ResearchAI identifies subgroup of rectal cancer patients who benefit from added irinotecanResearchers at University College London used a bespoke artificial intelligence to reanalyse data from a previous clinical trial and found a subgroup of 414 rectal cancer patients whose diagnostic biopsy images predict benefit from adding irinotecan to standard chemoradiotherapy.2 min read
ResearchInsilico's Abu Dhabi-linked AI team discovers a potential non-opioid pain drug, moves toward human trialsInsilico Medicine said researchers working from its Abu Dhabi facility used locally affordable AI compute to discover a potential non-opioid painkiller, its 31st preclinical candidate and the second found in the emirate.3 min read
ResearchGrok 4.5 stands out in value-for-money among cybersecurity AI modelsAccording to the latest benchmarks, Grok 4.5 proved to be the best value-for-money cybersecurity artificial intelligence model, being 10 times cheaper than Sol, 5.7 times cheaper than Opus 5 and 2.2…1 min read
ResearchSurveyed Experts Assign Notable Short-Term Probabilities to Several Catastrophic AI RisksA joint study by MIT and the University of Queensland asked 272 international experts to assess 24 AI-related risks for the 2025–2030 period.2 min read
ResearchMirrorCode benchmark measures AI ability to reimplement large programs from black‑box accessEpoch and METR published MirrorCode, a benchmark that evaluates how well AI systems can reconstruct sizeable software projects using only command‑line interaction with the original program.3 min read
ResearchScaling large models boosts real-world robotics performance, Anthropic and Sunday reportAnthropic and Sunday published results suggesting that larger, general-purpose AI models can materially improve the capabilities and generalization of physical robots.3 min read
ResearchAI-designed gene editor outperforms natural enzyme with far fewer off-target cutsA team led by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna and the startup Profluent used AI to design a gene-editing enzyme not found in nature, releasing it as OpenCRISPR-1.2 min read
ResearchHow AI Is Shifting Who Does What at WorkOpenAI Economic Research analysed over 800,000 ChatGPT messages from U.S.3 min read
ResearchUniversity of Pittsburgh project uses Meta vision models to advance assistive roboticsThe Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) at the University of Pittsburgh, together with ATDev and a national consortium, are leading RAMMP — a $41.5 million ARPA-H–funded effort to create robotic mobility and manipulation platforms for people with disabilities.5 min read
ResearchWeb retrieval, not model reasoning, is the main limiter for LLM news queriesA Stanford and Together AI study tested six large language models equipped with web-search tools on daily news questions in six languages between February 9 and February 22, 2026.4 min read
ResearchOIST develops curiosity-driven learning that lets robots acquire language fasterResearchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) built a curiosity-driven training approach for robots that speeds up acquisition of language-based tasks and produces child-like spontaneous play.3 min read
ResearchAI finds counterexample to 30-year-old graph theory conjecture in hoursUsing ChatGPT 5.6 Pro, researcher Dmirty Rybin found a counterexample to the Dinitz–Garg–Goemans conjecture that had stood for about 30 years.2 min read