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Jack Clark reports on AI research benchmarks, open-weight models, and the prospect of AI-driven activity in space. Elorian and Scale AI’s Humanity’s Sixth Sense benchmark finds a wide gap between people, who score 93.1, and the top AI system, GPT 6 Astra, which scores 53.6. P-Zero Research’s TasteVal finds frontier models’ research taste doubling every three months, leading Clark to view full recursive self-improvement in 2027 as more likely. Reflection’s Beam uses less inference compute than comparable models but trails Chinese models on several benchmarks.
Oct 2026 · Import AINews article
A consortium of U.S. government agencies, technology companies and research groups commits $1.8 billion to build biology datasets for AI models. The Department of Energy contributes more than $500 million over five years, while Biohub commits $400 million to research and external projects, including collecting cell data with microscopy. NIH provides access to existing datasets, and Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta contribute $300 million together.
Oct 2026 · SiliconANGLENews article
Seattle startup Chiplytics raises $4.5 million to deploy its microelectronics verification technology and establish an inspection facility in Bellport, N.Y. Its AI-, automation- and robotics-enabled system screens every electronic component for counterfeits, substitutions, inconsistencies and quality issues, rather than testing samples. The funding includes $2.5 million in seed financing and a $2 million Air Force award, with Scout Ventures and Waypoint Ventures leading the round.
Oct 2026 · GeekWireNews article
The University of Washington breaks ground on its $231.1 million Chemical Sciences Building, a five-story, 104,500-square-foot facility for chemistry instruction and research. The project receives $129 million from Washington state, with the remaining construction funding from the UW’s College of Arts & Sciences, the university and private donations; funding for a renovation of adjacent Bagley Hall remains unidentified. The building is slated to open in 2029 and will support work in sustainable chemistry, human health, advanced materials and quantum science.
Sep 2026 · GeekWireNews article
