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Anthropic's own account has dozens of agents writing 13 million machine-checked lines in 11 days, about 7% of them dead ends, and only after a Columbia team built the shared to-do list that stopped them duplicating work.
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's Brookings paper projects $10.3 trillion in US AI investment through 2032, 3.63% of GDP a year against the railroads' 2.24%. It warns that more of the money is moving into off-balance-sheet vehicles that can hide correlated exposures before a downturn.
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Oregon State and Columbia researchers found livestock spread across Madagascar about 1,200 years ago, as its large native herbivores declined. People may have arrived millennia earlier, so the timing argues against hunting alone as the cause of the extinctions.
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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh's $800 billion adds up mortgages, syndicated loans and project debt across AI's physical infrastructure, and he says loans going bad there would cut what banks can lend everyone else.
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In a paper posted on 13 September, nine models across the Claude, GPT and Gemini families edited already-optimal EffiBench solutions in every trial. One added sentence in the prompt recovered 20 refusals.
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An international team detected 1,399 small earthquakes in 17 years of continuous recordings from stations in China and South Korea, and the 955 they could locate trace two faults, one of which was never on a map.
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Physicists at the City College of New York drove magnons in CrSBr with microwaves and read the signal out on reflected laser light, a conversion mechanism that still needs large efficiency gains before it can move quantum states.
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Two researchers scored 35 years of ECMWF forecasts against the observed weather and found accuracy rises with national income at every lead time out to a week. The reasons are mostly geographic and only partly a matter of spending.
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A Science paper reads gene regulation cell by cell in the human hippocampus and finds embryonic microglia giving way to cells with blood-like inflammatory signatures across a 25-year band of adult life.
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David Kipping's preprint reports no moon larger than a tenth of Earth's radius around the temperate rocky planet LP 890-9 c. The point of the exercise is that averaging repeat visits removes the detector noise astronomers had treated as a hard floor.
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Two Physical Review Letters studies read published LIGO data with different methods and both picked out binaries whose larger member spins fast and sits tilted. One of the estimates puts that group near 14 percent of pairs.
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Community college enrollment has climbed back to 5.8 million and students say career outcomes drove them there, but the record behind the recovery measures nothing about whether employers reward the credentials they chose.
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Michele Simoncelli and colleagues at Columbia and Cambridge scored machine-learning potentials against quantum calculations on more than 100 crystals. Two models can match on energy and part ways on heat.
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NASA Earth Observatory puts the 2026 Indonesian fire season at roughly a tenth of 2015's 1.75 billion tons of greenhouse gas equivalents after about a month, with the underground smoldering fires the hardest for satellites to count.
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Michele Valsecchi's Columbia group has a molecular account of why fused polyethylene joints outlast the pipe. Crystals grow along the old surface line as the joint cools, which means cooling rate has to be treated as a controlled variable rather than left to chance.
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NYU Langone's team measured organophosphate metabolites in urine from 3,339 ECHO pregnancies and found no association with Social Responsiveness Scale scores at ages five to seven. The result is narrower than it sounds.
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Alaska's North Slope tundra stays small because winter punishes anything above the snow. That ceiling is lifting by roughly 0.7C a decade, and the baseline it held cannot be collected twice.
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Subsurface heat content has passed the 1997-98 super event with the peak still months away, while the surface index has not. The furthest-out year any quoted scientist names is 2026.
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DANDELION ranks genes by position in trans-regulatory networks rather than distance from a variant. Its asthma shortlist survived CRISPR screens and mouse models. The denominator is missing.
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The 2,000-hour HiFi-UMI-2K release swaps collection capital for volume. Three policy backbones land within 3.1 points of teleoperated baselines, and the three reported deltas sum to zero.
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