DeepSeek’s New Flash Model Challenges Claude Opus 5 on Agentic Tasks at a Fraction of the Cost
SHENZHEN, Oct. 19 — A Chinese artificial-intelligence startup has released a new model it says leads Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5…
Pacific Islands Push Climate Finance From Pledges to Payouts Ahead of COP31
NADI, Fiji, October 10 — Pacific island nations closed a week of pre-COP31 climate negotiations in Fiji with a familiar…
Florida Confronts Largest Local Dengue Outbreak in Decades as Tampa Bay Emergencies Extend
TAMPA, October 8 — Three counties around Tampa Bay have extended local states of emergency into October after Florida recorded…
Pacific Scientists Join Australia’s Landmark Ocean and Climate Voyage Ahead of Fiji Pre-COP
SUVA, October 2 — Australia’s national science agency will lead a four-month research voyage through the Pacific Ocean from late…
Chinese Mathematicians Claim Fields Medal in Historic First at ICM 2026
PHILADELPHIA, July 23 — Two mathematicians from China have become the first Chinese-born recipients of the Fields Medal, the discipline’s…
China Catches Orbital Rocket in Net at Sea: Long March 10B Joins Reuse Club with World-First Capture
BEIJING, July 12 — China’s Long March 10B lifted off from the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site in Hainan province…
Tianwen-2 Arrives at Earth’s “Quasi-Moon” Asteroid, Kickstarting China’s First Small-Body Sample Return Mission
BEIJING, July 7 — China has completed the outbound leg of its first dedicated small-body mission, with the Tianwen-2 spacecraft…
NASA Awards $590 Million in New Lunar Lander Contracts, Pivots Toward Surface Base Build-Out
WASHINGTON, July 1 — The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on June 30 announced roughly 590 million U.S.…
IBM Unveils World’s First Sub-Nanometer Chip Technology Built on 3D Nanostack Architecture
IBM has announced a sub-1nm chip technology at the 0.7-nanometer node, built on a 3D Nanostack transistor architecture that doubles…
China’s Homegrown Lingsheng Supercomputer Tops Global Top500 Ranking
HAMBURG, Germany — A domestically developed supercomputer from China has claimed the top position on the latest edition of the…