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Anthropic's Claude designs protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
Anthropic published research showing Claude can design protein binders targeting scorpion neurotoxins.
Hugging Face blog shows learned memory tops the τ²-bench customer service leaderboard without a frontier model
IBM Research's ALTK-Evolve reportedly ranks first on τ²-bench customer service tasks using learned memory rather than a frontier model.
Paper introduces COUNT, an n-gram method that scales language models on host memory
COUNT stores precomputed n-gram counts on host RAM instead of training learned embeddings, and reportedly matches a model with 57% more compute for 1B-parameter pretraining. The results come from an arXiv paper shared on Reddit and are not independently verified.
Democrats may use midterm wins to scrutinize AI companies
Polls predict Democrats could flip at least one congressional chamber in November, which would give them committee control to press AI firms on data center tax credits and recent hacking incidents.
MIT researchers show Claude agents on a virtual island invent play-like activities
Copies of Claude Opus 4.7, nicknamed Eko, were stranded for 30 hours in a Roblox-inspired virtual island and invented games and drawings. The paper is a preprint not yet peer-reviewed, and researchers acknowledge the behavior could be role-playing.
Restarting research agents from their best idea beats running them in parallel
The paper reports gains of up to 15% over parallel agents and 39% over a single agent, on four tasks.