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Hakeem Jeffries eyes speaker role as Democrats seek House control
Jeffries could become the first Black American to hold the role.
Black Business Weekend in Minnesota: Nov. 6 and 7 Events
Three Black business events fill Nov. 6 and 7 in the Twin Cities: the Strengthen the Strong Summit, the Black Business Ball and the Best of Black Business Awards.
Explosion, fire blast through Iowa Quaker Oats plant
An apparent explosion at the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids sent thick black smoke over downtown Iowa as firefighters battled the massive blaze.
It Ain’t Just Sports: Trailblazer and diving coach, Diane Maiese
In this episode: We sit down with Diane Maiese, the first AND only Black woman to win an NCAA Championship and be named a four-time, all-American, in diving.
Breitling Adds Two New Manual-Wind Navitimers To The Core Collection
✓ Breitling has just introduced a pair of new manually-wound Navitimer models to its core collection ✓ Check it out! ✓
Anthropic’s nearly 100-page list of business risks includes everything from bioweapons to AI blackmail
There are massive and wide-ranging list of potential roadblocks, like making it a target of expensive lawsuits, and concerns that its own product could grow out of humanity’s control.
Three giant black holes discovered in a galaxy from the dawn of time
Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expected to eventually merge, while a third lurks farther away. One weighs an astonishing 80 million suns, and another is growing faster than conventional theories predict.
Jesse Welles sang about politics and insects — and covered Black Sabbath and Bob Dylan
The rapidly rising "Join ICE" protest singer played solo and with a band on North Broad Street, and covered Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief
End Citizens United has endorsed Democratic challenger Callie Barr for Michigan’s 1st Congressional District. William Lawrence, Democratic nominee for Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, has been endorsed by the Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union and the Black Economic Alliance. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has formally endorsed state Senator Chedrick Greene (D-Saginaw) in the […]
‘It’s definitely the time’: Black governor hopefuls from both parties aim to make history in midterms
Americans have elected three Black governors in the nation’s 250-year history. By next week, that figure could multiply.
Georgia's Keisha Lance Bottoms navigates the challenges of Black women battling political barriers
Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is trying to make history as the first Black woman to be elected governor in the United States
Postcard from Kraków: From Copernican Revolution to ID Revolution
Even physicists who were more familiar with black holes than dance steps got pulled into the fun.
2819 Church pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell on politics, race and the Black church
Sources: AJC | 2819 Church | Atlanta Black Star | Getty Images | Mark Burns | Right Side Broadcasting Network | Assorted YouTube, TikTok and Instagram creators
Guest columnist: Science of finding cancer early just proved itself
Residents of Houston’s Fifth Ward live adjacent to documented creosote contamination. The neighborhood is 94% non-Hispanic Black. It is a state-designated cancer cluster. Those who live there do not need […]
Georgia is single-handedly shifting the conversation on Black women in politics
It’s a milestone years in the making, backed by major efforts to organize and register voters.
In Creole Country, Black Residents Ask What the Fight for Voting Rights Delivers
Opelousas has shaped the fight for Black voting rights for centuries. Today, residents disagree over whether Democrats, Republicans, or racial solidarity offer a path forward.
In brief: Fleetwood Mac documentary coming to Apple TV and more
The landslide is bringing them to Apple TV. Fleetwood Mac is telling their story in their own words in the Apple Original Films documentary Fleetwood Mac: The Chain. Apple announced the “unprecedented look” is the first fully authorized documentary about the award-winning, culture-defining band. It brings together the voices and memories of Fleetwood members Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and the late Christine McVie. Fleetwood Mac: The Chain will debut Jan. 29 ...Ramy Youssef’s feature directorial debut has added some more star power to the cast. Amanda Seyfried will join Youssef and Sharon Stone in Martha & Muhammad, a new comedy for A24, according to Deadline. Youssef will direct from his own script, in addition to starring. Plot and character details are being kept under wraps, though The Hollywood Reporter previously described the project as telling the story of “a white widowed socialite in New York who develops a relationship with a young Muslim man” ... TNCMS.AdManager.render({region: 'fixed-big-ad-top-asset', slot: 1, fold: "above"}); Another book adaptation is coming to Prime Video. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed Thursday it has picked up Butcher & Blackbird, the bestselling thriller novel by Brynne Weaver. Emma Laird and Thomas Doherty are signed on to star in the new film, which follows vigilante serial killers who fall in love as they compete to take out the most targets ... Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading kmaland.comAt KMA, we attempt to be accurate in our reporting. If you see a typo or mistake in a story, please contact us by emailing kmaradio@kmaland.com.
Health care discrimination may silence diabetes conversations among Black men
Managing type 2 diabetes requires more than occasional visits to the doctor's office. Much of the work happens between appointments, making communication and support from others an important part of managing ...
Modern Warfare 4 is reportedly down 32% on Xbox, and Call of Duty’s Steam numbers aren’t much better
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is reportedly down 32% compared to Black Ops 7, while Steam player counts also paint a worrying picture.
Ramaswamy’s ad splits the GOP in Ohio’s closing stretch: From the Politics Desk
Plus, Black voters play a crucial role in the battle for the Senate.
Women’s football’s Black British icons
Our writers pay tribute to the Black British women who have left indelible legacies on the sport
Bruins Must Fix Sloppy Play Before Blackhawks Arrive Saturday
Marco Sturm calls out sloppy play as Boston hosts Chicago on Saturday. The stats show a gap, but the Bruins need a wake-up call to win.
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Final Major Content Update Coming This Week
Ubisoft has detailed Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's final major content update, revealing a closer look at new game+, Nightmare difficulty, and more.
Smithsonian scientists just recreated the first 2 billion years of the Universe
Scientists have created one of the largest and most detailed simulations of the early universe ever made, offering an extraordinary new glimpse into the cosmos shortly after the Big Bang. Called Lumina, the groundbreaking simulation recreates the universe’s first 2 billion years, showing how dark matter, gas, and radiation interacted to give rise to the earliest stars, galaxies, and black holes.
Scientists discover a secret glow in toxic fire salamanders
Researchers have discovered a surprising hidden ability in Europe's familiar black-and-yellow fire salamanders: they glow green and cyan under ultraviolet light. The mysterious fluorescence comes mainly from glands in their skin and their toxic secretions, which can continue glowing for more than 24 hours after being released.
Novant Health's mammogram truck brings free screenings to Buncombe County
The 3D screening coach rotates among four Buncombe County sites, offers free mammograms to people who qualify, and stops at a free Halloween health fair in Black Mountain on Saturday.
One-on-one with Jeffries: Poised to make history, again
He is poised to become the first Black speaker of the U.S. House.
Introducing: The Return of the Full-Platinum Bracelet on a Limited A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual
The platinum bracelet, one of the most desirable accessories for A. Lange & Söhne watches, is officially back on the Datograph Perpetual.
Astronomers spot biggest star ever seen swallowed by a black hole
ASASSN-14li is the name given to the swallowing by a black hole of a star around three times the mass of our Sun.
Charlotte Black-owned businesses see significant growth in latest rankings
Pineville-based Mills Automotive Group is new to this year’s list and claimed the top spot.
Black Power Marketplace highlights Black-owned businesses in Rochester
Rochester, N.Y. — The Community Justice Initiative held the Black Power Marketplace, which featured local vendors that offered food, clothes, art, wellness serv
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's final major update adds long-awaited New Game Plus, new Nightmare difficulty and much more
Ubisoft is saying goodbye to Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced with a sizeable update arriving today.
Photos: Chicago Blackhawks 2, Los Angeles Kings 1
Photos from the Chicago Blackhawks’ 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings at the United Center on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026. ©2026 Chicago Tribune. Visit chicagotribune.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Republican 'Muslim Brotherhood' attacks on El-Sayed in Michigan seek to exploit Democratic fault lines
Pollsters, political strategists say the approach is aimed at dissuading Jewish and Black voters who backed El-Sayed's primary opponent, Haley Stevens
Wrexham’s Summer Striker Decision Faces Fresh Scrutiny After Blackburn Defeat
Wrexham’s decision to back their current centre-forwards has become a renewed talking point after Saturday’s 2–0 defeat at Blackburn Rovers exposed the gap between attacking activity and a meaningful goal threat.
Black maternal health organization to host community conversation in Forsyth
The Be Well Foundation will host a free documentary screening and conversation about Black maternal health on Saturday, October 24.
Cuba's blackouts are driving business owners and families to drill costly private wells
"One little trip ... is enough for a load of laundry, cleaning the house, and cooking, and just like that you're out of water."
The 'real' Spider-Man: Why Hollywood should look to the jumping spider
Imagine a new Spider-Man movie opening not with a laboratory accident involving a black widow, but with a tiny, fuzzy spider sitting quietly beneath a leaf. It has enormous eyes, extraordinary jumping ability, and a silk-producing system so sophisticated that scientists are only beginning to understand it.Meet the regal jumping spider, Phidippus regius — perhaps the most biologically convincing inspiration for Spider-Man that Hollywood has overlooked.
Omaha business owner wants earlier path to trades
Dupree Seavers, owner of Black Power Redevelopers, raised concerns about access to the trades and city contracts for small businesses.
<i>Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother</i> Is For The Eldest Daughters
Adia, the breakout star of 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother,' on the expectations placed on eldest daughters, the adultification of Black girls, and how playing Fatiha was her own coming-of-age experience.
Georgia's Keisha Lance Bottoms navigates the challenges of Black women battling political barriers
Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is trying to make history as the first woman to be elected governor in the United States.
One-on-one with Jeffries: Poised to make history, again
He is poised to become the first Black speaker of the U.S. House.
Black business owner says he fired all of his white employees, then advises other Black owners to do the same: ’Segregation might be the way’
Racism is an issue that continues to divide and harm people from various communities, and it shows no signs of disappearing any time soon. But one Black business owner claimed he took matters into his...
Obama seeks to shore up Abdul El-Sayed with Black voters at Michigan rally
The former president spoke alongside the Democratic Senate nominee in Detroit as the Senate contest could come down to the city’s large Black electorate
Collingswood Schools Report Gains, Wide Science Proficiency ...
Collingswood reported testing gains, but wide science proficiency gaps persist among Black, Hispanic and IEP students, board members said.
Senator says planned Meta commercial terms update could harm US businesses
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - US Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, on Friday raised concerns about Facebook parent Meta Platforms' plan to update its commercial terms, saying it coul...
A Blackburn governor win could trigger a domino effect in Tennessee politics. UT expert breaks down possibilities
Republican nominee Marsha Blackburn’s race for governor means her U.S. Senate seat may need filling; a University of Tennessee expert outlines what could happen if she wins.
Fort Bend County judge candidate Daniel Wong uses AI to create Black 'supporters' in political ad
Fort Bend County Judge Daniel Wong is facing heat for posting a campaign video generated by artificial intelligence that depicts Black people voicing support for his campaign.
Fort Bend judge candidate uses AI to create Black 'supporters' in ad
Fort Bend County Judge Daniel Wong is facing heat for posting a campaign video generated by artificial intelligence that depicts Black people voicing support for his campaign.
Mary Black Foundation celebrates 30 years of investing in Spartanburg County
An Upstate grantmaking organization is marking three decades of investing in community health and well-being across Spartanburg County.
Nebraska announces blackout theme against Washington
Nebraska football announced a blackout theme and special uniforms for this Saturday's game against Washington.
The Violent Cost of Being a Woman in Politics Spans Continents
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world ... with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment. This week: —There is not (yet) the political will in the U.S. to talk about gender quotas ... but 35 nations in Europe have either been mandated or volunteered to implement them. —Weeks after the brutal rape of Arizona congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia, Australian independent member of Parliament Helen Haines is in hospital in a critical condition after she was struck by a car outside her office in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said appears to have been "a deliberate act." —"Politicians are no longer treated like we’re human,” says Arizona state legislator Alma Hernandez, who is facing rising harassment and threats. —Federal agents searched the Washington-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar, a frequent critic of Republican President Donald Trump. —If elected governor of Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms would become the first Black woman governor in U.S. history. ... and more.
The Legend of Zelda Edition Nintendo Switch Pro Controller Drops to $55.99 Ahead of Black Friday
Switch 2 compatible.
New on Netflix: The 8 best new movies and shows in November, including a Christmas film and 'The Hunting Wives' Season 2
There's something for everyone in November, from new "Black Doves" to the "Gabby's Dollhouse" spinoff.
Your Health, Their Platforms
The issue of healthcare could decide this year’s midterms. Here are the plans of six potentially history-making candidates.
Natalie Portman says being sexualized as a child star forced her to become a 'good girl' as protection
Natalie Portman reveals how she built a "good girl" persona to counter childhood sexualization in Hollywood and why it became a lasting trap.
Climate Change Can Cause Small Business Displacement Beyond Major Disasters
Sponsored: The myriad effects of climate change compound challenges many Black, Brown, and immigrant-owned businesses already face.
GWBCC Reception Promotes Unity in 'Fight' Against Threats to Black Ownership
The Greater Washington Black Chamber of Commerce held its Art of Black Business reception to celebrate local entrepreneurs and foster networking.
Scientists reveal a hidden snakebite crisis killing up to 513,000 people a year
A startling new study suggests that venomous snakebites are killing far more people worldwide than official statistics indicate, with an estimated 274,000 to 513,000 deaths every year. Researchers found that as many as 7 million people could suffer snake envenoming annually, while more than 800,000 survivors are left with long-term disabilities.
Breast Cancer Care and Heart Health: What Black Women Need to Know
Black women face disproportionately high rates of heart disease and breast cancer mortality. Understanding how both are connected can help women advocate for screening, treatment and follow-up, say experts with Baptist Health.
Georgia's Keisha Lance Bottoms navigates the challenges of Black women battling political barriers
Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is trying to make history as the first woman to be elected governor in the United States
Extremely chill bear named Paul wins a Dude-approved award
For his patience around salmon, the USDA Forest Service awards the black bear the 2026 Dude abides Award.
One-on-one with Jeffries: Poised to make history, again
He is poised to become the first Black speaker of the U.S. House.
For Black Women in Political Office, Speaking Out Can Come at a Cost
From Ilhan Omar to Charlane Oliver, Black women in elected positions are confronting political backlash for challenging those in power.
US health department to remove broad black box warning from three estrogen patch products
Oct 30 () - The US health department on Friday approved the removal of the strictest "black box" warnings from the labels of three estradiol transdermal patches, the hormone therapies used to treat ...
(BPRW) MedHaul Wins Prize in AI Health Innovation Competition
(Black PR Wire) Memphis, TN — MedHaul, a digital health company whose technology platform allows healthcare providers to easily and quickly match their patients with appropriate medical transportation, has won WellWithAll&rs...
Georgia's Keisha Lance Bottoms navigates the challenges of Black women battling political barriers
Georgia Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is trying to make history as the first woman to be elected governor in the United States.
Anthropic's 97-page list of business risks is quadruple the length of other AI IPOs. What's on it: weapons, blackmail, and more
Anthropic warns potential investors its agents could do serious harm, both autonomously and in the hands of malicious actors.
Black voters driving record early voting numbers in Harris County
Voter turnout has nearly doubled in key voting areas in the Black community since last midterm election cycle.
ESSENCE Black Women in Business Luncheon Honors Tamron Hall, Anifa Mvuemba And More
ESSENCE’s 2026 Black Women in Business Luncheon at Villa Lewaro honored Ayiko Broyard, Tamron Hall, Sarah Curtis Henry and Anifa Mvuemba.
After transforming Georgia politics, Black women seek power of their own
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This Black-owned business has gotten fans to Birmingham’s biggest event for nearly 20 years
The Vector Group has provided shuttle services for Birmingham's Magic City Classic for 18 years.
In Savannah, Keisha Lance Bottoms pushes small business plan as governor's race stays razor-thin
In Savannah, Keisha Lance Bottoms pushed a plan to help small businesses, including Black-owned firms, compete for state contracts as the governor’s race remains nearly tied.
LAFC clinch Audi 2026 MLS Cup Playoffs spot
By MLSsoccer staffLAFC have qualified for the Audi 2026 MLS Cup Playoffs, clinching their spot following a 2-2 draw vs. arch-rivals LA Galaxy on Sunday.With two regular-season matches left, the Black ...
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced gets its last major update, adding New Game+ and other new features
Nightmare difficulty and new easter eggs have been added to the game…
Sunderland vs Leeds – Predicted lineup and team news
Sunderland host Leeds United at the Stadium of Light on Sunday, looking to move away from the bottom of the Premier League standings and end a difficult run of results.The Black Cats head into the gam...
‘State of Black Fort Wayne’ report reveals persistent gaps in jobs, housing and health
City and community leaders are calling for action after new data detailed how Black people in Fort Wayne and Allen County are faring in jobs, education, housing and health.
Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson names new key leaders
BALTIMORE — Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson announced a new leadership team ahead of the 2027 legislative session, naming Sen. Brian Feldman majority leader and promoting several Black lawmakers to
Blackhawks Among Teams Showing Trade Interest in Capitals Winger
The trade speculation has already begun for the Chicago Blackhawks this season, with NHL insider Frank Seravalli reporting Tuesday on […]
Star Gazing: Inside ESSENCE’s 2026 Black Women In Business Celebration
Sponsored by L’Oréal Groupe, the annual luncheon welcomed leading entrepreneurs to Madam C.J. Walker’s historic estate in New York to celebrate four accomplished women making an impact in their respective industries.
Duke's John Blackwell Earns Top 10 Honor Ahead of Senior Season
This is well deserved for John and Duke.
Cold showers improve personal health while reducing carbon emissions
How can we encourage people to adopt more environmentally friendly habits? To explore this question, a psychologist at the University of Basel asked participants in a study to take cold showers. Those who stuck with the routine experienced several benefits.
Creepy, cannibalistic and cool: Exploring why black widows thrive in metro Phoenix
It’s easy to lump black widow spiders into the cast of creepy characters that crawl out of the woodwork for Halloween.They have glossy black bodies marked by a distinct blood-red hourglass. They have been known to make a meal out of their mates. And they have the potential to paralyze their prey with neurotoxic venom.But unlike ghosts, goblins or other Halloween monsters, a black widow could actually be lurking in your backyard.
How the legacy of slavery shapes health disparities today
An institution that existed more than 150 years ago is still impacting who lives and dies today. A new study co-authored by UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Manuel Galvan found that modern-day Black
High power bills, blackouts land Michigan utilities on the ballot
A ballot measure could test the limits of how states can curb corporate influence in politics.
Giant iPhone Duo Installations Spotted at Apple Fifth Avenue
Apple is preparing what appear to be giant iPhone Duo displays outside its Fifth Avenue store in New York ahead of the device's launch on Friday, October 23. Photos from users on X show the structures on the plaza beside the glass cube. Their designs are hidden by wrapping and black covers, so it remains unclear exactly how Apple will present the device. October 21, 2026 The outdoor installations accompany a substantial retail push inside the store.
Do Stormont politics stifle the non-sectarian parties?
Letters: Responding to an editorial, Boyd Black deplores Labour’s policy of not fielding candidates in Northern Ireland. Plus a letter by Declan O’Neill
Lehigh Valley Health Network Pays $800K Penalty to Resolve HIPAA Violations
Lehigh Valley Health Network has agreed to settle alleged violations of the HIPAA Rules with the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and will pay an Lehigh Valley Health Network has agreed to pay an $800,000 financial penalty to resolve alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules. The settlement stems from an investigation of a 2023 BlackCat ransomware attack involving the theft of the ePHI of almost 250,000 patients.
Minority business owners connect at Elkhart networking event
Minority business owners gathered in Elkhart to connect, share their stories and inspire each other on Thursday. The event marked the kickoff of an eight-month Black business networking series hosted by 100 Black Sons.
Peppino D'Agostino takes the stage at BRT Saturday
CUMBERLAND – Blackstone River Theatre, 549 Broad St., will present a matinee with Italian fingerstyle guitarist Peppino D’Agostino on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 3 p.m.
How construction impacts can underpin racial inequities for Lawrence business owners
When construction starts, businesses owned by Black and Brown people in Lawrence can face a tougher climb toward recovery. One city commissioner says we must “do the work” to keep building opportunities for local establishments.
Rep. Haley Stevens sidesteps whether she still supports El-Sayed, criticizes outreach to Black voters
Gov. Wes Moore, up for reelection in Maryland, campaigns in Virginia
With victory expected at home, Moore is wooing Black and veteran voters in a 2028 early presidential primary state.
How the legacy of slavery shapes health disparities today
An institution that existed more than 150 years ago is still impacting who lives and dies today. A new study co-authored by UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Manuel Galvan found that modern-day Black
Ireland Is Banning Vape Flavors. This Shop Owner Warns It Could Cost Lives.
The government says it's protecting children, but the restrictions could drive adults back to smoking and hand business to the black market.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced ‘New Game+’ update launches October 27
The final major content update for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, which adds New Game+ and other features, will launch on October 27 at 7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m. ET, publisher Ubisoft …
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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