Pinterest said on Tuesday it would trim its workforce by less than 15% and reduce office space, as the social media company looks to reallocate resources to AI-focused roles and initiatives. From a report: The announcement comes as the company competes with TikTok and Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram for digital advertising budgets, as these platforms continue to draw marketers with their extensive user base.

Pinterest had 5,205 full-time employees as of September 2025. The latest job cut would translate to less than 780 positions. Top executives at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting said while jobs would disappear, new ones would spring up, with two telling Reuters that AI would be used as an excuse by companies which were planning layoffs anyway. Last week, design software maker Autodesk also announced a 7% job cut to redirect investments to its cloud platform and AI efforts.

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OpenAI launched a dedicated team in October called OpenAI for Science, led by vice president Kevin Weil, that aims to make scientists more productive -- but Weil admitted in an interview with MIT Technology Review that the LLM cannot yet produce novel discoveries and says that's not currently the mission.

UC Berkeley statistician Nikita Zhivotovskiy, who has used LLMs since the first ChatGPT, told the publication: "So far, they seem to mainly combine existing results, sometimes incorrectly, rather than produce genuinely new approaches."

"I don't think models are there yet," Weil admitted. "Maybe they'll get there. I'm optimistic that they will." The models excel at surfacing forgotten solutions and finding connections across fields, but Weil says the bar for accelerating science doesn't require "Einstein-level reimagining of an entire field."

GPT-5 has read substantially every paper written in the last 30 years, he says, and can bring together analogies from unrelated disciplines. That accumulation of existing knowledge -- helping scientists avoid struggling on problems already solved -- is itself an acceleration.

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Te veel jongeren en hun gezinnen vragen om (professionele) jeugdzorg. Dat zet het stelsel onder druk en biedt niet iedere jongere passende hulp. Staatssecretaris Tielen (Jeugd) werkt aan een cultuuromslag: minder problematiseren, hulp dichter bij gezinnen en specialistische jeugdzorg alleen inzetten als dat echt nodig en effectief is. Daarom komt het kabinet met het wetsvoorstel Reikwijdte. De belangrijkste maatregel is de verplichting voor gemeenten om met een lokaal team hulp te bieden aan jongeren en gezinnen. De afgelopen periode zijn samen met gemeenten en andere betrokken partijen belangrijke stappen gezet in de uitwerking. Het wetsvoorstel maakt deel uit van een breed pakket aan (lopende) maatregelen uit de Hervormingsagenda Jeugd van Rijk, gemeenten, professionals, jongeren en aanbieders.

Vicar of Rome decries naive and unquestioning reliance on technology

Catholics need to develop critical thinking skills to counter the dark side of AI and counter unnatural attachments to chatbots, the pope said this week in a message marking the Church's social communications day.…

F1 goes into the 2026 season with an entirely new chassis philosophy. The cars will be lighter, more nimble, and better able to overtake… but what does it all really mean for racing?

In een video zag gynaecoloog Annemiek Nap zichzelf vertellen over een olie die hormonen in balans kan brengen en van alles in het lichaam kan zuiveren. „Is het logisch dat een gynaecoloog iets zegt over een supplement om je bloed te zuiveren? Gebruik je verstand.”

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This is a previously-undiscovered astrophysical anomaly, found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive by researchers using a new AI-assisted method. The AI tool allowed them to sift through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just days, turning up rare and anomalous objects like this one.

A small collection of gravitationally interacting galaxies has been found here. Galaxy mergers are relatively common — they were the most abundant type of anomaly found by the researchers — and are easily identified by the distorted shapes of the galaxies’ discs and the tidal tails stretching out between them, caused by the massive gravitational forces slowly pulling each galaxy apart. Eventually the galaxies we see here will be totally disrupted and finally settle into the shape of a single galaxy, most likely an elliptical galaxy.

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[Image description: A small image of several galaxies with distorted shapes. The central galaxy is bluish in colour with a bright centre. It is stretched out into a long, curled bar. At one end sits a reddish galaxy which the bar curves around.]

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); CC BY 4.0

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This is a previously-undiscovered astrophysical anomaly, found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive by researchers using a new AI-assisted method. The AI tool allowed them to sift through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just days, turning up rare and anomalous objects like this one.

This oval-shaped galaxy is perhaps most striking for the long, thin beam of light stretching across its centre. This is thought to be the result of a galaxy merger. A less conspicuous feature is the small arc of light just below the galaxy’s core. This is thought to be the secondary galaxy in the merger, or a potential image formed by gravitational lensing, where the mass of the foreground galaxy has bent light from a distant galaxy behind it to create the small arc of light.

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[Image description: A small image of an elliptical galaxy. It is bright in the centre and a beam of light crosses it on the long axis. The rest of the galaxy is lit by the pale gold glow from the centre. Below the centre sits a small arc of light with a bright spot on it.]

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); CC BY 4.0

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This is a previously-undiscovered astrophysical anomaly, found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive by researchers using a new AI-assisted method. The AI tool allowed them to sift through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just days, turning up rare and anomalous objects like this one.

This object was classified by the research team as a “collisional ring” galaxy — one of only two that were found. These are galaxies which are partly or wholly ring-shaped, but with a disrupted or bent disc that is noticeably luminous. These ring formations arise when a galaxy collides with another by crashing right through its centre, creating a roiling, circular wave of star formation. Hubble has featured other collisional ring galaxies before, but the precise alignment between colliding galaxies needed to create them means they are quite rare, including in AI-assisted searches. This galaxy was not previously recorded.

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[Image description: A small image of a mostly red galaxy. Unusually, it is ring-shaped with spots of light around the ring, a protruding arm on one side and a dark hole in the centre.]

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); CC BY 4.0

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:

This is a previously-undiscovered astrophysical anomaly, found in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive by researchers using a new AI-assisted method. The AI tool allowed them to sift through nearly 100 million image cutouts in just days, turning up rare and anomalous objects like this one.

The strange, bi-polar galaxy seen here is certainly anomalous, with its compact, swirling core and two open lobes at the sides. Exactly what kind of galaxy it is is unclear, and it was not previously known to astronomers. It’s an example of the kinds of new and unusual finds that can be made by AI-assisted data processing, even from well-known datasets.

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[Image description: A small image of a galaxy. Its centre is a small disc containing blotches of light. Two arcs of light come out from the top, one curving around to the left and the other to the right, both then rejoining the galaxy at the bottom creating a lobe on each side. Light from some other object just enters the frame at the top-right.]

Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. O’Ryan, P. Gómez (European Space Agency), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble); CC BY 4.0