Google and Yale University researchers have unveiled a powerful new AI model that generated and confirmed a previously unknown hypothesis about cancer cell behavior. The model, Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B, is built to interpret the “language” of individual cells. In lab tests, it successfully predicted how a specific drug, silmitasertib, could make certain “cold” tumors more visible to the immune system by boosting antigen presentation. Scientists later verified the prediction in human cell experiments, marking what Google described as a milestone for AI-driven biological discovery. The model, trained on massive biological datasets, revealed how larger-scale systems can go beyond analyzing data to form new, testable ideas. Researchers say it could also be used to map other diseases or accelerate the search for new combination therapies.
True Spies
Making Jack Falcone
How do you infiltrate a family that doesn’t let outsiders in?
To join the Cosa Nostra, you’re supposed to be Italian, born into the code, fluent in the rituals, and ready to prove your loyalty. But undercover FBI agent Jack Garcia was none of those things. A Cuban-American from the Bronx, Garcia was tasked with doing what no one thought possible: infiltrating New York’s Gambino crime family.
Taking on the alias Jack Falcone, Garcia posed as a money launderer with mob ties, relying on street smarts, a wire, and a crash course in Italian cuisine. He studied every detail, from how to pronounce mozzarella to the rules of respect around the table, all under the guidance of veteran FBI agent Nat Parisi. After months of careful work, Garcia gained the trust of high-ranking mobsters inside the Gambino family, moving closer to their inner circle than any outsider before him.
What came of his mission? Join Jack Garcia in this week’s podcast selection, 'Making Jack Falcone', to go undercover in the heart of New York’s criminal underworld and find out!
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What happens when a decades-old CIA mystery is solved by accident?
Bidding opened yesterday for the final encrypted message of Kryptos, the copper sculpture at CIA headquarters that has teased codebreakers since 1990. Artist Jim Sanborn, 79, planned to auction the handwritten solution to the sculpture’s fourth and final passage to help cover medical costs and fund charities. The sale was expected to fetch up to $500,000.
But last month, two journalists uncovered the long-guarded solution by chance. While examining Sanborn’s donated papers in the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, they found a scrap of paper containing the decrypted 97-character message, the same one up for auction. Both men declined payment to keep quiet and dismissed legal threats from the auction house, throwing the artwork’s value and secrecy into question. Sanborn has said a hidden fifth message will emerge once all four passages are solved. The auction closes on November 20th.
What strange espionage strategies took shape in the shadow of the Iron Curtain?
From cats fitted with transmitters to bears strapped into ejector seats, the Cold War inspired some of the strangest spy experiments ever conceived. In Washington, the CIA’s "Acoustic Kitty" project tried to train felines to eavesdrop on foreign officials. Beneath Berlin, American and British agents tunneled under Soviet lines in "Operation Gold", while engineers in Greenland dug out "Project Iceworm", a secret U.S. missile base later exposed by melting ice.
From paranoia to pure absurdity, discover ten bizarre spy stories in this SPYSCAPE article that reveal just how far fear and imagination pushed the world’s superpowers in their battle for control.
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Have the world’s coral reefs reached the point of no return?
According to a new report from the UK-led Global Tipping Points initiative, coral reefs are the first ecosystem to have crossed a climate tipping point, a threshold beyond which damage becomes irreversible. Researchers say that more than 80% of warm-water reefs have already suffered severe bleaching, and most are now on track for widespread dieback as global temperatures continue to rise.
The report, authored by 160 scientists from 23 countries, links the crisis to Earth’s rapid approach toward 1.5°C of warming above preindustrial levels, a threshold expected to be permanently breached within five years. Though coral reefs cover just 0.2% of the ocean floor, they sustain roughly a quarter of all marine life.
Technology
Believers To Balance Sheets
What Actually Stops Bitcoin at $10,000?
In December 2018, Bitcoin hit $3,122. The faithful called it a buying opportunity. The skeptics called it the death rattle of a mania. They were both right. Bitcoin recovered spectacularly, reaching $69,000 three years later. Anyone who bought at $3,000 made a fortune. But those buyers were a specific kind of investor: crypto anarchists and early adopters who had weathered every crash before.
Then came the recent crash. Bitcoin fell from over $100,000 to around $75,000 in a matter of weeks — a reminder of what the asset really is: volatile, speculative, and prone to violent moves. The question now isn’t whether Bitcoin could fall to $10,000, a 90 percent decline well within its historical range, but whether it could survive if it did. Now, Bitcoin is owned by institutions, not idealists. Corporate treasuries, ETFs, and national reserves hold it. If the price fell to $10,000, those holders couldn’t just wait it out. Margin calls, redemptions, and liquidations would follow. Mining would stall, sovereign bets would unravel, and the faith that once held the network together would fracture.
Bitcoin’s floor isn’t its technology or its scarcity. It’s the collective conviction of those who refuse to sell. And when that conviction is replaced by compliance departments, the floor becomes a trapdoor. If Bitcoin ever falls to $10,000, it won’t be because the code failed. It will be because belief did. And in markets built on belief, that’s the only fundamental that matters.
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