OpenAI says an unreleased AI model solves the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem using 10,000 concurrent agents and creates an independent mathematician advisory group to vet that claim and scores of other reported results.
Google DeepMind unveils and open-sources SynthID Bio, which embeds detectable watermarks in AI-designed protein sequences and structures without reducing function, with wet-lab tests spanning VEGF-A, SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD and PD-L1 binders.
Anthropic says 950 Claude agents make a molecular-biology discovery in 21 hours by identifying an uncatalogued repeating pattern around a known enzyme, but University of Copenhagen biologist Mario Rodríguez Mestre says his team had already found it and raises concerns about whether Claude learned from their chats, which Anthropic denies.
Anthropic says nearly 950 Claude agents uncover a previously uncharacterized CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteriophages after analyzing DNA data for 21 hours, though its function and practical uses remain unknown.
Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5 as its strongest behavioral-alignment model, restricting its use for cybersecurity and biology tasks to vetted organizations while pricing it at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.
Anthropic and OpenAI slash flagship AI model prices—Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less and GPT-6 Sol and Luna half as much—while OpenAI says an internal system has solved more than 100 open math problems since Aug. 28.
OpenAI says its internal model solves more than 100 additional open mathematics problems and creates an independent IAS-based advisory group of nine mathematicians, who will assess results and can publicly disagree with the company.
OpenAI claims an internal model beginning training August 28 solves the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem and more than 100 open math questions, while an unpaid Institute for Advanced Study-hosted advisory group is set up to independently scrutinize and publicly challenge its results.
Liquid AI launches LongevityBench and two open aging-focused LFM2 models, saying the 2.6B-parameter version leads NHANES pairwise age prediction while both compact models beat every tested frontier system on Olink proteomics age tasks.
Google launches AlphaGenome Atlas and WeatherNext 3, opening a map of 9 billion possible genetic variants while deploying a weather model it says makes next-day precipitation forecasts 50% more accurate.