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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-20 | by Anthony Ha | get DeepMind Research Notebook → | tags: nobel prize, alphafold, deepmind

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The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | by Sascha Brodsky | get Memory Foam Mattress → | tags: kavli prize, oswald steward, synapses

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The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory – IBM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | by Sascha Brodsky | get IBM Memory Storage Device → | tags: ibm, neuroscience, neurons

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TikTok Shoppers Thought They Were Bidding on iPhones. Instead, They Won Teddy Bears (wired.com)

2026-06-16 | by Reece Rogers | get Smartphone Bidding Teddy Bear → | tags: tiktok, apple, prize wheel

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Feynmann's solved ‘restaurant dilemma’ 50 years ago — now a study confirms his mathematics (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-01 | by Castelvecchi | get Game Theory Strategy Board → | tags: feynman, nobel prize, restaurant dilemma

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The literary world isn’t prepared for AI (theverge.com)

2026-05-22 | by Gadel Valle | get AI Writing Assistant Tool → | tags: language models, granta, commonwealth short story prize

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Regional Winners of Prestigious Literary Prize Suspected of Using Chatbots (slashdot.org)

2026-05-20 | get AI Writing Assistant Tool → | tags: commonwealth short story prize, chatgpt, ai-generated stories

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Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal (wired.com)

2026-05-19 | by Miles Klee | get AI Literary Analysis Tool → | tags: commonwealth foundation, granta, chatgpt

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25 years of chemistry that simply clicks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Davis | get Molecular Model Kit → | tags: click chemistry, sharpless, nobel prize

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Pulitzer Prize Winner in International Reporting (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | tags: international, international reporting, prize

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Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | tags: pulitzer prize, winners, 2026

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The predictable failure of the QDay Prize (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-26 | by Craig Gidney | tags: quantum cryptanalysis, shor’s algorithm, quantum error correction

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Kellogg’s just dropped something inside cereal boxes you haven’t seen in years (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-24 | get Kellogg's Cereal Collector's Toy → | tags: kellogg's, cereal boxes, toy-filled

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How to impress the Nature Awards judges (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Hobson | get Nature Awards Trophy → | tags: nature awards, spinoff prize, gut microbiota

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A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | get AI Safety Book → | tags: yasha bengio, deep learning, turing prize

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get Survival Solar Power Kit → | tags: nobel prize, physicist, humankind

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Magnetic muon measurements and gene-therapy advances win US$3 million Breakthrough prizes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-18 | by Merali | get Breakthrough Prize Trophy → | tags: muon, fermilab, standard model

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Arc Prize Foundation (YC W26) Is Hiring a Platform Engineer for ARC-AGI-4 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get Arc AGI Development Kit → | tags: arc-prize foundation, arc-agi-4, platform engineer

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ARC-AGI-3 benchmark is out now (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-25 | get AI Benchmark Smartphone Test → | tags: arc, agi, arc prize

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This new benchmark could expose AI’s biggest weakness (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-25 | get AI Benchmark Testing Kit → | tags: arc-agi-3, françois chollet, autonomous ai

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Mathematician who reshaped number theory wins prestigious Abel prize (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-19 | by Castelvecchi | get Number Theory Puzzle Book → | tags: abel prize, gerd faltings, diophantine equations

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Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns (arstechnica.com)

2026-03-10 | get Nobel Prize → | tags: ig nobel prizes, boston, switzerland

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Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new ‘Star Trek’ (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Julie Bort | get Neuralink → | tags: star trek, xprize, google

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Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-09 | by Julie Bort | get Neuralink → | tags: star trek, xprize, google

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Willingness to look stupid (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-09 | tags: nobel prize, richard hamming, shannon

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The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-07 | by Ted Gioia | get Midlist → | tags: pulitzer prize, new york publishing, book club

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Talk to Your Own Personal Isaac Newton With Ailias’s Hologram Avatars (wired.com)

2026-02-25 | by Dulcie Godfrey | get Holographic avatars → | tags: ailias, aristotle, nobel prize

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The Wolfram S Combinator Challenge (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | get Combinator → | tags: wolfram foundation, wolfram s combinator challenge, prize money

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Quantum computing firm dangles $22,500 Bitcoin prize — all you have to do is uncover a private key hidden inside a quantum-optimized problem (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Quantum computer → | tags: advantage, bluequbit, challenge

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Fortnite blocks creators from selling prize wheel spins (theverge.com)

2026-01-16 | by Jay Peters | get Game Wheel → | tags: allowed, allowed luck, bundle