As of: 2026-10-10 14:45 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz. Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/news/20/ # AI news, newest first, page 20 Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 20 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened. ## Monday 22 September 2025 - [AlphaEvolve finds gadgets that prove new NP-hardness of approximation bounds for MAX-k-CUT](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-22-alphaevolve-hardness-of-approximation/) (Science & math; Google Research, Google DeepMind). AI-found objects became ingredients of rigorous complexity-theory theorems, not just numeric improvements. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18057 ## Wednesday 17 September 2025 - [AI reaches gold-medal level at the ICPC World Finals](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-17-icpc-gold-ai/) (Benchmarks; OpenAI, Google DeepMind; major). Following IMO gold, confirmed elite-human-level algorithmic problem solving by general-purpose reasoning models. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-achieves-gold-medal-level-at-the-international-collegiate-programming-contest-world-finals/ - [DeepMind and mathematicians use neural networks to find new unstable singularities in fluid equations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-17-deepmind-unstable-singularities-fluids/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, New York University, Stanford University, Brown University). It was the groundwork of the AI-plus-computer-assisted-proof approach to fluid blow-up that culminated in the disputed 2026 Navier–Stokes claims. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14185 ## Friday 12 September 2025 - [First AI-generated complete genomes](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-12-ai-generated-phage-genomes/) (Science & math; Arc Institute, Stanford University; historic). It is a milestone toward AI-designed life forms and phage therapies against resistant bacteria, and a biosecurity flashpoint. Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1 ## Wednesday 10 September 2025 - [Math Inc's Gauss agent completes the Strong Prime Number Theorem formalisation in Lean in three weeks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-10-math-inc-gauss-strong-pnt/) (Science & math; Math Inc; major). Autoformalization at this scale points to a future where new proofs, including AI-generated ones, are routinely machine-checked. Source: https://www.math.inc/gauss ## Thursday 4 September 2025 - [DeepMind's Deep Loop Shaping cuts LIGO control noise 30–100×](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-09-04-deepmind-ligo-deep-loop-shaping/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Caltech, Gran Sasso Science Institute). It extends the reach of one of physics' most sensitive instruments without new hardware. Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw1291 ## Tuesday 26 August 2025 - [Google releases Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ('Nano Banana')](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-26-gemini-2-5-flash-image/) (Media generation; Google DeepMind). Showed natively multimodal LLMs overtaking specialized diffusion tools for image editing. Source: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemini-2-5-flash-image/ ## Wednesday 20 August 2025 - [GPT-5 Pro proves an improved convex-optimisation bound, which humans had already surpassed](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-20-gpt-5-pro-convex-optimization-proof/) (Science & math; OpenAI). It was one of the first widely discussed cases of an LLM producing correct new research-level mathematics. Source: https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1958198661139009862 ## Thursday 14 August 2025 - [Generative AI designs new antibiotics that kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-14-mit-generative-ai-antibiotics/) (Science & math; MIT; major). It showed generative AI exploring chemical space beyond existing compound libraries for one of medicine's most urgent needs. Source: https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compounds-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-0814 ## Friday 8 August 2025 - [Meta acquires WaveForms AI, the voice startup of ex-OpenAI GPT-4o voice lead Alexis Conneau](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-08-meta-acquires-waveforms/) (Business; Meta, WaveForms AI). It is the origin of Meta's 2026 realtime voice and avatar models (Muse Realtime Voice / Avatar). Source: https://x.com/alex_conneau/status/2103143665577423347 ## Thursday 7 August 2025 - [OpenAI launches GPT-5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-07-gpt-5/) (Model releases; OpenAI; historic). Brought reasoning-model capability to hundreds of millions of free users by default. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5/ ## Tuesday 5 August 2025 - [Google DeepMind's Genie 3 generates interactive worlds in real time](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-05-genie-3/) (Research; Google DeepMind; major). World models are seen as a path to training embodied agents and robots in unlimited simulated environments. Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/ - [OpenAI releases gpt-oss, its first open-weight LLMs since GPT-2](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-08-05-gpt-oss/) (Open source; OpenAI). Gave the US a competitive open-weight reasoning model and ended OpenAI's six-year hiatus from open releases. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/ ## Wednesday 30 July 2025 - [Interpretable neural network discovers new non-reciprocal force laws in dusty plasma](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-30-ai-discovers-dusty-plasma-physics/) (Science & math; Emory University). It is a clean example of AI discovering new physical laws that humans can interpret, rather than just making predictions. Source: https://news.emory.edu/features/2025/07/esc_ai_dusty_plasma_30-07-2025/index.html ## Thursday 24 July 2025 - [ByteDance's LiveInterpret 2.0 interprets Chinese-English simultaneously in your own voice](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-24-bytedance-seed-liveinterpret-2/) (Model releases; ByteDance Seed). It was one of the first product-grade end-to-end simultaneous interpreters. Source: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/seed-liveinterpret-2-0-released-an-end-to-end-simultaneous-interpretation-model-featuring-ultra-high-accuracy-close-to-human-interpreters-low-latency-of-3-seconds-and-real-time-voice-cloning ## Wednesday 23 July 2025 - [White House releases 'America's AI Action Plan'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-23-america-ai-action-plan/) (Policy & safety; The White House; major). Defined US federal AI policy direction, prioritizing speed, energy and exports over the safety-focused approach of 2023. Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/ ## Monday 21 July 2025 - [AI systems reach gold-medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-21-imo-gold-ai/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, OpenAI; historic). A long-standing AI grand challenge fell years earlier than many forecasters expected, showcasing the power of RL-trained reasoning. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/advanced-version-of-gemini-with-deep-think-officially-achieves-gold-medal-standard-at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad/ ## Sunday 13 July 2025 - [Meta acquires voice-AI startup PlayAI (PlayHT)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-13-meta-acquires-playai/) (Business; Meta, PlayAI). It is an example of the 2025-26 acquihire pattern: a big lab absorbs a startup's team and the public product disappears. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/13/meta-acquires-voice-startup-play-ai/ ## Friday 11 July 2025 - [Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-weights agentic model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-11-kimi-k2/) (Open source; Moonshot AI). Part of a 2025 wave (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM) that made Chinese labs the leaders in open-weight models. Source: https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/ ## July 2025, day not recorded - [Stanford's 'Virtual Lab' of AI agents designs SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies validated in the lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-07-29-virtual-lab-ai-agents-nanobodies/) (Science & math; Stanford University, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub). It was a peer-reviewed demonstration of multi-agent AI doing interdisciplinary research design with real lab outcomes. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09442-9 ## Wednesday 25 June 2025 - [AlphaGenome predicts how DNA variants affect thousands of gene-regulation signals from 1 Mb of sequence](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-06-25-alphagenome/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind). DeepMind's AlphaGenome reads up to 1 million DNA bases and predicts 5,930 human (1,128 mouse) genomic signals, including expression, chromatin accessibility and splicing, at base-pair resolution. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-ai-for-better-understanding-the-genome/ ## Sunday 22 June 2025 - [RoboArena: crowd-sourced, double-blind real-world evaluation of generalist robot policies](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-06-22-roboarena/) (Benchmarks; RoboArena consortium). Real-world robot evaluation is expensive and hard to standardize. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18123 ## Tuesday 10 June 2025 - [Sam Altman publishes "The Gentle Singularity"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-06-10-altman-the-gentle-singularity/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI; major). Its 2026 prediction of AI systems producing novel insights is now checkable against the 2026 wave of AI mathematics and science results (for example the Navier–Stokes and open-problems claims). Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity ## Thursday 22 May 2025 - [Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-22-claude-4/) (Model releases; Anthropic; historic). Cemented Claude's lead in coding agents and was the first frontier deployment under elevated safeguards for CBRN risk. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4 ## Wednesday 21 May 2025 - [Microsoft's Aurora foundation model beats operational forecasts for air quality, waves, cyclones and weather](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-21-microsoft-aurora-earth-model/) (Science & math; Microsoft Research). One model can be adapted cheaply to new environmental prediction tasks, including air pollution and ocean waves. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09005-y ## Tuesday 20 May 2025 - [Google's Veo 3 generates video with native audio](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-20-veo-3/) (Media generation; Google DeepMind; major). Crossed the uncanny valley for short AI video with dialogue, intensifying concerns about synthetic media. Source: https://deepmind.google/models/veo/ - [FutureHouse's Robin multi-agent system proposes ripasudil as a new treatment candidate for dry AMD](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-20-futurehouse-robin-ripasudil/) (Science & math; FutureHouse). It was an early end-to-end AI-driven discovery loop in biology. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10652-y ## Monday 19 May 2025 - [Microsoft unveils Discovery, an agentic R&D platform, and says it found a non-PFAS datacenter coolant in ~200 hours](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-19-microsoft-discovery/) (Products; Microsoft). Microsoft Discovery is Microsoft's answer to Google's and Anthropic's AI-for-science products, and a continuation of its earlier battery-electrolyte screening with PNNL. Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transforming-rd-with-agentic-ai-introducing-microsoft-discovery/ ## Wednesday 14 May 2025 - [AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered agent discovers new algorithms](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-14-alphaevolve/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind; major). A concrete example of LLM-based systems making novel discoveries and improving the infrastructure that trains them — an early form of recursive improvement. Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/ ## May 2025, day not recorded - [Intology's 'Zochi' AI system gets a paper into the ACL 2025 main conference](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-05-27-intology-zochi-acl-2025/) (Science & math; Intology). It moved AI-authored research from workshop level (Sakana, March 2025) to a selective main track within months, though the degree of autonomy could not be independently audited. Source: https://www.intology.ai/blog/zochi-acl ## Saturday 5 April 2025 - [Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-04-05-llama-4/) (Open source; Meta). Signaled Meta's loss of open-weights leadership to Chinese labs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi) and precipitated its superintelligence reorganization. Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/ ## Thursday 3 April 2025 - [AI Futures Project publishes "AI 2027", a month-by-month scenario of superhuman AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-04-03-ai-2027/) (Policy & safety; AI Futures Project; major). It became a shared reference point for policymakers and labs. Source: https://ai-2027.com/ ## Tuesday 25 March 2025 - [Gemini 2.5 Pro takes the top of the leaderboards](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-03-25-gemini-2-5-pro/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind; major). Google moved from follower to co-leader of the frontier race, reshaping competitive dynamics in 2025. Source: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/gemini-model-thinking-updates-march-2025/ ## Wednesday 12 March 2025 - [Sakana's AI Scientist-v2 writes the first fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-03-12-sakana-ai-scientist-v2-peer-review/) (Science & math; Sakana AI, University of British Columbia, University of Oxford; major). It was the first demonstration that a fully automated pipeline could clear human peer review, even at a workshop with a higher acceptance rate than main tracks. Source: https://sakana.ai/ai-scientist-first-publication/ ## Tuesday 25 February 2025 - [AI weather forecasting goes operational](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-25-ecmwf-aifs-operational-ai-weather/) (Science & math; ECMWF, NOAA; major). It is one of the fastest transitions of AI research into critical public infrastructure. Source: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2025/ecmwfs-ai-forecasts-become-operational ## Monday 24 February 2025 - [Claude 3.7 Sonnet (hybrid reasoning) and Claude Code preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-24-claude-3-7-sonnet-claude-code/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Claude Code became a breakout product and a template for terminal coding agents (Codex CLI, Gemini CLI), shifting software development toward agent delegation. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet ## Wednesday 19 February 2025 - [Google's AI co-scientist independently reproduces an unpublished superbug discovery in 48 hours](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-19-google-ai-co-scientist/) (Science & math; Google, Google DeepMind, Imperial College London, Stanford University; major). It was the most-cited early example of an LLM system generating a correct, non-obvious scientific hypothesis. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10644-y - [Evo 2: a 40B-parameter genome language model trained on DNA from all domains of life](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-19-evo-2-genome-model/) (Science & math; Arc Institute, Stanford University, NVIDIA). It made genome-scale generative design possible, most notably whole viable bacteriophages. Source: https://arcinstitute.org/news/evo-2-one-year-later ## Monday 10 February 2025 - [US and UK decline to sign the Paris AI Action Summit declaration](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-10-paris-ai-action-summit/) (Policy & safety; French Government, Government of India). Marked the pivot of the global summit process from frontier safety toward competitiveness and adoption. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025 ## Sunday 9 February 2025 - [Sam Altman publishes "Three Observations" on the economics of AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-09-altman-three-observations/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). It became a frequently cited framing for AI cost curves and investment logic in 2025–2026. Source: https://blog.samaltman.com/three-observations ## Sunday 2 February 2025 - [Andrej Karpathy coins "vibe coding"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-02-karpathy-vibe-coding/) (Culture). It marks the cultural moment when non-experts and professionals began building software mostly by instructing AI, the trend that coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex then pushed into mainstream engineering. Source: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 ## Thursday 23 January 2025 - [OpenAI launches Operator, a browser-using agent](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-23-openai-operator/) (Agents; OpenAI). Brought GUI agents to consumers and marked 2025's framing as the 'year of agents'. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/ ## Tuesday 21 January 2025 - [Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-21-stargate-project/) (Chips & compute; OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, MGX; major). Symbolized the shift to industrial-scale AI compute build-out, measured in gigawatts and hundreds of billions of dollars. Source: https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/ ## Monday 20 January 2025 - [DeepSeek-R1: open-weights reasoning model rivals o1 and shakes markets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-20-deepseek-r1/) (Open source; DeepSeek; historic). The 'DeepSeek moment' showed that frontier reasoning could be replicated cheaply and openly, triggering a market shock, a wave of open reasoning models, and US policy debates on China. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 ## Thursday 16 January 2025 - [Microsoft's MatterGen generates materials to order](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-16-mattergen/) (Science & math; Microsoft Research). Generative materials design is promising, but as with GNoME and A-Lab, "new material" claims need crystallographic scrutiny. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08628-5 ## Wednesday 15 January 2025 - [AI-designed proteins neutralise deadly snake-venom toxins and protect mice](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-15-ai-designed-antivenom/) (Science & math; University of Washington Institute for Protein Design, Technical University of Denmark). Snakebite kills tens of thousands of people a year, mainly in poor regions. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08393-x ## Thursday 26 December 2024 - [DeepSeek-V3: frontier-level open model trained for ~$5.6M in GPU time](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-26-deepseek-v3/) (Open source; DeepSeek; historic). Upended assumptions about the cost of frontier AI and China's position; it was the base for DeepSeek-R1 weeks later. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437 ## Friday 20 December 2024 - [OpenAI announces o3, scoring 75.7–87.5% on ARC-AGI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-20-openai-o3/) (Benchmarks; OpenAI, ARC Prize; historic). Convinced many observers that reasoning models were on a steep trajectory; ARC Prize called it a genuine step-change. Source: https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough - [OpenAI o3 scores 25% on FrontierMath research-level maths benchmark, amid funding disclosure controversy](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-20-frontiermath-o3-25-percent/) (Science & math; OpenAI, Epoch AI). It was the first sign that research-level maths was yielding to reasoning models, and an early lesson in benchmark governance and conflicts of interest. Source: https://epoch.ai/latest/openai-and-frontiermath ## Wednesday 11 December 2024 - [Google launches Gemini 2.0 for the 'agentic era'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-11-gemini-2/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind; major). Marked Google's return to competitive parity and the industry's pivot to agents. 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