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Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs | TechCrunch
[ad_1] Periodic Labs, a new startup by one of OpenAI’s most respected researchers, Liam Fedus, and his former Google Brain colleague, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, came out of stealth last month with an enormous $300 million seed round. It was led by Felicis and included a who’s who of angels and other top VCs. The startup…
The Y2K38 Bug Is a Vulnerability, Not Just a Date Problem, Researchers Warn
[ad_1] Time Manipulation Allows Hackers to Trigger Y2K38 Bug Today Widely known time-related software bugs that could cause significant disruptions when triggered in more than a decade are actually exploitable by hackers today, researchers warn. One of the bugs, known as ‘The Year 2038 problem’ and Y2K38, could cause computers to malfunction on January 19,…
Meta AI Researchers Release MapAnything: An End-to-End Transformer Architecture that Directly Regresses Factored, Metric 3D Scene Geometry
[ad_1] A team of researchers from Meta Reality Labs and Carnegie Mellon University has introduced MapAnything, an end-to-end transformer architecture that directly regresses factored metric 3D scene geometry from images and optional sensor inputs. Released under Apache 2.0 with full training and benchmarking code, MapAnything advances beyond specialist pipelines by supporting over 12 distinct 3D…
MBZUAI Researchers Release K2 Think: A 32B Open-Source System for Advanced AI Reasoning and Outperforms 20x Larger Reasoning Models
[ad_1] A team of researchers from MBZUAI’s Institute of Foundation Models and G42 released K2 Think, is a 32B-parameter open reasoning system for advanced AI reasoning. It pairs long chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards, agentic planning, test-time scaling, and inference optimizations (speculative decoding + wafer-scale hardware). The result is frontier-level math…
MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection
[ad_1] Every year, global health experts are faced with a high-stakes decision: Which influenza strains should go into the next seasonal vaccine? The choice must be made months in advance, long before flu season even begins, and it can often feel like a race against the clock. If the selected strains match those that circulate,…
Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models
[ad_1] Within the past few years, models that can predict the structure or function of proteins have been widely used for a variety of biological applications, such as identifying drug targets and designing new therapeutic antibodies. These models, which are based on large language models (LLMs), can make very accurate predictions of a protein’s suitability…
Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
[ad_1] With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Using generative AI algorithms, the research team designed more than 36 million possible compounds and computationally screened them for antimicrobial properties. The top candidates they discovered are structurally distinct from…
Researchers Uncover GPT-5 Jailbreak and Zero-Click AI Agent Attacks Exposing Cloud and IoT Systems
[ad_1] Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a jailbreak technique to bypass ethical guardrails erected by OpenAI in its latest large language model (LLM) GPT-5 and produce illicit instructions. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) security platform NeuralTrust said it combined a known technique called Echo Chamber with narrative-driven steering to trick the model into producing undesirable responses. “We…
TikTok Researchers Introduce SWE-Perf: The First Benchmark for Repository-Level Code Performance Optimization
[ad_1] Introduction As large language models (LLMs) advance in software engineering tasks—ranging from code generation to bug fixing—performance optimization remains an elusive frontier, especially at the repository level. To bridge this gap, researchers from TikTok and collaborating institutions have introduced SWE-Perf—the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the ability of LLMs to optimize code performance…
With AI, researchers predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cell
[ad_1] A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. But there are about 70,000 different proteins and protein variants in a single human cell, and since scientists can typically only test for a handful in one experiment, it is extremely costly…
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