ResearchSmartphone photos can estimate body composition and help predict insulin resistance riskResearchers developed PhotoScan, a deep learning framework that estimates body fat percentage, Android-to-Gynoid (A/G) ratio and Visceral-to-Subcutaneous (V/S) ratio from standard 2D smartphone photos.4 min read
ResearchAutonomous AIs Match Much of Research Labor but Fail to Invent Novel MethodsPrime Intellect ran 18 frontier models in eight-day, offline sandboxes executing 153 autonomous experiments on a nanoGPT optimizer speedrun.2 min read
ResearchOpenAI awards 14 research grants to study AI's economic and social effectsOpenAI selected 14 research projects to investigate the economic and societal impacts of artificial intelligence, awarding a total of $1 million in cash plus up to $1 million in model credits.2 min read
ResearchAI-driven single-cell analysis reveals genetic and proteomic heterogeneity in clear cell renal cell carcinomaResearchers led by Horváth Péter’s Lendület Mikroszkópos Képelemzés és Gépi Tanulás Kutatócsoport used artificial intelligence and an automated single-cell facility to measure both gene activity and protein composition of tumor clones from clear cell renal cell carcinoma at single-cell resolution.3 min read
ResearchAssessment of GLM 5.3: a cheaper tool for cybersecurity protectionResearchers evaluated the GLM 5.3 language model's cybersecurity capabilities and found that its lower operating costs could make it useful for defensive security tasks.1 min read
ResearchEval harness shows LLMs' highest confidence often corresponds to incorrect answersAn evaluation harness that scores model outputs against synthetic ground truth reveals that qualitative review—judging whether outputs merely 'sound right'—misses systematic, high-confidence errors in LLM-assisted enterprise tools.5 min read
ResearchNine benchmark-driven questions Epoch AI uses to probe the societal and economic effects of advancing AIEpoch AI’s research team outlines nine broad questions they consider central to understanding how advances in AI capabilities will affect economies and society.7 min read
ResearchHow AI Is Changing Personal Communication and Shaping the Next Generation’s SkillsGenerative AI increasingly composes, edits and interprets personal messages, speeding up interactions while taking over situations where people previously learned to express themselves.5 min read
ResearchAI models produce independent mathematical counterexamples; European access and competitiveness at riskRecent large AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic have independently produced counterexamples to long-standing mathematical conjectures, prompting excitement about AI's growing role in research.3 min read
ResearchCommunity Hackathon Reproduced Over 2,200 ICML 2026 Papers; Hundreds of Claim-Level Results ReleasedBetween July 15 and August 2, 2026, a community-driven hackathon produced 6,816 reproducibility logbooks covering 2,226 of the 6,341 accepted ICML 2026 papers.6 min read
ResearchPost-training's Two Pillars: Reinforcement Learning and Supervised Fine-TuningModern post-training of large language models relies primarily on two complementary techniques: reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT).6 min read
ResearchRecall, not encoding, limits factual accuracy in frontier LLMsA behavioral study using a new benchmark, WikiProfile, finds that state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) increasingly store facts in their parameters but fail to retrieve them reliably.5 min read
