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ResearchFormer Google engineer warns AI could wipe out humanity by 2036: Why he says ‘We don’t have a decade…’
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, expresses serious concerns about artificial intelligence.…
ResearchAn AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the…
ResearchTsinghua and Zhipu’s HarnessPro Lets Agents Rewrite Their Own Harness, Cutting Task Costs 26%
HarnessPro, from Tsinghua, Zhipu and partners, has agents study their own runs and rewrite their harness without reference…
Research‘I’d rather shake a human hand’: Scientist’s bittersweet reaction as AI threatens to overturn his life’s work
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 31 — For decades, three computer scientists built their careers around an idea about the limits of what…
ResearchMIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.
ResearchPope says ‘most urgent’ challenge facing AI race is need for institutional ethical framework
Pope Leo XIV on Friday told a Vatican gathering of artificial intelligence researchers and experts that the “most urgent”…
Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that learns from past sessions to cut coding…
ResearchProject Suncatcher’s Orbiting TPU Delivers Its First AI-Generated Haiku
Google said on October 30, 2026, that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite returned its first AI response from orbit: a…
ResearchBeyond the AI Pilot: Turning Customer Data into Personalized Commerce That Scales
Enterprise enthusiasm for AI has outrun enterprise results. Stanford’s 2026 AI Index reports that 88% of organizations used AI in…
ResearchSam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop
After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he…
ResearchAI’s production push puts data platforms on the hook for results
Enterprise data platforms must turn AI pilots into measurable business returns while overcoming the data access, sovereignty and…
ResearchAI agents cut critical research time for humanitarian teams in conflict zones
Humanitarian groups working in conflict zones are finding that agentic AI can shorten the research cycle between a crisis and an…
ResearchWhy Token Costs Don’t Tell You Whether Enterprise AI Is Working
Enterprise AI is moving through a familiar cycle. At first, organizations went all in, reaching for the largest and most capable…
Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at…
ResearchAsian trading is mixed as worries about AI-related issues grow
Asians trading is mixed as worries about the future of artificial intelligence grew after Alphabet’s stock drop dragged on U.S.…
ResearchTencent Hunyuan Publishes Hy-Nomas Technical Report and Releases Hy-Nomas-Bench for World Models
Tencent Hunyuan detailed Hy-Nomas, an open 8B interactive video world model driven by text and camera inputs, and released…
ResearchNew AI tool helps scientists identify bacteria hidden in soil
A handful of soil holds a crowded world of bacteria, fungi and other organisms. Scientists can collect their DNA, but much of it…
ResearchDeepSeek Harness Pre-Release Lets Its Main Agent Hand Off Tasks to Local Codex and Claude Code
DeepSeek Harness v0.2.2-alpha.2 adds an experimental subagent_oar tool that sends self-contained tasks to a locally installed…
ResearchEpoch AI Reports Open-Weight GLM 5.3 Exploits Firefox Patch Gap
Epoch AI published research on October 29, 2026, reporting that GLM 5.3, an open-weight model released by Z.ai in August 2026,…
More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result
Research finds 55% of lawyers are using AI in legal practices, up from 37% last year, though efficiency gains aren’t as high as…
ResearchDartmouth provost resigns following accusations he used artificial intelligence for writing
Issues arose after the news outlet Semafor ran guest columns in major newspapers through an AI filter. Schnell’s August column in…
Mexico Leads Physical AI Development in Latin America
Mexico is leading the development of physical artificial intelligence (AI) in Latin America, according to the study “AI Gets…
Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97
Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the…
ResearchEclypsium Research Shows How Compromised Hardware Can Alter AI Models at Runtime
Eclypsium has demonstrated how compromised computing infrastructure can change an AI model’s behavior during inference while its…
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