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Grizzlies rookie Cameron Boozer becomes second-youngest player in NBA history to record triple-double
Peltola denies knowing about Alaska spoiler candidate as Justice Department escalates investigation
Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola denied Thursday that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent as the Justice Department escalated a criminal investigation with new grand jury subpoenas.
PhD-level course on Culture, Conflict and Politics: Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology
PhD-level course on Culture, Conflict and Politics: Introduction to interpretive theory and methodology was successfully convened from October 28 to 30.
Packers' Xavier McKinney says NFL fined him 'a lot' for criticizing refs after loss to Lions
Snowfall and clouds may slow East Antarctic ice loss in a warmer world
A new modeling study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may be more resilient to extreme long-term warming than previously estimated. Increased snowfall, greater cloud cover, and changes in atmospheric circulation could partially offset ice loss—even under very high carbon dioxide concentrations. Researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics at Pusan National University in South Korea conducted idealized simulations with different atmospheric CO2 levels, spanning 100,000 years using a coupled global climate–ice-sheet model. Unlike conventional studies that prescribe atmospheric and oceanic conditions, the model allowed climate and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to evolve together.
LSU hosting Spooky Super Science Saturday on Halloween
Dr. Zakiya Wilson-Kennedy shares details about the free spooky science event on Saturday, Oct. 31.
Teladoc Health beats Q3 expectations as BetterHelp insurance growth accelerates
Teladoc Health raised its 2026 outlook after better-than-expected third-quarter results, as BetterHelp’s insurance pivot gained traction and Integrated Care profitability improved. | Teladoc Health raised its 2026 outlook after better-than-expected third-quarter results, as BetterHelp’s insurance pivot gained traction and Integrated Care profitability improved.
Health department tests Winnebago County home for lead after child's blood test
Winnebago County offers funding to renovate homes to remove lead
Health department tests Winnebago County home for lead after child's blood test
Winnebago County offers funding to renovate homes to remove lead
Health department tests Winnebago County home for lead after child's blood test
Winnebago County offers funding to renovate homes to remove lead
Health department tests Winnebago County home for lead after child's blood test
Winnebago County offers funding to renovate homes to remove lead
Health department tests Winnebago County home for lead after child's blood test
Winnebago County offers funding to renovate homes to remove lead
Why science has a rational explanation for most hauntings
Haunted houses seem unexplainable but like everything else out there, science has some answers to this mysery.
Baptist Health Lexington shares photos of NICU babies in Halloween costumes
Baptist Health Lexington shared some photos of babies in the neonatal intensive care unit wearing costumes to celebrate the Halloween season.
Google is happy AI is cannibalizing its most profitable business
Google might have a clear point of view on the future of AI monetization, but the market isn't so sure.
The politics of war
Israel went to the polls last Tuesday and it is the turn of the United States next Tuesday. The differences in the two elections are self-evident. Compared with the US, which has favourable geography and does everything at scale, Israel is tiny and part of an unstable region. For its elections, it has adopted an almost pure form of proportional representation based on lists. This encourages multiple parties and can make it almost impossible to form a government, as we can now see. The US system is complex in its own way but discourages third parties. Yet for all the differences in size, geography, and political systems, the fates of the two countries are closely connected. Israel has come to depend on the US to sustain its military strength, and over the past few tumultuous years that dependence has created resentment in the United States. The Biden administration was punished for appearing to give Netanyahu a blank check after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, and not holding Israel back as it employed ruthless tactics in Gaza. Because of the treatment of Palestinians, American views of Israel have grown progressively more negative over the past few years. Only a third now support the Israeli government. While on the left, this is largely because of how Israeli forces have operated in Gaza and, more recently, how the settler movement has behaved in the West Bank, for the American right the issue has been about how Benjamin Netanyahu persuaded Donald Trump to forget his wariness about more Middle Eastern wars and agree to a joint attack on Iran, which has gone badly wrong. The Palestine question was not a big issue for the two large Jewish blocs in last Tuesday’s election. Both supported a tough response to Hamas after October 2023 and neither accepts a two-state solution. It was, however, the threat posed by the ethno-nationalist policies of Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the two extreme members of Netanyahu’s coalition, and their tolerance, even encouragement, of settler violence, that brought out the Arab voters. (In principle this should strengthen their position though to turn into real power would require the ‘Change Bloc’ overcoming their opposition to involving Arab parties. The alternatives are a National Unity government, defection from the Change Bloc to Netanyahu, or deadlock and another round of elections in the new year.) There was also broad support for the war against Iran among the Jewish parties. The difficulty here is that the objectives behind the war have yet to be met, and that continuing with military operations depends on the United States. In this way the two elections have come together at a crucial moment. If Netanyahu hoped that a victory over Iran would help him retain his majority, cementing his legacy as an Israeli war leader, it did not work out that way. Trump also expected a great victory about which he could boast. He promised at most the end of a hateful and aggressive regime, with a record of hostility to both the United States and Israel, or at least the elimination of Iran’s military capabilities and the end of its nuclear programme. Eight months on, there is not much to boast about; vital objectives remain elusive: the Iranian regime is even more hardline than before; the international economy is barely coping with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz; and Saudi Arabia is struggling with an unwanted conflict with the Yemeni Houthis. For all these reasons, the Iran War has been a dark cloud hanging over both elections. Yet the issue has been approached in different ways. Netanyahu sought to push the issue before the election while Trump has been more cautious. Trump’s essential claim is that there is nothing to worry about and he’s still working out what final steps need to be taken to provide a definitive conclusion to the conflict. Netanyahu’s final pitch was that there was lots to worry about. He focused on Israel’s dire security situation, with the Iran War unfinished and the prospect of imminent economic isolation because of international sanctions. For him it is imperative to defeat Iran decisively, and without delay. Why this different response to the same war? Part of the answer lies in how public opinion in the two countries responded to the war. In this post, I show how this came about. We await the outcome of the US midterms but know the result, at least in terms of the share of the vote if not yet the shape of the new government, of the Israeli election. With the elections out of the way Netanyahu is pressing for another round in the war. Trump is less sure. I conclude with thoughts on the importance of how he decides.
Brash architect of Trump’s midterm strategy could become midterm scapegoat
Intense and self-assured, James Blair has had the president’s backing, but a major loss could set off a search for someone to blame.
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Free health fair in Monroe offers screenings, flu shots and access to care
Packers-Panthers interrupted due to drone hovering near Lambeau Field
Both teams were required to head back to the sidelines for the delay due to safety concerns.
Ian McKellen pays tribute to Patrick Stewart in emotional Instagram post. A look back at their enduring bond.
The "Star Trek" actor developed a close relationship with McKellen, his costar in the "X-Men" franchise.
2 Columbia dining halls operated with critical sanitation violations, city health inspectors find
Two Columbia dining halls operated with serious health code violations, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found in routine inspections conducted last month, according to reports obtained by Spectator through a Freedom of Information Law request.
Business community gathers for energy panel as anti-merger protesters rally outside
The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce regularly invites regional policymakers and business leaders for panel discussions at the Belmont Country Club in Belmont, but those breakfasts rarely attract protesters.
WATCH: Trumps host Halloween celebration at the White House
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump handed out candy to hundreds of costumed kids outside the White House residence at Thursday’s annual Halloween celebration.
WATCH: Trump calls reporter 'disgusting' when questioned about not traveling to Kansas
A reporter from Reuters asked the president why he no longer plans to attend a rally in Kansas Saturday for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall, who is in a competitive reelection race.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says. But first, it will spend big.
Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.
HHS Secretary RFJ Jr. announces maternal health investments at Des Moines stop
HHS Secretary RFJ Jr. announces maternal health investments at Des Moines stop
Judge denies federal request to segregate California ballots, says it would 'wreak havoc' on voting
A federal judge rejected on Wednesday a Trump administration request to stop California from processing the ballots of up to 20,000 people over allegations they are likely noncitizens, warning it would “wreak havoc” on the midterm elections.
WATCH: How does The Associated Press call 2026 midterm election winners? 4 things to know
The AP will tabulate results for nearly 7,000 races, including national congressional contests, state legislative and gubernatorial races, as well as some local elections for mayor, city council and school board.
Panthers vs. Packers live updates, inactives, where to watch: Jordan Love, Green Bay look to rebound on 'Thursday Night Football' vs. Bryce Young, Carolina
Chip Kelly's old-school gamble, Northwestern's new-school vision have Wildcats dreaming of the College Football Playoff
Ex-FBI officials accused of false statements about Hunter Biden press for dismissal of charges
Defense lawyers have urged a judge to dismiss a criminal complaint charging two former FBI counterintelligence officials with making false statements to Congress about Hunter Biden, calling the case an overtly political prosecution aimed at placating President Donald Trump
Amazon cloud business accelerates but shares drop on profit miss
Amazon shares fell more than seven percent in after-hours trading Thursday following a quarterly earnings report that missed analyst expectations on profit and total revenue but showed strong growth in the company's AWS cloud business.The miss came as investors were already rattled by Google's own lower-than-expected profits on a slowdown in advertising and big spending on AI. Shares in Google-parent Alphabet dropped more than 10 percent after market close on Wednesday and closed down more than
Senate is skeptical about making daylight saving time permanent despite Trump's pressure
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is unlikely to act before the end of the year on a House-passed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, defying President Donald Trump and dashing the hopes of Americans who don’t like having to change their clocks twice a year. As daylight saving time ends early Sunday and much of the country turns the clocks back an hour, several senators are holding up legislation that would eliminate the
Amazon earnings fall short as retail revenue lags
Amazon missed earnings estimates on Thursday, as less-than-impressive sales growth in its retail division undermined strong cloud-computing revenue. Though the bulk of Amazon’s $201.9 billion revenue from July through September
From Shakespeare to Picard and Professor X, Patrick Stewart was a legend long before Hollywood. See his life in photos.
The reason Stewart made his otherworldly roles so memorable is because he also made them so human.
5 expert takeaways on 2026 midterm election security
With Election Day around the corner, states have been working hard to prepare, with some adopting new congressional maps and voting rules on top of normal election security measures. PBS News' Liz Landers and Votebeat editorial director Jessica Huseman hosted a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A on Wednesday to address people's questions.
Hugh Jackman, William Shatner and George Takei among those paying tribute to Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart, the beloved actor known for his roles as Capt. Jean-Luc Picard in “Star Trek” and Professor Charles Xavier in “X-Men,” has died at 86
Did Bears overpay for Jeffery Simmons? What recent DL trades from Cowboys, Rams, Packers might teach
Tatsuya Imai reportedly will exercise player option, return to Astros after rocky first season in MLB
Medtronic’s Diabetes Split-Off Drew a Crowd. Now MiniMed Has to Deliver.
Medtronic officially split-off MiniMed to focus on its core businesses. Investors wanted more of the stock than they had to offer.
RFK Jr. announces latest plans to update infant formula standards
HHS said 30 required nutrients will be examined as part of the first review of infant formula’s ingredients and nutrition in nearly three decades.
Hegseth fires the Pentagon's top military planner even as Trump considers new Iran strikes
Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was the second general under Hegseth to be removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Anthropic's S-1 shows a durable business: Early investor explains what skeptics should know
Matt Murphy, an early investor of Anthropic, sits down with Yahoo Finance Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley to share his initial thoughts on Anthropic's (ANTH.PVT) S-1 filing, highlighting what he thinks skeptics might be misunderstanding.
Windows 11 gets right-click menu improvements as PC revenue slides
The latest update also brings a cloud recovery option for PCs that won't boot.
Golden LEAF names Ted Lord as CEO
The Golden LEAF Foundation board picked Winston-Salem native Ted Lord as the organization's fourth president and CEO. He will succeed Scott Hamilton, who is retiring after leading the group since 2019.
Judge blocks Trump administration's Medicaid work requirement rule forcing proof of medical frailty
Twenty-five states sued the Trump administration in June over the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services guidance tied to the 2025 law known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill."
'A golden angel.' 'Chuck E. Cheese.' 'Yuck, ew.' We asked 15 kids to rate Heidi Klum's most famous Halloween costumes.
Many of these kids weren't born when Heidi Klum debuted some of her Halloween costumes. That doesn't stop them from having opinions.
These might be the nine best science photos from the past 30 years
The Wellcome Trust celebrates 30 years of awe-inspiring images at the forefront of science and health
Alphabet's Cloud Business Just Doubled. The Stock Fell 12%. Is it a Buy?
Google Cloud's revenue more than doubled, but investors focused on slower Search growth and a large paper loss.
Interview: El Centro launches keychain fundraiser tied to local business discounts
The keychains double as a ticket to discounts at local businesses.
How prejudice could be influencing Vivek Ramaswamy’s run for Ohio governor
Social media users routinely hurl racist insults and comments at Ramaswamy, who would be the nation’s first Hindu governor.
Trump's Justice Department pushes a spate of politically sensitive cases as midterm elections near
Defense lawyers and Democrats say a blitz of headline-making actions and cases is no coincidence and reeks of politics — in both the timing and the targets.
High school sports roundup for Oct. 28, 2026
Boys Tennis Day 1- District Tournament at Skagit Valley College Thirteen singles players and 13 doubles teams were finally able to get their 3A District 1 tournament underway on Wednesday. […]
If you want to date ‘Cupertino’ star Ella Stiller, stop making ‘Meet the Parents’ jokes
Ella Stiller has a famous last name, a big TV break and zero interest in AI.
Elke Sommer, German-born star of ‘A Shot in the Dark’ and ‘The Prize,’ dies at 85
Elke Sommer, the German actor known for her roles in 1960s Hollywood comedies and espionage films, has died at 85
CNN, MSNOW and Politico ask court to make Trump access order permanent
Three news outlets have beefed up their legal complaint against the White House over access, saying it is continuing to defy a judge's orders by refusing to let them return to covering President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and on Air Force One — thus violating their free speech rights by continuing to keep them out of the rotating press “pool.”
Adobe vs. International Business Machines: Which Technology Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?
IBM is growing steadily with software leading the way and a major quantum computing investment on the horizon. Adobe faces serious questions about whether AI will erode Creative Cloud’s dominance despite continued strong cash flow.
Momentum builds among Philly-area doctors, farmers, nonprofits to grow ‘food as medicine’ approach
Coalition members aim to address food waste, access to fresh produce, food supply chain issues, availability of nutrition education and more.
Colts RB Jonathan Taylor on possibly being traded: 'Hopefully that day may not come, but I can't control that'
NFL Thursday Night Football preview: Panthers and Packers try to rebound from frustrating losses
New orca tracking bracelets support FIU research
FIU and Fahlo have teamed up once again with the release of the new orca killer whale bracelets featuring the company’s first-ever hand-painted charm.
Alaska's governor orders a probe into Peltola's Senate campaign over spoiler candidate controversy
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate in the state after revelations that her campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting another candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
Bears reportedly acquiring DT Jeffery Simmons from Titans
Simmons is a three-time All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowler.
NYU Langone brings OpenEvidence’s clinical AI into the EHR systemwide
OpenEvidence is expanding its footprint in New York City through a partnership with NYU Langone Health, adding another marquee institution to an existing concentration of partnerships across the ci | OpenEvidence is expanding its footprint in New York City through a partnership with NYU Langone Health, adding another marquee institution to an existing concentration of partnerships across the city's academic medical centers.
College football Week 9 players to watch: Can Miami's Javian Mallory continue to find the end zone against North Carolina?
N.J. hospitals commit $7.8B to community health, unmet needs: NJHA report
A New Jersey Hospital Association report released said hospitals committed more than $7.8 billion to community health initiatives in 2024.
Windows 11's new Cloud Rebuild can resurrect PCs that won't boot
Cloud Rebuild downloads Windows and your drivers from Windows Update, even when your PC won't boot.
Elementary School Near 11 Data Centers Raises Health Concerns
An elementary school in Loudoun County, Virginia is nearly surrounded by 11 data centers and community members are concerned about the pollution that be might produced and what their kids might be breathing. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports for TODAY.
Attainable Luxury at Scale: ZLINE Kitchen and Bath Keeps Operations Moving With Spectrum Business
Spectrum Business’s Dedicated Fiber Internet and Cisco-powered Managed Network Services give ZLINE Kitchen and Bath the reliable, enterprise-grade connectivity it needs for same-day fulfillment and cloud operations, without adding IT headcount.
A striking Mars cloud may be born from surprising physics
Everyday Earth clouds get their start with a bit of salt or dust. Not so the Red Planet's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, computer models suggest.
Oura, UC San Diego Health collaborate to study GLP-1 outcomes using continuous smart ring data
Oura is pushing further into clinical healthcare research with its first clinical trial to study the link between smart ring data and obesity treatment outcomes. | Oura is pushing further into clinical healthcare research with its first clinical trial to study the link between smart ring data and obesity treatment outcomes.
Richard Clode: That cloud business is incredibly strong
Richard Clode, Technology Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson Investors, discusses Alphabet's mixed earnings, AI spending, cloud growth, Amazon's outlook and software stock volatility.
Alphabet should split its search business from its cloud business, says D.A. Davidson's Gil Luria
Gil Luria, D.A. Davidson head of technology research, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the quarterly earnings results of Alphabet and Microsoft, impact of AI chatbots on Alphabet's search business,
Eating lunch at your desk? Telling your colleagues about your weekend? Gen Z thinks you’re the ones being weird at work.
From iced coffee to office small talk, Gen Z workers are questioning traditional workplace etiquette — and redefining what it means to be professional.
Advancing SAP Lakehouse and New Data Fabric Innovations in SAP Business Data Cloud for the Autonomous Enterprise
Explore the new lakehouse and business data fabric capabilities that will help enterprises build AI agents act with greater autonomy.
MORNING BUSINESS REPORT: Apple unveils first touchscreen laptop
Cait and Roger have your Thursday Morning Business Report.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
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