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John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c

This article from Together AI discusses foundational research techniques and methodologies used to enable efficient large-scale language model inference. It likely covers optimization strategies, hard

Peter Loftus / Wall Street Journal: How AI is transforming the pharma industry, with most gains so far from back-office streamlining and faster manufacturing rather than breakthrough drug research — D

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: SAP to acquire Dremio, an open data lakehouse provider, and Prior Labs, which it pledges to invest €1B in over four years, hoping to create a frontier AI lab — S

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail CopyFail, a now-patched Linux vulnerability that lets unprivileged users gain admin access, as many distributions have yet to add fixes — Publicly release

Counterpoint Research: Apple shipped 71.6% of all smartphones with satellite connectivity in 2025; smartphones with satellite connectivity to reach 46% of global shipments by 2030 — - Driven by premiu

Jason Gale / Bloomberg: Mayo Clinic researchers detail an AI system called Redmod that identified pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before clinical diagnosis — An artificial

talkie: AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical text with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific breakthroughs — Why vintage language models? — H

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: LinkedIn profile review shows Thinking Machines Lab has been hiring more researchers from Meta than from any other employer; TML's headcount now stands at ~140 — Weiyao Wan

Madison Mills / Axios: OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts — OpenAI on Thurs

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B

OpenAI: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatG

Kevin Roose / New York Times: A look at the AI nonprofit METR, whose time-horizon metrics are used by AI researchers and Wall Street investors to track the rapid development of AI systems — A chart cr

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an “early sign” of generalization, surprising researchers — Physical Int

Oliver Whang / New York Times: A primer on “interpretability” and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models — When De

Pew Research Center: A survey of US teens: ~90% say entertainment is a reason they use TikTok, Instagram, or Snapchat, 57% Snapchat message daily, and 37% say TikTok impacts sleep — Teens largely turn

Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those c

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady dr

'The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,' Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI resear

Artificial intelligence agents tied to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly hacked a popular code hosting service earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal detailed the breach today. The malicious activity wa

Today, we're releasing a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. [...] The victim does not need to answer the call, or interact with their phon

Google LLC is investing around $75 million into the independent movie studio A24 Films LLC in order to explore the potential of artificial intelligence further in the entertainment industry. A24, whic

Sapu is an early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for hard-to-treat cancers. From its San Diego facility, the team is pioneering a nanomedicine pipeline that takes existing FDA-ap

Quantum computing is emerging as a practical complement to traditional supercomputing, with early applications in optimization, machine learning and complex simulation now moving from theory into real

OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about

AI-native services are shifting the value of artificial intelligence beyond individual productivity and into stronger project-team outcomes. Professional services firms face pressure to deliver more q

A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document’s 1,134 signatories work

At Google Cloud Next 2026 in Las Vegas, MLCommons and Google Cloud demonstrated a powerful new capability for trustworthy medical AI - one that protects patient data, model IP, and benchmark integrity

Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, micro

Mirendil Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence models for scientists, has raised 200 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. The seed round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Mirendil s

How do you prove the business value of generative AI to your teams? Technology and finance leaders need to show the clear business value of AI projects to secure ongoing funding. While measuring retur

Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics a

Starlink is shutting down a GPS-style positioning feature that customers could previously access through its local API, with the company having restricted access to this capability that some users had

Isomorphic Labs Inc., an Alphabet Inc. unit using artificial intelligence to speed up drug development, is reportedly in talks to raise a new funding round. Sources told Bloomberg today that the inves

Scientists have reengineered bacteria to run a core part of their cellular machinery with just 19 amino acids instead of the standard 20 , focusing on eliminating isoleucine through AI-guided protein

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-sec

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, sec

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous veh

As a deadly Ebola outbreak spreads through the Democratic Republic of Congo, health workers are dealing with the consequences of the Trump administration's cuts to global health programs and withdrawa

Building an AI app shouldn’t require a PhD in machine learning (ML) or months of wrestling with complex architectures. Yet that’s exactly what happens when you try to orchestrate multiple API calls, m

Last summer, Peter Degen's postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something unus

Discover how Vultr values and rewards the ethical disclosure of security vulnerabilities with its new bug bounty program. Report issues, get compensated, and help improve Vultr's web ecosystem through

The author provided an update on several ongoing technical projects, including the ATOM Report, a new post-training course, and

This National Robotics Week, NVIDIA is highlighting the breakthroughs that are bringing AI into the physical world — as well as the growing wave of robots transforming industries, from agricultural an

This dispatch examines the emerging capabilities and challenges of AI autoresearch systems, analyzing the tension between autonomous AI agents conducting research and the preservation of human agency

Autonomous coding agents such as Codex (GPT‑5.5) can fully automate reinforcement‑learning research workflows by provisioning GPU‑hosted environments, orchestrating experiments, and iteratively optimi