LEAP news and milestones

Lebanon was eyeing Zionsville waterways for LEAP wastewater discharge. Town officials are doing what they can to stop it.

Taiwan, which accounts for more than half of the global outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing market, is well-positioned to develop copackaged optics (CPO) and manufactur…

Fear of a possible 'negative' leap second is accelerating plans to abolish the adjustment.

Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.

The new machine works in a different way to many other quantum devices.

China's AI gap with the US may have just narrowed.

See how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen, and Hy3 perform on a strict, zero-dependency Rust coding task. Find out which AI agent handles constraints best.

Chicago Public Media is launching a region-wide social platform as a way to bolster its journalism. I believe it represents a path to the future.

Microsoft's carbon footprint expanded 25 percent in its 2025 fiscal year, surpassing double-digit increases at Amazon and Google.

To align Coordinated Universal Time with Earth's rotation, a second occasionally gets added to the year. That may change in 2027

CATL chairman Robin Zeng says solid-state batteries are only at 'level 4 of 9' and won't reach mass production before 2030, cooling industry hype.

While Chinese chipmakers have found success in supporting AI inference, they are struggling with the far more complex process of training.

Why the plan to live near your friends dies in the group chat - and how to keep it aliveHere's a story we watch play out over and over at Live Near Friends.Three couples decide t…

In Wave 8 of the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel we asked panelists to forecast AI's overall impact on human society, AGI timelines, near-term progress on METR's time horizon benchm…

Sidewinder makes it practical to build the DNA sequences that AI models predict

Why daily AI use matters less for raw speed and more for reducing context thrash, preserving mental energy, and making deep technical work sustainable.

It takes 365.2422 days for the Earth to orbit the sun each year. That fraction of a day has to go somewhere, so we add Feb. 29 about every four years.