Life Biosciences reports first-in-human safety data for ER-100 epigenetic reprogramming therapy
Three glaucoma patients tolerated the low dose with no serious adverse events and the dose will escalate; vision signals in two are preliminary.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, its fast low-cost model
Aimed at classification, extraction, routing and coding subagents; available in the Claude API, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry.
Isomorphic Labs in funding talks at a valuation of at least $40 billion, Bloomberg reports
Talks are early; the Alphabet drug-discovery spinoff last raised a $2.1 billion Series B in May. Round size and investors are not disclosed.
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The 'mito-polariton' is inferred rather than directly measured; the bioRxiv work is not peer reviewed and needs independent replication.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 signs 20-year deal with Constellation for 890 MW of new nuclear capacity on PJM grid
Capacity comes from uprates at 11 existing reactors, with Constellation investing more than $4.3 billion and the first uprate expected in 2028.
Reflection AI announces Beam, a 501B open-weight mixture-of-experts model
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, a 78B German-English open-weight model under Apache 2.0
Harvard physicist releases BootLoops, an open LLM harness behind 36 manuscripts in 18 fields
Applied Digital brings another 75 MW online at Polaris Forge 1, reaching 250 MW
Peking University's AI-Newton rediscovers Newton's second law from noisy experiment data
FDA approves tucatinib with trastuzumab and pertuzumab as HER2-positive breast cancer maintenance
In HER2CLIMB-05, median progression-free survival was 24.9 months versus 16.3 with placebo; overall survival data are immature.
CoreWeave enters India with 240 MW AdaniConneX deployment in Navi Mumbai
CoreWeave will be sole tenant of three 80 MW buildings running Nvidia Vera Rubin, with phase one targeted for mid-2028.
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model with better editing and subject consistency
The model card says it accepts up to 14 reference images and supports Search grounding; it ships in Gemini, AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Minerva Humanoids unveils Roger, a VR-piloted humanoid for bomb disposal and offshore energy work
The startup raised about $10 million led by General Catalyst; AI handles balance and navigation while a specialist controls critical actions.
OpenAI in talks with UAE funds and BlackRock on a $30 billion round, Bloomberg reports
Boston Dynamics shows new four-fingered Atlas hands with tactile sensing
Bengio, Pachocki, Clark and others publish paper on risks if AI R&D automation triggers an intelligence explosion
FDA approves Lilly's Jaypirca for previously untreated CLL and SLL
Ketone body BHB keeps mouse brain tissue working for hours without glucose, study finds
UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen agree to test humanoid robots for car-factory logistics
The deal builds demonstration sites but names no robot model, task list, fleet size or timetable for routine use.
OpenAI publishes 722 math manuscripts produced by an unreleased internal model
The GitHub release spans 372 problem families with many proofs formalized in Lean; mathematicians are still assessing which results are new.
Alman and Vassilevska Williams post truly subquadratic 3SUM and subcubic APSP algorithms
The arXiv preprint claims deterministic O(n^1.9992) 3SUM for bounded integers, which would refute long-standing hardness conjectures; peer review is pending.