Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day.

Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs’ Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk

A special Science pod and Engineering pod crossover.. with Forward Deployed Engineering kicker!

[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing

yay small models

Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?

Kubernetes co-creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda aim to bring agent harnesses fully into the cloud.

[AINews] Quasi-Riemann-Hypothesis: OpenAI publishes 722 math papers solving 90 of the top 500 open math problems; “the most significant moment” in >100 years of mathematics

Our head hurts.

[AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model

A small win for US open source

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day.

Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience

After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.

[AINews] Pi 1.0, Pi Durable, and AIE NYC

the minimalist harness goes stable... and TypeScript!

Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses.

[AINews] Gemini 4 Argon: GDM’s answer to Astra/Fable, with 1M output

... but you can’t try it yet unless you are “government users and trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program”

Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.

[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU

the most confident DevDay yet.

[AINews] AMD buys World Labs for $8.2B, as Atlas solves sparse reconstruction problem for robotics, design and more

Congrats team!

[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos

a rare feature of a capability

Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.5, Mods, Plugins, Projects, Tag while Pacing the Frontier

OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.

[AINews] The Future of Latent Space

A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!

Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.

Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.

[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm

Team Zuck is absolutely on fire.

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.

[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%

overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI

🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science

We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI