Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time …

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to Th…

Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete. The process involved more 230 puppets - including 36 of the ma…

The company has already handed this work over to expert "shepherds" for completion.

OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI from a…

Edward Tian built GPTZero in college and sold the AI writing detection tool to Superhuman. Now he worries AI is changing how people write and think.

Which CEO has sunk the furthest into the putrid muck of Donald Trump’s decaying brain?

A new model suggests the Thwaites Glacier could contribute twice as much sea-level rise.

A new study offers an explanation for unusual chemical signatures found in some volcanic rocks.

The results resolve major problems in math, physics and computer science. But like other recent AI-generated “slop drops,” the releases are already controversial

Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming new deluge of achievements

AI is changing the job market. But a recent study found that education and healthcare fields are among the least affected by AI.

Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model that it says leads or ties rivals on 13 of 18 disclosed benchmarks. The model is initially being released only to trusted cyber defenders and select pre-release testers, with broader availability pla…

US President Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk (Kent NISHIMURA) Donald Trump presented Elon Musk with the top US science medal on Thursday, as the rocket tycoon fully returned to the president's orbit after an explosive bust-up…

PsiQuantum has received a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $150 million from the US Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital. The quantum computing company announced the commitment on Thursday. It is the second conditional loan from the same …

OpenAI's announcement is the latest in a series of claimed scientific breakthroughs credited to AI.

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with a second safety test result from OpenAI and a customer quote from Salesforce. OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use…

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Elon Musk says he will rename the just renamed SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI to align with the White House directive.

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported for Tec…

Bridget Griswold is the 25-year-old CEO of Lean In, the nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg. Here's a day in her life in San Francisco.

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin today announced a historic $3 billion gift to further elevate CMU in Pittsburgh and launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami.

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"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results Open…

AI detection is a difficult job, made worse for everyone by it being such a delicious ingredient in academic snake oil. But one service has clearly outperformed the others in tests: Pangram. It went beyond obvious characteristics of LLM output such as perplex…

The work could help improve quantum computers’ accuracy in complex calculations

A European research group has built a robot that uses magnets to steer ultra-thin graphene electrodes into the brain. Barcelona’s INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, which leads the clinical work, announced the results on Wednesday, at the end of the EU-funded MINIGRAP…

If you really want to understand the extent to which everyone thinks Silicon Valley is so uncanny these days, watch "Cupertino."

Claude’s enzyme discovery is neat, but it’s unclear what comes next, or whether it was truly original.

Researchers explored how AI could spread through everyday gadgets. But cybersecurity experts have seen these tricks before

GPS has become so embedded in modern life that its infrastructure is almost invisible. A driver opens a map, an aircraft follows its navigation system, or an autonomous machine calculates its position, and the underlying infrastructure disappears from view. N…

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In math and Mario Land, there are questions that are algorithmically undecidable, meaning they will demonstrably never have an answer

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In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. Ope…

OpenAI shares model results on the Kakeya conjecture, Exponential Time Hypothesis, and quantum chromodynamics—and how researchers can verify and build on them.

OpenAI and Anthropic both said they've proven a long-held computer science theory false. Here's how math and tech leaders are responding.

Matthew Schwartz describes what happened when he stopped fighting Claude and allowed Claude to find “Claude-shaped” problems. This led him to build BootLoops, a toolkit for exact calculations in quantitative science, which he has been applying across scientif…

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Gen Zers are taking typing classes. You need a keyboard to use AI — and they're used to phones.

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Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human by Peter Sahlins charts the ascent of an idea from prehistory to popular culture.

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A tool called IdeaLens helps to judge whether concepts — rather than just writing — in scientific papers are artificially generated.

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

The “slop drop” contains a number of groundbreaking results, but how it was generated remains unclear and contentious

All this, and angry NeoVim users

A month after resolving one of the six biggest open problems in mathematics, the company says its new internal model has toppled heaps more—this time without the multimillion-dollar price tag

CEO of United Airlines Scott Kirby shares his daily routine, emphasizing family time, efficient meetings, and the role of AI in enhancing his work.

One secret code word is all it takes. The post AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers appeared first on Popular Science.

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—cop…

Listeners of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday may already know that host Ayesha Rascoe loves horror. But why do scream queens (and kings) like her like what's frightening? The answer may surprise you.

Becky DeGrossa, 66, worked at IBM and then became a therapist before opening CounselingWise as a side gig. It's now her full-time, $2M business.

Anastasia Sevriukova landed her dream job and got engaged. Then, she learned she had stage 4 colon cancer.

Junead Khan left Microsoft after two years to pursue his AI startup. He explains why he quit his six-figure job without customers or VC funding.

Elon Musk suggested AI can feel pain. Experts on consciousness say AI isn't sentient, but that doesn't mean we should be mean to it.

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A new system sends faint electrical pulses through tissue instead of over Bluetooth. In rats, it made the animals flex one of their hind legs on cue when one of their front paws moved

The AI hacking events involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google underscore lessons that draw on years of computer science research. The post The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control appeared first on Si…

Today Project Suncatcher is sending four AI processors into orbit on a SpaceX rocket to see whether the building blocks of a data center can survive space

A question posed by Sir Walter Raleigh about cannonballs inadvertently led to a puzzle that mathematicians have been trying to solve for centuries

The lawsuit seeks to stop OpenAI from developing and testing AI models that can illegally access other organizations’ computer systems.

Kyushu University researchers rethink the ‘mounted’ default in head-mounted displays, using aerial imaging optics to propose a new way to enter virtual reality simply by sitting down

I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. Some of it is on VHS.

Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.

Nature - Publisher Correction: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life

Is philosophy real? We sent our correspondent to find out.

Fitting a computer into a pair of glasses creates an awkward design problem: the electronics need room, but the result still has to belong on someone’s face. Povilas Grigas approaches that tension without pretending it can disappear. His Glasses concept gives…

Remember those Radio Shack project kits with the spring terminals, where you bent wires into a working radio and felt like Tony Stark? Elecrow's CrowPi 3 is that feeling, updated for a world where the thing kids want to build is a chatbot. It is a Raspberry P…

Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it changing how science is done?

OpenAI’s bumper crop of 722 math papers wowed and worried the research community—and cryptographers are split over whether the algorithms that protect our texts and bank log-ins are next

An innovative safeguard could help to flag proteins devised by artificial-intelligence tools such as AlphaFold, but the digital marker can be erased.

Voyager imaging team member Dr. Garry Hunt joins The Reg's Kettle podcast to talk about his role in the mission as probe approaches one light day's distance from Earth

Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC

Kitchen foil didn't change my signal strength, but my garage got four times faster anyway.

Researchers are using AI as a sounding board throughout their work. But concerns are growing that companies may present users’ ideas as those of their models

The director of Wildwood tells us about the innovations that allowed the team at Laika to produce the epic new stop-motion animated film.

The device will be launched on a joint UAE-US-built craft. Some researchers say it could be the last mission constructed with outside help.

Some buildings look so unusual that they can make people question what they are actually seeing, especially when strange shapes and unexpected perspectives enter the picture. From homes shaped like giant animals to structures that seem to defy gravity, these …

My brand has long been "Atheist Jerk-off," but wtf I love Catholicism now. In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, be…

Epigenetic genes accumulate faster in big dogs. Plus, what’s know about reports of plague in Russia and the legacy of software engineer Margaret Hamilton.

I bought Braid on the promise of lavish visuals and neat puzzles with temporal mechanics, and on this basis I was rewarded. I found some frustration with the controls, which I eventually traced to dodgy keyboard drivers - the game wouldn't register the up or …

Literary prizes won by works made with AI, or suspected of it.

Maverick NEXT members explain why what others call inexperience might be your biggest advantage in business.

Everyone was acting like he was some big idiot for failing his test so absurdly, but did they even consider that maybe Statics is a harder class than Statistics? Do they even know what a statics test entails? Your college GPA doesn't paint a totally accurate…

While I understand why teachers participating in a volunteer event for the school can incentivize kids and their families to attend, I also understand why teachers would find this particular event to be degrading.  If you were a certain age or in a certain s…

A new MIT study found that when left to its own devices, AI agents will invent games, build temples, draw mandalas, and playfully investigate the world around it.

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OpenAIは10月26日(米国時間)、新モデル「GPT-6.1 Terra」を発表し、ChatGPTの「ChatGPT Work」と「Codex」で提供を開始した。対象はPlus、Pro、Enterprise、Eduの各プランのユーザー。APIでも利用でき、標準のAPI価格は従来の「GPT-5.6 Terra」の半分に引き下げられ、100万トークンあたりの価格は入力が1ドル(約158円)、キャッシュ入力が0.05ドル(約8円)、出力が5ドル(約790円)。

Scientists have filmed tiny magnetic vortices called skyrmions melting out of an organized lattice for the first time, revealing new ways to manipulate these unusual structures. The breakthrough could help make brain-like computers a reality, potentially enab…

Scientists have discovered a way to operate multiple silicon qubits simultaneously with remarkable accuracy, overcoming a major challenge in scaling up quantum computers. Their new technique maintained accuracy of approximately 99.9% even when all five qubits…

The elegant curl of rose petals may be distinct among flowers—and math can explain why

The "butterfly effect" may not mean exactly what you think. Here's the story behind the phrase's creation, along with an explanation of how it has become oversimplified in pop culture.

An elegant account of the physicist’s unusual life story highlights the relationships that inspired him.

Researchers have developed a groundbreaking 3D invisibility cloak that can hide complex objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme heat and cold. Instead of blocking heat, the device guides it around an object, making the object appear i…

Sans le travail de cette brillante mathématicienne, le module lunaire d'Apollo 11 aurait probablement interrompu sa descente trois minutes avant l'alunissage. Margaret Hamilton, l'un des plus grands noms de la conquête spatiale, vient de nous quitter : retour…

CosmoCube will use the far side of the Moon as a shield from Earth’s radio noise to search for a faint signal from the universe before the first stars existed. The suitcase-sized satellite could reveal how the cosmic dark ages ended and how dark matter helped…

In June 2008 Apple announced Mac OS X Snow Leopard, proudly boasting that it would have "no new features". Instead of piling on new things, Snow Leopard aimed to build on the success of its predecessor, Leopard, opting to focus on under-the-hood performance a…