DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 Erdős problems, two open for over 50 years, with Lean proofs
Results across 353 attempted Erdős problems and 492 OEIS conjectures are public in DeepMind's GitHub repository with machine-checked proofs.
DeepRSI benchmark gives AI agents 48 hours to improve real ML research tasks
Hillclimb's 15 tasks are scored by private held-out verifiers; Claude Fable 5.1 leads at 1548 Elo ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 1232.
Microsoft releases Decision-1, a model that returns probabilities for routing and classification
Available in Microsoft Foundry, it takes typed yes/no, choice and score questions; it joins OpenAI's Decisions API in the fast-decision niche.
Preprint reports a 71-terahertz vibration in living mitochondria and proposes a quantum light-matter state
The 'mito-polariton' is inferred rather than directly measured; the bioRxiv work is not peer reviewed and needs independent replication.
Google Cloud previews Gemini agent coworkers with their own email, calendar and Drive
Announced at Gemini at Work 2026, the agents act under their own Workspace identity; it is a private preview with no pricing or GA date.
Life Biosciences reports first-in-human safety data for ER-100 epigenetic reprogramming therapy
Alman and Vassilevska Williams post truly subquadratic 3SUM and subcubic APSP algorithms
CoreWeave enters India with 240 MW AdaniConneX deployment in Navi Mumbai
Reflection AI announces Beam, a 501B open-weight mixture-of-experts model
OpenAI in talks with UAE funds and BlackRock on a $30 billion round, Bloomberg reports
DeepSeek leads seed round for robot AI startup Winverse at about $400 million, Bloomberg reports
The stealth startup is led by a former Tencent scientist; the round was not finalized and DeepSeek has not commented publicly.
Super Micro-linked contractor pleads guilty to diverting Nvidia AI servers to China
Ting-Wei Sun pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to four counts; prosecutors allege about $2.5 billion in AI hardware was shipped without licenses.
Anthropic expands Claude Code Projects, which coordinate parallel cloud threads on one goal
Docs describe a coordinator that spawns threads on separate branches that keep running while the user's computer is off; access is a beta for Pro and Max.
FDA approves Teva's Weltruza, a once-monthly subcutaneous olanzapine for schizophrenia
The FDA approval letter is dated October 8; Teva says U.S. availability follows in the coming weeks.
FDA approves tucatinib with trastuzumab and pertuzumab as HER2-positive breast cancer maintenance
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model with better editing and subject consistency
Minerva Humanoids unveils Roger, a VR-piloted humanoid for bomb disposal and offshore energy work
DEEP Robotics tests waterproof DR02 humanoids directing traffic in rainy Hangzhou
Randomized trial finds Myosuit soft exosuit training does not beat standard therapy overall after stroke
Higher-functioning patients (FAC 4) improved in walking, balance and gait speed, a subgroup finding that needs confirmation.
Paper finds subliminal learning can pass capabilities and backdoors between models via unrelated data
Owain Evans and co-authors report partial transfer of a backdoor and a hacking propensity through distillation on number sequences; the arXiv preprint is not yet reviewed.
Anthropic usage policy will bar sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude from November 12
The policy excludes ordinary frustration, dark fiction and model testing; Claude ending the chat is the main enforcement tool.