FDA approves Viatris's Ryzumvi eye drops for presbyopia in adults
The phentolamine 0.75% drop was already approved to reverse pupil dilation; Viatris is seeking a US partner to sell it for presbyopia.
StepFun releases Step 5 Preview open weights, a 600B multimodal MoE model
The Hugging Face release lists 27B active parameters, 1M-token context and text, image and video input, aimed at long-horizon agent work.
Taiwan plans to make unauthorized AI chip and server exports to China a crime, reports say
The change to the Foreign Trade Act is tied to the U.S.-Taiwan trade agreement; no bill text or implementation date has been published.
TSMC posts Q3 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 50.9% year over year, with net income up 68.7%
Diluted EPS was NT$29.43; the company's management report credits high-performance computing demand.
FDA launches Rare Disease Framework Initiative to tailor drug reviews to small populations
A public meeting is set for October 28 and comments are open through December 11; changes to guidance and rules may follow.
Arrowhead's RNAi drug ARO-MAPT cuts spinal-fluid tau by up to 73% in healthy volunteers
DeepRSI benchmark gives AI agents 48 hours to improve real ML research tasks
SpaceXSI releases Grok Voice 3.0, which tops Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index
Super Micro-linked contractor pleads guilty to diverting Nvidia AI servers to China
Anthropic expands Claude Code Projects, which coordinate parallel cloud threads on one goal
FDA approves self-administered autoinjector for UCB's myasthenia gravis drug Zilbrysq
Approval rests on bioequivalence and a 31-patient study with full dose delivery in 99.8% of injections; launch is expected in Q1 2027.
Anthropic gives METR staff employee-level access and lets it publish risk assessments without veto
Six METR staff get access comparable to internal risk teams; Anthropic may require only narrow redactions, which METR can publicly challenge.
Microsoft AI finishes pre-training MAI-Base-2, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model
It has 80 billion active parameters and trained on 16,000 GB200 GPUs for 38 days; post-training continues and no release date is set.
Anthropic tells investors Q3 revenue reached $16.8 billion, up 45% from Q2, reports say
FT, CNBC and Axios report adjusted profitability and positive cash flow ahead of a possible IPO; Anthropic has not published the figures.
Bristol Myers says actinium-225 therapy RYZ101 meets Phase 3 progression-free survival goal
NEURA Robotics introduces Neuron AI, a robot foundation model that combines vision, touch, sound and memory
DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 Erdős problems, two open for over 50 years, with Lean proofs
Microsoft releases Decision-1, a model that returns probabilities for routing and classification
Anthropic usage policy will bar sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude from November 12
Robot skin with more than 10,000 touch sensors lets humanoids feel fine texture and pull back from harm
The Nature Machine Intelligence paper reports 1,110 sensing units per cm² read at 100 frames a second; reviewers flagged power use and robustness.
IonQ and the University of Cambridge open a quantum innovation centre at the Cavendish Laboratory
The centre sits in the Ray Dolby Centre; the announcement is a partnership opening rather than a new hardware result.
FDA converts Keytruda's tumor-agnostic TMB-high approval to full approval but narrows the cutoff
TMB-high is now defined as at least 13 mutations per megabase, down from 10, after benefit was not confirmed between 10 and 13; response rate was 36%.