Natural magnetic materials can control light in unprecedented ways

Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as ...
Denver Gazette

Officials discuss renaming two 14,000-foot peaks that climb high in Colorado

On January 27, Colorado’s Geographic Naming Advisory Board’s meeting agenda including the discussion of renaming two well-known 14,000-foot peaks – 14,259-foot Longs Peak and 14,058-foot Handies Peak.
Phys.org

Ultrafast electron diffraction captures atomic layers twisting in response to light

A pulse of light sets the tempo in the material. Atoms in a crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move—not randomly, but in a coordinated rhythm, twisting and untwisting in sync like ...
Forbes

The Power Of Reflection: Critical Thinking In The Age Of Echo Chambers

Other fields have mastered reflection. Athletes dissect plays. Writers revise drafts. Physicians analyze outcomes. But in business, we leap from task to task. Why? Because busyness looks like progress ...
TechCrunch

Reflection AI raises $2B to be America’s open frontier AI lab, challenging DeepSeek

Reflection AI, a startup founded just last year by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation, a whopping 15x leap from its $545 million valuation just ...
Reuters

Nvidia-backed Reflection AI raises $2 billion in funding, boosts valuation to $8 billion

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Reflection AI, a startup backed by Nvidia, said on Thursday it has raised $2 billion in a new funding round that values the company at $8 billion, as investor interest in artificial ...
Observer

This DeepSeek Rival Founded By DeepMind Alum Raises $2B, Hits $8B Valuation

Reflection AI, a startup launched earlier this year, has quickly surpassed unicorn status. Rifky Nur Setyadi for Unsplash+ At the start of the year, Chinese A.I. startup DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley ...
The New York Times

Reflection AI, an A.I. Model Start-Up, Raises $2 Billion

The big fund-raising round was the latest sign of investor fervor for artificial intelligence companies despite concerns that the boom is overheated. By Michael J. de la Merced For much of the past ...
Tom's Guide

Reflection is a new AI model that can run on a good laptop and still beat GPT-4o in tests

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Science Daily

Negative refraction of light using atoms instead of metamaterials

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...
VentureBeat

Meet the new, most powerful open source AI model in the world: HyperWrite's Reflection 70B

Update — Monday, Sept. 9, 2024 at 11:02 am ET: Third-party evaluations have failed to reproduce Reflection 70B's performance measures as shared below originally by HyperWrite/OthersideAI co-founder ...