NASA’s Artemis II crew lifted off April 1st and are currently in high Earth orbit. Tonight’s trans-lunar injection burn commits them to the lunar flyby, the first crewed mission to the Moon in over 53 years.
Google dropped something today: Gemma 4, the newest generation of its open-weight model family, built from the same research stack that powers Gemini 3. Four models, Apache 2.0 license, and a claim that sounds like a direct challenge to the rest of the industry: “unprecedented intelligence per parameter.” Let’s break down what that actually means, […]
Pokemon Champions launches April 8 as a free-to-play competitive battler for Switch and Switch 2. It replaces Scarlet and Violet at official VGC events. The monetization details are conspicuously vague.
Let’s just sit with that number for a second. $122,000,000,000. One hundred and twenty-two billion dollars. Committed capital. Closed. On March 31, 2026, OpenAI announced the closing of its latest funding round and if you thought the previous rounds were impressive, this one makes them look like a crowdfunding campaign for a local coffee shop. […]
Today is April 1st. The one day of the year when every tech company press release requires a second read, every product announcement gets side-eyed, and your coworkers cannot be trusted with a cup of coffee near your keyboard. But April Fools’ Day in tech is actually a fascinating lens into internet culture. Some of […]
Anthropic just did something clever. Instead of launching yet another AI model, the company took a feature that already works, Claude Code, and asked: what if people who don’t write code could have the same thing? The result is Claude Cowork, released Monday as a “research preview.” It lets Claude access folders on your computer, […]
NASA is sending four astronauts around the Moon on Wednesday. The heat shield blew chunks on the last flight. A former Shuttle astronaut says the agency is repeating the mistakes that led to Columbia and Challenger.
A developer rebuilt a fully playable DOOM entirely in CSS. Every wall, floor, and enemy is an HTML div. No canvas, no WebGL. You can play it right now.
Remember Sora? The AI video generator that launched last fall to a tidal wave of hype, briefly hit #1 on the App Store, and convinced Disney to invest a billion dollars in OpenAI? It is dead. OpenAI announced Monday that it is winding down the standalone Sora app, its API, and effectively everything video-related it […]
Somewhere in a forest in Wisconsin, a bright yellow mushroom is doing something that no animal, plant, or virus has managed to do quite this effectively: it is quietly replacing an entire kingdom of organisms, one dead tree at a time. The golden oyster mushroom (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) was supposed to be lunch. Native to Asia, […]
