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# AI news, newest first, page 19

Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 19 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Wednesday 4 February 2026

- [ElevenLabs raises $500M Series D at $11B valuation (Sequoia)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-04-elevenlabs-series-d/) (Business; ElevenLabs). ElevenLabs raised $500M in a Sequoia-led Series D at an $11B valuation on 2026-02-04, more than triple its valuation a year earlier, after ending 2025 above $330M ARR. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/series-d

## Tuesday 3 February 2026

- [Second International AI Safety Report published](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-03-international-ai-safety-report-2026/) (Policy & safety; International AI Safety Report). Its warnings about evaluation gaming and oversight evasion were borne out months later by the OpenAI/Hugging Face and UK AISI agent incidents. Source: https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/international-ai-safety-report-2026

## Monday 2 February 2026

- [SpaceX absorbs xAI in a $1.25 trillion merger](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-02-02-spacex-acquires-xai/) (Business; SpaceX, xAI; major). It fused a frontier AI lab with the world's dominant launch provider and a large satellite network, giving xAI access to public-market capital (via the June 2026 SpaceX IPO) and a unique compute-in-space thesis. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02/elon-musk-s-spacex-said-to-combine-with-xai-ahead-of-mega-ipo

## Thursday 29 January 2026

- [Google DeepMind opens Project Genie, a Genie 3 world-model prototype, to AI Ultra subscribers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-29-project-genie/) (Research; Google DeepMind). Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
- [METR releases Time Horizon 1.1 with expanded long-task suite](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-29-metr-time-horizon-1-1/) (Benchmarks; METR). As frontier horizons approach the top of the suite, METR's own caveat (unreliable >16h) signals the benchmark itself is near saturation. Source: https://metr.org/blog/2026-1-29-time-horizon-1-1/

## Wednesday 28 January 2026

- [ACE-Step 1.5: MIT-licensed song generator that runs on consumer GPUs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-28-ace-step-1-5/) (Open source; ACE Studio, StepFun). It made near-commercial song generation practical on laptops and gaming GPUs under a permissive license, the open alternative to Suno/Udio in the year the commercial services moved to licensed data. Source: https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step-1.5

## Tuesday 27 January 2026

- [Figure Helix 02: one neural network controls a humanoid's whole body from pixels](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-27-figure-helix-02/) (Robotics; Figure AI; major). It was the first public case of a learned humanoid policy doing minutes-long household tasks end to end from pixels. Source: https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-02

## Monday 26 January 2026

- [Dario Amodei publishes "The Adolescence of Technology", a long essay on the risks of powerful AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-26-dario-amodei-adolescence-of-technology/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It set out the risk framing behind Anthropic's 2026 positions: the Pentagon dispute over surveillance and autonomous weapons, the June policy essay, and the September call to pace the frontier. Source: https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

## Thursday 22 January 2026

- [Alibaba open-sources Qwen3-TTS and, a week later, Qwen3-ASR](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-22-qwen3-tts-asr-open-weights/) (Open source; Alibaba, Qwen). Voice cloning and voice design had mostly been proprietary (ElevenLabs and others). Source: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS

## Thursday 15 January 2026

- [US opens case-by-case H200 exports to China](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-15-us-h200-china-export-policy/) (Chips & compute; US Department of Commerce (BIS), NVIDIA, Chinese government). It shows export controls becoming a bargaining chip, and China doubling down on self-sufficiency (Ascend) even when US chips are available. Source: https://www.bis.gov/press-release/department-commerce-revises-license-review-policy-semiconductors-exported-china

## Wednesday 14 January 2026

- [Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its 'omni-bodied' Skild Brain](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-14-skild-ai-series-c/) (Business; Skild AI, SoftBank, NVIDIA). It shows investors paying frontier-lab-style valuations for a robot "brain" company that does not build its own hardware. Source: https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c

## Tuesday 13 January 2026

- [Anthropic expands 'Labs' incubator](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-13-anthropic-labs-krieger-vora/) (Business; Anthropic). It formalised the small-team model behind Claude Code and MCP, two of Anthropic's most important products, ahead of its 2026 growth and IPO. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-anthropic-labs

## Monday 12 January 2026

- [Anthropic launches Claude Cowork](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-12-claude-cowork/) (Products; Anthropic; major). It took Claude Code's agentic pattern to mainstream knowledge work, and it became one of Anthropic's biggest product lines of 2026. Source: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/
- [1X turns its video world model into a robot policy for NEO](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-12-1x-world-model-policy/) (Robotics; 1X Technologies). It is one of the first deployments of a large video-generation model as a humanoid control policy, part of the 2026 shift toward learning robot skills from human video. Source: https://www.1x.tech/discover/world-model-self-learning

## Thursday 8 January 2026

- [Zhipu AI and MiniMax become first LLM labs to go public (Hong Kong)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-08-zhipu-minimax-hong-kong-ipos/) (Business; Zhipu AI, MiniMax; major). Public listings give Chinese labs a capital source independent of US venture money and made them the first pure-play LLM developers with public market valuations. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/minimax-hong-kong-ipo-ai-tigers-zhipu.html

## Tuesday 6 January 2026

- [Erdős problem #728 solved near-autonomously by GPT-5.2 Pro and Harmonic's Aristotle, with a Lean proof](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-06-erdos-728-gpt-5-2-aristotle/) (Science & math; OpenAI, Harmonic; major). It showed the combination of informal LLM reasoning with formal verification as a practical, trustworthy workflow for research maths that non-experts could run. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.07421
- [Utah lets Doctronic's AI renew chronic-condition prescriptions, the first US state-sanctioned AI role in prescribing](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-06-utah-doctronic-ai-prescription-renewals/) (Policy & safety; Doctronic, Utah Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy). It was the first time a US state legally allowed an AI system to make a prescribing decision. Source: https://commerce.utah.gov/ai/regulatory-relief/authorized-ai-pilots/doctronic/

## Monday 5 January 2026

- [Boston Dynamics unveils production electric Atlas at CES](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-05-boston-dynamics-atlas-production/) (Robotics; Boston Dynamics, Hyundai Motor Group, Google DeepMind; major). A mass-production humanoid from the best-known legged-robotics company, with a captive automotive customer planning tens of thousands of units, marks the industrialization of humanoids. Source: https://bostondynamics.com/blog/boston-dynamics-unveils-new-atlas-robot-to-revolutionize-industry/

## January 2026, day not recorded

- [xAI brings Colossus 2 online, billed as the first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-01-xai-colossus-2-gigawatt/) (Chips & compute; xAI). Gigawatt-class single-site clusters define the 2026 frontier-training scale; confidence low on exact capacity and date. Source: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/xais-colossus-2-first-gigawatt-datacenter

## Thursday 11 December 2025

- [OpenAI releases GPT-5.2](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-11-gpt-5-2/) (Model releases; OpenAI). Illustrated the compressed release cadence of late 2025, with frontier leadership changing hands within weeks. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2/

## Tuesday 9 December 2025

- [MCP donated to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-09-mcp-agentic-ai-foundation/) (Agents; Anthropic, Linux Foundation, OpenAI, Block). Cemented MCP and AGENTS.md as vendor-neutral infrastructure for the agent ecosystem. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation

## Monday 8 December 2025

- [Genuine AI-assisted solutions to Erdős problems begin](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-08-ai-erdos-problems-wave-late-2025/) (Science & math; Harmonic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI; major). Erdős problems became the first large, public, verifiable scoreboard for AI in research mathematics, and set the stage for 2026's much larger results. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19804

## Saturday 6 December 2025

- [AxiomProver produces machine-checked Lean proofs for all 12 Putnam 2025 problems](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-06-axiomprover-putnam-2025/) (Science & math; Axiom Math). Formal verification removes grading disputes like those around informal IMO proofs, and showed formal provers catching up with informal LLMs on hard competition maths. Source: https://github.com/AxiomMath/putnam2025
- [Arc Institute announces first Virtual Cell Challenge winners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-06-virtual-cell-challenge-2025-winners/) (Benchmarks; Arc Institute, BioMap, Altos Labs, NVIDIA). Virtual cells are a major goal of AI biology, and this challenge is becoming the field's shared benchmark. Source: https://arcinstitute.org/news/virtual-cell-challenge-2025-wrap-up

## December 2025, day not recorded

- [AI searches 100 million Hubble images in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 anomalies including 800+ never described](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-01-ai-finds-1400-anomalies-hubble-archive/) (Science & math; European Space Agency). It shows the AI-first search pattern that surveys such as Rubin/LSST and Euclid will depend on. Source: https://esahubble.org/news/heic2603/
- [Physics Letters B paper built on a GPT-5 idea draws criticism that it tests the wrong thing](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-12-01-hsu-gpt-5-physics-paper-dispute/) (Science & math; Michigan State University, OpenAI). It is a cautionary example: AI-originated ideas can pass peer review and still be wrong or misframed. Source: https://the-decoder.com/physicist-steve-hsu-publishes-research-built-around-a-core-idea-generated-by-gpt-5/

## Thursday 27 November 2025

- [DeepSeekMath-V2: open-weights self-verifying prover reaches IMO 2025 gold level and 118/120 on Putnam 2024](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-27-deepseekmath-v2/) (Open source; DeepSeek; major). It made olympiad-level natural-language proof generation reproducible outside the big US labs. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22570
- [21% of ICLR 2026 peer reviews flagged as fully AI-written; a bug exposes reviewers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-27-iclr-2026-ai-reviews-openreview-leak/) (Policy & safety; ICLR, OpenReview, Pangram Labs). It was the clearest sign yet that LLMs had overwhelmed the peer-review system of the field that builds them. Source: https://www.pangram.com/blog/pangram-predicts-21-of-iclr-reviews-are-ai-generated

## Monday 24 November 2025

- [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-24-claude-opus-4-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Made frontier-level agentic coding cheaper and helped drive rapid adoption of long-running coding agents at the end of 2025. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

## Thursday 20 November 2025

- [OpenAI publishes 'Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-20-openai-gpt-5-science-acceleration/) (Science & math; OpenAI). It marked a shift from benchmark claims to documented research contributions, and set the template for OpenAI's 2026 "OpenAI for Science" results. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16072

## Tuesday 18 November 2025

- [Google launches Gemini 3](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-18-gemini-3/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind; historic). Widely seen as putting Google at the top of the frontier; press reported OpenAI declared an internal 'code red' in response. Source: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/

## Monday 17 November 2025

- [Physical Intelligence's π*0.6 learns from real-world experience with RL (Recap), running tasks for hours](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-17-physical-intelligence-pi-star-0-6-recap/) (Robotics; Physical Intelligence). It is one of the first convincing demonstrations that VLAs can keep improving from deployment experience rather than only from more demonstrations. Source: https://www.pi.website/blog/pistar06

## Tuesday 11 November 2025

- [Munich court rules ChatGPT's memorised song lyrics infringe copyright](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-11-gema-v-openai-munich-ruling/) (Policy & safety; GEMA, OpenAI). It gave European rights holders a legal theory, "memorisation is copying", that does not depend on US fair use. Source: https://www.twobirds.com/en/insights/2025/landmark-ruling-of-the-munich-regional-court-(gema-v-openai)-on-copyright-and-ai-training

## Wednesday 5 November 2025

- [Tao, Gómez-Serrano, Georgiev and Wagner test AlphaEvolve on 67 maths problems](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-05-alphaevolve-tao-67-problems/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, UCLA, Brown University). Coming from Tao, it gave the maths community a credible, balanced picture of what AI search could do, just before the 2026 surge. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864

## November 2025, day not recorded

- [Baker lab designs antibodies from scratch with atomic accuracy using RFdiffusion](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-05-ai-designed-antibodies-rfdiffusion/) (Science & math; University of Washington Institute for Protein Design). Computational antibody design could replace months of animal immunisation and library screening in drug discovery. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09721-5
- [Edison Scientific's Kosmos AI scientist claims six months of research per run](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-05-kosmos-ai-scientist/) (Science & math; Edison Scientific, FutureHouse). It is an early commercial "AI scientist" whose headline value is reproducing months-long analyses overnight. Source: https://edisonscientific.com/news/announcing-kosmos

## Wednesday 29 October 2025

- [Universal Music settles with Udio and licenses a new AI music platform](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-29-umg-udio-settlement-licensed-platform/) (Business; Universal Music Group, Udio; major). Source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/universal-music-group-and-udio-announce-udios-first-strategic-agreements-for-new-licensed-ai-music-creation-platform-302599129.html

## Tuesday 28 October 2025

- [OpenAI completes restructuring into a public benefit corporation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-28-openai-recapitalization/) (Business; OpenAI, Microsoft). Removed a key obstacle to OpenAI raising capital at unprecedented scale while keeping nominal non-profit control. Source: https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/

## Monday 27 October 2025

- [xAI launches Grokipedia, an AI-written encyclopedia meant to rival Wikipedia](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-27-grokipedia-launch/) (Products; xAI). It was the first large attempt to replace a human-edited reference work with a model-written one. Source: https://grokipedia.com/

## Friday 24 October 2025

- [Genentech's GNEprop screens 1.4 billion virtual compounds and finds 82 new antibacterial hits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-24-genentech-gneprop-antibacterial-screening/) (Science & math; Genentech, NVIDIA, Mila). Industrial-scale evidence for ML-guided antibiotic discovery, following MIT's halicin and abaucin work. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02814-6

## Wednesday 22 October 2025

- [Agents4Science 2025, the first conference where AI must be first author and reviewer](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-22-agents4science-conference/) (Science & math; Stanford University, Together AI). It made AI authorship an explicit, measurable experiment rather than a hidden practice, and produced data on the strengths and failure modes of AI reviewers. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15534

## Friday 17 October 2025

- [OpenAI researchers claim GPT-5 'solved' 10 Erdős problems](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-17-gpt-5-erdos-problems-controversy/) (Science & math; OpenAI). The episode set the standard of scepticism for later AI maths claims, and led to Tao's public wiki tracking exactly what AI contributed to each Erdős problem. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/openais-embarrassing-math/

## Thursday 16 October 2025

- [Google DeepMind partners with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to optimise and control the SPARC tokamak with AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-16-deepmind-cfs-torax-fusion/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Commonwealth Fusion Systems). It moves AI plasma control from academic demos (TCV, DIII-D) into the commissioning plan of a privately built machine that aims for net energy. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/bringing-ai-to-the-next-generation-of-fusion-energy/

## Wednesday 15 October 2025

- [Google's C2S-Scale 27B model generates a new cancer-immunotherapy hypothesis confirmed in living cells](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-10-15-c2s-scale-gemma-cancer-hypothesis/) (Science & math; Google Research, Google DeepMind, Yale University). It is evidence that scaling biological foundation models can yield testable, novel hypotheses, though only in vitro so far. Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

## Tuesday 30 September 2025

- [OpenAI launches Sora 2 and the Sora social app](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-30-sora-2/) (Media generation; OpenAI; major). Turned AI video into a mass social medium and intensified debates about deepfakes, likeness rights and copyright. Source: https://openai.com/index/sora-2/
- [Periodic Labs launches with a $300M seed round to build AI scientists with autonomous labs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-30-periodic-labs-300m-seed/) (Business; Periodic Labs). Periodic Labs is the flagship of the 2025–26 "AI scientist plus autonomous lab" startup wave, alongside Lila Sciences and Radical AI. Source: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-celebrates-radical-ai-establishing-new-yorks-first-fully-autonomous-materials

## Monday 29 September 2025

- [Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-29-claude-sonnet-4-5/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Pushed the length of tasks AI agents can reliably do and made agent-building infrastructure broadly available. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5
- [California enacts SB 53, the first US frontier AI transparency law](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-29-california-sb-53/) (Policy & safety; State of California). The first binding US law aimed specifically at frontier model developers' catastrophic-risk practices. Source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/29/governor-newsom-signs-sb-53-advancing-californias-world-leading-artificial-intelligence-industry/

## Saturday 27 September 2025

- [Scott Aaronson credits GPT-5 with a key step in a quantum complexity proof](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-27-aaronson-gpt-5-qma-proof/) (Science & math; UT Austin, CWI, OpenAI). It was a credible, first-person account from a top theorist of an LLM contributing a genuine idea to a published result. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21131

## Monday 22 September 2025

- [NVIDIA and OpenAI announce 10-gigawatt partnership with up to $100B investment](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-22-nvidia-openai-partnership/) (Chips & compute; NVIDIA, OpenAI; major). Illustrated the circular financing and energy-scale ambitions of the 2025 AI build-out, fueling 'AI bubble' debates. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-nvidia-systems-partnership/

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