Abigail Avery

A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified

There is a mysterious phenomenon in which strong radio signals arrive periodically from space, yet their source remains completely unknown. Known as “long-period radio transients” (LPTs), these phenomena are observed as radio bursts that repeat at intervals ranging from several minutes to several hours. Only a dozen or so examples have been discovered within the…

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The AI world is getting ‘loopy’

On Friday, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny made an appearance at Meta’s @Scale conference and, surprisingly, the first question from the audience was about loops. “Are loops the next hype cycle,” the questioner asked, “or are they for real?” Cherny’s answer was an emphatic “yes, they’re for real,” he said. “Two years ago, we wrote…

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