A US filmmaker traces the history of artificial intelligence back to the late 19th century. Her documentary explores the links between AI, modern statistics and eugenics, and argues that ideas close to eugenics still shape some tech leaders' discourse.
On the TheoPhysEval benchmark, GPT-6-Astra matched leading specialists on 49 of 50 unpublished theoretical physics calculations, and some apparent failures exposed errors in the experts' own answers. The researchers say physics has not yet seen a breakthrough like mathematics because the agents lack taste, but they think autonomous top-level AI research could come soon.
Google DeepMind describes how Google Antigravity for Science is being used to speed up the search for new antimicrobial peptides.
Sociologist Clément Le Ludec studied data annotators in Madagascar. His work shows how central this precarious, overlooked workforce is to making AI systems function.
MIT professor Eric So discusses his new book, which examines how AI affects people's thinking skills. The interview explores the wider tension between the technology, cognition and society.
The founders of Ricursive Intelligence describe AI that designs chips, learns from each iteration and improves the next design. Their goal is to automate and speed up chip design to ease the shortage of computing capacity.