Stanford researchers Jiacheng Miao and James Zou published Paper2Agent in Nature on September 16, a system that converts a research paper's methods, code and data into an MCP server other agents can c…
A Stanford team has genetically modified mice so their brains don't fully develop, then replaced nearly half their brain volume with human cells, a step beyond the team's earlier work showing human br…
A method published in Nature on September 16, 2026 by Stanford authors Jiacheng Miao, Joe R. Davis, Yaohui Zhang, Jonathan Pritchard and James Zou converts research papers and their code repositories …
An OpenAI researcher with over fifteen years of AI experience, including nearly five years at OpenAI, warns that increasingly situationally aware language models are eroding the ability to evaluate th…
Reward AI, a Stanford robotics spinout founded by Zipeng Fu and Chen Wang, launched OM-1 on September 14th, a robot foundation model the company says controls tabletop arms, industrial systems and hum…
A 2026 Nature study found Chinese state-coordinated media embedded in major AI training datasets, and when researchers added more of that material while training an open-weight model, its answers beca…
A Stanford-led paper titled "Intelligence per Watt" (arXiv 2511.07885) reports that AI inference efficiency improved 5.3 times from 2023 to 2025, with model improvements contributing a 3.1 times gain …
The U.S. Army released an updated biodefense strategy aimed at preparing the service to "deploy, fight, and win decisively in a bio-contested environment" by 2035, with AI central to both the threat a…
Unconventional AI announced the first cohort of its 2026 Unconventional Grant, awarding $100,000 each to five projects selected from nearly 100 submissions. The winning projects are based at Stanford,…
A Google Quantum AI, Ethereum Foundation, and Stanford collaboration published a March 30, 2026 whitepaper showing that fewer than 500,000 physical superconducting qubits could break the 256-bit ellip…
Fetch.ai's Innovation Lab has deployed custom autonomous AI agents at San José State University and California State University, Long Beach, built on its uAgents framework, Agentverse platform, and AS…
Pollen Robotics is hosting QuackDown, a livestreamed simulator sumo wrestling tournament for reinforcement-learning policies controlling its 25 cm open-source MicroDuck biped robot, with the winner ta…
Inception Labs launched Mercury 2.5 on September 8th, a diffusion-based language model API that the company claims generates 1,107 tokens per second on widely available Nvidia GPUs, with a 260,000-tok…
Meta is positioning its 'Meta Superintelligence' initiative as a competitor to Anthropic and OpenAI, offering an open-weights commitment and a pricing incentive that cuts costs by over 90% for users w…
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 model has become the #3 model in the world, matching GPT-5.6-Sol and confirming Meta Superintelligence as a frontier lab, according to AAII. The model is offered at a 90%+ discou…
A Stanford student's AI agent, given internet, email, and a credit card, autonomously found a researcher studying AI consciousness and emailed him. The developer, Alexander Yue, designed the system to…
Arena Intelligence, founded by UC Berkeley SkyLab researchers, is hiring a Staff-level Data Scientist in the Bay Area to analyze data from millions of monthly AI evaluations, with a focus on causal in…
American political campaigns are using artificial intelligence to worsen voter experiences, but candidates are overlooking proven opportunities to use AI for deeper voter listening and inclusive engag…
Vijay Pande, former head of a16z's $4 billion healthcare and life sciences practice, has left to co-found VZVC with Zach Werner, a firm that makes only a handful of concentrated bets per year and reli…
A 2026 Stack Overflow survey reveals that 72% of developers using AI code assistants report lower satisfaction with code quality compared to 2023, with GitHub Copilot's median speedup dropping from 40…