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arXiv now limits submitters to two papers per calendar month and three active submissions, citing a surge in AI-assisted submissions that doubled volume in two years.

A Google study finds AI agents that first write a semi-formal specification before generating tests catch 9.8 percentage points more real bugs than agents that generate tests directly.

A Nature study reports stacking three silicon transistor layers with 98-100% yields using bonding temperatures no higher than 200°C, offering a route to denser chips without smaller transistors.

DeepMind's multi-agent AI workbench sets a new benchmark record on research-level mathematics and assisted an Oxford topologist in resolving an open problem from the Kourovka Notebook.

Powell and Buchalter show in Physical Review B that periodically switched magnetic fluxes through a Harper-Hofstadter lattice can produce topological phases that no equilibrium material can host.

Physicists at the University of Wurzburg used a gallium arsenide quantum film cooled to -269.15 C to measure KPZ scaling exponents in 2D, four years after the 1D version was confirmed.

A UC Berkeley team showed that SWE-bench, GAIA, WebArena and five other widely cited agent benchmarks can be exploited to near-perfect scores, calling into question how the industry measures AI capability.

Researchers at Northwestern University have used aerosol jet printing to create flexible artificial neurons that generate biologically realistic signals and directly activate living neural tissue.

A PNAS paper from Harvard's Mahadevan lab shows that adding tuned noise to robot movement prevents gridlock in dense swarms, with physical validation at Eindhoven University of Technology.

Legged metamachines evolved by AI traverse rugged terrain, self-right when flipped, and continue operating after losing limbs, in research published in PNAS.

Microsoft Research published a Nature paper showing ordinary borosilicate glass can store 4.8 TB of data for over 10,000 years, extending its Project Silica archival storage technology to everyday materials.