Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life

The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across ...

This Vibe-Coding Startup Just Hit $2 Billion in Annualized Revenue. Can It Keep Up the Growth?

Anysphere’s vibe-coding tool Cursor just hit $2 billion in annualized revenue. Bloomberg first reported the milestone, which ...
Nature

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
The New York Times

This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

Claude Code generates computer code when people type prompts, so those with no coding experience can create their own programs and apps. By Natallie Rocha Reporting from San Francisco Claude Code, an ...
The Verge

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally. Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally.
VentureBeat

Claude Code just got updated with one of the most-requested user features

Anthropic's open source standard, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), released in late 2024, allows users to connect AI models and the agents atop them to external tools in a structured, reliable format ...
MIT Technology Review

AI coding is now everywhere. But not everyone is convinced.

Developers are navigating confusing gaps between expectation and reality. So are the rest of us. Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented ...
Scientific American

Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home

Update: A minibus spending package passed by the House of Representatives on January 8, 2026, effectively cancels the Mars Sample Return program by eliminating almost all funding for future missions.
GitHub

[BUG] Code hangs indefinitely in loop over NumPy array with continue statement

We have encountered an issue when building scikit-image with Cython 3.2.0b1. Versions before 3.2.0b1 seem fine. When calling compiled code as detailed in the example below, a compiled function seems ...
Quanta Magazine

The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side. There should ...
Bleeping Computer

Amazon AI coding agent hacked to inject data wiping commands

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...