The proposed new interface standard will not only make it easier to coordinate and control things like factory floors and lab facilities, but it will also infuse AI agents into the process, allowing for scripting — and adding natural language operations and reasoning.
This could potentially be a huge boon for scientific research and real-world labs, where Claude might one day be able to run end-to-end experiments and manipulate instruments, greatly accelerating the process.
The new model, Astra, was apparently demoed in DC by Altman last week. (Picture: generated)The breakthroughs in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science are not attributed to any humans, as OpenAI believes it would be wrong to take credit from the model, named Astra, that discovered the proofs on its own.
— Claiming human authorship for a proof generated entirely by an AI system would misrepresent both the system’s contribution and the nature of genuine human intellectual work, OpenAI says in their statement.
They further say that the proofs provided have «substantial interest» in their respective communities and could lead to further scientific work — if they hold up under peer review.
Humans were only used to prepare the manuscripts in conjunction with the Astra model, and the underlying research’s formalized Lean proofs. The report also contains the model’s chain of thought in dealing with the problems.
— The emergence of systems capable of contributing to mathematical research raises questions that cannot be answered by a technology company alone, OpenAI says.
All of the discoveries combined, each without movement for decades or longer, were solved using a combined token cost of some $2,000 at GPT Sol rates, OpenAI says, raising questions not only on whether scientific breakthroughs are possible on future AI systems, but also about the cost of such innovation
Free ChatGPT is intended to supercharge select scientists. (Picture: generated)The new program stems from a belief that science should be democratized and not be reserved for companies and a few «well-resourced labs.»
The move should also «significantly accelerate scientific discovery,» Sam Altman says, adding that we all deserve the benefits from free and open science.
Eligible academic research institutions should be «recognized, degree-granting colleges or universities» with documented levels of research activity, and approved researchers will be able to invite up to four collaborators from the same institution.
The researchers will get access to a Pro-level GPT subscription including Work, Codex and chat, with the latest frontier OpenAI models, even the Pro model when it arrives, and likely also to future offerings.
They also get «expanded deep research, higher usage limits, and larger context windows» to support their work. In addition to this comes 75 life science skills, specifically targeted on certain fields.
The program is starting off with 10,000 researchers this very summer, and expanding to 100,000 researchers through 2027, by which time even more advanced models are sure to surface.
OpenAI wants to aid in research and discovery of new drugs, but hallucinations linger. (Picture: Adobe)Aiming to help discovery and create therapies from vast databases and cutting edge research, access to the new model will be tightly restricted.
For obvious reasons, biohacking can be a serious issue even for general AI implementations, but when it comes to building a model strictly for biology, only a select few researchers will get access.
The Rosalind model is based on the latest internal research from OpenAI, and outperforms GPT-5.4, sometimes massively, on chemistry, biochemistry, genetics and experimental design — the datasets it was trained on.
OpenAI contributes to a solution for a physics problem that had long vexed scientists. (Picture: generated)Having long said that discovery is the next benchmark, the model by OpenAI assisted researchers from the Institute for Advanced Study, Vanderbilt University, Cambridge University and Harvard in determining that gluonsin some cases have amplitude, a key finding in quantum research.
The model helped scientists by simplifying expressions and made a simple formula for this general case.
Then it spent nearly 12 hours reasoning the new problem, verifying the formula and «producing a formal proof.»
Growing rapidly; ever more people are using ChatGPT in scientific fields. (Picture: OpenAI)In a report shared with Axios, OpenAI is touting ChatGPT’s prowess as a research assistant, saying it has «progressed past competition level performance toward mathematical discovery.»
The scales are still low — with 1.3 million users discussing «advanced hard science,» and an average of 8.3 million weekly messages on the topics.
To put this into perspective, an October, 2025, survey from OpenAI said that 0.15% of ChatGPT users engaged in conversations on self-harm and suicide, or roughly 1.2 million customers.
The first ever brain to spine interface has been implanted by Fudan University. (Picture: dierk schaefer (CC BY 2.0))Four patients with spinal cord damage are up and walking again, with support, after receiving a groundbreaking brain-to-spine implant in China.
There are 50 million people worldwide that suffers from some sort of spinal cord injuries, marking the potential for this novel technique, and so far the results are very positive.
AI to translate signals
The neural implant «translates» signals from the brain to the spinal cord using Ai, and was developed by scientists from The Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence at Fudan University, they write in a release.
The internal thinking of an AI has been mostly opaque before this study. (Image: Anthropic.)Some people think large AI models are preprogrammed by lots of people, whereas the opposite is often true.
Training an LLM like Claude often consists of unmonitored consumption of huge amounts of data, with minimal human involvement.
— Language models like Claude aren’t programmed directly by humans, says Anthropic, — They arrive inscrutable to us, the model’s developers. This means that we don’t understand how models do most of the things they do, they add.
Tracing the thoughts of an LLM
Now they have set out to change that, with a couple of scientific studies mapping out the internal reasoning, or how the model actually thinks in response to normal prompts.
The new ECgMLP AI model is far more accurate at detecting cancer than you’re average doctors eye. (Credit: Charles Darwin University.)The gold rush for the most accurate cancer detection AI appears to have a new leader for now.
Researchers have designed a new specialized artificial intelligence to detect cancer in microscope images that achieves a success rate of 99.26 % for diagnosing Endometrial cancer, which is a new milestone.
They are now looking for other cancers to discover.
mRNA kan kurere de fleste sykdommer med genredigering. Snart kommer vaksinene. (Bilde: NIAID, (CC BY 2.0).Forskerne bak genredigeringsverktøyet Cispr mener vi står foran «en eksponensiell fase i vaksiner» etter Covid.
Cispr er et verktøy som allerede har vunnet Nobelprisen i kjemi, og fungerer som en tekstbehandler for selve genene våre — som blant annet ga oss Covid-vaksinene.
Nå står andre sykdommer for tur, og vi står ovenfor en oppblomstring av vaksiner mot sykdommer som tidligere var ansett som ukurerbare, skriver New York Times.
Generativ AI vil degenerere raskt hvis den trenes på eget materiale, viser ny forskning. (Bilde: David J, CC BY 2.0.)GhatGPT-generert innhold har inntatt alt fra anbefalinger på Etsy og Amazon til bestselgerlistene for bøker samme sted. Samtidig finnes det nå hele nettverk av nettsider som er AI-genererte.
Forskere fra University of Kansas har oppdaget en ny metode for å avsløre ChatGPT-tekster.
Hvis du har prøvd å avsløre ChatGPT med noen av de nåværende metodene, har du nok blitt frustrert – ingen av dem er gode nok, og de kan feies av banen med litt enkel redigering.
Nå har forskere ved University of Kansas derimot kommet frem til en metode som oppdager språkmodellen med forbausende effektivitet — og de skal legge ut både metoden og koden slik at alle kan lage sin egen versjon.
Slik produseres kreftvaksinen hos BioNtech, som nå skal rulles ut i Storbritannia. (Bilde: BioNTech)I et gjennombrudd for kreftvaksiner, har selskapet bak Covid-vaksinen inngått en intensjonsavtale for et prosjekt i Storbritannia der mRNA-vaksinen skal testes ut over svy år.
Innen 2030 skal det ha blitt administrert 10 000 personaliserte vaksiner til tilfeldig valgte briter med alle slags kreftformer, selv lunge- og prostatakreft.
En ny laserbrikke kan ta seg av hele trafikken fra Internett – med plass til litt ekstra. (Bilde: Judy Gallagher, (CC BY 2.0))Et forskerteam fra Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) og Chalmers Tekniska Högskola i Sverige har lykkes i overføre den svimlende høye hastigheten og satte en rekord som er en million ganger raskere enn “vanlig” fiber.
Det nye systemet dekker omtrent det dobbelte det av båndbredden til hele Internett per sekund, som er estimert til litt under 1 Pbit/s.
En maskin for å analysere svulster fra BioNTech. Vaksinen kan være klar dette tiåret. Bilde: BioNTechUgur Sahin og Ozlem Tureci, forskerparet bak BioNTech, hevder de har gjort fremgang på mRNA-vaksiner mot kreft, som kan være klare rundt 2030.
Tankegangen er at det er mulig å “flagge” enkelte kreftceller med mRNA og dermed få kroppen til å angripe dem med antistoffer – omtrent slik Covid-vaksinen deres fungerer.
Flere gjennombrudd å jobbe med
— Som forskere er vi alltid veldig forsiktige med å si at at vi har en kur mot kreft, men vi har en rekke gjennombrudd og vil fortsette å jobbe med disse, sier Ozlem Tureci til blant andre BBC.
