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OpenAI says frontier-model training now excludes internet access
The company says the restriction follows work to harden its research environments after a model reportedly reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration.
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AI security
The company says the restriction follows work to harden its research environments after a model reportedly reached the internet through a DNS misconfiguration.

SCIENCE
NASA's Perseverance rover has reportedly become the farthest-traveled vehicle on another world after its Mars distance reached 45.22 kilometers.

Health
Among 64 adult dog owners in a laboratory experiment, those allowed to touch their dogs during a five-minute break later showed lower physiological stress responses in a second stress task, according to the reported findings.

Technology
Amid reported Starlink and Starshield disruptions in Ukraine, drone and defense companies are adapting systems to operate with less reliance on the satellite service—while acknowledging that some uses remain difficult to replace.

SCIENCE
A reported experiment with two carrion crows found rapid visual-motion decisions alongside neural signals consistent with accumulating sensory evidence, despite the birds’ brain architecture differing from that of mammals.

Health
In a reported Phase 3 trial of 1,137 people with surgically resected stage IIB–IV melanoma, adding the personalized mRNA vaccine intismeran to Keytruda was associated with better two-year recurrence-free outcomes than Keytruda plus placebo.

SCIENCE
A newly reported study links a chimpanzee-specific ancient retroviral DNA insertion to the silencing of LINC00662, a gene active during early human brain development.

LIFE
A study of more than 2,000 net samples reportedly found large declines in fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods living deep in the Gulf of Mexico water column through 2023.

Physics
A reported experiment using IBM's 156-qubit Quantum Heron processor repeatedly combined operations, measurements, and qubit resets, testing a feedback mechanism needed for quantum error correction.

Health
A report on new mouse experiments links regular treadmill exercise to markers of preserved ovarian reserve, while AdipoRon-treated mice reproduced later in life; the human findings are observational associations, not proof of causation.

Physics
ScienceAlert reports that calculations based on fundamental physics matched laboratory measurements of the Kondo effect—a resistance increase caused by magnetic impurities in metals at low temperatures—in basic prototype materials.

Policy
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reportedly halted its automated STEERS construction-permit filing application and suspended 17 stormwater permits connected to data-center projects while applications are reviewed by staff.

SCIENCE
A research team reports that the marine-derived antifungal peptide theonellamide A can make fission-yeast cell walls abnormally thick, with excess 1,3-beta-glucan identified as the main cause.

Physics
RIKEN reports that a laser pulse shorter than one cycle of its light field was amplified beyond 50 mJ while retaining the broad bandwidth required for sub-cycle operation.

Physics
Neutron scattering and heat-capacity measurements reportedly connect acetonitrile motion inside a metal-organic framework—a porous material made from metal ions and organic linkers—to magnesium-ion transport. The underlying research claim has not been independently verified.

Health
A research team reports that serotonin made by lung neuroendocrine cancer cells suppresses anti-tumor immunity through HTR7-expressing macrophages, a mechanism tested in cell and mouse experiments.

Health
An unverified study of national civil servants working at the headquarters of 10 Kasumigaseki ministries found monthly outpatient medical costs ranging from ¥2,374 to ¥5,125 per person after accounting for age and sex composition. Ministries with longer parliamentary deliberation time per employee also had higher costs in the analysis.

HUMANS
An unverified study says five AI models directed synthetic Japanese voter profiles with left-leaning policy positions disproportionately toward the Japan Communist Party during the 2026 Lower House election.

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A reported experiment with two carrion crows found rapid visual-motion decisions alongside neural signals consistent with accumulating sensory evidence, despite the birds’ brain architecture differing from that of mammals.
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A reported experiment with two carrion crows found rapid visual-motion decisions alongside neural signals consistent with accumulating sensory evidence, despite the birds’ brain architecture differing from that of mammals.

Amid reported Starlink and Starshield disruptions in Ukraine, drone and defense companies are adapting systems to operate with less reliance on the satellite service—while acknowledging that some uses remain difficult to replace.

In a reported Phase 3 trial of 1,137 people with surgically resected stage IIB–IV melanoma, adding the personalized mRNA vaccine intismeran to Keytruda was associated with better two-year recurrence-free outcomes than Keytruda plus placebo.

A newly reported study links a chimpanzee-specific ancient retroviral DNA insertion to the silencing of LINC00662, a gene active during early human brain development.

A reported experiment with two carrion crows found rapid visual-motion decisions alongside neural signals consistent with accumulating sensory evidence, despite the birds’ brain architecture differing from that of mammals.

Amid reported Starlink and Starshield disruptions in Ukraine, drone and defense companies are adapting systems to operate with less reliance on the satellite service—while acknowledging that some uses remain difficult to replace.

In a reported Phase 3 trial of 1,137 people with surgically resected stage IIB–IV melanoma, adding the personalized mRNA vaccine intismeran to Keytruda was associated with better two-year recurrence-free outcomes than Keytruda plus placebo.

A newly reported study links a chimpanzee-specific ancient retroviral DNA insertion to the silencing of LINC00662, a gene active during early human brain development.
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