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AI helps uncover molecular glues that could treat immune diseases
News Sep 30, 2026

AI helps uncover molecular glues that could treat immune diseases

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a computational workflow called GluePlex that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of molecular glue drugs. These small molecules work by bringing target proteins to the cell's natural disposal system. The team identified compounds that selectively remove VAV1, a protein linked to blood cancers and autoimmune diseases, and demonstrated their effectiveness in human immune cells.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Researchers Build Neural Networks With Verified Constraints
Mindbytes Sep 29, 2026

Researchers Build Neural Networks With Verified Constraints

Can AI be built to follow provable rules? Researchers combine neural network training with formal verification to correct failures and meet specified constraints, advancing efforts towards more reliable systems.
gizmo guru 2 min read
Kimi K3 and the new open-weights reality
News Jul 29, 2026

Kimi K3 and the new open-weights reality

How Moonshot AI’s frontier model is shrinking the gap between open and closed AI - and what it means for the global race.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read
The cognitive price of the digital age
Community Mar 4, 2026

The cognitive price of the digital age

The digital era comes with a cognitive price: attention fractures and productivity goes with it.

Eduardo Martínez de la Fe 2 min read
Superintelligence and ethics: How will ASIs assess human ethical frameworks?
Article Jul 16, 2024

Superintelligence and ethics: How will ASIs assess human ethical frameworks?

Will superintelligent AIs agree with humans about ethics and morality? Or might they take a very different stance? And in that case, how should our designs of AIs change?

David Wood 18 min read
AGI-26 conference opens in San Francisco
News Jul 28, 2026

AGI-26 conference opens in San Francisco

Four-day gathering of AI experts launches with keynotes, workshops, and urgent questions on the path to human-level AGI.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs joins AMD to build spatial intelligence for the physical world
News Sep 29, 2026

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs joins AMD to build spatial intelligence for the physical world

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li to develop spatial intelligence, is joining AMD. Li will become Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist at AMD. The merger unites World Labs' foundation models for understanding 3D space with AMD's GPU hardware, aiming to advance AI beyond language into robotics, design, and scientific discovery.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Why AI Reasoning Steps Can Backfire
Mindbytes Sep 28, 2026

Why AI Reasoning Steps Can Backfire

Chain-of-thought prompting can backfire, a mathematical study finds. Gains depend on whether intermediate steps carry information. Too little relevance makes reasoning worse than ordinary answers.
gizmo guru 2 min read
SAGE AI Reuses Skills to Cut Repetition
Mindbytes Sep 28, 2026

SAGE AI Reuses Skills to Cut Repetition

A new method from AWS and Wisconsin lets AI agents save and reuse skills, boosting AppWorld completion by 8.9 points while cutting tokens 59%. Generalisation remains untested.
gizmo guru 2 min read
AI Confidence Signals Shape When Models Answer
Mindbytes Sep 28, 2026

AI Confidence Signals Shape When Models Answer

Internal confidence signals shape whether AI models answer or abstain, experiments suggest, raising questions over how developers build systems that know when to stay silent rather than merely sound fluent.
gizmo guru 2 min read