The Fish With No Tail, and the Two That Came Ashore Together
In early March 2026, two sisters on holiday at Cabo San Lucas — Monica and Katie Pittenger — walked down to the surf and found not one but two giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne, rolling in the shore break. The pair, with help from other beachgoers, managed to push both...
The Pollen in the Pitch, and a Roman Merchant’s Second-Hand Repairs
There is a merchant ship, built around 170 BC on the Italian side of the Adriatic and lost with its cargo of timber and amphorae in the shallow water off the Croatian island of Ilovik, that has been telling a quiet new story in a journal that publishes polymer...
Microsoft’s First Reasoning Model Won’t Drink From Its Competitors
On the second of June 2026, at Build, Microsoft AI announced something it had been threatening for two years: a flagship reasoning model nobody else helped train. MAI-Thinking-1 is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts decoder with 35 billion active parameters and roughly one...