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Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks
In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by those standards, Corgi stands out.
Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce
In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
The Milky Way Flipped its Disk Billions of Years Ago
The Milky Way has two disks, the thin disk where most of the stars dwell, and the thick disk, populated by much older stars. The ESA's Gaia mission showed us that the thick disk rotates more slowly than the thin disk. The culprit, according to powerful si...
Probing the Universe's Missing Matter With Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts
Astronomers aren't certain where Fast Radio Bursts come from. But they still have utility. They can use them to find the Universe's "missing matter."
The Red Potato Galaxy and its Stifling Neighbour
Galaxies attract cold gas from the intergalactic medium and turn it into stars. But the JWST has found galaxies that aren't forming stars in the early Universe, long before they should've become quiescent. In at least one instance involving the Red Potato...
Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 4: Vindication
The collapsing stars Eddington swore couldn't exist turned out to be everywhere, and half a century later the world handed Chandrasekhar his Nobel. How the 1.4 solar mass limit became one of the most important numbers in modern astronomy.
The First Confirmed Exo-satellite Challenges Our Definitions of Planets and Moons
What do you call a Jupiter-like object that orbits the brown dwarf companion of a star? Is it a planet, a moon, or something new?
These Nearby Alien Planets Are Stranger – and More Hostile – Than Expected
Barnard’s Star hosts four hostile small planets whose unusual chemistry and orbital rhythm reveal how compact planetary systems can form and survive.
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
Scientists have identified an accelerator that produces the highest-energy protons in our galaxy, a finding that could clarify the nature of the fast-moving particles filling the space between stars.