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.
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.
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.
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The 'mito-polariton' is inferred rather than directly measured; the bioRxiv work is not peer reviewed and needs independent replication.
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.
CoreWeave enters India with 240 MW AdaniConneX deployment in Navi Mumbai
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
DEEP Robotics tests waterproof DR02 humanoids directing traffic in rainy Hangzhou
The IP66-rated robots worked intersections and a wetland park; the company gave no figures on accuracy, uptime or traffic effects.
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.
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.
SafeWorld emerges with $12.2 million to stress-test robots around people in simulation
OpenAI in talks with UAE funds and BlackRock on a $30 billion round, Bloomberg reports
Meta says mathematicians using Muse Spark answered five open research questions
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.
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.