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- Anthropic gave 50 analysts an AI whose opinions were set by coin flips. They agreed with it 86% of the time.
The trial used Claude Code and a made-up farming co-op. Anthropic says the effect was deliberately strengthened, but the part about credit is harder to shrug off.
- OpenAI says its model disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Two of the three people who proposed it are on the review team.
On October 26 OpenAI announced three AI-made results in math, computer science and physics. Only two come with public proofs, and the reviewers say their involvement is not an endorsement.
- For 25 years, people said the NSA hashed a joke to make NIST's curve seeds. Claude found a clock instead.
Anthropic says one of its models traced the seeds behind NIST's most-used elliptic curves to a 1990s random number generator started with a timestamp. It rules out a few backdoor theories. It doesn't rule out all of them.
- Anthropic says Claude found a CRISPR-like system. Five questions about what is actually proven.
Anthropic's biology team says its agents spotted a new enzyme system in virus DNA. The function is unknown, the enzyme itself was known since 2021, and the work isn't peer reviewed.
- AI agents flagged two magnet candidates. One may have been sitting in a 1999 paper.
Vals AI says Claude Opus 5.5 agents screened materials on computers for three days and proposed two candidates for spin-based memory. One is a new design that may be hard to make. The other was first made in 1999.
- OpenAI posted 722 math papers from a model nobody outside can test
On 6 October OpenAI put 372 families of new results from an unreleased model on GitHub. Its own README says about 42% of the top-line results have a Lean proof. The rest are waiting for mathematicians.