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ResearchMay 27, 2026

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Turns an Unreleased Claude Mythos Loose on Open Source — and Finds 10,000+ Zero-Days in a Month

In a May 26 progress update, Anthropic said Project Glasswing has used an unreleased frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, to autonomously discover more than 10,000 high- and critical-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across the world’s most important software in its first month — including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD and a certificate-forgery bug in wolfSSL. The model is so capable at offensive security that Anthropic is refusing to release it.

Anthropic / Help Net Security

ResearchMay 26, 2026

Together AI Open-Sources OSCAR, a 2-Bit KV Cache That Cuts Long-Context Serving Costs in Half

OSCAR — Offline Spectral Covariance-Aware Rotation — squeezes the KV cache that bloats every long-context request down to two bits per element, with no measurable accuracy loss on Qwen3-32B or GLM-4.7 across reasoning, math and coding benchmarks. Together AI shipped it into SGLang on May 25, framing it as one of the more practical wins for actually-affordable 1M-token serving.

MarkTechPost / Together AI

ResearchMay 25, 2026

Miami's Subquadratic Launches With $29M and a 12M-Token LLM That Claims to Cut Compute 1,000x

Co-founders Justin Dangel and Alexander Whedon say their Subquadratic Sparse Attention architecture breaks the transformer's quadratic ceiling — and that SubQ matches Claude Opus accuracy on long-context benchmarks at 1/300th the cost.

SiliconANGLE

ResearchMay 21, 2026

OpenAI's Reasoning Model Disproves an 80-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture Using Number Theory

A general-purpose reasoning model autonomously cracked the planar unit distance problem that had stumped mathematicians since 1946 — and Fields Medalist-level reviewers signed off on the proof.

OpenAI

ResearchMay 20, 2026

Microsoft's MDASH Swarm Finds 16 Windows Bugs, Including Four Critical RCEs in the TCP/IP Stack

Microsoft's new multi-model agentic scanning harness orchestrates 100+ AI agents to discover, debate, and prove exploitable vulnerabilities — and just dropped 16 fresh CVEs in Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft Security Blog

ResearchMay 19, 2026

Penn Physicists Build a Light-Matter Switch That Could Slash AI Energy to Femtojoules

A Penn-led team published an exciton-polariton switch in Physical Review Letters that flips at roughly four femtojoules per operation, pointing to photonic chips that could process camera data directly without electronic conversions.

ScienceDaily

ResearchMay 18, 2026

NASA's New RISC-V Space Chip Hits 500x Performance, Aims for Onboard AI on the 2028 Moon Landing

The PIC64-HPSC blew past its 100x design target and is racing toward late-2026 certification to fly on Artemis IV with autonomous-AI workloads onboard.

TechTimes

ResearchMay 18, 2026

Mayo Clinic's REDMOD AI Spots Pancreatic Cancer 16 Months Before Specialists, Landmark Study Finds

A validation study in Gut shows Mayo Clinic's REDMOD model catches pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans roughly 16 months before diagnosis — nearly doubling the sensitivity of human radiologists.

Inside Precision Medicine

ResearchMay 13, 2026

Google DeepMind's AI Co-Mathematician Cracks a 60-Year-Old Group Theory Problem

DeepMind's new hierarchical research agent has resolved Problem 21.10 from the Kourovka Notebook, a group theory question that had stood unsolved since 1965, and topped FrontierMath Tier 4 at 48% accuracy — but the team is also publicly flagging a 'reviewer-pleasing bias' that nearly let a flawed proof slip through.

Google DeepMind

ResearchMay 13, 2026

Google Catches Hackers Using AI to Build a Zero-Day 2FA Bypass for a Mass-Exploitation Spree

Google's Threat Intelligence Group says it has spotted the first confirmed case of cybercriminals weaponizing an AI-generated zero-day exploit, a Python script that bypassed two-factor authentication on a popular open-source admin tool — and that the campaign was disrupted before it could land.

BleepingComputer

ResearchMay 11, 2026

Google Research Squeezes the KV Cache to 3 Bits With TurboQuant, an ICLR 2026 Breakthrough

A two-stage compression algorithm from Google Research cuts the KV cache 6x and accelerates attention 8x on H100s, with no fine-tuning and no measurable accuracy loss.

Google Research

ResearchMay 11, 2026

IBM, Cleveland Clinic, and RIKEN Simulate a 12,635-Atom Protein, Setting a Quantum-Centric Computing Record

A joint team used 94 qubits across two Heron r2 processors, plus Fugaku and Miyabi-G, to simulate trypsin and T4-lysozyme — a 40x jump in system size and 210x accuracy gain over results from six months ago.

IBM

ResearchMay 7, 2026

NVIDIA Launches Ising, the First Open-Source AI Models for Quantum Computing

NVIDIA releases Ising, an open-source family of AI models that automates qubit calibration and runs real-time quantum error decoding 2.5x faster than the pyMatching standard.

NVIDIA Newsroom

ResearchMay 4, 2026

Eli Lilly Bets $2.25B on Profluent's AI-Designed Gene Editors in 'Beyond CRISPR' Pact

Lilly is paying up to $2.25B in milestones for AI-designed recombinases that can insert entire genes at precise sites — a kilobase-scale alternative to CRISPR that Profluent’s CEO calls the “holy grail” of genetic medicine.

Pharmaceutical Technology

ResearchMay 4, 2026

Sony AI's Project Ace Becomes First Robot to Beat Pro Table Tennis Players, Lands Nature Cover

A Sony research robot combining event-based vision and deep reinforcement learning has defeated elite and professional table tennis players in real matches, marking the first time a machine has reached human expert level in a fast, physical competitive sport.

Sony AI

ResearchMay 2, 2026

Centaur AI Doesn't Actually Think — It's Memorizing, New Study Finds

Researchers at Zhejiang University tested last year's headline-grabbing "human-like" Centaur model with a simple twist: replace the task with "Please choose option A." The model kept picking the original right answers — exposing pattern memorization, not understanding.

ScienceDaily

ResearchApr 25, 2026

Neuro-Symbolic AI Achieves 100x Energy Reduction While Boosting Accuracy to 95%

Tufts University researchers combined neural networks with symbolic reasoning to train AI systems in 34 minutes instead of 36 hours, using just 1% of the energy — while jumping accuracy from 34% to 95%.

ScienceDaily

ResearchApr 25, 2026

Cambridge Engineers Build Brain-Like Chip That Could Slash AI Energy Use by 70%

University of Cambridge researchers have engineered a hafnium oxide memristor that mimics how neurons process and store information simultaneously, operating at one-millionth the power of conventional chips.

ScienceDaily

ResearchApr 25, 2026

Sony AI's Project Ace Robot Defeats Professional Table Tennis Players in Historic First

Sony AI's autonomous robot has beaten elite and professional table tennis players under official ITTF regulations — the first robot to reach expert-level competitive performance in a physically demanding sport.

Sony AI

ResearchApr 16, 2026

Tufts Researchers Build AI That Uses 100x Less Energy With Higher Accuracy

A Tufts University team has built a neuro-symbolic AI system that slashes energy use by up to 100x and training time from 36 hours to 34 minutes, while achieving a 95% task success rate versus 34% for standard models.

ScienceDaily / Tufts University

ResearchApr 16, 2026

Nature Study: Human Scientists Still Outperform Top AI Agents on Complex Research Tasks

A major new study published in Nature finds that the best AI agents complete complex scientific tasks at roughly half the rate of expert human scientists, challenging optimistic narratives about near-term autonomous AI research.

Nature

ResearchApr 16, 2026

Stanford AI Index 2026: China Closes the Gap, Public Trust Hits New Low

Stanford HAI releases its annual AI Index report, revealing that China has effectively erased the US lead in frontier AI, generative AI adoption has hit 53% globally, and public trust in government AI oversight has collapsed to 31% in the US.

Stanford HAI

ResearchApr 16, 2026

Google TurboQuant Slashes LLM Memory 6x with Zero Accuracy Loss

Google Research unveils TurboQuant, a training-free algorithm that compresses the KV cache of large language models by up to 6x at 3-bit precision — with no retraining, no calibration data, and no measurable quality drop.

Google Research / TechCrunch

ResearchApr 15, 2026

Sygaldry Raises $139M to Build Quantum-Accelerated Servers for AI

Founded by quantum computing pioneer Chad Rigetti, Sygaldry Technologies has raised $139 million to develop quantum-accelerated AI servers that promise to dramatically cut the cost and energy required to train and run large models.

GlobeNewswire

ResearchApr 14, 2026

DOE Awards $34M to Accelerate Catalyst Discovery Using AI and Self-Driving Labs

The U.S. DOE's ARPA-E commits $34 million to 12 projects pairing AI with autonomous laboratories, aiming to compress industrial catalyst development timelines from 10 years down to one.

ARPA-E

ResearchApr 9, 2026

NVIDIA Showcases Physical AI Breakthroughs at National Robotics Week 2026

NVIDIA used National Robotics Week to highlight major advances in robot learning, simulation infrastructure, and physical AI foundation models that are accelerating real-world robot deployment.

NVIDIA Blog

ResearchApr 7, 2026

Tufts Researchers Achieve 100x AI Energy Reduction with Neuro-Symbolic Breakthrough

Scientists at Tufts University have developed a neuro-symbolic AI system that slashes energy consumption 100-fold while boosting task accuracy from 34% to 95%, cutting training time from 36 hours to 34 minutes.

ScienceDaily

ResearchApr 5, 2026

Study: AI Reaches Expert-Level Accuracy in Medical Diagnosis

New Stanford University research shows AI models achieving 95% accuracy in medical image diagnosis.

Nature Medicine