Google acquires Kaggle to boost data play. Technology giant Google has announced the acquisition of Kaggle, a start-up that ...

Kaggle's eight-person team has a backlog of 170 proposed contests to work through. Howard's dream is for Kaggle to get big enough that some contestants can give up their day jobs.

The life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster lasts a couple of weeks, so the humble fruit fly is far more useful than a giant tortoise to a geneticist with a hypothesis and a deadline.

Checkmate: OpenAI's o3 swept Musk's Grok 4 in an AI chess showdown.

World number one chess player Magnus Carlsen estimated Grok’s rating at approximately 800 and OpenAI’s model at around 1200, significantly below his own peak rating.