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Long reads on AI and technology for builders: what happened, how it works, and what you can build with it.
Science ·
Princeton's T16 search finds 10,091 new TESS planet candidates around faint stars
A GPU transit search and two random forests combed 83.7 million TESS light curves, down to 16th-magnitude stars, and turned up 11,554 planet candidates.
11 min read
Models ·
DeepSeek V4 preview ships open weights with a 1M-token context and Huawei Ascend support
DeepSeek released V4-Pro (1.6T parameters, 49B active) and V4-Flash (284B, 13B active) under the MIT license, both with 1M-token context. Huawei says its chips run them.
9 min read
Science ·
SyntheMol-RL designs synthecin, an antibiotic candidate that curbed MRSA wound infections in mice
A reinforcement learning model from McMaster and Stanford picked drug candidates from 46 billion easy-to-make molecules. Of 79 synthesized, 13 were potent against S. aureus.
10 min read
Security ·
Vercel breach traced to a compromised AI tool's Google Workspace access
An attacker went from a hacked third-party AI app to a Vercel employee's Google account to customers' non-sensitive environment variables. What happened, and what to rotate and audit.
10 min read
Robotics ·
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 learns to read gauges for Boston Dynamics' Spot
Google DeepMind's new embodied reasoning model reads analog instruments with 93% accuracy on its own test when it can zoom and run code, up from 23% for version 1.5.
11 min read
Security ·
Anthropic keeps Claude Mythos Preview for defenders after it finds thousands of zero-days
Anthropic's newest model found serious bugs in every major operating system and browser. Instead of a public launch, it goes to a closed group of defenders under Project Glasswing.
13 min read