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Self-Improving AI Agents Falter When the Task Order Changes
A Salesforce AI Research stress test finds that agent memory gains can reverse when tasks are shuffled and…
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AI Optimization Tightens the Fastest Known Matrix-Multiplication Bound
A new research preprint combines gradient-based optimization, GPU-scale parallelism, and AlphaEvolve to lower the best known upper bound…
Longevity
AI Tissue Clocks Map How Organs Age at Different Speeds
A new AI analysis of human histology maps tissue-specific aging signatures while showing why biological age is not…
AI
Qwen3.8-27B Tests How Much AI Can Fit Into a Smaller Footprint
Alibaba’s new 27-billion-parameter open-weight model keeps its predecessor’s broad scale while claiming gains across coding, agent and computer-use…
Longevity
Exercise Study Maps an Adiponectin Route in Ovarian Aging
Human associations and mouse experiments point to adiponectin-related signaling as a possible link between physical activity and ovarian…
AI
Humanoid Robots Need a Better Test Than Pose Accuracy
HumanTracker pairs 153 hours of motion data with a learned score designed to catch the contact and stability…
AI
GitHub Turns Pull Requests Into an AI Agent Control Plane
GitHub agent apps bring specialized analytics, security, rollout, and operations agents into issues and pull requests, shifting software…
Longevity
A Mitochondria-to-Lysosome Signal Extends Lifespan in Worms
New worm research links mitochondrial stress to a lysosomal protein-cleanup response, revealing a specific pathway that extended lifespan…
AI
AI Can Write Verified Code—Until the Repository Fights Back
Two new studies show why repository-scale correctness, repeatable execution and system coordination remain harder than generating plausible code.