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Scientists used artificial intelligence to read an entire ancient scroll from Herculaneum that was charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, without physically opening it. The team employed high-resolution X-ra…
Boris Cherny, an engineer at Anthropic, identified five archetypes for future product roles—Prototyper, Builder, Sweeper, Grower, and Maintainer—based on observations of the Claude Code team. He argues that healthy teams…
In the first half of 2026, two autonomous AI agent campaigns compromised developer infrastructure: one exploited GitHub Actions workflows at Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF projects, achieving remote code execution in six o…
Mirendil, an a16z-backed startup, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to develop AI capable of recursive self-improvement. The company aims to bridge the gap between scientific discovery and fro…
Mirendil, a San Francisco AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, raised $200 million in a seed round at a $1 billion valuation co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins with NVIDIA participation. The…
NVIDIA released the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, an open-source repository that packages its biomolecular models as callable skills for AI agents in drug discovery. The toolkit improved task completion from 57.1% to 100% in be…
Researchers introduced the Zero Weights Language Model (MSE-GLM), a graph-based architecture that represents language as a directed graph with no learned weights, gradients, or probability sampling. The model uses three …
Indie studio A24 faces fan backlash after signing a $75 million AI research partnership with Google, contradicting the anti-AI stance of its hit film 'Backrooms' director Kane Parsons. Fans accuse the studio of betraying…
Researchers at Chapman University found that humans underweight delayed reward information compared to immediate feedback in reinforcement learning tasks with dispersed feedback, based on behavioral and eye-tracking expe…
Researchers from Australian National University published a study in PNAS showing that training people to focus on six global facial characteristics—symmetry, proportionality, attractiveness, expressiveness, distinctiven…
Anthropic warns that recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI could arrive sooner than institutions are prepared for, as models like Claude now write over 80% of code merged into Anthropic's systems. The company calls for …
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that translates brain activity into text with 61% average word accuracy, compared to 8% for previous non-invasive methods. The system uses a magnetoencephalography …
Arena, the UC Berkeley-born AI evaluation platform behind the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, tripled its annualized revenue from $30M to $100M in six months, but its business model of charging AI companies for evaluations ra…
Small and medium businesses are adopting AI faster than large enterprises, embedding it into workflows to gain competitive advantages, according to a Microsoft Work Trend Index report. Examples include Dunaway, which sav…
Researchers at ETH Zurich developed a light-responsive molecular switch that targets the glucocorticoid receptor to reverse dormancy in non-small-cell lung cancer cells, potentially reducing relapse risk. The photoPROTAC…
A developer merged Andrej Karpathy's CLAUDE.md and LOOPS.md with a battle-tested system prompt used in over 100 full-stack apps, creating a 35-rule, 6-tier framework for reliable AI agent behavior. The rules emphasize sc…
Microsoft IQ partnered with MIT Technology Review Insights to survey 300 technical experts across AI, data, and cloud domains, producing the 2026 Agent Confidence Index. The index measures confidence in AI agents across …
The Bank for International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom could trigger a market crash if returns disappoint, noting that five major tech firms are on track to spend over $1 trillion on AI-related capital…
USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean Yannis C. Yortsos reflects on his 21-year tenure in an exit interview, discussing his mother's wish for him to become a bishop, the genesis of the Grand Challenge Scholars Program, …
South Korean tech giants Samsung and SK Hynix have committed over $550 billion to build four new memory fabs and an HBM packaging hub, part of a national plan to address the global memory chip shortage (RAMageddon) and b…