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Ars Technica 4 weeks ago 50
Scientists working on the Vesuvius Challenge used machine-learning “digital unwrapping” to target Herculaneum’s charred papyrus scrolls without physically unrolling them.
The New York Times 4 weeks ago 16 ● 4 sources
Researchers at Janelia Research Campus, working with Google, published a complete map of an adult male fruit fly brain. The map covers 166,000 neurons. They report the map can be trained to complete tasks and demonstrate it on examples like parallel parking and playing Doom.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 49
Loci launched as a free, open-source desktop workspace for scientific image analysis and annotation without a cloud account or subscription. It is currently public beta for Apple Silicon Macs, with the page showing 19 followers. It adds local microscopy/3D viewing plus cell counting, measuring, and export of traceable results, with optional built-in analysis or compatible model packages.
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15 October 2026
OpenAI’s DevDay set the tone for how AI products are tightening around cost, computation, and agents—while legal pressure keeps reminding everyone that capability doesn’t ship in a vacuum. The headline was GPT-6.1 Sol and its Dots autonomous agent, positioned for higher tool-call volume and longer internal runs. Pricing is blunt: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, pitched as roughly one-fifth the per-task cost of GPT-6 Astra. The catch is availability and scope—Dots is rolling out only to specific ChatGPT plans, while the overall direction is clear: more work moved from chat into orchestration, where agents do the scheduling, retrieval, and stepwise execution.
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