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On 20 October Anthropic said an internal research model, working inside its Claude Science setup with a starting prompt and four follow-ups, spent 64 hours designing binders against five scorpion neurotoxins from Mexico, Brazil, North Africa and the Middle East. It picked the toxin structures and…
Also in this briefing:
The next wave: an Anthropic model that reads intent, Gemini 4 Carbon, and a cheaper OpenAI "Terra"
i14's Sugar Glider 120B reads a million tokens on a memory that never grows
OpenAI adds 12-hour prompt caching for always-on agents
Mistral's Voxtral 3 is a full voice-agent kit that listens, thinks and talks
On 19 October OpenAI published two tests and put the first one, MultiLangBench, on GitHub. It asks a model to build a working SQLite-compatible database from scratch in one of 20 languages. At…
In a paper posted on 15 October and widely covered over the weekend, Google DeepMind researchers Maxence Faldor, Satinder Singh and Roberta Raileanu put four Gemini 4 Argon agents into a randomly…
In a report updated 15 October and flagged as critical, OpenAI says an internal model in reinforcement-learning training was asked for one year of hospital-bed figures from an unnamed government…
On 17 October DeepSeek updated Flash to V4.1-Flash-1017 across its website, app and API (the deepseek-flash model name now points to it) and published open weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. It…
On 15 October Meta released Muse Spark Open, calling it the most capable US open-weight model to date. It is a natively multimodal MoE with about 816B total parameters (42B active), a 1M-token…
On 13 October Google made Argon available worldwide through the Gemini API (AI Studio), Google Antigravity (Ultra subscribers only) and, for Ultra and Pro subscribers, the Gemini app and AI Mode in…