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SemiAnalysis Launches GDPx Benchmark — Best AI Agent Scores Only 12% on Professional Tasks

SemiAnalysis released GDPx, a 206-task benchmark across 11 professional domains. The best AI agent scored just 12%. Finance and legal returned zero scores across all 13 models tested.

Hector Herrera · Nov 3, 2026 · 3 min read

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Liquid AI Releases LFM3, a Unified Multimodal Model Family for Text, Images, and Audio

Liquid AI has launched LFM3, a model family that processes text, images, and audio within a single shared architecture — now available locally via Ollama on all major platforms.

Hector Herrera · Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read

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OpenAI Claims Its AI Has Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis and Solved Two Other Major Scientific Problems

OpenAI says its AI models independently disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis and produced two more major scientific results — findings that, if verified, would reshape computer science and mathematics.

Hector Herrera · Oct 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Google DeepMind AI Weather Model Outpredicts Physics-Based Forecasts on Hurricane Isaias

Google DeepMind's AI atmospheric model correctly predicted Hurricane Isaias's landfall track when traditional physics-based models failed, prompting NOAA researchers to call for integrating AI into official warning systems.

Hector Herrera · Oct 27, 2026 · 3 min read

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OpenAI Releases 722 Math Manuscripts From Secret Frontier Model, Touches Three Millennium Prize Problems

OpenAI published 722 mathematics manuscripts from an unnamed internal frontier model — including work touching the Riemann hypothesis and two other unsolved Millennium Prize Problems.

Hector Herrera · Oct 8, 2026 · 3 min read

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Meta AI and Mathematicians Co-Author Six Papers, Solving Five Previously Open Math Problems

Meta AI's Muse Spark models collaborated with human mathematicians to co-author six peer-reviewed papers, five of which solve previously open mathematics problems — among the most concrete demonstrations yet of AI contributing to original scientific discovery.

Hector Herrera · Oct 5, 2026 · 4 min read

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Google DeepMind Launches SynthID Bio to Invisibly Watermark AI-Designed Proteins

Google DeepMind released SynthID Bio, an open-source watermarking system for AI-generated protein sequences that closes a critical biosecurity gap conventional DNA screening can't address.

Hector Herrera · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read

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Google Launches Project Suncatcher Satellite to Test Orbital AI Data Centers

Google launched a fridge-sized satellite carrying four Tensor Processing Units aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 today, becoming the first company to test AI compute in orbit.

Hector Herrera · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read

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Anthropic Launches Life Sciences Research Group, Claude Discovers Uncharacterized Bacteriophage Enzyme

Anthropic launched a dedicated life sciences research group and released its first finding: Claude autonomously identified a previously unknown bacteriophage enzyme system with structural similarities to CRISPR arrays.

Hector Herrera · Sep 25, 2026 · 3 min read

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Alphabet's Intrinsic Releases Full Robotics Stack as Open Source at ROSCon 2026

Alphabet's robotics subsidiary Intrinsic released its entire Intrinsic Core platform under Apache 2.0 at ROSCon 2026 — making enterprise-grade robotics software freely available to any developer or manufacturer.

Hector Herrera · Sep 24, 2026 · 3 min read

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Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas, Mapping Every Possible Human DNA Mutation

Google DeepMind released a free public database of precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible human DNA mutations — potentially compressing rare disease diagnosis from months to hours.

Hector Herrera · Sep 22, 2026 · 3 min read

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Cornelis Networks Raises $205M to Build AI Cluster Networking That Computes While It Connects

Cornelis Networks raised $205M for its Active Compute Fabric — GPU-agnostic networking that processes AI data in transit rather than stalling GPUs on synchronization overhead.

Hector Herrera · Sep 16, 2026 · 3 min read

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Moonshot AI Open-Sources Kimi K2.7-Code — A 1-Trillion-Parameter Model Up to 12x Cheaper Than GPT-5.5

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code as a fully open-source 1-trillion-parameter coding model at $0.95 per million input tokens — up to 12x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and Claude Fable 5.

Hector Herrera · Jun 14, 2026 · 2 min read

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Anthropic Is Researching AI Agents That Improve Themselves Over Time

Anthropic is developing AI agents that adapt based on real-world performance feedback — a self-improvement capability that raises immediate alignment questions and sets up a race dynamic with OpenAI and Google.

Hector Herrera · Jun 14, 2026 · 3 min read

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Google TurboQuant Slashes LLM Memory 6x — No Retraining Required

Google DeepMind's TurboQuant compresses AI inference memory 6x with zero accuracy loss and no retraining, delivering 8x faster throughput on H100 GPUs. It's already open source.

Hector Herrera · Jun 13, 2026 · 3 min read

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SpaceX AI1 Orbital Data Center: Space-Based AI Compute Is Real — The Economics Aren't Yet

SpaceX is pricing its $1.75 trillion IPO tomorrow, and the AI1 orbital data center satellite in the filing is a real hardware program — but analysts say the power and thermal economics of running AI workloads from low Earth orbit remain unproven.

Hector Herrera · Jun 11, 2026 · 4 min read

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NVIDIA Unveils Ising: Open-Source AI Models Built Specifically for Quantum Computing

NVIDIA unveiled Ising, the world's first open-source AI models purpose-built for quantum computing — designed to run on existing GPU hardware without requiring actual quantum computers.

Hector Herrera · Jun 11, 2026 · 3 min read

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NVIDIA Opens Its Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint — and Signals Its Omniverse Strategy

NVIDIA released an open Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint that lowers the cost of generating synthetic training data for robotics, vision AI, and autonomous vehicles — and positions Omniverse as the default physical AI infrastructure.

Hector Herrera · Jun 6, 2026 · 4 min read

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Nvidia-Backed Generalist AI Raises $400M at $2 Billion Valuation to Build Physical AGI

Generalist AI closed a $400 million round at a $2 billion valuation — backed by NVIDIA, Bezos, and Fei-Fei Li — to build foundation models that run across any type of robot hardware.

Hector Herrera · Jun 5, 2026 · 3 min read

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OpenAI Expands GPT-Rosalind Globally, Launches Rosalind Biodefense Program

OpenAI cut genomics compute costs 31% with a GPT-Rosalind update and opened global research access — while launching a sponsored Biodefense program for vetted public-health and government partners.

Hector Herrera · Jun 5, 2026 · 3 min read