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🔬 An AI Scientist Just Made a Discovery by Running Its Own Lab Experiments We’ve seen AI write scientific papers. We’ve seen it predict proteins and search enormous biological databases. This is different. Researchers built a closed-loop AI scientist connected to a physical laboratory. It can generate a hypothesis, design an experiment, turn that experiment into instructions for laboratory automation, analyze the resulting data — and then decide what to investigate next. The system was given knowledge about Saccharomyces cerevisiae — ordinary baker’s yeast — including roughly 60,000 known…

Meanwhile, something interesting is happening on Telegram: @gadget is officially up for auction. Yes — the actual @gadget username. Telegram usernames can be turned into blockchain-based collectibles and traded through Fragment. Whoever wins the auction gets control of the handle and can assign it to a Telegram account, channel, group or bot. And @gadget is exactly the kind of digital property that could be valuable: short, memorable, universally understandable and sitting right in the middle of the global tech industry. It’s a strange new category of internet real estate — not a domain na…

⚡️ GPT-6 Astra deciphered a letter to a Napoleonic marshal that nobody had been able to read for 217 years Researcher Carter Church used GPT-6 Astra to decipher an encrypted letter to Marshal Auguste de Marmont, one of Napoleon's generals. The letter is dated March 1809, and the model took about six hours to do the whole job. The first step was simply to extract readable text from a poor scan of the manuscript. Astra recognised 1,300 cipher characters, among which there turned out to be 155 distinct signs. The model then found a published partial key by French cryptology historian Daniel Ta…