NASA and IBM released an open-source AI model, the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, which they claim is the first to integrate lunar observations across multiple data modalities, viewing angles, and s…
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that its newest, unreleased AI model solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Instit…
AI systems have become proficient at professional-level mathematics but remain unable to perform basic counting, according to The Verge's AI reporter, who noted that newer models can produce work on p…
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…