A former Microsoft Research leader has written that the AI Frontiers (AIF) sub-organization, a roughly 50-person group formed in 2023 after ChatGPT's release to pursue coordinated AI research, has ended. The group had worked on agent frameworks like Autogen and the Fara computer-use agent, alongside fundamental research such as the Next Latent objective, Dion3, and the Full Bandwidth Transformer, and had built a shared monorepo used across Microsoft Research.
hunch.net
· 2026-11-07
Colombian researchers tested 52 healthy men, half standing and half sitting while urinating, measuring maximum flow rate and total volume voided. The study, published in Neurourology and Urodynamics, found no significant difference between postures except that sitting slightly shortened the time to reach peak flow.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-07
Researchers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University used a ground-based GPS receiver network to analyze the April Artemis II launch, finding it carved two roughly 5,000 km-wide holes in Earth's ionosphere. The disturbance, measured via delays in GPS satellite signals, was reportedly about ten times stronger than disruptions recorded during SpaceX Starship test flights.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-07
An executive coach who works with C-suite leaders at founder-run companies says many executives are hired with job descriptions promising authority over strategy or operations, only to find founders unwilling to relinquish control of those areas. The coach cites Bain research showing founder-led companies have delivered more than twice the shareholder returns of other companies over the past decade. Based on client experience, the coach outlines methods executives use to navigate this gap, including testing what founders will actually delegate and identifying the informal circle of advisers who influence founder decisions.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-11-06
A marketing commentary describes executive meetings where leaders debate how to 'connect with Gen Z' despite no young people being present in the room. The author argues that data alone cannot substitute for direct listening and participation with the audiences brands are trying to reach.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-11-06
Anthropic analyzed 207,000 Claude and Claude Code research sessions using privacy-preserving methods to map how scientists use the AI across fields and tasks. It found heavier relative use in formal sciences like computer science, mathematics and statistics, and lighter use in health and lab-based physical sciences, with data analysis and writing dominating usage—accounting for roughly a third of Claude sessions and nearly half of Claude Code sessions.
anthropic.com
· 2026-11-06
OpenAI uploaded more than 700 AI-generated mathematical manuscripts to a public preprint repository in early October, claiming new mathematical results pending verification. Mathematicians have criticized the papers as sloppy and hard to verify, noting no human author is credited to take responsibility for the arguments, and OpenAI has not signed the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, which calls for clear citation and disclosure practices.
nature.com
· 2026-11-06
A writer who moved from Microsoft's Windows AI team to a research engineer role at Salesforce AI Research describes how their AI use has evolved over the past year, now spending about $3,000 a month on tokens. They continue using AI for coding, research, summarization, writing, and art, adding voice and video generation, and have drafted a personal policy governing how they use AI in daily life.
ben.stolovitz.com
· 2026-11-03
A Chinese research vessel loitering near an undersea cable off the Philippines ignored radio contact, broadcast a false ID, and maneuvered to avoid being intercepted in September, according to Nikkei Asia. The Philippines dispatched its largest coast guard ship in response, and a Chinese coastguard vessel also intervened, with Beijing later complaining of harassment, per the South China Morning Post.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-03
The National Science Foundation funded fewer than 100 new social-science grants in fiscal year 2026, down from a historical average of about 850 per year, according to data from Grant Witness and the NSF itself. Entire programme areas, including archaeology and economics, received no new awards at all, even as the agency touted that 75 Nobel economics laureates had previously received NSF support.
nature.com
· 2026-11-03
President Trump signed an executive order in October establishing a presidential task force on women's health and directing the NIH to create a Women's Health Division within an existing institute. The move echoes earlier efforts, including the 1993 NIH Revitalization Act under Clinton and a 2023 Biden initiative that sought $12 billion in congressional funding for women's health research but was not ultimately appropriated.
nature.com
· 2026-11-03
Leaders from several academic institutions have announced the creation of an institute designed to bring researchers from the sciences, social sciences and humanities together for extended, in-person collaboration. The initiative aims to tackle complex global challenges—such as AI, climate change, health, the economy, migration and democracy—that the founders say cannot be addressed within single academic disciplines.
nature.com
· 2026-11-03
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