science
NeurIPS papers average six objective mistakes each, up from four News
A study of 2,500 machine learning papers using an automated checker found that the average number of objective mistakes in a NeurIPS paper rose from 3.8 in 2021 to 5.9 in 2025, a 55 percent increase over four years.
An AI replicated 105 ICML orals, and 34 mostly held up News
The research auditing group SAI reviewed all 168 oral papers from ICML 2026, ran full execution-grounded reproductions of 105 of them, and found that only 34 reproduced more than 40 percent of the claims it attempted to check.
Google put the hurricane model's weights on a public bucket News
DeepMind has open-sourced WeatherNext 2 with pretrained weights, including the exact cyclone checkpoint the National Hurricane Center used operationally through the 2025 Atlantic season, plus a one-degree variant sized for a single consumer GPU.
WeatherNext called Melissa's Category 5 landfall five days out News
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext predicted Hurricane Melissa's Category 5 landfall in Jamaica five days ahead at 80% confidence, and its five-day track forecasts averaged about 140 kilometres closer than the European ensemble -- roughly a day and a half of extra warning.
Sixteen AI-designed viruses worked, and one borrowed a part from a cousin News
Arc Institute researchers used a genome language model to design bacteriophages from scratch, synthesized the DNA, and got 16 working viruses out of 285 tested -- one of which swapped in a structural protein from a distantly related phage.
Genome language models: predicting DNA the way a chatbot predicts text Lesson
Genome language models are trained to predict the next base in a DNA sequence, the same objective that produces chatbots, and they turn out to learn enough biology to write working viral genomes from scratch.
AskChem indexes 2.4 million individual chemistry claims instead of 147,000 papers News
A team at NYU built a live chemistry search system that breaks each paper into atomic claims, each carrying its own source identifier and verbatim quote, so a researcher or an AI agent retrieves the individual assertion rather than a ranked list of documents.
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench built for biologists News
Anthropic released Claude Science, a customizable research workbench that wires Claude into more than 60 scientific databases and tools like PubMed, Jupyter, and R, and is giving qualifying researchers up to $2,000 in compute.
Anthropic's Claude Science puts a whole lab bench inside the AI News
A new workbench pulls a scientist's scattered tools - literature, notebooks, cluster jobs - into one place and keeps a full, checkable record of how every result was made.
Can an AI agent match real published science? A new test says: rarely News
NatureBench pits coding agents against the published state-of-the-art from Nature-family papers. Even the best agents beat the bar on a small minority of tasks -- mostly by reframing, not inventing.
WeatherNext 2 Tool
Google DeepMind's ensemble weather and cyclone forecasting models, released with code, pretrained weights and runnable notebooks. Includes the checkpoint used operationally by the National Hurricane Center in 2025 and a one-degree Mini variant sized for a single GPU.
Evo 2 Tool
Arc Institute's open genome language model for DNA, used to design bacteriophage genomes that were synthesized and shown to work in living bacteria; weights and code are public.
Evo Tool
Arc Institute's family of genome language models, released openly with code and checkpoints. Used by Arc and Stanford to generate complete synthetic bacteriophage genomes that were then built and tested in the lab against non-pathogenic bacterial hosts.
Claude Science Tool
An AI workbench that unifies literature search, notebooks, statistics, and cluster compute, and keeps a reproducible record behind every figure. Beta on Mac and Linux.
AskChem Tool
A live chemistry search system that retrieves individual claims rather than papers - 2.4 million typed claims from 147,000 papers, each carrying a source identifier and a verbatim quote. Free web interface plus REST, SDK and MCP access so agents can query the same claim store.