Anthropic study finds men use AI coding agents more than twice as often as women in social science research

Researchers with typically male names use coding agents more than twice as often as those with typically female names, even within the same discipline and career level, according to an Anthropic study [...]

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton says pure generative AI can't do real science

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton sees a central weakness in conventional generative AI: it can't evaluate its own results. Without that ability, real scientific discovery remains impossible: no [...]

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with major gains in coding and science

Anthropic ships two new models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, that claim to blow past the current Opus generation, especially in coding and research. Fable 5 finished a code migration for Stripe in one [...]

Microsoft researcher builds a working neural network out of goats in Age of Empires II to critique AI science

A Microsoft researcher built a working neural network out of goats, bridges, and ice ramps in the Age of Empires II map editor. What looks like a joke is a pointed critique of AI research methods. His [...]

Google Cloud will sell specialist AI models built for science

Google is adding SandboxAQ’s ‘large quantitative models’ to its cloud marketplace, pairing Gemini with AI trained on scientific equations and laboratory data. The large language models that powe [...]

June research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

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Editorial: It's time to step up and have your say for science

Your comments on a dangerous rule putting politicals in charge of science can matter. [...]

US computer-science enrolment just fell for the first time in 20 years

Computer science was the safe bet. For twenty years, enrolment in the US only went up. In the 2025-26 academic year, it went down. The reversal The finding comes from Jacob Light, an economist at Stan [...]

AI coding agents can modernize research software but can't judge if the science is right

A field report from OpenAI and academic partners shows coding agents can modernize neglected research software, with speedups of up to 60x. But the systems are "eloquent, convincing, and confiden [...]