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/21/ # AI news, newest first, page 21 Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 21 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened. ## Wednesday 4 December 2024 - [GenCast: diffusion-based ensemble forecast beats ECMWF's ENS on 97% of targets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-04-gencast-ensemble-weather/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind). GenCast (Nature, Dec 2024) is a diffusion model producing probabilistic 15-day ensemble forecasts. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08252-9 ## Monday 25 November 2024 - [Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol/) (Agents; Anthropic; historic). Solved the N×M integration problem for agents and became core infrastructure of the agentic AI ecosystem. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol ## Wednesday 20 November 2024 - [AlphaQubit: neural decoder sets accuracy record for quantum error correction on Google's Sycamore](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-11-20-alphaqubit-quantum-error-correction/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Google Quantum AI). Better decoding lowers the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08148-8 ## Tuesday 22 October 2024 - [Anthropic releases computer use for Claude 3.5 Sonnet](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-22-claude-computer-use/) (Agents; Anthropic; major). Launched GUI agents at the frontier; OpenAI's Operator and Google's Project Mariner followed within months. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use ## Friday 11 October 2024 - [Dario Amodei publishes "Machines of Loving Grace"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-11-amodei-machines-of-loving-grace/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). 'Country of geniuses in a datacenter' became standard vocabulary, and the essay began Amodei's essay series. Source: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace ## Wednesday 9 October 2024 - [Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein design and AlphaFold](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-09-nobel-chemistry-alphafold/) (Milestones; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Google DeepMind, University of Washington; historic). Confirmed AI as a tool of first-rank scientific discovery, less than four years after AlphaFold 2. Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/ ## Tuesday 8 October 2024 - [Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-08-nobel-physics-hopfield-hinton/) (Milestones; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; historic). Together with the Chemistry prize a day later, it marked unprecedented recognition of AI by science's most prestigious award. Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/ ## Monday 23 September 2024 - [Sam Altman publishes "The Intelligence Age"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-23-altman-the-intelligence-age/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI). It began a series of Altman essays (Three Observations, The Gentle Singularity) that shaped how the industry described its own trajectory, leading to his July 2026 remark that 'we are now, like, in the singularity'. Source: https://ia.samaltman.com/ ## Thursday 12 September 2024 - [OpenAI o1: reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-12-openai-o1/) (Model releases; OpenAI; historic). Opened the 'reasoning model' era and a new scaling axis (test-time compute); every major lab followed within months. Source: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/ ## Thursday 5 September 2024 - [AlphaProteo designs high-affinity protein binders](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-05-alphaproteo/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind). High one-shot success rates cut the months of screening normally needed to find a binder. Source: https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaproteo-generates-novel-proteins-for-biology-and-health-research/ ## Thursday 1 August 2024 - [EU AI Act enters into force](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-08-01-eu-ai-act/) (Policy & safety; European Union; historic). The first binding horizontal AI regulation by a major jurisdiction, with extraterritorial effect on all labs serving the EU market. Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj ## Thursday 25 July 2024 - [AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reach IMO silver-medal standard](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-07-25-alphaproof-imo-silver/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind; major). First AI to reach medal level at the IMO; a year later, natural-language LLMs reached gold. Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level/ ## Tuesday 23 July 2024 - [Llama 3.1 405B: the first frontier-class open-weights model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-07-23-llama-3-1-405b/) (Open source; Meta; major). Narrowed the open–closed gap to months; open frontier weights reshaped policy debates and enabled wide distillation. Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/ ## Monday 22 July 2024 - [NeuralGCM: Google's hybrid physics-ML atmosphere model matches top weather forecasts and runs decades-long climate simulations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-07-22-neuralgcm/) (Science & math; Google Research, ECMWF, MIT, Harvard). It showed that ML can reach climate modelling, not only weather forecasting, and made differentiable hybrid GCMs a serious research direction. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07744-y ## Tuesday 25 June 2024 - [ESM3 generates esmGFP, a new fluorescent protein estimated at '500 million years of evolution' from nature](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-25-esm3-esmgfp/) (Science & math; EvolutionaryScale). It showed language models producing functional proteins far outside the natural sequence space. Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads0018 ## Thursday 20 June 2024 - [Claude 3.5 Sonnet launches with Artifacts](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-20-claude-3-5-sonnet/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Established Claude as the leading coding model, driving adoption in tools like Cursor and paving the way for coding agents. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet ## Tuesday 4 June 2024 - [Leopold Aschenbrenner publishes "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-04-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness/) (Policy & safety; Situational Awareness; major). It shaped the vocabulary of 2024–2026 AI discourse ('counting the OOMs', 'trillion-dollar cluster', 'The Project') and influenced policymakers and investors. Source: https://situational-awareness.ai/ - ["A Right to Warn about Advanced AI"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-04-right-to-warn-letter/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, Google DeepMind). It set the template for employee-led collective statements at frontier labs, which culminated in the July 2026 'Pacing the Frontier' statement signed by more than 1,100 lab employees. Source: https://righttowarn.ai/ ## Tuesday 21 May 2024 - [AI Seoul Summit: Frontier AI Safety Commitments](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-21-seoul-ai-summit/) (Policy & safety; UK Government, Republic of Korea Government). Led most frontier labs to publish responsible scaling / frontier safety frameworks, a key voluntary governance mechanism. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/frontier-ai-safety-commitments-ai-seoul-summit-2024/frontier-ai-safety-commitments-ai-seoul-summit-2024 ## Friday 17 May 2024 - [Jan Leike resigns, saying OpenAI's safety culture 'has taken a backseat to shiny products'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-17-leike-resigns-superalignment-disbanded/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI; major). It was the defining 'safety researchers leave a frontier lab' moment of 2024. Source: https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494 ## Monday 13 May 2024 - [OpenAI launches GPT-4o, a natively multimodal 'omni' model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-13-gpt-4o/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). Made natural voice interaction with AI mainstream and set the standard for omni-modal assistants. Source: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ ## Wednesday 8 May 2024 - [AlphaFold 3 predicts structures and interactions of all life's molecules](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-08-alphafold-3/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs; major). Moved AI structural biology from single proteins to the molecular interactions that matter for medicine. Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07487-w ## Thursday 18 April 2024 - [Meta releases Llama 3 (8B, 70B)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-04-18-llama-3/) (Open source; Meta). Showed the benefit of training small models far past Chinchilla-optimal, and narrowed the open/closed gap. Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3/ ## Monday 18 March 2024 - [NVIDIA unveils the Blackwell GPU platform](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell/) (Chips & compute; NVIDIA; major). Blackwell racks became the building block of 2025's gigawatt-scale AI datacenters. Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing ## Monday 4 March 2024 - [Anthropic launches the Claude 3 family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-04-claude-3/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Ended GPT-4's year-long uncontested lead and established the Opus/Sonnet/Haiku naming used thereafter. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family ## Wednesday 21 February 2024 - [AI controller predicts and avoids tearing instabilities in the DIII-D fusion reactor](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-02-21-ai-avoids-tokamak-tearing-instabilities/) (Science & math; Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, General Atomics). Instabilities that can damage reactors are a key obstacle to fusion power. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07024-9 ## Thursday 15 February 2024 - [OpenAI previews Sora, a text-to-video 'world simulator'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-02-15-sora/) (Media generation; OpenAI; major). Reset expectations for AI video overnight and triggered a video-generation race (Veo, Kling, Runway Gen-3). Source: https://openai.com/index/sora/ - [Gemini 1.5 Pro brings a 1-million-token context window](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-02-15-gemini-1-5/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind; major). Made million-token context a practical reality and shifted how developers used LLMs (whole-document and whole-repo prompting). Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/ ## Wednesday 17 January 2024 - [AlphaGeometry solves olympiad geometry near gold-medallist level without human demonstrations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-01-17-alphageometry/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, New York University). It was a step towards the 2024 IMO silver and 2025 gold, and showed that synthetic data could replace scarce human proofs. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06747-5 ## Tuesday 9 January 2024 - [Microsoft AI and PNNL screen 32 million candidates to find a solid electrolyte using ~70% less lithium](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-01-09-microsoft-pnnl-battery-electrolyte/) (Science & math; Microsoft, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). It is a concrete example of AI compressing the materials search funnel from years to weeks, though the result was a prototype rather than a product. Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2024/01/09/unlocking-a-new-era-for-scientific-discovery-with-ai-how-microsofts-ai-screened-over-32-million-candidates-to-find-a-better-battery/ ## Wednesday 20 December 2023 - [Explainable deep learning discovers a new structural class of antibiotics against MRSA](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-20-ai-new-antibiotic-structural-class/) (Science & math; MIT, Broad Institute). New structural classes of antibiotics are rarely discovered. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8 - [Coscientist: a GPT-4 agent plans and runs real chemistry experiments from plain-English prompts](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-20-coscientist-autonomous-chemistry/) (Science & math; Carnegie Mellon University). It was the first peer-reviewed LLM agent operating a physical lab, a precursor of 2026's AI-run labs. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06792-0 ## Thursday 14 December 2023 - [FunSearch: an LLM finds new cap-set constructions, the first LLM discovery in open maths](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-14-funsearch-cap-sets/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, University of Wisconsin–Madison; major). It was the direct ancestor of AlphaEvolve and showed that LLMs' mistakes don't matter when outputs can be automatically checked. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6 ## Monday 11 December 2023 - [Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x7B, an open mixture-of-experts model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-11-mixtral/) (Open source; Mistral AI). Popularized mixture-of-experts in open models (later used by DeepSeek-V3, Llama 4, Qwen) and established Europe's leading AI startup. Source: https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-of-experts ## Wednesday 6 December 2023 - [Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-06-gemini-1/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind, Google; major). Google's main answer to GPT-4, beginning a Gemini line that reached the frontier with Gemini 2.5 and 3. Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/ ## Wednesday 29 November 2023 - [GNoME predicts 2.2 million new crystals, 380,000 stable, but novelty and usefulness are disputed](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-29-gnome-millions-of-materials/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; major). It is the largest AI materials-prediction effort, and a leading example of the gap between computational "discovery" and a useful new material. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06735-9 - [Berkeley's A-Lab claims 41 new materials from autonomous synthesis](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-29-a-lab-autonomous-synthesis-dispute/) (Science & math; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). It is the clearest case study of overclaiming in AI-driven science, and of how human expert scrutiny corrected it. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09992-y ## Friday 17 November 2023 - [OpenAI's board fires and then reinstates Sam Altman](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-17-openai-board-crisis/) (Business; OpenAI). Exposed the fragility of non-profit oversight of frontier labs and preceded OpenAI's restructuring toward a for-profit entity. Source: https://openai.com/index/openai-announces-leadership-transition/ ## Tuesday 14 November 2023 - [GraphCast: ML weather model beats the world's best physics-based 10-day forecast on 90% of targets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-14-graphcast-weather/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind; major). It triggered the rapid move of AI weather models into operational forecasting worldwide. Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336 ## Wednesday 1 November 2023 - [Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit/) (Policy & safety; UK Government; major). First intergovernmental agreement on frontier AI risk, and it created the network of national AI safety institutes. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023 ## Monday 30 October 2023 - [US Executive Order 14110 on safe, secure and trustworthy AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-10-30-us-executive-order-14110/) (Policy & safety; The White House; major). The most comprehensive US government action on AI at the time; its revocation in 2025 marked a sharp US policy turn toward deregulation. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence ## Tuesday 19 September 2023 - [AlphaMissense classifies 89% of all 71 million possible human missense mutations](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-09-19-alphamissense/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind). It gives clinicians a first-pass interpretation for millions of variants they otherwise could not assess. Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg7492 ## Tuesday 18 July 2023 - [Meta releases Llama 2 with a commercial-use license](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-07-18-llama-2/) (Open source; Meta, Microsoft; major). Legitimized open-weights LLMs in industry and intensified the open vs. closed AI policy debate. Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/ ## Tuesday 11 July 2023 - [RFdiffusion: diffusion models design new proteins that work in the lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-07-11-rfdiffusion-protein-design/) (Science & math; University of Washington Institute for Protein Design; major). It became the workhorse of AI protein design, underlying AI antivenoms, antibodies and enzymes. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06415-8 - [Anthropic releases Claude 2 with public claude.ai access](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-07-11-claude-2/) (Model releases; Anthropic). Established Claude as a mainstream alternative to ChatGPT and pushed long-context as a competitive feature. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-2 ## Wednesday 7 June 2023 - [AlphaDev discovers faster small-sort routines, merged into LLVM's C++ standard library](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-06-07-alphadev-sorting/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind). It was AI-discovered code shipping in core infrastructure, though experts argued about how novel the discovery really was. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06004-9 ## Tuesday 30 May 2023 - [Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-cais-statement-ai-risk/) (Policy & safety; Center for AI Safety; major). Brought catastrophic AI risk into mainstream policy discourse, paving the way for the Bletchley summit and AI safety institutes. Source: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk - [NVIDIA becomes the first chipmaker worth $1 trillion](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-nvidia-1-trillion/) (Business; NVIDIA). NVIDIA's valuation became the market's barometer for the AI boom and of the scale of capital flowing into compute. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-becomes-first-public-company-worth-5-trillion/ ## Thursday 25 May 2023 - [AI finds abaucin, a narrow-spectrum antibiotic against the superbug Acinetobacter baumannii](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-25-abaucin-ai-antibiotic/) (Science & math; McMaster University, MIT). It showed that AI could find narrow-spectrum antibiotics, which spare the microbiome and slow resistance. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01349-8 ## Monday 1 May 2023 - [Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so he can speak freely about AI risks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-01-hinton-leaves-google/) (Policy & safety; Google; major). When one of the field's founders publicly switched to warning about it, AI x-risk moved into the mainstream. 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