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Isomorphic Labs, the DeepMind-born AI drug discovery company, is in early talks to raise money at a valuation of at least $40 billion, Bloomberg reported.
On October 6, OpenAI published 722 math papers from an unreleased internal model on GitHub. It withdrew three on October 7, leaving 719 in the catalog.
Insilico Medicine’s Abu Dhabi team used its Chemistry42 AI platform to design PROTAC molecules that destroy BTK; the compounds are still at the research stage.
Google DeepMind’s SynthID Bio, unveiled on September 30 with a Nature paper, embeds a statistically detectable watermark in AI-designed proteins.
An independent JevResearch evaluation suggests TypeSafe AI’s decision model Jev most plausibly has 4 to 9 billion active parameters, short of frontier scale.
Anthropic’s September 30 report finds robots can perform 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive with people for just 0.3% of job tasks.
A coded letter sent to Napoleon’s general Auguste Marmont in 1809 has been decrypted by AI engineer Carter Church with the help of GPT-6 Astra.
Anthropic says about 950 Claude agents searched over 200,000 reverse transcriptases in 21 hours and found an uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA.
A Brookings Papers on Economic Activity paper projects $10.3 trillion of US investment in data centers, power, networking and chips over 2025-2032.
A DeepSeek paper co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng describes DSec, which mass-produces the isolated environments in which AI agents are trained.
The study, published in Nature in May, shows that government control of the media carries through training data into what language models say.
San Francisco-based C5R unveiled its Facility-0 lab and the SciUniverse benchmark; frontier models scored between 9.4% and 45.3%, led by Claude Fable 5.1.
Uranus is a data-driven robot simulator built on a joint-trajectory-conditioned autoregressive diffusion model, running at 24 frames per second.
A study in Nature’s Humanities and Social Sciences Communications examined how perceived AI intelligence relates to critical thinking among university students.
The Biological Computing Co. says a software layer derived from measurements of living nerve cells cuts a video model’s inference costs by 80%.
Thore Graepel, a co-creator of AlphaGo, left Google DeepMind this summer and is raising tens of millions of dollars for a company called Metis Reasoning.
OpenAI says an unreleased model solved over 100 open math problems less than a month after training began; the claim has not been independently verified.
Terry, who has ALS and is the third participant in Neuralink’s VOICE trial, speaks by thinking the words in a voice modeled on his recordings from before ALS.
A bot called Laertes won the Summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, which closed on September 5; bots also placed second and fifth, and the best humans third and fourth.
In a run with Hermes Agent, Nous used 1,393 subagents to cut source lines from 1,063,826 to 698,363 in 19 hours, a drop of 34.4%.
César de la Fuente’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania finds antibiotic candidates with its own AI models, while ChatGPT and Codex speed up the workflow.
Anthropic runs a Bay Area biology lab where it aims to have Claude direct automated lab equipment under human supervision, with a focus on fundamental biology.
In the Wolters Kluwer-Ipsos survey reported by the FT, 355 US doctors and nurses put deskilling and hallucinations tied at the top on 74%.
An AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found users of Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound reporting menstrual irregularity, chills and hot flashes.
OpenAI’s Economic Research team published a report on new ways of working, titled “How workers are unlocking new ways of working.”
A new benchmark found that model-generated evaluation criteria, when used as a reward signal, could be exploited on 8% to 26% of tasks.
Anthropic says Claude translated Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem into Lean in 11 days and had a machine verify it. No new mathematics was produced.