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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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OpenAI shares early data on coding agents in AI research
OpenAI reports 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, but its internal data also shows why more automated activity is not the same as faster research.
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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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