OpenAI's Astra model generated machine-checkable proofs for ten longstanding mathematical problems, including a disproof of Connes's rigidity conjecture and an improvement to the sphere-packing densit…
Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating materials discovery. Yaghi, who won the Nobel…
IEEE Spectrum reports that orbital data centers remain economically and technically impractical despite Elon Musk's predictions, citing massive scaling challenges in launch capacity, satellite manufac…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench integrating over 60 scientific databases and tools. Basecamp Research is using the platform to design antibiotic peptides and predict vaccine targets…
Researchers have used artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to decipher a carbonized scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, recovering all surviving text from a single scroll…
SpaceX plans to build an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called 'Starpipe' to supply its Starbase launch site with fuel for a higher cadence of Starship launches, with service expected to begin in Jan…
Stripe, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation are backing a new $500 million nonprofit called Intercept aimed at preventing respiratory infections like the common cold and flu. The organization will fu…
OpenAI released LifeSciBench, a 750-task benchmark to evaluate AI systems on realistic life science research tasks. Its top-performing GPT-Rosalind model achieved only a 36.1% pass rate, failing nearl…