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Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.
AI and drones are decoding whale calls. What they're finding could change how we think about animal culture.
Researchers are using artificial intelligence to crack the complex language of beluga whales. The findings hint that these animals pass down knowledge and traditions, much like we do.
Apple's New AI Tool Turns a Single Photo Into a Fully Lit 3D Object
A research system called Luce can convert one image into a 3D model complete with realistic materials, ready to be dropped into games, product pages, or films.
A New Tool Lets Researchers See Inside AI Models, Not Just Watch What They Do
AI lab Goodfire has opened its Silico platform to the public, giving researchers the ability to peek inside a model's workings and ask why it behaves the way it does.
Canonical is funding a PhD to find out if AI can turn millions of lines of C into Rust
It's a three-year research project, not a bot rampage. Ubuntu's parent company wants actual evidence before touching its codebase.
AI Is Helping Robot Labs Design New Medicines and Materials Faster Than Ever
Automated biofoundries, labs where robots do the bench work, are getting an AI upgrade. Here is what that means for drug discovery and everyday health.
A tiny AI agent from a London startup just beat Anthropic and OpenAI at reading scientific papers
Inherent, founded by four Google DeepMind veterans, says its Faraday agent outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI on a key science benchmark, despite running on a model roughly a tenth of their size.
Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space
The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.
A £5 Million AI Trial Wants to Stop Planes Drawing Heat-Trapping Lines Across the Sky
Google, the UK government and air traffic controllers are teaming up to test whether artificial intelligence can predict where contrails form, then quietly steer planes around them.
Fusion startup cuts fuel pellet production from days to minutes
Inertia Enterprises says it can now make the tiny fuel capsules at the heart of its nuclear fusion power plant in two to three hours, down from a week or more. The speedup quietly solves one of the hardest manufacturing problems standing between fusion energy and the electricity grid.
AI Cracked Ten Hard Maths Problems in One Summer. Now Mathematicians Are Fighting Back.
OpenAI's models solved open problems that stumped humans for decades. The world's most celebrated mathematician says the field has until the end of 2025 to decide who controls its future.
A Faster Way to Solve One of AI's Hardest Maths Problems
Researchers from Apple ML Research have found a shortcut through a calculation that slows down high-dimensional AI comparisons, making a useful technique practical for the first time at scale.
Brain scanning just got smarter: what a new AI technique means for neuroscience
Researchers have built a method that finds hidden patterns in brain signals across multiple people at once, even when each person's brain data looks slightly different.
AI can run the experiments, but it cannot do the science
A Princeton-led study gave an AI agent six days, a $3,000 budget, and two unsolved research questions. The papers it produced were rejected. Here is what that tells us about self-improving AI.
An AI Just Verified the Hardest Prime-Number Proof Mathematicians Have Ever Checked
Axiom Math's AxiomProver confirmed a result that sits at the very edge of what we know about primes. The real prize, though, is what this means for the safety of AI-written code.