By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus' heliocentric model using observations made with telescopes he built himself. However, it was not until Kepler ...

As a digression from our usual fare on the n n-Café, here’s one of my favorites, about an early theory of the Solar System, neither geocentric nor heliocentric, that became popular thanks to a quirk ...

Under pressure from the Vatican, Galileo publicly recanted his astronomical breakthrough, itself derived from the Copernican heliocentric model also rejected by Urban VIII. Caravaggio met the one ...

A small, more affordable Model Y is coming to the U.S. in 2025, says an automobile intelligence firm. This comes after a series of statements by Tesla executives about “affordable” models ...

UPDATE: While anticipation builds for the Model Y refresh, CEO Elon Musk has also repeatedly referenced more affordable models coming in 2025. (Updates with news about Model Q. See below.) ...

Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an AI model for weather prediction this week called GenCast. In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind researchers said they found that GenCast outperforms the ...

A Deutsche Bank report claims that Tesla has plans to release a new model in the first half of 2025 and states the new model will reportedly cost "less than [USD] $30,000 with subsidies ...

Tesla's head of investor relations told Deutsche Bank that a sub-$30,000 model is on the way. According to the executive, the new model will arrive in the first half of next year and will be built ...

Model portfolios continue to expand, increasing to nearly $424 billion USD. Assets in model portfolios have surged by 48% over two years, reflecting their growing popularity and effectiveness in ...

OpenAI just released the full version of its new o1 model -- and it's dangerously committed to lying. Apollo Research tested six frontier models for "in-context scheming" -- a model's ability ...