A Harvard study of 718 firms using Jellyfish data finds that coding assistants and agents produce more code without a matching rise in finished work. Part of the reason is the extra load they create later on, especially in code review.
Google DeepMind has produced a global map that assigns every 10-meter patch of land on Earth to a distinct forest type. It goes beyond simply recording where trees are.
The Allen Institute for AI has released OlmoEarth v1.3, a satellite map embedding model, along with precomputed annual embeddings of the whole planet and a browser-based mapping tool. At its finest resolution, the model condenses a year of satellite observations into a numerical fingerprint for each 10-by-10-meter patch of ground.
In Brussels, a new tool called Evactwin simulates how people move during a crisis to spot bottlenecks in advance. The aim is to help authorities anticipate disasters and coordinate rescue efforts.
Investment research firm Citrini Research worked with Anthropic to test whether an unreleased version of Claude could design scorpion antivenom. Experts told The Verge it produced some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug.
Microsoft Research's Flint-interactive gives AI agents a language for building interactive charts. Readers can click, filter and highlight related content to explore beyond the author's original view.