AI Discovers Antibiotic for Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A deep learning model screened millions of compounds and found one that defeats MRSA and other superbugs in lab tests.
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Gemini 2 Ultra Now Reasons Across Video, Audio, and Text
Google's flagship model processes 3-hour videos and answers questions about specific moments. It's like having a research assistant who actually watched everything.
Claude's Extended Thinking Mode Now Produces PhD-Level Research Papers in Hours
Users are generating 50-page literature reviews with proper citations. Academics are both impressed and terrified.
Frontier Models Are Now Improving Themselves
GPT-5 and Claude are generating training data that makes them better. The loop is closing.
You Can Now See AI's Actual Reasoning. It's More Alien Than Expected.
New interpretability tools show how Claude and GPT-5 'think.' The process looks nothing like human reasoning.
Anthropic's Claude 4 Shows 'Genuine Reasoning' in New Study. Researchers Aren't Sure What That Means.
Tests reveal Claude solving novel problems in ways that don't match its training data. Is this emergence or pattern matching we don't understand?
AI Discovers New Antibiotic for Drug-Resistant Bacteria
The compound works against MRSA and other superbugs. It was found by screening 12 million compounds in 3 days.
Stanford AI Finds New Parkinsons Treatment
A drug candidate discovered entirely by AI reverses motor symptoms in lab animals. Human trials could start this year.
DeepMind Just Solved Protein Folding. All of It.
AlphaFold 3 can now predict the structure of any protein, including ones that don't exist yet. Biology will never be the same.
AI Solves 30-Year Math Problem in Record Time
Google DeepMind's AlphaProof cracks the Keller Conjecture variant. Mathematicians are both amazed and unsettled.
AI Discovers New Antibiotic in Just 2 Hours
Traditional drug discovery takes 10 years. AI found a novel antibiotic compound in an afternoon. Clinical trials start next month.
An AI Just Beat the World's Best Minecraft Speedrunners. The Techniques Are Alien.
DeepMind's SIMA agent completed Minecraft in 12 minutes using strategies no human has ever discovered.
Google's Gemini Ultra Sets New Standard for Multimodal Research
The model can analyze scientific papers, charts, and lab imagery together.
AI Swarms Are Here: When One Agent Isn't Enough
Multi-agent systems are solving problems single AIs can't touch. Here's why everyone from startups to OpenAI is going all-in on swarms.
Beyond Transformers: Diffusion Models Define Next-Gen AI
Eye on AI explores the architecture that might replace autoregressive transformers. Diffusion models already dominate images. Language could be next.
Scientists Unlock How AI Models Think Inside the Black Box
MIT Technology Review named mechanistic interpretability a 2026 breakthrough. Anthropic's 'microscope' and OpenAI's chain-of-thought monitoring are revealing how AI actually works.
ARC-AGI-2 Test: Why GPT-5 Failed Human-Level AI
GPT-5 Pro scores 18.3% on the new benchmark. The previous version? 70.2%. Francois Chollet's test exposes what AI still can't do — and it's not what you'd expect.
Multimodal AI Can Now Understand Video in Real-Time
From security cameras to surgical rooms, real-time video comprehension is unlocking applications that were science fiction a year ago.
Diffusion Models Have Won: A Post-Mortem on GANs
Five years ago, GANs were the future of generative AI. Now they're a footnote. What happened?
Scientists May Have Found the Source of Consciousness
A controversial new theory locates awareness in the claustrum—and early tests are surprisingly supportive
2026 Is the Year of AI World Models
Forget chatbots. The next frontier is AI that can simulate entire 3D environments from a single image.
The Climate Breakthroughs You Missed While Arguing About Chatbots
AI is quietly revolutionizing climate science. Here are five developments that actually matter.