.

Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs

by: The SGLang Team , May 05, 2025 DeepSeek is a popular open-source large language model (LLM) praised for its strong performance. However, its large size and unique architecture, which uses Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and Mixture of Experts (MoE), require an advanced system for efficient serving at scale. In this blog, we explain how we match DeepSeek's inference system performance with SGLang. Our implementation, shown in the figure above, runs on 12 nodes in the Atlas Cloud, each equ

Google's New Pixel Studio Is Weirdly Obsessed With the iPhone

Pixel Studio launched on the Pixel 9 series last year, but the Pixel 10 Pro allowed me to spend time testing Pixel Studio using a more advanced generative AI model. The result is better quality images, a much deeper understanding of keywords and a wider range of image styles that can be created. But its quality goes deeper, being now able to generate actual text instead of strings of nonsense as well as creating pictures of people -- including photorealistic depictions of known faces like Taylo

Elden Ring Nightreign Is About to Get Tougher With New 'Deep of Night' Mode

Since Elden Ring Nightreign, the online multiplayer spinoff of 2022's Elden Ring, launched in May, its developer has ramped up the difficulty. Now, Nightreign is about to get even more challenging. A new "high-difficulty challenge mode" called Deep of Night is set to launch on Sept. 11, according to a post from publisher Bandai Namco. Players who take on the challenge will be rewarded with new relics and the self-satisfaction of taking on another challenge put forth by developer FromSoftware.

Elon Musk Just Suffered a Humiliating Defeat in China

So far, 2025 hasn't exactly been a year of resounding success for centibillionaire Elon Musk's AI efforts. The richest man on earth has struggled to get xAI's Grok off the ground, with setbacks taking the form of privacy scandals, misinformation controversies, not to mention a highly-public white supremacy episode. And now, more than a month after Musk promised to roll Grok out to Teslas "next week," it turns out a Chinese AI model will be taking the chatbot's place. According to Bloomberg, T

DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

Welcome to another post in the AI Coding Series, where I'll share the strategies and insights I've developed for effective AI-assisted coding. In this post, I break down how I use DeepWiki - my go-to tool for understanding unfamiliar codebases, spinning up dev environments, and generating context for coding agents like Claude and Cursor. Whether you're evaluating an open-source repo, onboarding to a new project, or building an AI-powered dev tool, DeepWiki can save you hours. Note: This is not

Deep Think with Confidence

Authors: Yichao Fu, Xuewei Wang, Yuandong Tian, Jiawei Zhao Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15260 Code: https://jiaweizzhao.github.io/deepconf TL;DR WHAT was done? The authors introduce Deep Think with Confidence (DeepConf), a test-time inference method that enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Instead of treating all generated reasoning paths equally, DeepConf leverages the model's internal log-probabilities to derive localized confidence scores. It operate

They’re trying to make deep-sea mining happen

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on deep-sea mining and critical minerals, follow Justine Calma. The Stepback arriv

Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

Most models are excellent, so cost and latency dominate. It’s great that AI can win maths Olympiads, but that’s not what I’m doing. I mostly ask basic Rust, Python, Linux and life questions. So I did my own evaluation. I gathered 130 real prompts from my bash history (I use command line tool llm). I had Qwen3 235B Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro group them into categories. They both chose very similar ones, broadly (with examples): Programming - “Write a bash script to ..” Sysadmin - “With curl

Scientists Propose a Smarter Way to Hunt for Alien Radio Signals

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has yet to detect alien technosignatures like radio waves, but the cosmos is vast, and there are plenty of places left to look. New research suggests refining our search parameters by using our own broadcasts into deep space as a helpful guide. Research published earlier this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests we search for alien signals by studying how we beam strong, directed transmissions during two-way communication with our de

DeepSeek hints latest model will be compatible with China’s ‘next generation’ homegrown AI chips

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has hinted that China will soon have homegrown "next generation" chips to support its AI models, while announcing an update to one of its large language models. In a comment under a post on its official WeChat account, DeepSeek said the "UE8M0 FP8" precision format of its newly released model V3.1 is tailored for the next-generation domestically built chips that will be launched soon. FP8, or 8-bit floating point, is a data processing format tha

DeepSeek-v3.1

DeepSeek-V3.1 Release Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes ⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528 🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and multi-step agent tasks Try it now — toggle Think/Non-Think via the "DeepThink" button: https://chat.deepseek.com/ 🔹 deepseek-chat → non-thinking mode 🔹 deepseek-reasoner → thinking mode 🧵 128K

DeepSeek hints latest model will be supported by China’s ‘next generation’ homegrown AI chips

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has hinted that China will soon have homegrown "next generation" chips to support its AI models, while announcing an update to one of its large language models. In a comment under a post on its official WeChat account, DeepSeek said the "UE8M0 FP8" precision format of its newly released model V3.1 is tailored for the next-generation domestically built chips that will be launched soon. FP8, or 8-bit floating point, is a data processing format tha

Tesla Will Use a Powerful New Weapon in AI Race

Tesla will partner up with AI darlings DeepSeek and Bytedance’s Doubao on new tools in its cars in China, according to a document uploaded to Tesla’s official website. Bloomberg reports that Doubao will work on voice command-related tools like the temperature in a Tesla, navigation, and in-car entertainment, while DeepSeek will handle the AI side of things. The move may be a way for Tesla to boost its Chinese deliveries, which dropped 8.4% from December to June compared to the same time period

DeepSeek-v3.1 Release

DeepSeek-V3.1 Release Introducing DeepSeek-V3.1: our first step toward the agent era! 🚀 🧠 Hybrid inference: Think & Non-Think — one model, two modes ⚡️ Faster thinking: DeepSeek-V3.1-Think reaches answers in less time vs. DeepSeek-R1-0528 🛠️ Stronger agent skills: Post-training boosts tool use and multi-step agent tasks Try it now — toggle Think/Non-Think via the "DeepThink" button: https://chat.deepseek.com/ 🔹 deepseek-chat → non-thinking mode 🔹 deepseek-reasoner → thinking mode 🧵 128K

The AI Battle’s Newest Warrior Strikes a Major Blow to Big Tech

The ongoing slugfest between tech players racing to get the most intuitive and powerful AI may have just gotten a brief knockout punch. The slammer that landed? A new version of DeepSeek’s increasingly impressive V3.1, which has a whopping 685-billion-parameter system and can deliver about $1.01 per complete coding task, compared to a beginning price of $70 for traditional systems. 🚨 BREAKING: DeepSeek V3.1 is Here! 🚨 The AI giant drops its latest upgrade — and it’s BIG: ⚡685B parameters 🧠L

DeepSeek V3.1 just dropped — and it might be the most powerful open AI yet

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek made waves across the global AI community Tuesday with the quiet release of its most ambitious model yet — a 685-billion parameter system that challenges the dominance of American AI giants while reshaping the competitive landscape through open-source accessibility. The Hangzhou-based compan

Who Invented Backpropagation?

Efficient backpropagation (BP) is central to the ongoing Neural Network (NN) ReNNaissance and "Deep Learning." Who invented it? BP's modern version (also called the reverse mode of automatic differentiation) was first published in 1970 by Finnish master student Seppo Linnainmaa [BP1] [R7]. In 2020, we celebrated BP's half-century anniversary! A precursor of BP was published by Henry J. Kelley in 1960 [BPA]—in 2020, we celebrated its 60-year anniversary. In the 2020s, it was still easy to find

Upcoming DeepSeek AI model failed to train using Huawei’s chips

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek delayed the release of its new model after failing to train it using Huawei’s chips, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s push to replace US technology. DeepSeek was encouraged by authorities to adopt Huawei’s Ascend processor rather than use Nvidia’s systems after releasing its R1 model in January, according to three people familiar with the matter. But the Chinese startup encountered persistent technical issues during its R2 training process u

Google Gemini's Deep Research is finally coming to API

Google Gemini's one of the most powerful features is Deep Research, but up until now, it has been strictly limited to the Gemini interface. This could change soon. With Deep Research in Gemini, you can search about pretty much anything, including scholars, existing research papers, and more. Google describes Deep Research as an agentic Research Assistant that can browse up to hundreds of websites on your behalf, think through its findings, and create insightful multi-page reports in minutes.