AI for Research

AI academic writing and literature tools for students and researchers: citation management, evidence retrieval and paper reading.

Research rarely eats time at the stage of forming a question; it eats time shuttling between finding papers, judging evidence and reading them. This collection looks at how Jenni and scite make citations and the supported-versus-contradicted signal clear, and where Elicit, Consensus and Perplexity each excel at literature search.

Google Opens Frontier Models to European Researchers: 200 Places and $3 Million in Compute

Google is not launching a new model this time; it is handing out access to a set of existing frontier tools. On October 14, 2026, Google announced on ...

Admin 10/14/2026

NVIDIA Puts $250 Million of Compute Behind UK Agentic Safety Research Over Five Years

NVIDIA is paying in compute, not cash. On October 14, 2026, the company announced in an official news release a five-year compute donation valued at $...

Admin 10/14/2026

DeepGEM 2.0 Reads a Pathology Slide and Prescreens 12 Lung Cancer Gene Targets in One Minute

DeepGEM 2.0 was released on October 10, 2026, in Guangzhou: the National Center for Respiratory Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou...

Admin 10/11/2026

Nikon revokes a microscopy video title: how far can AI post-processing go before it counts as generation?

Nikon announced on October 9, 2026 that the original winning entry of its 2026 Small World in Motion microscopy video competition did not comply with ...

Admin 10/10/2026

Can't Find the References an AI Gave You? Four Steps to Check Whether They Are Fabricated

If the references an AI gave you cannot be found in any database, the odds are you did not search wrong — it fabricated them: plausible authors, journ...

Admin 10/10/2026

ARC-AGI-2 High Score Refresh: Tufa Labs Tops the Board at 88.06%, Past the 85% Bonus Line

The ARC-AGI-2 high-score board was refreshed on October 9, 2026: ARC Prize officially announced that Tufa Labs had reached 88.06%, taking first place ...

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Claude Science assembles the first complete ultraviolet sky map, with a third of the sky never observed

Claude Science did something that had been postponed for years, in a research post Anthropic published on October 8, 2026: Johns Hopkins astrophysicis...

Admin 10/9/2026

$OpenAI released 700-plus AI math proofs at once: why mathematicians are calling for a boycott$

OpenAI released 700-plus AI math proofs at once: why mathematicians are calling for a boycott

OpenAI published 719 mathematical manuscripts generated by an internal model on October 6, 2026. On October 8, TechCrunch and The Decoder both reporte...

Admin 10/9/2026