This week, the most news came from Physical World & Real-World Impact (5 items). In all, 18 items were newly checked, and 10 areas moved. There were 7 new names too — NVIDIA (Saša Zdjelar), Anthropic, CEPI, WHO AFRO, INRB.
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Physical World & Real-World Impact
Sep 24, 2026NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, EMBL-EBI and others — Released predicted 3D structures of protein complexes from more than 2,800 virus species through the AlphaFold Database — generated by accelerating AlphaFold2 with the NVIDIA BioNeMo inference runtime; says about 30% of the protein interactions are being reported to science for the first time. The BioNeMo structure prediction pipeline was open-sourced along with it. Participants include CEPI, Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the University of Glasgow
Sep 23, 2026Airbnb, OpenAI — Airbnb announced it is expanding GPT-6 Astra access across its engineering and product organizations — using it through both the OpenAI API and Amazon Bedrock. Beyond coding, it is used to pin down complex bugs, design system architecture and brainstorm development strategy, and it is also applied to search, fraud prevention, customer support and insurance claims processing. Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle said development teams are shipping about 80% more features than a year ago, and gave the example of strategy-document work that took more than 20 attempts with another model being done in 3–4
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Reasoning Models & the AGI Debate
Sep 22, 2026Anthropic — Claude Opus 5.5 released — company-reported scores: Terminal-Bench 4.0 66.4% (Opus 5: 52.3%), FrontierCode v1.1 54.4% (48.0%), GDPval-AA v2.1 1846 Elo (1708), and OSWorld 2.0 partial-credit score 81.8% (74.0%). Pricing per 1M tokens is $4 input, $20 output and $0.20 for cache reads, lower than Opus 5 ($5/$25/$0.50), and Anthropic claims 40% lower operating costs and more than 30% faster output than Opus 5. Available as claude-opus-5-5 on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Improvements in prompt-injection resistance and in safety on automated behavioral audits were also presented
Sep 22, 2026OpenAI — GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna released — two tiers below Astra: mid-range (Sol) and entry-level (Luna). Per 1M tokens, Sol costs $2/$10 and Luna $0.10/$0.50, which the company announced as a 50% cut from the equivalent GPT-5.6 models. Company-reported results: on AutomationBench, Sol (extra-high effort) scored 33.2% at $0.27 per task; on DeepSWE v1.1, Sol scored 68.8% and Luna 66.6%; and on OSWorld 2.0, Sol reached Claude Opus 5's level at about 80% lower cost
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Compute Economics & Geopolitics
Sep 23, 2026OpenAI — OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Ads to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan — bringing it to more than 60 countries. OpenAI said ads are shown only to users on the Free and Go plans, Plus, Pro and Enterprise have no ads, and conversation content is not disclosed to advertisers. Shopee is a partner in the Southeast Asian expansion, and campaigns run through agencies including dentsu, Havas Media, Omnicom Media, Publicis Groupe and WPP, as well as Ads Manager self-service. According to the company's announcement in late August 2026, ChatGPT Ads reached a $1 billion annualized revenue scale within 200 days of launch
Sep 21, 2026NVIDIA — NVIDIA launched the DSX Ready certification program — a qualification program that identifies partner products meeting the requirements of the DSX AI factory reference design. The first 2 categories are battery energy storage systems (BESS) and coolant distribution units (CDU): Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla were certified for BESS, and LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv for CDU. The aim is to turn compute capacity into real output within power, cooling, water and grid constraints, and infrastructure and software categories are to be added
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