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OpenAI hands three major maths and physics claims to reviewers
OpenAI says its models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis, proved the local smoothing conjecture and showed that pure Yang-Mills theory exists. The company accepts that all three claims face months of independent review.
Read News · Science 3 min readStanford's Halcyon generates images with far less compute
Stanford researchers including Fei-Fei Li and Jiajun Wu released Halcyon, a text-to-image family trained from scratch without language pretraining that beats rivals with 18 to 275 times less compute.
Read News · Workforce 3 min readJunior share of Anthropic's technical hires fell from 27% to 9%
Anthropic's study of its own workforce shows junior staff fell from 27% to 9% of technical hires. Interactive agent hours reached six times human work hours by August.
Read News · Science 3 min readOpenAI offers university labs free access to GPT-Rosalind
OpenAI's Rosalind Academic Plan gives eligible US university labs up to 30 free seats for 12 months and access to GPT-Rosalind. OpenAI is also giving $5 million to a Simons Foundation effort to examine AI-produced maths.
Read News · Security 3 min readNvidia's NXDirection blocks prompt injection from inside the model
Nvidia's NXDirection removes the instruction signal from external text inside a model's layers. Attack success on the BIPIA benchmark fell from 38.1% to 0.1%, but the method cannot be applied to closed commercial models.
Read News · Science 3 min readCoding agents raised code output, not finished work
A Harvard working paper on 700+ software firms finds AI coding agents raised code output about 30% but did not significantly increase completed work, as the bottleneck moved to code review.
Read News · Science 3 min readMeta's Muse Spark co-authors six mathematics papers
Meta mathematicians wrote six research papers with Muse Spark, five answering previously open questions, using the ordinary chat interface rather than a custom research system.
Read News · Science 1 min readAnthropic: robots can do most physical tasks but cost too much
Covering about 900 jobs and 19,000 tasks, the analysis finds robots can do three quarters of physical tasks but are cheaper than people on just 0.3%.
Read News · Science 1 min readDeepMind watermarks proteins designed by AI
Published in Nature, SynthID Bio hides a signature in a protein’s sequence and 3D structure. Watermarked proteins kept their function in lab tests.
Read News · Science 1 min readHospital AI coding added $942 million to bills
A Blue Cross Blue Shield analysis says hospitals' AI coding tools raised bills by $942 million while the care delivered stayed the same.
Read News · Science 1 min readClaude found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system
Anthropic opened a life sciences lab. Its first result: 950 Claude agents found an uncharacterised enzyme system in bacterial viruses in 21 hours.
Read News · Science 1 min readAbbVie teams up with Iambic on AI-designed drugs
AbbVie signed a multi-year deal with AI company Iambic to find small-molecule drugs faster in immunology, neuroscience and oncology.
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