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- July 1, 2026
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New telescopes are challenging the idea that the cosmic web fades into a uniform, directionless distribution. It may be closer to a tangled yarn than a misty fog.
Anthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hours
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- October 18, 2026
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Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since early 2025. By August 2026, AI agents across the company were already logging six times as many hours as humans. Researchers warn of a “tragedy of the cognitive commons”: […]
IBM claims world’s first sub-1 nm chip technology using nanostack design
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- June 28, 2026
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IBM says its sub-1 nm chip technology fits nearly 100 billion transistors. IBM claims gains, but has no chip or manufacturing partner yet. IBM has introduced a sub-1 nanometer chip technology built around a new transistor architecture called nanostack. The company said the technology uses a 0.7-nanometer, or 7-angstrom, node. IBM described it as the […]
The problem with treating science like a startup
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- June 29, 2026
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Few New Zealanders spend much time thinking about volcanic monitoring but when a volcano erupts, we expect expertise to exist immediately. When governments talk about science, they increasingly sound as though they are talking about startups. Research should be agile, innovative and capable of producing outcomes that can be measured within political cycles. It should […]