Animaniacs legend Gordon Goodwin has died. The Daytime Emmy and Grammy winner passed away on Dec. 8 from “complications of pancreatic cancer,” his wife, Vangie Gunn-Goodwin, shared on Facebook. He was ...

MiniMax Unveils M2.1 to Bring Multilingual Programming Gains to Open AI Models Your email has been sent Chinese AI startup’s release is a major update to its open-source model series, aimed at ...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...

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Multi-Color Corp.’s earnings were hit hard by lower customer demand in the third quarter as the label making firm’s debt obligations grow more daunting, according to people familiar with the situation ...

Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters the U.S. market, it’ll have to compete with better-known rivals like ...

The U.S. multifamily market’s cooling continued, according to Yardi Matrix’s latest survey of 140 markets. The average advertised asking rents contracted, falling $4 to $1,743 in October, marking the ...

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...