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The preprint repository arXiv will require all submissions to be written in English or accompanied by a full English translation starting February 11, a policy change that explicitly permits the use of AI translators even as research suggests large language models remain inconsistent at the task. Until now, authors only needed to submit an abstract in English. ArXiv hosts nearly 3 million preprints and receives more than 20,000 submissions monthly, though just 1% are in languages other than English. Ralph Wijers, chair of arXiv's editorial advisory council, advises authors to verify any AI-generated translations. "Our own experience is that AI translation is good but not good enough," he says. A 2025 study from ByteDance Seed and Peking University ranked 20 LLMs on translation quality between Chinese and English; GPT-5-high scored nearly 77, just below the human expert benchmark of 80, but most models including GPT-4o, Claude 4, and Deepseek-V3 scored under 60.

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29 Jan 2026 9:22pm GMT

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29 Jan 2026 9:02pm GMT

An anonymous reader shares a report: The US is leading a huge global surge in new gas-fired power generation that will cause a major leap in planet-heating emissions, with this record boom driven by the expansion of energy-hungry datacenters to service AI, according to a new forecast. This year is set to shatter the annual record for new gas power additions around the world, with projects in development expected to grow existing global gas capacity by nearly 50%, a report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) found. The US is at the forefront of a global push for gas that is set to escalate over the next five years, after tripling its planned gas-fired capacity in 2025. Much of this new capacity will be devoted to the vast electricity needs of AI, with a third of the 252 gigawatts of gas power in development set to be situated on site at datacenters. All of this new gas energy is set to come at a significant cost to the climate, amid ongoing warnings from scientists that fossil fuels must be rapidly phased out to avoid disastrous global heating.

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29 Jan 2026 8:50pm GMT

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29 Jan 2026 8:37pm GMT

Project Genie lets you generate new worlds 60 seconds at a time, but only if you pay for AI Ultra.

29 Jan 2026 8:26pm GMT

An anonymous reader shares a report: U.S. life expectancy rose to a record high of 79 years in 2024, an increase of six months from the previous year, reflecting a sharp decline in deaths from COVID-19 and drug overdoses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. According to a report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, life expectancy improved for both men and women across races and among Hispanics, surpassing the previous peak set in 2014.

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29 Jan 2026 8:10pm GMT

Comcast overhauled Internet plans to stop customer losses. It isn't working yet.

29 Jan 2026 7:51pm GMT

Lennart Poettering has been named Chief Engineer at Amutable, marking his first publicly announced role since leaving Microsoft.

29 Jan 2026 7:46pm GMT

Texas sues Delaware nurse practitioner shipping out hundreds of abortion pills each month.

29 Jan 2026 7:19pm GMT

Vivaldi 7.8 introduces drag-and-drop Tab Tiling, smarter pinned tabs, and smoother multitasking for everyday browsing.

29 Jan 2026 3:35pm GMT

GeForce NOW's Linux beta is available today, allowing PCs to stream RTX games from the cloud at up to 5K resolution and high FPS.

29 Jan 2026 2:52pm GMT