New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow

For direct API integration and via third-party provider OpenRouter, MiniMax M2.7 maintains a cost-leading price point of 0.30 ...
Scientific American

Can you solve these language puzzles? Test your skills with these problems from North America’s biggest linguistics competition

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Appreciation or appropriation? How Black culture is shaping Gen Z slang

Scroll long enough on TikTok or Instagram — or simply watch reality TV — and one might assume anyone under the age of 25 is ...

How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

The true story of how Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other bright young tech hobbyists of the 1970s joined forces to ignite a ...
Smithsonian Magazine

When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents And More Questions From Our Readers

Weather systems in the United States move from west to east, so how is it that Atlantic hurricanes originate off the African coast and move west? John Jay Rouse, St. Cloud, Minnesota The winds blow ...
InfoWorld

9 reasons Java is still great

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java? In a world ...
Nature

Computer science articles from across Nature Portfolio

Marwitz et al. demonstrate the use of large language models to build semantic concept graphs from materials science abstracts and train a machine learning model to predict emerging topic combinations ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Valley Advantage

January 29, 2026 at 12:21 a.m. Jessup resident Constance Denchy descends from four generations of anthracite miners. Denchy honors this history ...