Science

From reading structures to writing them

A foundation model was asked to do more than predict protein structure: design antibodies that would work in the lab.
Hackaday

CircuitPython Goes Turbo With Precompiled Functions

It would not be at all original to declare that Python is the new BASIC. Like BASIC, it has been the first programming language for a whole generation of coders, and its main advantage is that ...

Anthropic has a cute graphic showing how its AI spread 'malicious' code

Anthropic said it was "most concerned" about an event in which Claude uploaded "malicious" code. To help explain the incident ...
TechRepublic

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Can Now Use Microsoft Teams Conversations

GitHub Copilot gets upgraded context-aware feature to turn Teams chats into code. Image: ChatGPT GitHub Copilot’s coding agent can now use Microsoft Teams conversations as context to investigate ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...
GEN

BMS’s New Facility, Recursion–Genentech Partnership, Long-COVID and Persistent C. auris

Recursion Partners with Genentech to Advance First Validated Neuro Target Discovered Through AI Map By Alex Philippidis, GEN Edge, Aug 5, 2026 COVID-19 Reactivates Dormant Viruses, Offering New Clues ...
NextBigFuture

Prime Intellect Recursive Language Model

Recursive Language Models (RLMs) are a general inference paradigm that treats long prompts as part of an external environment and allows the LLM to programmatically examine, decompose, and recursively ...
marktechpost

Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel

Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. Fixed tool schemas and context ...
NextBigFuture

Self Improving Harness – Self-improving coding and research agent

Prime Agent is an open-source self-improving coding and research agent (harness) released by Prime Intellect on August 5, 2026. It is built for coding workflows and long-running autonomous tasks. It ...
Engadget

Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agent

Meta has announced an early beta of Muse Code, a new coding agent meant to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The new terminal-based coding tool is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a ...
Reuters

Meta launches new AI coding tool powered by Muse Spark 1.2

Aug 5 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab on Wednesday launched Muse Code, a coding tool powered by its latest AI model, Muse Spark 1.2, designed to help ‌developers write and debug ...