Trust large language models at your own peril

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Meta launched Galactica, an open-source large language model designed to help scientists, the company—reeling from criticism of its expensive metaverse investments and its recent massive layoffs—was hoping for a big PR win. Instead,…

Ridiculously hot gas giant exoplanet is about to be swallowed by its dying sun

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is one way for astronomers to investigate exoplanets such as HD 167768 b. NASA In the past few decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets around other stars. Many of those worlds look nothing like the planets in our own solar system. One curious type of exoplanet is the Hot…

Carv valued at $40M as investors race to back web3 identity builders

Decentralized identity startups are having a moment as investors seek the next generation of killer applications in web3, even in times of market volatility. Blockchain-based identity systems, they argue, are the portal to user-facing applications in the decentralized land, whether the piece of identity is used to send tokens or showcase a gamer’s achievement. Entrepreneurs…