An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

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Function Health, a startup that offers lab testing and body scans for early disease detection, scored nearly $300 million in series B funding, boosting its valuation to $2.5 billion. Redpoint Ventures ...

Join Direxion’s experts as we explore the world of leveraged and inverse ETFs, designed to help traders and investors capitalize on market volatility. As 2025 brings new economic challenges and market ...

Tesla's newly rolled out Model Y Standard was supposed to be something incredibly important for the automaker: a cheap entry into the electric crossover market. Instead, what consumers (and Tesla's ...

The delayed release of the BLS report has led to fearmongering about the economy's ability to function. Leila Fadel, host of NPR's Up First, said on Friday that "businesses and policymakers are flying ...

FICO, which most people likely know as the company that determines credit scores, has been working with machine learning and AI models for years. However, the company decided to wait before releasing ...

US job openings fell in July to the lowest in 10 months, adding to other data that show a gradually diminishing appetite for workers amid heightened policy uncertainty. Available positions decreased ...

NPR rarely covers crime. That's because crime is mostly local and rarely of consequence to a national audience. But when the president of the United States ordered military troops to patrol the nation ...

A new ranking methodology places Barry Bonds over Babe Ruth as the game’s best player ever. Statisticians, at least, are cheering. By Alexander Nazaryan Every sport has its arguments over which player ...

Google DeepMind is rolling out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, which, the company says, is its most advanced AI reasoning model, able to answer questions by exploring and considering multiple ideas ...