Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
A new attack called agentjacking abuses public Sentry keys and MCP to feed AI coding agents fake bug reports that trick them into running attacker code. Researchers found 2,388 exposed orgs and an 85% success rate.
Tenet Security
Read more →The Reuters Institute’s 2026 Digital News Report finds weekly chatbot news use up to 10% globally — younger, highly engaged, and rarely clicking through to the source.
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
Read more →Detailed June 17, OpenAI and Molecule.one paired GPT-5.4 with an autonomous lab to improve a stubborn Chan-Lam coupling — lifting yields for 88% of boronic acids and 83% of sulfonamides tested, with 8 of 14 validated reactions more than doubling.
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OpenAI's new 750-task benchmark grades AI on real life-science research judgment. The best model, GPT-Rosalind, passed only 36% — and 22.8% of tasks stumped every model tested.
MarkTechPost
Read more →Detailed June 16, OpenAI’s Deployment Simulation forecasts how an unreleased model will behave by replaying ~1.3M past conversations through it and grading the results — hitting a median error of about 1.5x and catching “calculator hacking” in GPT-5.1 before release.
OpenAI
Read more →Nvidia is teaming with clinical-AI startup Abridge to co-develop a healthcare model trained from the ground up on its open Nemotron family — built to understand medical terminology and clinical workflows natively, with availability expected later in 2026.
WSJ
Read more →No math required. An illustrated walk through how a large language model turns your words into tokens, vectors, and attention — and predicts its answer one word at a time.
BitsMinds
Read more →At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, the follow-up to its topological quantum chip, claiming qubits roughly 1,000 times more reliable than the prior generation. A new materials stack — swapping aluminum for lead — pushes the “parity lifetime” of a topological qubit to about 20 seconds, with some lasting a full minute, up from milliseconds. Microsoft says the progress lets it halve its roadmap and target a practical, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029 — even as critics remain skeptical of the topological approach.
Tom's Hardware / SiliconANGLE
Read more →Beyond the Vera Rubin headlines at COMPUTEX 2026, Nvidia released Cosmos 3 — what it calls the first fully open physical-AI “omnimodel,” a mixture-of-transformers design that reasons about a scene before generating physically grounded actions like joint angles and gripper positions. It ships as Nano (16B) and Super (64B), tops open leaderboards including Physics-IQ and R-Bench, and arrives with the open Isaac GR00T reference humanoid — a 6-foot, 31-degree-of-freedom robot running on Nvidia Thor.
NVIDIA / The Robot Report
Read more →In a May 26 progress update, Anthropic said Project Glasswing has used an unreleased frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, to autonomously discover more than 10,000 high- and critical-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across the world’s most important software in its first month — including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD and a certificate-forgery bug in wolfSSL. The model is so capable at offensive security that Anthropic is refusing to release it.
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OSCAR — Offline Spectral Covariance-Aware Rotation — squeezes the KV cache that bloats every long-context request down to two bits per element, with no measurable accuracy loss on Qwen3-32B or GLM-4.7 across reasoning, math and coding benchmarks. Together AI shipped it into SGLang on May 25, framing it as one of the more practical wins for actually-affordable 1M-token serving.
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Co-founders Justin Dangel and Alexander Whedon say their Subquadratic Sparse Attention architecture breaks the transformer's quadratic ceiling — and that SubQ matches Claude Opus accuracy on long-context benchmarks at 1/300th the cost.
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A general-purpose reasoning model autonomously cracked the planar unit distance problem that had stumped mathematicians since 1946 — and Fields Medalist-level reviewers signed off on the proof.
OpenAI
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Microsoft's new multi-model agentic scanning harness orchestrates 100+ AI agents to discover, debate, and prove exploitable vulnerabilities — and just dropped 16 fresh CVEs in Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft Security Blog
Read more →A Penn-led team published an exciton-polariton switch in Physical Review Letters that flips at roughly four femtojoules per operation, pointing to photonic chips that could process camera data directly without electronic conversions.
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The PIC64-HPSC blew past its 100x design target and is racing toward late-2026 certification to fly on Artemis IV with autonomous-AI workloads onboard.
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A validation study in Gut shows Mayo Clinic's REDMOD model catches pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans roughly 16 months before diagnosis — nearly doubling the sensitivity of human radiologists.
Inside Precision Medicine
Read more →DeepMind's new hierarchical research agent has resolved Problem 21.10 from the Kourovka Notebook, a group theory question that had stood unsolved since 1965, and topped FrontierMath Tier 4 at 48% accuracy — but the team is also publicly flagging a 'reviewer-pleasing bias' that nearly let a flawed proof slip through.
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Google's Threat Intelligence Group says it has spotted the first confirmed case of cybercriminals weaponizing an AI-generated zero-day exploit, a Python script that bypassed two-factor authentication on a popular open-source admin tool — and that the campaign was disrupted before it could land.
BleepingComputer
Read more →A two-stage compression algorithm from Google Research cuts the KV cache 6x and accelerates attention 8x on H100s, with no fine-tuning and no measurable accuracy loss.
Google Research
Read more →A joint team used 94 qubits across two Heron r2 processors, plus Fugaku and Miyabi-G, to simulate trypsin and T4-lysozyme — a 40x jump in system size and 210x accuracy gain over results from six months ago.
IBM
Read more →NVIDIA releases Ising, an open-source family of AI models that automates qubit calibration and runs real-time quantum error decoding 2.5x faster than the pyMatching standard.
NVIDIA Newsroom
Read more →Lilly is paying up to $2.25B in milestones for AI-designed recombinases that can insert entire genes at precise sites — a kilobase-scale alternative to CRISPR that Profluent’s CEO calls the “holy grail” of genetic medicine.
Pharmaceutical Technology
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A Sony research robot combining event-based vision and deep reinforcement learning has defeated elite and professional table tennis players in real matches, marking the first time a machine has reached human expert level in a fast, physical competitive sport.
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