Since early October, eight language models have been tested continuously on the ResearchChamber.Fun site to see what an AI would do to make its 'pain' stop. The experiment has stirred debate.
InstaDeep, founded in Tunis in 2014, was bought by BioNTech in 2023 for up to £562 million, the largest acquisition of an African startup. It has since become the group’s AI engine, with the Kyber supercomputer and genomic models such as Nucleotide Transformer.
Google has released Android Bench 2.0, an update to its framework for testing AI models and agents on Android development work. It adds long-horizon tasks, agent-based evaluation and continuous scoring to better measure complex, multi-step jobs.
More than three dozen mathematicians told The Verge they were stunned by the volume of mathematical results OpenAI released this week. They expect it will take years to assess them fully.
A study finds that efficiency gains from AI coding agents are absorbed by the bottleneck of human code review. More code is written, but not more finished software.
MIT Technology Review will hold a discussion on Oct. 16 with Samuel King, who as a Stanford PhD student used a generative AI model in 2025 to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. The event asks whether AI could design new life forms.