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There’s been great interest in what Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding and the all-star team of former OpenAI researchers who have joined the lab. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Murati’s research lab gave the world its first look into one of its projects: creating AI models with reproducible responses. The research blog post, titled “Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference,” tries to unpack the root cause of what introduces randomness in AI model responses. For example, ask ChatGPT the same question a few times over, and you’re likely to get…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover captured this image of a rocky area nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” on July 18, 2024, showing black “poppy seed” and larger “leopard spot” features. Researchers say a sample from the site reveals a tantalizing mix of details suggesting the potential presence of life, billions of years ago. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS hide caption toggle caption NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A long time ago, life left microscopic signatures on Mars — or did it? That’s the question NASA scientists have worked for years to answer. On Wednesday, NASA researchers said the answer might be in a rock sample that “contains potential biosignatures.” The finding,…

Daniel Day-Lewis said in a new interview that he “never intended to retire” from acting.In hindsight, the three-time Oscar winner thinks he “would have done well to just keep my mouth shut.”Day-Lewis who last acted in 2017’s Phantom Thread, is returning to the screen next month with Anemone. It turns out Daniel Day-Lewis never really wanted to stop acting. Eight years after announcing his retirement, the three-time Oscar winner is returning to the silver screen in his son’s film Anemone, and he recently reflected on the journey in an interview with Rolling Stone. “Looking back on it now — I…

Michael VoepelSep 9, 2025, 09:30 AM ETCloseMichael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.With only three days left in the regular season, we have arrived at the final edition of ESPN’s WNBA Power Rankings for 2025.The Minnesota Lynx already have wrapped up the No. 1 seed and home-court advantage for as long as they are in the playoffs. They remain the championship favorite, as they have been for most of the season. But with the Power Rankings…

Strange nodules of unusual minerals found on speckled rocks on Mars have offered more tantalizing clues that ancient life may have once thrived on the now-dead planet, NASA says.NASA’s Perseverance rover found one such arrow-shaped rock, nicknamed Cheyava Falls, in 2024 along the northern bank of Neretva Vallis, the dried-up remnants of an ancient river that once rushed into Mars’ Jezero crater.An initial analysis of the rock, which appeared in a lake bed formation known as Bright Angel, revealed it was crammed with organic compounds, had evidence that water once flowed through it, and contained flecks of leopard-like spots from…

new video loaded: What to Know About the Mass Protests in NepalBy Alex Travelli, Melanie Bencosme and Jon Hazell•September 10, 2025The explosion of unrest in Nepal — with fires around the capital, Kathmandu, and the prime minister fleeing the country — was years in the making. Alex Travelli, a New York Times correspondent, describes what happened and why it happened now.

The US added 911,000 fewer jobs than first estimated for the year through March 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has announced, highlighting recent concerns about the health of America’s labor market.The revision comes after a lackluster August jobs report, with only 22,000 jobs added in the US.The largest revisions were in leisure and hospitality (down 176,000), professional and business services (down 158,000) and retail trade (down 126,200). Government jobs were adjusted down by 31,000 jobs.We’d like to hear from current job seekers in the US what their experience of looking for work right now has been like.We’d also…

Horrifying videos of influencer and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk being fatally shot were widely available on social media platforms. We’ve reached out to some of the platforms to ask how they will be treating the videos and charged posts about the shooting. So far, we’re aware of responses from Bluesky, Meta, Reddit, and YouTube.Discord, TikTok, and X didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge.Update, September 10th: Added statement from a Reddit spokesperson.

More than half of women having a baby in Britain now do so with the help of medical intervention, an audit of NHS maternity care has revealed.Of the 592,594 births that took place in 2023, 50.6% involved either a caesarean section or the use of instruments such as forceps or a ventouse suction cup.Experts said the rise in medically assisted deliveries represented a “major shift” driven by births becoming more complicated in recent years, partly because more older or obese women are having babies.The increasing regularity of medical intervention is largely down to the sharp rise in caesarean births, in…

Noor NanjiCulture reporter andYasmin RufoCulture reporterGetty ImagesLineker said it was not lost on him why he might have won the award Gary Lineker has pulled off a major upset by breaking Ant and Dec’s 23-year winning streak at the National Television Awards.The former Match of the Day presenter was named best TV presenter at the ceremony, where the winners are chosen by viewers, on Wednesday.Lineker left the BBC football show after 26 years at the end of the Premier League season in May.It was also his last appearance for the BBC after the latest in a string of controversies about…