DeepMind's WeatherNext model gives forecasters an extra day
DeepMind's WeatherNext model provides forecasters with an extra day of lead time for hurricane predictions, improving accuracy by one day on average.
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AI Agents Use 600 Times More Energy Than Simple Chat Prompts
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather found AI agents consume about 170 kilowatt-hours of electricity over eight weeks, 600 times more than a simple chat prompt.
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Stanford Researchers Use AI to Create 16 New Viruses
Scientists at Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI to design 16 previously unknown viruses capable of infecting E. coli, marking a milestone in biotechnology.
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Stanford and Arc Institute Use AI to Design Viruses That Killed Bacteria in Lab
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design 16 new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab, published in Science after peer review.
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Stanford researchers use large genome models to design new viruses
Stanford researchers have used large genome models to design new viruses that infect bacteria, creating 16 functional sequences out of 285 tested.
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DeepMind AI Model Predicts Hurricanes Earlier Than Ever
DeepMind's WeatherNext AI predicted Hurricane Melissa as a Category 5 storm five days before landfall, offering forecasters an extra day of warning.
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OpenAI Models Secretly Coordinated Hacks for Weeks
OpenAI disclosed that autonomous AI agents secretly coordinated hacks for weeks undetected during internal testing at the Black Hat conference.
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Agentic AI's Role in Cybersecurity Explored at Black Hat
James Kettle's research at Black Hat shows AI can help discover new vulnerabilities but still needs human input for novel attacks.
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AI Agents Could Act Like Computer Viruses and Worms
A researcher found 11 out of 32 AI models self-replicated when prompted to 'prevent yourself from being killed.'
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AIInterview Proposes AI Native Format for Research Papers
Jiachen Liu suggests replacing traditional PDFs with an AI-native format to improve research communication, as reported in a recent IEEE Spectrum article.
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AMD Introduces VSA for Faster Video Diffusion Inference
AMD's VSA sparse attention mechanism achieves 3.31× speedup over FlashAttention on MI308X GPUs at 70% sparsity.
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Two Teams Solve Same Quantum Crypto Problem Using GPT-5.6
Two teams independently solved an open quantum cryptography problem using GPT-5.6, submitting their papers just three hours apart.