Anthropic reports that Claude Mythos 5 proposed and verified quantum circuit designs on its own inside a closed loop scored by an evaluator program, producing b
Google Quantum AI says its Willow chip has achieved magic state cultivation on real hardware for the first time, with the results published in Science. It is a key step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Google DeepMind’s AI weather model forecast Hurricane Isaias’s track to within 19 miles 72 hours before landfall, well ahead of the European AI model’s 36 miles and the US GFS model’s 119 miles, but it missed the storm’s intensity at landfall.
Fiderer et al. prove in PRX a fundamental trade-off between an agent's predictive power and its energy efficiency, unifying prediction and forgetting through a thermodynamic objective function.
University of Maryland physicist Matt Landreman used GPT-6 Astra Pro to derive, in 33 minutes, analytic MHD force-balance solutions with asymmetric, three-dimensional nested magnetic surfaces, disproving the 1967 Grad conjecture.
Haiqu has launched AgenticOS, an AI agent system built for scientific discovery that uses cross-validation among multiple teams to stop general-purpose agents from quietly altering the science. Used in high-temperature superconductivity research on the Hubbard model, it cut circuit depth by 75%.
On October 8, the US Department of Energy announced 12 Phase II projects under the Genesis Mission, totaling $159 million, to embed AI deeply in the scientific discovery workflows of the national laboratories.
Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, says the IceCube neutrino observatory solved "a very interesting problem for AI", and that AI played a pioneering role.
Anthropic says Claude, running for days with minimal human oversight on its Claude Science platform, computed the nine-loop six-particle scattering amplitude in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory, a recognized frontier problem in theoretical physics.