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Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, its most advanced model yet optimized for long-horizon engineering tasks and cyber defense, now in pre-release testing with the U.S. government.
Genie 4 represents a new generation of steerable world models capable of real-time simulation with realistic physics, people, sound, and language instructions for robotics training and prototyping.
Google's Willow quantum processor demonstrated magic state cultivation, reducing errors by roughly 40-fold and breaking a 20-year bottleneck in fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Astronomers have identified a large icy object, 2026 ED138, estimated at 600-1,500 km across and orbiting at 46 AU, which could qualify as the sixth dwarf planet if confirmed.
NASA's latest software release adds the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope—expected to discover thousands of exoplanets—along with augmented reality viewing and James Webb data integration.
Crypto venture investment reached $2.1 billion in October 2026, a 65% increase from September, highlighted by prediction market Kalshi's $1 billion raise at a $40 billion valuation.
A new AI foundation model called Chronos-2 delivers zero-shot probabilistic forecasts across scientific domains, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy while running 100 time series in under a second on one GPU.
The AI startup behind the Jev model, which outputs scores and probabilities instead of text, secured massive funding from a16z and Sequoia shortly after launch and hitting 1M users.
UW Medicine and NVIDIA released an open AI model that dramatically improves the speed and success of designing functional proteins, accelerating breakthroughs in medicine and biology.
San Francisco-based Instinct raised a $1 billion Series C to build personal AI assistants for everyday tasks, backed by Sequoia, Benchmark, and Coatue.
Astronomers found chemical clues in a white dwarf system suggesting a Jupiter-sized second-generation planet that is rapidly losing its atmosphere due to the star's heat.
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has mapped the sky in 96 sectors, confirming 679 exoplanets and identifying over 5,000 candidates for further study.