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This bright star will soon die in a nuclear explosion — and could be visible in Earth's daytime skies

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit skies.

CoreWeave CEO defends AI circular deals as ‘working together’

The CEO of the AI data center provider, which has Nvidia as an investor and a supplier, described the environment as a "violent change" in demand.

The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego. NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems," started in 1987 as a purely academic affair. It has since ballooned alongside the hype around AI into a massive industry event where labs come to recruit and investors come to find the next wave of AI startups. I was regretfully unable to … Read the full story at The Verge.

Why the U.S. Needs a Better Strategy for Sports Diplomacy

The U.S. has never had a cohesive approach to sports diplomacy — which could be a problem while hosting the World Cup and the Olympics over the next decade.

Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.

Gov. Shapiro faces subpoena over private home security upgrades after firebombing

The security improvements were recommended following the arson attack on the official governor's residence in Harrisburg in April.

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