Can AI be superhuman? Flaws in top gaming bot cast doubt

January 31, 2026

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02218-7

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In Go, two players take turns placing black and white stones on a grid to surround and capture the other player’s stones. In 2022,
researchers reported training adversarial AI bots to defeat KataGo2, the best open-source Go-playing AI system, which typically beats the best humans handily (and handlessly). Their bots found exploits that regularly beat KataGo, even though the bots were otherwise not very good — human amateurs could beat them. What’s more, humans could understand the bots’ tricks and adopt them to beat KataGo.
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Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty: Kucharski, Adam: 9781541606692: Amazon.com: Books

January 31, 2026

https://www.amazon.com/Proof-Science-Certainty-Adam-Kucharski/dp/1541606698


If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?

January 30, 2026

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On a recent rotation, his professors asked his class to work through a case using A.I. tools such as ChatGPT and OpenEvidence, an
increasingly popular medical L.L.M. that provides free access to health-care professionals.
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https://www.openevidence.com/
Cabot


Quantum Circuits’ $550 million sale brings tech success — and jobs — to New Haven | Yale News

January 30, 2026

https://news.yale.edu/2026/01/23/quantum-circuits-550-million-sale-brings-tech-success-and-jobs-new-haven


Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed | Science

January 29, 2026

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187


What Cheetahs, Armadillos and Whales Revealed About Human DNA (Published 2023)

January 29, 2026

Scientists Compare Genomes of 240 Mammals to Understand Human DNA – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/science/human-dna-genomes.html


What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies are top contenders

January 29, 2026

What will be the first AI-designed drug? These disease-fighting antibodies are top contenders

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03965-x


The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom

January 28, 2026

The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html


With AlphaGenome, Researchers Are Using A.I. to Decode the Human Blueprint – The New York Times

January 28, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/science/alphagenome-ai-deepmind-genetics.html

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But Dr. Koo and other outside experts cautioned that it represented just one step on a long road ahead. “This is not AlphaFold, and it’s not going to win the Nobel Prize,” said Mark Gerstein, a computational biologist at Yale.

AlphaGenome will be useful. Dr. Gerstein said that he would probably add it to his toolbox for exploring DNA, and others expect to follow suit. But not all scientists trust A.I. programs like AlphaGenome to help them understand the genome.

In 2021, Dr. Avsec and his colleagues unveiled a preliminary A.I. called Enformer, which they have since expanded into AlphaGenome. They trained the program on an even greater expanse of biological data. “It’s really an industrial scale,” Dr. Gerstein said
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Nature medcine “A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s dis ease pathology”

January 26, 2026

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The DROP-AD project investigates the potential of dried plasma spot (DPS) and dried blood spot (DBS) analysis, derived from capillary blood, for detecting AD biomarkers, including phosphorylated tau at amino acid 217 (p-tau217), glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light. …. Similarly, we demonstrated the successful detection of glial fibrillary acidic protein and neurofilament light with strong correlations between DBS and DPS, respectively, using paired venous plasma samples.
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Might find this paper very interesting. Just published this month in Nature Medicine. “A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology.”

A minimally invasive dried blood spot biomarker test for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease pathology – Nature Medicine
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04080-0