Face of ancient Australian 'giga-goose' revealed after fossil skull found(nhm.ac.uk)

82 points by gmays 2 years ago | 51 comments

Declaring a bird extinct: The median wait is 36 years after the last sighting(birdshistory.com)

20 points by Heidi_70 22 days ago | 7 comments

A Birds History article on how long it takes to declare a bird species extinct, noting a median wait of 36 years after the last confirmed sighting.

How Potatoes Evolved(nhm.ac.uk)

104 points by gmays 1 year ago | 43 comments

Turritopsis dohrnii: Immortal jellyfish(nhm.ac.uk)

38 points by vinnyglennon 1 year ago | 10 comments

Eating the Birds of America: Audubon's Culinary Reviews of America's Birds(usbirdhistory.com)

144 points by Morizero 2 years ago | 90 comments

Atari Falcon(atarimuseum.nl)

53 points by debo_ 16 days ago | 17 comments

Atari Museum NL page about the Atari Falcon030, Atari Corporation's final computer, with a 68030 CPU and 56000 DSP, released 1992 and cancelled 1993.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup(qazinform.com)

361 points by Bolat14 4 months ago | 368 comments

Kazinform news article reporting that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in valuation after a new funding round, approaching $1 trillion.

The ovary doesn't retire after menopause(news.northwestern.edu)

55 points by gmays 8 days ago | 6 comments

Northwestern University news release on a study finding human ovaries show increased inflammation and tissue structural changes decades after menopause.