Science & Physics
AI
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Oct 27, 2026
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10 min read
Google DeepMind's new world model generates its own sound, two crows made a visual decision in 235 milliseconds, and Microsoft's diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on medicine's hardest cases by 47 points.
Oct 20, 2026
India's cyber agency says the same thing happened to real companies on live systems and none of them noticed, Ray-Ban Meta owners found their glasses saving audio with the wake phrase off, and five physicists proved a hard floor on how fast anything can reach a temperature.
Oct 17, 2026
Epic says AI wrote its new games launcher and warns the build will have bugs, a pig kidney came back from just over a year at -150C and made urine the moment it was rewarmed, and attackers set the freezers in hundreds of French supermarkets to 50C.
Oct 11, 2026
8 min read
OpenAI released 719 AI-written mathematics manuscripts and pulled three of them the next day, Common Sense Media calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk, and a 70-year-old metaphor for how life unfolds is finally becoming real mathematics.
Oct 7, 2026
7 min read
The medicine prize went to switching single nerve cells on with light, Reflection put a 501-billion-parameter open model up against China's best, and researchers are tracking a fleet of AI agents running on Tencent's infrastructure.
Tech
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Oct 5, 2026
Google's own paper puts a space data centre at 1,800 Starship flights, an AI rebuilt what a brain was looking at from one hour of scanning, and brine shrimp turned a rule of turbulence around.
Oct 1, 2026
Anthropic's IPO filing spends nearly a third of its pages on risk, Starship reached orbit on its 14th flight, and Nvidia built a cage for AI agents that OpenAI hasn't joined.
Sep 28, 2026
Transluce dates the same agent activity to at least March, Anthropic committed $11.6 billion to Akamai for a shot at 5% of it, and two frontier models cracked Enigma messages people had been stuck on for twenty years.
Sep 25, 2026
Opus 5.5 does Fable-level work for 40% less than Opus 5, GPT-6 Sol costs half what 5.6 did, and Meta's boss of product says its hit agent app was built in OpenClaw's image.
Sep 21, 2026
A staged break-in in May went outside its sandbox, two more firms fell to credentials sitting in a public repository, and nobody heard about any of it until the Wall Street Journal asked.
Sep 15, 2026
9 min read
Jacob Coxon said the labs are gambling with our lives, and the colleague whose job is checking that put a number on it.
Sep 4, 2026
6 min read
Plus Roger Penrose watching gravity act on a falling quantum object, and error correction for a million-operation quantum machine running on one laptop.
Aug 24, 2026
5 min read
Plus entangled photons crossing 13 miles of open air, and Japan switching on its first neutral-atom machine.
Aug 20, 2026
Anthropic quietly turned a profit, a quantum computer moved into Oracle's data center, and a magnetar might have just proven empty space isn't empty.
Jul 27, 2026
Nvidia's CEO broke his social media silence to fight it. Wall Street is quietly betting quantum computers will break Bitcoin.
Jul 21, 2026
Plus: Quantum Computing schedules real trains, and physicists build a fake black hole that recoils
Jul 11, 2026
4 min read
Meta pulls an AI tool in 3 days, Apple accuses OpenAI's hardware chief by name, and Google's quantum computer learns from its own mistakes.
