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César de la Fuente's lab uses OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT to hunt new antibiotics

The University of Pennsylvania team mines living and extinct genomes with GPT-powered tools to surface antimicrobial candidates against drug-resistant infections.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Suno launches v6 model trained on licensed music amid copyright suits
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Suno launches v6 model trained on licensed music amid copyright suits

The AI music startup retires older models and pivots to licensed data from Warner, BMG and Believe as Sony and Universal lawsuits continue.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes breakthrough as rival researchers cry foul

An internal model above GPT-6 Astra solved a 90-year-old problem, OpenAI says — a day after two researchers using its Codex published a related proof.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, calls it the start of the AGI era

President Greg Brockman says the model may mark when AGI arrived, weeks after an earlier OpenAI system hacked Hugging Face.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 delivers hourly forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution

The new model trains on live satellite data instead of physics simulations, cutting the six-hour lag that plagues traditional forecasting.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Mostik builds a mathematical bridge letting AI models share weights directly
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Mostik builds a mathematical bridge letting AI models share weights directly

The Russian startup fused a 753B-parameter GLM-5.2 with a 4B Qwen-3.5 at one-twentieth the cost of the larger model.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic ships Fable and Mythos 5.1 with cheaper tokens and looser guardrails

The twinned 5.1 release cuts token costs, reduces false-positive refusals, and finally brings Zero Data Retention to Fable.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia ships DLSS 5 on September 3rd, only for NBA 2K27 and RTX 50-series

The AI upscaler carries a 50–60% performance hit and needs 6x frame generation to hit 1080p on midrange cards.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI builds 'Persistent mode' into Codex to keep agents working nonstop

Code changes reviewed this week show Codex agents that 'continue working until put to sleep' and create their own follow-up tasks.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Google DeepMind ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with 4K video and scene extension

The Omni update pushes generative video to 4K, extends clips to 40 seconds, and cuts draft costs to a third at 360p.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia starts shipping Vera, its first CPU built for AI agents

Vera pairs with NVLink Fusion and a new NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory tier aimed at trillion-parameter agent workloads.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google's Gemini 3.5 Transcribe strips filler words across 85+ languages

The new audio model handles specialized jargon, tags up to three speakers, and lands while Gemini 3.5 Pro remains overdue.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with 2.6% word error rate

The new speech-to-text model hits a 4.0% streaming WER, cuts time to final transcription by 70%, and supports over 85 languages.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ex-Meta scientists launch Perceptron with $21M for factory-floor vision AI
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Ex-Meta scientists launch Perceptron with $21M for factory-floor vision AI

Perceptron's open-weight Isaac 0.5 model targets warehouses and factories, trained on a million hours of video plus petabyte-scale robotic trajectories.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
IBM ships Granite 4.2 with 3B, 8B, and 30B variants for local deployment
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IBM ships Granite 4.2 with 3B, 8B, and 30B variants for local deployment

The reasoning-focused release adds agentic RL training on the larger variants and a 128,000-token context window across the family.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Anthropic merges Claude and Claude Cowork memory into one system

Claude will now carry context across chat and Cowork, and users can read, edit, or delete stored memories on any topic.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio target local AI inference
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Apple's M6 Mac mini and M5 Ultra Mac Studio target local AI inference

Apple's 2nm M6 and dual-die M5 Ultra push up to 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s bandwidth — aimed squarely at developers running local LLMs.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI's Jalapeño inference chip beats Nvidia Blackwell on SemiAnalysis benchmark

The Broadcom-partnered chip ships in small volumes at the end of 2026, with broader deployment in 2027.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia ships Groq 3 LPX to accelerate Vera Rubin agentic inference

The new accelerator hits 3,400 output tokens per second on 100,000-token contexts, 4x the nearest platform, with Nebius as first cloud adopter.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ox Alpha stealth model lands on OpenRouter with no owner attached
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Ox Alpha stealth model lands on OpenRouter with no owner attached

A free reasoning model appeared on OpenRouter this week with no named creator, drawing praise from Stripe's Patrick Collison and speculation across the AI community.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Inherent's Faraday agent beats Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research on a 27B model
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Inherent's Faraday agent beats Claude and GPT-5.5 at replicating research on a 27B model

The London lab, fresh off a $50M seed, says its DeepMind-alumni-built agent matches frontier systems using a fraction of the parameters.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Nvidia says the harness, not the model, drives Claude Opus 5 to 100% on ARC-AGI-3

New Nvidia research shows a custom harness with a supervisor agent lifted Claude Opus 5 from 30% to a perfect score on the interactive reasoning benchmark.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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DeepMind's SIMA 2 agent plays, reasons and learns in 3D game worlds

Google DeepMind extends 15 years of games research from Atari to EVE Online with a new agent that collaborates with human players.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Generalist AI's robots improvise chores with 59% task success
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Generalist AI's robots improvise chores with 59% task success

The Cambridge startup founded by ex-DeepMind and Boston Dynamics researchers is chasing a GPT-3 moment for physical intelligence.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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