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Anthropic Said Its AI Made a Biology Discovery. Scientists Are Not Convinced.
A swarm of 950 Claude agents flagged a genetic pattern in 21 hours. Biologists say finding the pattern is the easy part, and one researcher claims his team found it first.
Ancient Greek Has a New AI Reader. It Trained on 600 Million Words of History.
A model called Apollo can fill in the blanks of tattered papyrus fragments in hours. Scholars who once spent years on a single reconstruction say it changes what is even possible.
Google's AI Weather Model Gives Forecasters an Extra Day to Warn People About Hurricanes
A new study in Nature finds that Google's WeatherNext model predicts cyclone paths three days out with the same accuracy older systems only managed two days out. That extra 24 hours could matter enormously for evacuation decisions.
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. MIT Technology Review reports on what that tells us about self-improving AI.
OpenAI's AI Solved 10 Hard Maths Problems. Now Mathematicians Are Asking What Their Jobs Are Worth.
A new OpenAI model cracked decade-old maths puzzles that stumped human researchers for years. The credit dispute around one of them is a warning about how AI labs talk about the people whose work they build on.
Forget Silicon: Scientists Are Building the Next Generation of Computing From Living Brain Cells
Lab-grown blobs of human neurons are playing video games, guiding robots through mazes, and hinting at a future where 'artificial' intelligence is made of flesh, not chips.
Someone Used a Hairdryer to Fake a Weather Reading. AI Could Make That a Lot Worse.
A tampered thermometer at a Paris airport paid out $20,000 to a gambler. Four researchers warn that as AI takes over weather forecasting, this kind of data sabotage gets harder to catch and far more dangerous.