ResearchSelf-taught researcher says he has deciphered 3,500-year-old Linear A using AI toolsTom Di Mino, a self-taught AI engineer and amateur linguist from New York's Hudson Valley, claims to have systematically decoded the 3,500-year-old Minoan script Linear A after five months of solo work aided by Python scripts and an AI agent.3 min read
ResearchOpen Far-Field ASR Leaderboard (FFASR) Measures Real-World RobustnessTreble Technologies and Hugging Face have launched the Far-Field ASR (FFASR) Leaderboard, an open, community-driven benchmark that evaluates speech recognition models under realistic far-field acoustic conditions.4 min read
ResearchAI model GPT‑5 Pro helped reveal how deoxyglucose steers T‑cell specializationImmunologist Derya Unutmaz used GPT‑5 Pro to revisit a 2022 experiment and uncovered a mechanistic explanation for why deoxyglucose drives developing T cells toward an inflammatory Th17 fate.4 min read
ResearchDFlash block-diffusion drafter boosts LLM inference throughput up to 15× on NVIDIA BlackwellDFlash, an open-source block-diffusion model for speculative decoding, converts sequential token drafting into parallel block generation and verification, improving throughput while preserving target-model quality.4 min read
ResearchStudy finds advanced AI more persuasive than human experts in text conversationsResearchers from the University of Oxford, the UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University and the London School of Economics ran four experiments with 6,923 participants and 18,978 conversations and found that current AI systems outperform humans in text-based persuasion, including real-money charitable donations.4 min read
ResearchDeepMind outlines possible routes from AGI to superintelligenceResearchers at Google DeepMind published a paper mapping ways the field could move from human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI) to artificial superintelligence (ASI).4 min read
ResearchHumanoid robot progress will shape timelines for self-sustaining AIForecasters argue that whether artificial intelligence becomes self-sustaining depends largely on the development of humanoid robots and physical infrastructure.3 min read
ResearchStartup Recursive demonstrates automated-research system improving language-model training and GPU kernelsRecursive, a newly founded AI research startup, demonstrated that its automated research system achieved new best results on three benchmarks: NanoChat Autoresearch, NanoGPT Speedrun, and SOL-ExecBench.2 min read
ResearchNASA's ERNEST rover prototype demonstrates new suspension, gaits and autonomy for lunar and Mars explorationNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has tested the ERNEST experimental rover in the Colorado desert, where it traveled about 26 km with minimal human intervention and reached roughly 1 km/h.3 min read
ResearchUC Davis develops hardware‑agnostic neural decoder that translates attempted speech into wordsResearchers at the University of California, Davis published a Nature Medicine paper describing BRAND, a machine‑learning platform that decodes attempted‑speech brain activity into phonemes and words.2 min read
ResearchAI-powered breath analyser to test causes of dyspnoea using exhaled VOCsAinos, an AI and biotechnology company, will partner with National Taiwan University (NTU) on a one-year study beginning in July to assess whether its Smell AI platform can diagnose causes of dyspnoea by analysing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in patients’ exhaled breath.3 min read
ResearchThree New Benchmarks Aim to Replace SWE-bench for Evaluating Agentic Software EngineeringThree recently released benchmarks — DeepSWE, ProgramBench and ITBench-AA — propose more demanding evaluations of agent-driven software engineering than the SWE-bench family.5 min read
