Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says pure generative AI can't do real science

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton sees a central weakness in conventional generative AI: it can't evaluate its own results. Without that ability, real scientific discovery remains impossible: no [...]

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with major gains in coding and science

Anthropic ships two new models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, that claim to blow past the current Opus generation, especially in coding and research. Fable 5 finished a code migration for Stripe in one [...]

Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science

A Microsoft researcher built a working neural network out of goats, bridges, and ice ramps in the Age of Empires II map editor. What looks like a joke is a pointed critique of AI research methods. His [...]

Google Cloud will sell specialist AI models built for science

Google is adding SandboxAQ’s ‘large quantitative models’ to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini with AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The large language models that powe [...]

June research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

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Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science

Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter. [...]

Qwen3-Max Thinking beats Gemini 3 Pro and GPT-5.2 on Humanity's Last Exam (with search)

Chinese AI and tech firms continue to impress with their development of cutting-edge, state-of-the-art AI language models.Today, the one drawing eyeballs is Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Team of AI resear [...]

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 is here: what enterprises need to know

The rumors were true, and the "Code Red" is over: OpenAI today announced the release of its new frontier large language model (LLM) family: GPT-5.2.It comes at a pivotal moment for the AI pi [...]

“Things we’ll never know” science fair highlights US’s canceled research

Congressional Democrats host scientists whose grants have been canceled. [...]