Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Hospital closures on the rise in both rural and urban areas—particularly among safety-net hospitals

More hospitals across the U.S. are closing than opening, and urban hospitals are closing at the same rate as rural ones, ...

Things to consider before expanding your ramen shop to a second location. Why you shouldn't rush even if your first shop is thriving

When you run a ramen shop, and your first location's sales grow, regular customers increase, and lines start forming at lunch ...
BIOENGINEER

Dynamic Land-Use Model Reveals Extinction Risk May Spike Abruptly, and Protected Areas Can Bend the Curve

Every estimate of how many species humanity will lose to deforestation, urbanization, and agricultural expansion rests on a ...

The Laos Border Felt Just Like China: The 'Light and Shadow' of the Belt and Road Initiative

Part 5, Special EditionSoutheast Asia JournalistRisako TaiBoten, a border town in Laos. Located on the border with China, it ...
Scientific American

America’s AI giants want safety controls. China’s open models complicate that

With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards ...
Rolling Stone

Bose Bets Big on the Open Earbud Category With 2 New Models

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Bose is continuing a busy season of releases. After ...
Fox Business Network

Bessent says US needs more open-source AI models to compete with China

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday told lawmakers in Congress that the U.S. needs to foster open artificial intelligence (AI) models to compete with those made by Chinese firms. Bessent ...
GeekWire

Open-Source AI: Industry Growing Up or the End of the Open Model Era?

This spring, Alibaba dropped Qwen3.5-Omni – a powerful multimodal model. The flagship versions? API-only. The lightweight Light got open weights. Meta did the same. Muse Spark, the successor to the ...
Ars Technica

Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months, according to a Mozilla report. That ...
Inc.

Box Co-Founder Aaron Levie Says Open-Weight AI Models Will Drive More Innovation and Lower Costs

Appearing on the a16z podcast, Levie—whose cloud-based content management company generated revenue of about $1.2 billion last year—argued the benefits of these AI systems, which, at present, are ...
IBM

IBM and NASA Release Open-Source AI Model to Support Lunar Exploration

• The NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model turns decades of lunar observations into a foundation for discovery, helping scientists surface patterns across data at a scale no single instrument has provided ...