Yes. On September 10, 2026, IBM and NASA announced the open-source NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, a multimodal AI trained on lunar observations from multiple instruments and missions. The model is meant to help with crater mapping, studying volcanic irregular mare patches, and assessing where polar ice may be. According to IBM Research, it cut ice-prospectivity … Read more
Yes. On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled “We Must Pace the Frontier,” arguing that frontier AI labs should slow the rate of capability advances so safety, alignment, and third-party evaluation can keep up. He stressed that “pacing” does not mean halting model training, and he committed Anthropic to giving … Read more
The viral silent clip from the 25th anniversary Ground Zero ceremony shows New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez briefly smiling and interacting while victims’ names were being read, but it does not prove they were laughing at the victims or mocking the memorial. Michael Ragusa, a former Giuliani aide who said … Read more
Yes. Iraq’s prime minister’s office said the operations commander in Maysan governorate — a southeastern province bordering Iran — was removed after investigators confirmed that drones that struck Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline had been launched from that region. Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi also ordered an investigation into the Maysan Operations Command. Saudi Arabia … Read more
At least 76,000 people have fled their homes in Yemen since July 2026, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), nearly doubling from about 46,000 just days earlier as fighting intensified along the West Coast and South Taiz frontlines. Taiz was hardest hit, with about 8,300 households—nearly 50,000 people—displaced from districts including Jabal Habashy, … Read more
No. In September 2026, the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark-matter experiment reported a single anomalous particle interaction that is hard to explain with known backgrounds, but collaboration leaders said they are not claiming a dark-matter discovery. The new analysis of 220 live days of data reached about 2.6 sigma significance—far below the conventional 5-sigma discovery threshold in … Read more
As of September 12, 2026, the Philippine Coast Guard said the confirmed death toll from the fire aboard the passenger ferry MV June Aster off Palawan had risen to 76, after rescuers recovered 41 additional charred remains (up from 35 earlier). Forty-three people survived, and 13 remained unaccounted for based on a ticket manifest of … Read more
As of September 12, 2026, the Philippine Coast Guard said the confirmed death toll from the fire aboard the passenger ferry MV June Aster off Palawan had risen to 76, after rescuers recovered 41 additional charred remains (up from 35 earlier). Forty-three people survived, and 13 remained unaccounted for based on a ticket manifest of … Read more
Yes. A September 10, 2026 study in Geophysical Research Letters finds Mercury’s cooling-driven contraction has likely been underestimated by about 10% to 30% because impact debris and rough terrain hide many surface wrinkles that record that shrinking. After correcting for that obscuration, the researchers report radial contraction of up to about 11.6 kilometers—corresponding to roughly … Read more
Yes. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy temporarily shut the East-West oil pipeline as a precaution after drones struck facilities in the Riyadh and Medina areas, causing injuries and damage. The roughly 1,200-kilometer (746-mile) Aramco-operated line runs from the Abqaiq oilfield in the east to Yanbu on the Red Sea. In recent months the pipeline had … Read more