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China Overtakes the U.S. in R&D Spending for the First Time
According to figures tied to 2024, China has for the first time become the world's largest spender on research and development, edging out the United States.
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Terence Tao presents a Caltech talk titled "Math 2.0"
Hacker News is discussing the slides from a lecture by mathematician Terence Tao titled "Math 2.0", delivered at the California Institute of Technology.
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Cyberattack Knocks Out Meteor-Tracking Organization
A nonprofit dedicated to observing meteors has fallen victim to a cyberattack and will be effectively out of operation for several weeks.
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Startup Inherent: the small Faraday model beat Claude and GPT at reproducing scientific papers
London-based lab Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, has unveiled its AI agent Faraday, which — running on a compact model — outperformed the systems from Anthropic and OpenAI at independently reproducing the results of scientific papers.
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Zero-Knowledge Proof of “Wasta” — A Scientific Curiosity from Lebanon
A paper titled “Zero-Knowledge Proof of Wasta with Applications in Lebanon” pairs serious cryptography with a concept that is hard to render in the language of formulas.
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“Kidney Disappointment”: How “Kidney Failure” Is Vanishing from Scientific Papers
A Google Scholar search for the phrase “kidney disappointment” returns academic publications where, instead of the established term “kidney failure” («почечная недостаточность»), the absurd “kidney disappointment” turns up.
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Jeff Dean Is Leaving Google to Speed Up Science with AI
One of Google's longest-serving executives, together with several of the company's leading researchers, has founded Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific experiments.
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68% of Peer-Reviewed Papers Turned Out to Be AI Slop: A View from the Trenches
Two reviewers for NeurIPS, WACV and an ECCV workshop went through 22 submitted papers and uncovered fabricated citations and impostor authors on a massive scale. Two papers with fake names were still accepted for oral presentations.
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Fable Language Model “Disproves” the Jacobian Conjecture — but Mathematicians Are Cautious
A mathematician going by the handle levent announced on the social network X that the famous Jacobian conjecture is false: the counterexample was built with the help of the AI model Fable. Verification of the result is still ongoing.
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Study: AI accelerates scientists' careers but impoverishes scientific discovery
The use of artificial intelligence in science fosters researchers' career growth, yet at the same time it reduces the diversity and depth of scientific discoveries. That is the conclusion reached by the authors of a new study.