AlphaFold2 folds proteins by learning a geometry it can differentiate
Coevolving residues reveal which parts of a protein sit close, and AlphaFold2 turns that signal into atomic coordinates — which is also why proteins with no evolutionary cousins stay beyond it.
Google's ad auction ran hotter in 2026, not colder
The auction that funds two-thirds of Alphabet monetized better than ever in early 2026, which is exactly why the exposures worth pricing sit one step downstream of the reported line.
A US wealth tax would raise $250 billion a year, or $25 billion, depending on who is counting
Both camps want the largest American fortunes to pay more, so the argument over a yearly tax on net worth turns on a narrower question: whether such a tax can be valued, enforced, and collected at anything close to what its designers project.
In coastal cities, a home costs twice what it takes to build one
That gap is a tax with no government behind it, collected by the Americans who already own homes and charged to everyone who wants in.
Anthropic finds a small workspace that holds a model's unspoken reasoning
Two frontier labs on opposite sides of the US chip-export line rationed access to their best models this week, each short of the GPUs to serve them.
Cory Doctorow coined a vulgarity for how platforms rot, and two dictionaries named it word of the year
Written on a blog in November 2022, it marks a sequence older complaints blur: a platform good to its users, then turned against them, then against the businesses that depend on it, then dead.
Unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone kills a third US service member
CENTCOM's ninth consecutive night of strikes on Iran pushes Brent crude past $90 on Strait of Hormuz fears.