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DeepMind's AGI-to-ASI report and multi-agent safety call point away from the single-model milestone and toward populations of agents.
Only a handful of spacecraft, some of which are illustrated here, monitor the vast space between the Sun and Earth, including the planet’s magnetosphere. To forecast space weather effectively, scientists must connect these scattered observations and extract as much information as possible from the limited data they provide. Credit: Mary Heinrichs/AGU
Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are less a simple model launch than a test of who gets capability, what gets routed away, and what data must be retained.
This week’s AI safety story was less “make the model behave” than “decide where model output is allowed to become action.”
I love the summer. Growing up, it meant family vacations, beach days, block parties—really, what’s not to like? But for millions of Americans, the meaning of summer has been shifting. In many parts of the country, excitement for the upcoming season has turned into anxiety over the weather events—the extreme heat, hurricanes, drought, and wildfires—that have increasingly defined our summers in…
View of Mt. St. Helens during minor eruption, two years after the major eruption on May 18, 1980. Credit: Lyn Topinka, USGS
Donald Trump calls climate change a “hoax,” a “scam,” and a “con job.” He has (twice) withdrawn the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, and he has pulled the plug, or tried to, on “the Green New Scam,” which is what he calls President Joe Biden’s extensive subsidies to alternative energy in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. (The Green New Deal, as Trump well knows, is a separate and…
NOAA’s hurricane outlook forecasts the likelihood of tropical storms such as 2015’s Hurricane Jimena, seen here. Credit: NASA Johnson/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
Machine learning models cannot yet outperform modeling overseen by human forecasters when it comes to flood prediction, especially when making predictions of extreme events with long lead times, new research suggests. Credit: California Department of Water Resources, Public Domain
The Manzanita Fire burns in 2017 in California. Wildfire risk will be elevated in the U.S. West this summer alongside elevated risk in the Amazon rainforest, Australia, and elsewhere. Credit: James Gannon/Bureau of Land Management, Public Domain
A fire burns in July 2021 in the Umatilla National Forest in Washington, an area that has an elevated risk of significant fires this summer. Credit: Brendan O’Reilly, U.S. Forest Service/Flickr, Public Domain
Design leaders talk to WWD about the year ahead, as the Salone del Mobile.Milano trade show readies to kick off the 64th edition of the fair with two biennials — kitchen expo Euro Cucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition.
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(a) Climatological (solid circles) and individual-year (open circles) annual phase-space trajectories of the stratospheric polar vortex (SPV). The color bar indicates the progression through the calendar year. (b) Correlation skill of forecasts for monthly-mean SPV anomalies derived from differences between the predicted and climatological annual phase-space trajectories, shown as a function of…
Geostationary satellites can collect frequent measurements of temperatures and other characteristics of Earth’s land surfaces, allowing them to detect rapid changes and disturbances. Land surface temperatures across parts of East Asia and Oceania recorded by the Himawari-8 and -9 satellites in July 2025 are shown here. Credit: Yuhei Yamamoto
A CLASSIFIED REPORT ISSUED two weeks ago by the United States National Intelligence Council (NIC) found that even a full-scale interstate war against Iran would be unlikely to dislodge or drastically alter the current regime.
Hovmöller diagrams (longitude vs time lag) of the total MJO, MJO-fast mode, MJO-slow mode, and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the phase 3 of the MJO (as defined by the Real-time Multivariate MJO (RMM index)) are shown. Shading shows outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and arrows are 850 hectopascal (hPa) winds. Credit: Marsico et al. [2026], Figure 2e-h
A harmful algal bloom fills the Millstone River in New Jersey. Timely ecological forecasts of such hazards can help local authorities issue warnings to protect residents. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain
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