De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn’t live up to the hype

Colossal’s so-called dire wolf Colossal Biosciences Colossal Biosciences, which calls itself “the world’s first and only de-extinction company”, generated a lot of headlines this year. The hype, however, bore little relation to reality. First, the US-based firm made a splash with woolly mice “engineered to express multiple key mammoth-like traits”. Victoria Herridge at the University…

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‘Tracker’ Adds Kathleen Robertson & Mark Engelhardt As Recurring

EXCLUSIVE: There will be two new faces to be seen soon in Tracker. Kathleen Robertson (Swimming with Sharks) and Mark Engelhardt (American Horror Story: Asylum) have been cast in recurring roles opposite Justin Hartley and Fiona Rene in the hit CBS series. Based on the bestselling novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, Tracker stars Hartley as Colter Shaw,…

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Ai2’s new Olmo 3.1 extends reinforcement learning training for stronger reasoning benchmarks

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) runs, to create Olmo 3.1. The new Olmo 3.1 models focus on efficiency, transparency, and control for enterprises.  Ai2 updated two of…

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bitchy | “Joel Edgerton is really Oscar-campaigning for ‘Train Dreams’” links

Joel Edgerton is campaigning for Train Dreams. Good. He should have been Oscar-nominated for Loving! [LaineyGossip]The White House continues to lie about Donald Trump’s hands. [Buzzfeed]The trailer for Charli XCX’s The Moment. [OMG Blog]Andy Dick refuses to go to rehab. [Socialite Life]Jacob Elordi doesn’t give a sh-t about these AI questions. [Pajiba]Ayo Edebiri in Chanel……

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