The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say ...

Researchers have identified a new Spinosaurus species with a blade-like crest in Niger, changing our understanding of ...

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6 beats Opus in agentic tasks, adds 1 million context, and excels in finance and automation, all at one-fifth ...

A new study demonstrated that computer models of gut metabolism can predict which probiotics will successfully establish themselves in a person's gut ...

A study led by MIT researchers found that agentic AI developers seldom publish detailed information about how these tools were tested for safety.

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Small and specialist gaming hardware makers tell us how they're enduring, and sometimes even avoiding, the ongoing memory ...

A new robot could solve one of the biggest challenges facing indoor farmers: manual pollination. Indoor farms, also known as ...

Computer science has long operated on a foundation of trust: researchers publish findings, peers verify them, and the field ...

Many of the latest large language models (LLMs) are designed to remember details from past conversations or store user profiles, enabling these models to personalize responses. But researchers from ...