Research with consequences beyond the lab.
Evidence / Discovery / Open questions
NVIDIA reports gold-level Nemotron results at IOI and IMO 2026
The reported scores came from task-specific post-training paired with iterative verification and refinement, with the IOI run remaining unofficial.
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SNAP paper argues constrained decoders improve geometric features from novel view synthesis
The authors report that shifting reconstruction into latent space and limiting decoder expressivity can yield more viewpoint-robust representations across five geometry and robotics tasks.
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Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore lab marks first year with new AI research, partnerships and talent programs
Microsoft says its first Southeast Asian research lab is moving from establishment to scaling collaborations in healthcare, AI systems and researcher training.
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Microsoft open-sources RetroChimera for chemist-aligned synthesis planning
Expert reviewers accepted its routes for nine of ten challenging targets, though faster laboratory synthesis remains a projected benefit rather than a demonstrated outcome.
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Nemotron Post-Training Pipeline Reaches IMO 2026 Gold Threshold
The authors report a 30-of-42 score from a natural-language proof system and are releasing specialist checkpoints, code, data and a 200-problem benchmark.
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WeatherNext AI model promises an extra day of cyclone forecasting accuracy
Google DeepMind says WeatherNext Cyclones can predict storm tracks, intensity and wind structure with state-of-the-art accuracy, while producing 1,000 possible scenarios and forecasts extending as far…
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