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Ataraxos, a Stratego AI from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT, beat Pim Niemeijer 15-1-4 after a training run that cost under $8,000. The savings came from a custom simulator and sample efficiency, so the price holds only for problems that simulate as cheaply.
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Mount Sinai reports in Nature that blocking an amygdala-to-hypothalamus pathway in mice kept prior stress from amplifying later threat responses. Trauma-sensitization research now has one circuit to test. So far, every causal test of it has been in mice.
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Merriam-Webster added at least six AI and computing terms, including 'agentic' and 'vibe coding', to its online dictionary in September. The entries show that specialist AI terms now circulate in mainstream print, but the dictionary's method cannot tell how many general readers understand them.
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Nature found more than 30 academic press releases celebrating honours from sham societies that used scientists' names without consent. Several academies the societies named as partners told Nature they knew of no such ties, a check universities could have made before announcing anything.
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Nature's editors want AI medical devices tested in real clinics, noting that just 19 of some 4,600 clinical AI papers were prospective randomized trials. Until the FDA decides, hospitals need to check whether a vendor's accuracy figure came from real patients or from a simulation.
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With Navier-Stokes claimed and five Millennium problems left, the ordering of what falls next turns on which conjectures a single counterexample would settle. Five million dollars of Clay prize money is still unclaimed.
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In a 2025 survey by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, nine in ten of more than 1,000 US faculty forecast a decline in a skill that cognition researchers do not agree how to define or measure.
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The panic Nature reconstructs is built from dated posts and essays by named people at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI. The evidence it weighs them against is a 2025 scenario study that was already on the record.
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The Perspective calls them self-organizing memristive networks and applies mean-field theory, graph theory and disordered-systems physics to their conductance dynamics, with the energy saving still stated as a motivation.
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Researchers publishing in Nature intervened directly on the confidence representation inside language models and watched abstention move the other way, making a refusal rate something with a control input, at least on multiple-choice facts.
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The federal privacy law teams cite reaches hospitals, insurers and their contractors, not the wearables and search logs where most health data now lives, and its de-identification fallback is weaker than officials claim.
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Computational biology proves a method by trying to break it on data it has not seen. Biomedical foundation models slip that test, and how the field responds decides what any benchmark number is worth.
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A Nature review recasts experimental design as a search over hardware configurations, which moves the hard part onto simulator fidelity and how the goal gets written down, and leaves buildability as its own separate question.
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The Revived Genomics of Personality Consortium pooled 46 cohorts and up to 1.14 million people to find 1,260 lead variants for the Big Five, and even after correcting for questionnaire noise they explain under 14 percent of variance.
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A HEPI survey puts generative-AI use on assessed work at 94% of UK undergraduates, and the educators Nature canvassed have largely stopped hunting for it, setting tasks instead where a model's output does not fit the evidence in the room.
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That result sits inside a growing set of studies where generative AI raises the rated quality of a single piece of work and lowers the spread between pieces, with 400,000 indexed papers among the samples.
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Prime assembly hybridises complementary DNA flaps on both the genome and the donor, so kilobase cargo can be deleted and inserted in one reaction without a landing pad. How well it works depends on which cells you try it in.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
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The technique is 60 years old, the drainage rationale is plausible, and the evidence at the point of mass adoption was footage of a single patient. Controlled trials are only starting now.
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Ground broke on August 25 on a $1 billion, 156-module pulsed machine aiming at net facility gain by 2030. The commercial gap is five times the output and 86,400 shots a day.
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