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OpenAI solved or partly solved 372 advanced math problems, TechRadar reports; Terence Tao backs halting work with company.
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OpenAI solved or partly solved 372 advanced math problems, TechRadar reports; Terence Tao backs halting work with company.
A study of more than 700 software firms finds AI coding agents raise lines of code, commits and pull requests, yet Jira-tracked feature delivery barely moves. Researchers attribute the gap to longer, heavier human code review and report no significant employment change.
AI lifts coding output 30%, but a Harvard paper finds no significant completed-software gain, as code review bottlenecks.
Le Monde reported that OpenAI's latest move drew a stark reaction from mathematicians, with one saying it had annihilated their field.
A 17-person US team is searching Nikumaroro for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra, after satellite images showed a submerged object. Skeptics say it is likely a fallen tree.
Hall and Woodford win 2026 Nobel economics prize for work helping policymakers stabilize economies.
American economists Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday for work on macroeconomic stabilization and boom-bust cycles.
Forest ecologist Daisy Dent uses century-old plots in Panama to show tropical forests can recover naturally after destruction, challenging costly monocrop carbon-crediting schemes.
Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab and partners say their Memento 3 agent finished all 25 ARC-AGI-3 public games and 183 levels with a perfect action-efficiency score, using 7,518 moves against the 17,135 humans needed.
Roman fort in Wales yields coins that may support a Mabinogion tale of Emperor Magnus Maximus, Oxford archaeologist says.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said AI will drive major breakthroughs in physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science within three years, as ByteDance expands AI research and Chew warns of cybersecurity risks.
TII released Falcon-ASR, a 1.6B Arabic speech model reporting 20.92% average WER in its tests, available only as a hosted demo.
NASA published over 800GB of Artemis II science data, including more than 11,000 photos and videos, 8.5 hours of audio and crew-annotated images of lunar impact flashes, The Verge reported.
TechRadar reports that ICFO researchers in Barcelona have announced a solar cell design that could, in theory, surpass the 33 percent Shockley-Queisser limit, though tests showed only small gains. Engadget reports that cleaning dirty solar panels can recover output, but payback depends on soiling, rainfall and cost.
Psychologist Mark Travers says conceding the fault that is yours, early and without a 'but,' can stop a couple's fight from escalating.
NASA has released more than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data to its public archive, including images, audio and reports. The data document five extremely faint impact flashes seen from 46,000 miles away and color variations across the lunar surface.
Kaiming He's team proposes VISTA, a visual-native harness for multimodal models to store and revisit raw frames during reasoning.
Fields Medalist Terence Tao says AI is ending mathematics' proof-scarcity era. He warns that faster answers could outpace understanding and calls for new evaluation, explanation and human judgment.
International researchers met near Oslo to standardize studies of sauna, infrared and hot-water heat therapy, aiming to move a growing wellness practice into mainstream medical evidence.
A GitHub project called Open Academic Paper Gen uses a multi-agent workflow to generate academic paper drafts and check whether cited sources actually support the claims, using full text when available.
OpenAI released 722 math manuscripts on Oct. 7, including two Kakeya papers claiming stronger three-dimensional and four-dimensional advances, prompting debate over AI's role in mathematics.
Researchers at Deep Science Ventures say UK fruit and vegetables have lost up to half their nutritional value since the 1960s. The findings could put the country's five-a-day guidance, introduced in 2003, in question.
SUTD engineers built ALBATROSS, a 1.107 kg sailboat drone that autorotates to a controlled water landing, self-rights and sails under wind power.
Sakana AI's Beyond Imitation paper introduces a contradiction benchmark and a multi-layered review system that caught 73.43% of core-claim errors with four reviews, versus 14.81% for the best baseline, but exact matches on retracted papers were 16.11%.