Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective and ideally affordable drug.
The process is slow and labor-intensive, and many of the reactions depend on hard-to-source metals that act as essential catalysts.
While artificial intelligence is helping speed up the process of drug discovery, it can only learn from the data available, and when it comes to chemical reactions, the large, high-quality data sets needed to train powerful AI tools aren’t there.
OpenAI on Monday said it’s releasing an improved version of its GPT‑5.5‑Cyber model to trusted defenders as part of the Daybreak initiative the artificial intelligence (AI) company announced last month.
Calling GPT‑5.5‑Cyber its “strongest model yet for finding and helping patch software vulnerabilities,” OpenAI said the model can “sustain deeper analysis across large codebases” to identify security issues, validate them in a controlled environment, and develop and test patches.
In tandem, the tech upstart is releasing an update to the Codex Security plugin to speed up the process of discovering and patching vulnerabilities in existing systems, alongside preventing new vulnerabilities from entering production codebases.
A vulnerability chain dubbed AutoJack in Microsoft’s AutoGen Studio interface for prototyping AI agents could let attackers manipulate an agent into executing arbitrary commands on its host system simply by visiting a malicious webpage.
AutoGen Studio is the graphical component for AutoGen, Microsoft’s open-source framework for building multi-agent AI systems. The framework allows developers to create AI agents that can collaborate with one another, use tools, browse the web, execute code, interact with APIs, and connect to external systems.
The project is very popular, with more than 59,000 stars and nearly 9,000 forks on GitHub. Microsoft notes that AutoJack’s impact was limited because the issue was addressed during development.
It is awe-inspiring to reflect on the velocity of this generational shift. In an incredibly compressed timeline, AI has transitioned from a boardroom novelty into the underlying infrastructure of global enterprise labor.
We are living through a historic economic anomaly: even as raw capability scales exponentially, the unit cost of intelligence continues to plummet toward zero. The future of corporate margin expansion will not belong to those who consume the most compute, but to the strategic architects who best optimize this collapsing cost.
Yet, beneath this cognitive abundance lies a stark paradox. While token unit prices have plunged 99.7% over the last 24 months, actual enterprise AI invoices are soaring—with average budgets expanding from $1.2M to over $7M. This is the structural reality of moving from simple, episodic chatbots to multi-step, autonomous agentic workflows that incur heavy context taxes and recursive reasoning loops.
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The British Science Association has announced Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, Dame Wendy Hall, as its new President for 2026–27.
NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the orbital complex’s Canadarm2 robotic arm. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT.
Experts from NASA and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will preview the upcoming spacewalk during a news conference at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, on the agency’s YouTube channel. The briefing will take place at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.
Starfall is SpaceX’s mass-produced reentry vehicle designed to autonomously transport valuable customer experiments and other payloads safely back from space to Earth, including for in-orbit manufacturing. Starfall is a cylindrical-shaped capsule approximately 0.75 meters tall with a diameter of 3.1 meters, weighing approximately 2,100 kilograms, and capable of carrying 1,000 kilograms of payload. It is designed to be carried on Starship flights.
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What neuroscience reveals about how intelligence actually works — and how those insights are informing the next generation of AI architectures.
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