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30 stories · page 2 of 4Anthropic previewed a standard that lets an AI agent run a microscope, a liquid-handling robot and a robotic arm
On 27 August Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard - a shared driver through which an agent discovers the instruments in a lab and gives them commands. Integration that, by the company's account, takes weeks drops to hours. The open-source release comes later, after safety evaluations.
Read →Anthropic opens 10,000 free and discounted seats for scientists, but biologists stay on Opus
On 27 August Anthropic announced a dedicated plan for scientists: the standard seat is free for a year, and the premium seat with five times the usage limit costs $15 a month. Principal investigators at academic and nonprofit institutions qualify. For biology and chemistry the rules do not change.
Read →Claude designed proteins against 15 targets and hit 14
Anthropic published results from a lab, not a simulation. External evaluators produced and tested the model's designs. The share that worked is between 22 and 35 percent, against a usual 10 to 15.
Read →DeepMind put sign language translation into the phone keyboard
The model watches body points, not the video, and turns American Sign Language into text on the device itself. The frame is discarded immediately.
Read →They reproduced 2,226 ICML papers and almost a quarter did not hold
1,221 people from the community checked the claims in a third of the conference. In 496 papers at least one claim failed. 266 reproduced fully.
Read →A cyclone model gained a full day's lead at once - and shipped open source
WeatherNext predicts a storm's path, strength and wind extent up to 15 days ahead. Per the Nature paper, it gives an average of a day or more lead over the leading operational models. One forecast computes in under a minute on a single chip.
Read →AI is already painting convincing 'evidence' in science, and the rules are falling behind
Nature warned on July 22: scientists are already slipping AI-generated images into research papers, and journals have no clear rules on what's allowed. A telling case - a biologist produced convincing but fake lab photos with a single ChatGPT prompt. The line between an image for illustration and an image as evidence has become a question of trust in science itself.
Read →Quantum team achieves universal operations by braiding particles
On 15 July a team from Quantinuum, Harvard and partners published in Nature a complete set of universal quantum operations obtained by braiding and fusing anyons on a real quantum processor. A step toward qubits where error protection is built into the physics itself, not patched on top.
Read →The Roman telescope reached the assembly platform ahead of a launch set for 30 August
Nancy Grace Roman now sits on a work platform at Kennedy Space Center, moved there by cranes for final assembly and testing. Launch is scheduled no earlier than 30 August 2026, and the target is a point about 1.6 million kilometers from Earth.
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