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Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen, 82, of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, won the 2026 physics Nobel for realizing that a cubic kilometre of South Pole ice could serve as a neutrino detector — the IceCube observatory, buried up to 2,500 metres deep. Its rare catches of high-energy neutrinos carry information from exploding stars and distant galaxies that light cannot.
Meta and Microsoft, two of Anthropic's biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees' use of Claude. Microsoft executives had projected at least $1 billion in internal Anthropic spending this year; per the headline, it is now cutting that by a third.
A federal court in Washington hears Disney's suit against the FCC on Tuesday, after Chair Brendan Carr moved to review all eight ABC-owned station licenses years ahead of schedule following Trump's attacks on Jimmy Kimmel and The View. Mark Fowler, Reagan's Republican FCC chair, filed in support of ABC, calling Carr's actions unconstitutional.
Pope Leo XIV says there is an ontological difference between art and what a machine generates by statistical calculation over millions of images made by others; Paul Graham answers that future AI will perceive the world directly through sensors rather than remixing our pictures. Alex Tabarrok sides with Graham: once machines see for themselves, the Pope's distinction becomes a statement of faith rather than a description of how the models work.