Most LLM benchmarks are flawed, casting doubt on AI progress metrics, study finds

Jonathan Kemper / the-decoder - A new international study highlights major problems with large language model (LLM) benchmarks, showing that most current evaluation methods have serious flaws.The article Most LLM benchmarks are flawed, casting doubt on AI progress metrics, study finds a…

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James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead At 97

BeauHD / slashdot - ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: James D. Watson, who entered the pantheon of science at age 25 when he joined in the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science, died on Thursday …

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Microsoft AI Chief Warns Pursuing Machine Consciousness Is a Gigantic Waste of Time

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Suleyman thinks conscious AI is an "absurd" pursuit.

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NASA's supersonic jet completes its first flight in California

engadget - Nearly a decade after NASA partnered with Lockheed Martin to build the X-59, the supersonic jet has completed its first flight in California, according to a press release spotted by Gizmodo. The X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (Quesst) aircraft is design…

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Get ready to squint! World's smallest pixel is just 300 nm

Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one Micro-OLED displays with 1080p (1920x1080) resolution have been around for a few years now, but a group of German researchers has taken things to the next level. The…

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Adaptam Therapeutics raises €3M to target tumour immune evasion

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Spanish biotech startup Adaptam Therapeutics has raised €3 million in a pre-seed financing round led by Criteria Bio…

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Sweden’s Lithea Raises €851k To Develop Targeted Therapy For Childhood Bone Cancer

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Lund-based Lithea, a biotech company developing targeted cancer treatments that deliver drugs directly into tumours, has raised €851,000 from existing investors to advance its drug delivery system and prepare its lead candidate, LIT1001, for clinical tria…

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Swedish biotech Cellcolabs raises $12M to make stem cell therapies mainstream

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - The global demand for regenerative therapies is reaching new heights, but researchers and patients alike continue to face…

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Novartis Agrees to Acquire Avidity Biosciences for $12 Billion

Dylan Tokar / wsj - The Swiss pharmaceutical company says the purchase would complement its existing pipeline of treatments for neuromuscle disorders.

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What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA

Becky Ferreira / 404media - DNA from the teeth of French soldiers that died in the disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow revealed previously unidentified pathogens.

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Studies Reveal AI Models’ Troubling Sycophancy Trends

New research shows that large language models have a disconcerting habit of echoing users instead of challenging them. Benchmark tests reveal consistently high rates of agreement, raising pressing questions on the reliability and impartiality of these systems when deployed for critical decision-making and creative tasks.

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The Willow chip marks a new milestone in Google’s quantum race

Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Google researchers announced the first verifiable quantum advantage, using their Willow processor to map a molecule’s features 13,000 times faster than a modern supercomputer by employing a technique called “quantum echoes.” The experiment utilized Google…

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Google claims to have quantum advantage with a potentially useful algorithm

John Timmer / arstechnica - An approach it calls "quantum echoes" takes 13,000 times longer on a supercomputer.

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Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences - Financial Times

google - Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences Financial Times

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Reflection AI secures $2B funding for its frontier AI lab

Reflection AI has closed a high-profile funding round, raising $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation. Backed by Nvidia and other investors, the startup is set to expand its open-source, frontier AI infrastructure and safety research. This ambitious injection of cash underscores the competitive race to dominate the AI landscape.

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Building ordered polymers with metal

John Timmer / arstechnica - Structured polymers called metal-organice frameworks get the chemistry Nobel.

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