Science and research
What AI is discovering in maths, biology, medicine, weather and materials, and how far to trust it.
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OpenAI publishes a batch of new maths results from an internal model, with Lean proofs New
AI labs are now releasing research results in bulk with machine-checkable proofs, which shifts the debate from whether AI can do new maths to how credit and checking should work.
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Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature New
It offers DNA-synthesis screeners a way to verify that unfamiliar sequences came from vetted models, a practical biosecurity layer for open protein design.
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Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA
It shows a frontier lab running end-to-end discovery with its own wet lab, raising both the promise and the biosecurity questions of agentic biology.
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Insilico doses first patients in Phase III trial of AI-discovered drug rentosertib
It is the first hard test of whether AI-discovered drugs can show efficacy at the scale regulators require for approval.
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DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas scoring all 9bn single-letter human DNA changes
Free, precomputed variant-effect predictions lower the barrier for clinical genetics and rare-disease research worldwide.
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OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes blow-up proof; mathematicians dispute credit
It is the biggest AI maths claim yet and a test of credit, data use and verification norms when frontier labs do research.
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Claude completes first end-to-end Lean formal proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Large-scale autoformalisation makes machine-checked verification of major mathematics practical, which also matters for trusting AI-generated proofs.
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GPT-6 Astra jumps to 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3, six months after models scored 0.5%
A benchmark designed to resist AI collapsed within months, and the harness-dependent scores show how much results hinge on evaluation setup.
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AI systems from Huawei and Xiaohongshu reported to score 42/42 at IMO 2026
Olympiad maths is now saturated as an AI benchmark, and Chinese labs reached the top alongside US ones.
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White House commits $5bn+ to Genesis Mission and selects 278 AI-for-science projects
It turns the Genesis order into funded work and a shared platform that companies, labs and universities will build on and compete for.
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OpenAI model disproves Erdős's 1946 unit-distance conjecture
OpenAI called it the first time a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics was solved autonomously by AI, and Gowers called it a milestone, shifting AI from solving obscure problems to famous ones.
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Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1bn for its AI drug-design engine
It is among the largest bets yet that AI can shorten drug discovery, though the company still has no drug in human trials.
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