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Celtic women held power--and were sacrificed

Popular Science

A teenager's remains indicate an Iron Age Briton tribe practiced human sacrifice. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Still, a team of archeologists from Bournemouth University hope to use this cold case to better understand the culture of a 2,000-year-old Iron Age tribe--one whose beliefs and rituals likely included human sacrifice . The Durotriges were a Celtic tribe that lived in present-day southern England prior to Roman conquest during the 1st century CE. Extensive archaeological excavations and DNA analysis indicate that the group was highly matrilineal, meaning both personal inheritance and familial lineage passed through women instead of men.


OpenAI Signs 38 Billion Deal With Amazon

WIRED

OpenAI has committed to buying billions of dollars worth of compute from AWS--the latest in a string of major deals brokered by the AI startup. OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users. The deal is yet another sign of the AI industry becoming increasingly entangled, with OpenAI now at the center of major partnerships with industry players including Google, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD. The AWS agreement is also notable because OpenAI rose to prominence in part through its partnership with Microsoft--Amazon's biggest cloud rival. Amazon is also a major backer of one of OpenAI's key competitors, Anthropic.


OpenAI, Amazon sign 38bn AI deal

Al Jazeera

OpenAI has signed a new deal valued at $38bn with Amazon that will allow the artificial intelligence giant to run AI workloads across Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure. The seven-year deal announced on Monday is the first big AI push for the e-commerce giant after a restructuring last week. Experts say this does not mean that it will allow OpenAI to train its model on websites hosted by AWS - which includes the websites of The New York Times, Reddit and United Airlines. "Running OpenAI training inside AWS doesn't change their ability to scrape content from AWS-hosted websites [which they could already do for anything publicly readable]. This is strictly speaking about the economics of rent vs buy for GPU [graphics processing unit] capacity," Joshua McKenty, CEO of the AI detection company PolyguardAI, told Al Jazeera. The deal is also a major vote of confidence for the e-commerce giant's cloud unit, AWS, which some investors feared had fallen behind rivals Microsoft and Google in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.


OpenAI signs 38bn cloud computing deal with Amazon

The Guardian

OpenAI said the deal would give it access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its AI models. OpenAI said the deal would give it access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia graphics processors to train and run its AI models. Agreement to use AWS datacentres, and Nvidia chips inside them, part of $1.4tn spending spree on AI infrastructure Mon 3 Nov 2025 13.09 ESTLast modified on Mon 3 Nov 2025 15.16 EST OpenAI has signed a $38bn (ร‚ยฃ29bn) deal to use Amazon infrastructure to operate its artificial intelligence products, as part of a more than $1tn spending spree on computing power. The agreement with Amazon Web Services means OpenAI will be able to use AWS datacentres, and the Nvidia chips inside them, immediately. Last week, OpenAIรข s chief executive, Sam Altman, said his company had committed to spending $1.4tn on AI infrastructure, amid concerns over the sustainability of the boom in using and building datacentres.


Your Friend Asked You a Question. Don't Copy and Paste an Answer From a Chatbot

WIRED

Your Friend Asked You a Question. Your friend came to you because they respect your knowledge and opinion, and outsourcing the answer to a machine is lazy and rude. Back in the 2010s, a website called Let Me Google That For You gained a notable amount of popularity for serving a single purpose: snark. The site lets you generate a custom link that you can send somebody who asks you a question. When they click the link, it plays an animation of the process of typing a question into Google.


ChatGPT owner OpenAI signs 38bn cloud computing deal with Amazon

BBC News

OpenAI has signed a $38bn (ยฃ29bn) contract with Amazon to access its cloud computing infrastructure, as the start-up continues its run of major partnerships to secure computing power . In 2025, the ChatGPT maker has signed deals worth more than $1tn with Oracle, Broadcom, AMD and chip-making giant Nvidia. Its latest deal reduces its reliance on Microsoft. As part of the seven-year agreement, OpenAI will gain access to Nvidia graphics processors to train its artificial intelligence models. The deal follows a sweeping restructure of OpenAI last week which saw it convert away from being a non-profit and changed its relationship with Microsoft to give OpenAI more operational and financial freedom.


Portuguese Man O'War species honors 'One-Eyed Dragon' samurai

Popular Science

The newly discovered P. mikazuki is a tribute the famous warrior Date Masamune. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A team of university students in Japan identified an entirely new species of the mighty Portuguese Man O'War . Described in a study recently published in the journal, the creature's distinct features and fearsome venom have earned it a name that honors a famous 16th century samurai warrior. It's easy to mistake the Portuguese Man O'War () for a jellyfish .


More than 700 officers to police Villa-Maccabi match

BBC News

Warnings of disruption and protests have come from police as more than 700 officers prepare to mount an operation in Birmingham for Aston Villa's Uefa Europa League match against Maccabi Tel Aviv. Officers will be keeping the public safe and to tackle any crime and disorder on Thursday, West Midlands Police said, with police horses, dogs, the force's drone unit, and road policing officers out in the city. Planned protests include one by supporters of Palestine, who want the match to be called off. Last month, a decision to ban Tel Aviv fans from the event became the focus of parliamentary-level debate . The Israeli club later said supporters would not travel to Birmingham for safety reasons.


Chefs, your jobs are safe for now! Humanoid robot attempts to cook a stir-fry - but ends up flinging the food on the floor and slipping over in the mess

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language

Popular Science

New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Arapaho is one of the many an Indigenous languages that are severely at risk of disappearing . According to the United Nations, 4 in 10 Indigenous languages are currently at risk due to aging populations and ongoing discrimination against native speakers. For Arapaho, the population of native speakers of the language rooted in the Great Plains is aging.