A distilled network inherits its teacher's accuracy, not its predictions
Six years after Geoffrey Hinton proposed training a small network on a teacher's softened probabilities, a controlled study traced the technique's stubborn failures to an optimization problem no one had been solving.
Boeing's cash rebound came from customer deposits, not delivered jets
Boeing collected $4.7 billion of new customer deposits in the first half of 2026, more than all the operating cash it reported, while free cash flow stayed $823 million in the red.
Nirsevimab cuts a healthy baby's RSV risk by three-quarters, and by four in a hundred
A single antibody shot prevents most medically-attended RSV in infants; for a low-risk baby, that large relative number is a small absolute one.
U.S. and Iran are now striking each other directly
The Middle East conflict the Federal Reserve cited as it held rates over three dissents has become an open exchange of fire, over a strained economy that just absorbed the end of a cap on seniors' drug premiums.
Claude halved the security of a post-quantum signature scheme
The flaw it found in HAWK had survived two years of expert review, and Anthropic says nothing in production has to change.
Bowdlerize is named for the wrong Bowdler
A retired doctor took the credit for his sister's expurgated Shakespeare, and English turned his name into the verb for sanitizing a book while passing it off as the author's own.