Machine Learning

A decoder that reads attempted speech off the surface of the brain has a blind spot that never mattered while it was the only decoder in the room: it does not know what to do when its user moves. Put…

Researchers at Westlake University and Peking University have built a computer model of breast cancer cells and trained it on more than 38 million measurements of protein levels recorded as the cells…

Ask one large language model to design a crystal and you are asking it to do two jobs at once. The first is chemistry: what will hold together, what is likely to be stable, what has already been…

Every large language model is trained on a finite pile of text, and the pile is running low. When the fresh human writing runs out, the cheapest thing left to do is show the model text it has already…

A learning algorithm has cut the aerodynamic drag on a car-shaped model inside a real wind tunnel, working only from sensor readings and with no model of the turbulent air around it. Junjie Zhang and…

Google DeepMind researchers moved a language model's refusal rate from 66.5% to 7.0% by intervening directly on a confidence signal inside it, in a study published Sept. 7 in Nature Machine…

The hardest part of a physics experiment is often deciding what it should look like: which optical parts, in which order, how long the arms are, where the detector sits. That judgment is taught by…

Anthropic published on Sept. 4, 2026, what the company says is the first complete, computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, written by its Claude AI system in 11 days. The full code is…

The standard way to guess the shape of an RNA molecule is to look at its cousins. Collect the same molecule from a few hundred species, stack the sequences one above another, and watch which…

Google began serving a new AI weather model, WeatherNext 3, inside Search, the Gemini app, Google Maps, the Google Maps Platform Weather API and Google Earth Engine on Sept. 3, in an announcement…

Google released two new versions of its Gemini Flash model on Sept. 2: Gemini 3.8 Flash, generally available, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a version tuned for finding and fixing software…

World Labs said on Sept. 1, 2026, that it has begun early access to Atlas, an AI model the company says generates video and three-dimensional scenes from a small number of photographs. Atlas is not…