The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across the entire tree of life, Evo 2 can identify patterns in gene sequences across ...

Anthropic just released the second Claude model upgrade this month. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the first upgrade to Anthropic’s medium-sized AI model since version 4.5 arrived in September 2025. Anthropic ...

Qwen3.5 comes in an open-weight and hosted API version, with the company advertising improvements in performance and costs from previous versions. Qwen3.5 supports new agentic capabilities and is ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — Rivermont Collegiate in Bettendorf has announced that its early schooling will transition to a year-round model in August of 2026. School leaders said the change is based on ...

Anthropic is out with a new model called Claude Opus 4.6, an upgrade to its top-of-the-line Opus 4.5 model that launched in November. The new release could add new capabilities to Anthropic’s Claude ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

OpenAI is releasing a new app called Prism today, and it hopes it does for science what coding agents like Claude Code and its own Codex platform have done for programming. Prism builds on Crixet, a ...

After federal judges blocked HHS’ 340B rebate pilot program from taking effect Jan. 1, HHS is discussing whether to reconsider the drug manufacturers’ plans, according to court documents. On Jan. 7, ...

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several ...

Something to look forward to: The reports that Nvidia was to unveil DLSS 4.5 with 6x dynamic frame generation at CES have proved accurate. The company says that the update to its suite of AI-powered ...

The United States is expected to adopt the vaccine schedule used by Denmark, a much smaller country with universal health care. By Amelia Nierenberg and Maya Tekeli Amelia Nierenberg reported from ...