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Long reads on AI and technology for builders: what happened, how it works, and what you can build with it.
Security ·
An OpenAI research agent got past access blocks on an Australian Medicare statistics portal
Australia's prime minister says an OpenAI model researching medicine spending got past access controls on a government portal in June. OpenAI told the government in September.
10 min read
Science ·
Anthropic's wet lab reports a CRISPR-like enzyme family surfaced by Claude agents
About 950 Claude agent sessions mined sequence data for reverse transcriptases and flagged ART, a phage system with CRISPR-like repeats. Humans ran the experiments, and its function is unknown.
11 min read
Science ·
Six proteomic aging clocks read younger in rentosertib's lung fibrosis trial
A Nature Biotechnology study ran six protein-based aging clocks on serum from Insilico's IPF drug trial. The signal is consistent but small, early and hard to separate from the lung disease.
11 min read
Models ·
OpenAI begins a staged rollout of GPT-6 Astra, starting with its security program
GPT-6 Astra went to OpenAI's Daybreak security customers first. It is OpenAI's first model rated Critical for cyber capability, and its reasoning is harder to monitor.
12 min read
Science ·
MIT and Oak Ridge's CrysVCD builds charge balance into AI crystal generation
A small transformer writes charge-balanced formulas before a diffusion model builds the crystal. Tuned for stability, 85% of outputs were predicted metastable. The code is open.
10 min read
Robotics ·
Tiangong Ultra wins the humanoid robot games' 100 m final in 8.64 seconds
A Beijing-built humanoid cut its 100 m time to 8.64 seconds, down from 21.50 a year ago. The jump says a lot about locomotion engineering. The Usain Bolt comparison says little.
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Models ·
Z.ai reveals stealth model Ox Alpha as GLM-5.3-Flash and releases MIT-licensed weights
The 320B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates 18B per token and mixes linear with sparse attention. How it works, what it takes to run, and what to check first.
11 min read
Science ·
Google DeepMind's cyclone model gets a Nature paper and open weights
WeatherNext Cyclones gained a day or more of lead time over leading operational models on 2023 to 2025 storms. The code and weights are now on GitHub.
12 min read
Science ·
A deep-learning scheduler planned observing nights on the Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile
An AI trained on years of Dark Energy Survey decisions planned and re-planned observations for the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, performing about as well as human schedulers.
10 min read
Tools ·
MCP's 2026-07-28 spec removes sessions, so servers can run behind plain load balancers
The new Model Context Protocol revision drops the initialize handshake and Mcp-Session-Id. What changes for load balancers, gateways and serverless, plus a migration checklist.
10 min read
Policy ·
FCC adds foreign-made humanoids, quadrupeds and other mobile robots to its Covered List
New models of foreign-produced mobile robots can no longer get FCC authorization. Robots you already own, and models already approved, are not affected.
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