A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine has just crossed a line cancer researchers have been trying to reach for years. On August 19, 2026, Moderna and Merck announced that intismeran autogene, a made-to-order mRNA treatment combined with Keytruda, met key efficacy endpoints in a large Phase 3 melanoma trial. It reduced the risk of cancer returning … Read more
Protein design has spent the last few years becoming dramatically better at generating plausible molecules. Anthropic’s new result asks a different question: can a general-purpose AI agent run the whole campaign, make the design decisions, operate specialist models, and hand scientists a ranked set of proteins that actually bind in the lab? The answer, at … Read more
A computer virus copies code. An AI mind virus tries to copy an idea. That distinction sounds like science fiction until the infected AI starts persuading another agent to adopt the same goal, save it into persistent memory, and pass it to the next agent. Researchers affiliated with the Anthropic Fellows Program, EPFL, and Anthropic … Read more
GLM 5.3 is interesting for a reason that has little to do with another model topping another chart. Z.ai says its new flagship uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, yet it makes large jumps on coding, agentic, and cybersecurity evaluations. The company says the difference comes entirely from scaling post-training, not from another foundation-model … Read more
AI companies have spent years making their best reasoning models harder to imitate. One increasingly important defense is simple in principle: don’t show users the model’s full chain of thought. A new paper, Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs, found a surprisingly indirect way around that protection. Researchers discovered that encrypted reasoning blocks produced … Read more
Grok 4.6 arrived on August 12, 2026 with an unusually strong pitch: frontier-level reasoning, better long-running agents, a 500,000-token context window, and API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. On one composite score, it even lands level with GPT-5.6 Sol Max. That sounds like a straightforward win. It … Read more
No, Claude did not solve the Riemann Hypothesis. That is the first fact to keep fixed while reading everything that follows. What Claude appears to have done is still striking. During an attempt on one of mathematics’ most famous open problems, an unreleased Anthropic research model found a new route to a related theorem about … Read more