moth robot grows its own sensors from artificial blood
Researchers have built a moth-inspired robot that grows working light sensors directly on its body using an artificial blood that circulates inside the machine, with the sensors forming in the…
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Anthropic automated red-teaming of Claude training data monitors
Anthropic used thousands of Claude agents to try to evade a training data monitor, and the agents produced training data that looked harmless, such as a veteran wrestler mentoring a newcomer and a…
Anthropic wet lab
Anthropic has announced several science results it credits to Claude, including a CRISPR-like enzyme system, a nine-loop particle physics calculation, quantum circuits, and protein binders aimed at…
OpenAI Navier–Stokes proof
OpenAI's claimed Navier–Stokes solution has become an ongoing argument over credit, verification, and how AI math results are announced. OpenAI has since said an internal model resolved more than 100…
ETH Zurich's ANYmal-D solves a giant Rubik's Cube with its feet
ETH Zurich's ANYmal-D robot has scanned and solved a giant Rubik's Cube using only its feet, combining conventional planning with learned whole-body control. The feat was a lab demonstration, not a…
Japan's Hacchan robot dogs patrol for bears
Akita Prefectural University in Japan is developing Hacchan robot dogs to detect and deter bears near settlements. The project is still in development, and coordinated patrols are awaiting field…
LLM peer review: Sakana's Multi-Layered Review benchmark
Sakana's Multi-Layered Review benchmark is credited with catching 73% of core-claim errors on a 1,164-error corpus, though that is an unverified vendor number. Springer Nature and Google DeepMind are…
AI psychosis in the health record: rare but real, first-episode patients the most vulnerable
A study based on a review of electronic health records at a large medical center suggests psychosis linked to conversational AI chatbots is rare but real, and that first-episode patients may be the…
Anthropic's Guest Investigators: internal Claude access and full data rights for academic PIs
Anthropic has opened a 14-day application period for academic principal investigators to join its Guest Investigators program, according to a TechTimes report. The program offers internal Claude…
Canada's space-isotope push: a new centre and C$11.1M (US$7.9M) across 16 space projects
Canada has launched the Canadian Centre for Space Isotopes and is putting C$11.1 million (about US$7.9 million) into 16 space projects, two of them focused on radioisotope technologies. The two…
Claude formal verification at scale: Frontier Red Team + Theorem Labs prove 100+ open-source libraries
Anthropic says its Frontier Red Team, with Theorem Labs, used Claude to formally verify security properties in over 100 real-world open-source libraries in a few weeks. It presents this as a shift…
IBM's Granite line: open-licensed speech models and time-series ensembles
IBM announced Granite Speech 5.0 2B, a 2-billion-parameter multilingual speech-recognition and translation model under Apache 2.0, with a claimed #2 rank on the Open ASR Leaderboard at 5.68% error…
OpenAI hosts embedded METR–Redwood audit of its internal agent monitoring
OpenAI said it invited METR and Redwood Research on-premises for three weeks in summer 2026, with two employees given deep access to evaluate its monitoring systems for misalignment by internal…
JAXA's MMX: Phobos mission launched, ride on the H3
JAXA's MMX probe launched from Tanegashima Space Center aboard an H3 rocket on October 20 local time (October 19 Eastern), bound for Mars's moon Phobos. JAXA then reported that the mission completed…
IAEA's isotope methods for tracing nitrate pollution, 14 labs
The IAEA has published findings from a four-year research project that developed and tested isotope-based methods for tracing nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater. Fourteen countries took…
UCLA's open-source humanoid: walks at ~$400 in hardware
UCLA researchers have built an open-source humanoid robot that walks, tracks people and gets back up again, using inexpensive hardware and a smartphone as its computer, at a total cost of about $400.…
AI weather models: the forecast-accuracy claims
Microsoft says a machine-learning method forecasts weather more accurately two to six weeks ahead, and has published the work in Nature with the tool open-sourced. Separately, Ai2 released a model…
Local journalism tests AI: the newsroom compare lane
Agentic workloads and the shifting CPU–GPU compute balance
Apple's Minions: distributed inference across idle Apple Silicon Macs
Magic-state cultivation: Google's Willow claim
LLM de-anonymization: pseudonymity at a dollar a name
Irregular: the eval vendor behind the cross-lab agent incidents
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Team Atlanta: DARPA AIxCC's AI bug-hunting continues past the competition
Closed 2026-10-27: the thread's items carried no hard news — a profile piece without a development to track; reopens if AIxCC's teams produce news.