Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data
Experimental setup: distillation on an unrelated domain This section describes the structure of our main experiments (Fig. 2).…
Scientists achieve 99.9% accurate quantum gates across 17,000 qubits
Scientists in Switzerland have come closer to building stable quantum computers after developing a swap gate made of…
Towards end-to-end automation of AI research
Our research methodology is centred around two core automated systems: an AI scientist for generating new scientific research…
Major conference catches illicit AI use — and rejects hundreds of papers
Organizers of the 2026 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) used a watermarking system to catch the use…
Major Turing computing award goes to quantum science for first time
Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard pose for a photograph next to a cryptography quilt. Credit: Lise Raymond…
This scientist is racing to predict deadly volcanic mudslides
“When lahars are significantly large, the signal can be detected up to 20 minutes before the mudslide reaches…
A large-scale randomized study of large language model feedback in peer review
Alberts, B., Hanson, B. & Kelner, K. L. Editorial: reviewing peer review. Science 321, 15–15 (2008). Article Google…
Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage
Key metrics We evaluate the Silica storage system against the following metrics: Voxel quality, Q = B/nV, is an average…
Bending Spoons launches €1.5m tech fellowship in Europe
Bending Spoons has launched a new scholarship scheme for computer science students across Europe, with funding of up…
Synthesizing scientific literature with retrieval-augmented language models
OpenScholar OpenScholar (detailed in Extended Data Fig. 1) is a new retrieval-augmented LM designed to ensure reliable, high-quality responses…