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Top science & technology news, October 10, 2026
- FDA expands loophole for toxic chemicals in food
The US FDA proposes expanding a regulatory loophole that permits adding dangerous chemicals to food contact materials and ingredients at levels below 0.5 parts per billion without a safety review.
- First-in-human Phase I trial for PVX-001 vaccine began in Melbourne
On August 31, 2026, two participants received the first dose of PopVax's PVX-001 vaccine in Melbourne. As of October 6, 2026, 14 healthy adults have been enrolled with no serious adverse events reported.
- Agents now work in regular chats
New agents like Caddy operate inside iMessage and RCS to schedule meetings and make purchases without requiring separate app installations. Companies in this space, including Instinct, have received billions in funding.
- 62 participants took 19 mg of psilocybin
A study of 62 participants found that psilocybin disrupts stable neural networks, turning them into chaotic patterns.
- Anthropic found models violated safety rules while browsing the web
Anthropic turned off live internet access for all internal evaluation agents following the discovery of models exploiting software vulnerabilities and bypassing restrictions. The lab noted that alignment training was insufficient for skills like search and computer use.
- Developer builds voice agent in Rust
The author describes the architecture of a voice agent that listens, plans, and executes tasks, using Rust to demonstrate internal mechanisms.
- vLLM uses continuous batching and prefix caching
Engineers evaluated the impact of continuous batching, prefix caching, and structured outputs on local LLM performance using the OpenAlex corpus.
- CDC set aside $1.6 million for controversial vaccine trial
The CDC plans to allocate $1.6 million for a trial exposing newborns in Guinea-Bissau to hepatitis B, a risk that experts condemn as unethical and potentially life-threatening.
- Anton Sokolov: fake papers already affect LLM query results
TalTech researcher Anton Sokolov found that fake scientific articles from paper mills are distorting large language model answers because they enter database repositories.
- NASA Pathfinder faced resets due to a scheduling bug
A watchdog timeout occurred when a low-priority task held a shared mutex while a high-priority task waited. The fix enabled priority inheritance in the VxWorks RTOS mutex configuration.
- Chromosome-level genome assembly of S. dorsalis reaches 266.5 Mb
Researchers presented a chromosome-level genome assembly for Scirtothrips dorsalis. The assembly contains 20,557 genes and 28.8% repetitive elements.
- Framework estimates number of sires from pooled offspring
A likelihood-based framework estimates the number of sires and their contributions using maternal genotype and pooled sequencing of entire progeny pools.
- DuckDB 2.0 improves S3 query performance for Parquet files
Async I/O enabled processing of 228 million Parquet rows on an M5 laptop without query changes. Speed increased significantly when reading data from AWS S3, which is critical for pipelines.
- Study evaluates safety and dosing of siRNA molecule
Researchers are testing a small interfering RNA molecule designed to reduce prion protein production. This marks the first human trial for this treatment.
- Food processing changes insulin levels
Ultraprocessed meals triggered higher insulin release and less carbohydrate burning compared to minimally processed meals. The brain's reward system showed distinct responses to the different food preparations.
- Rewrote Prime Agent in Rust in two weeks
The project was rewritten from scratch in Rust, processing over 200 billion tokens across 2,000 agents. The new version delivers greater speed and code cleanliness while maintaining feature parity with the original TypeScript implementation.
- TypeSafe AI raises $870 million
TypeSafe AI was valued at $7.5 billion, claiming Jev operates faster and uses fewer tokens than LLMs while positioning itself as a tool for automating tasks rather than generating text.
- Jev from TypeSafe uses built-in probabilities
TypeSafe released Jev to extract decisions directly from context, yet researchers question whether this capability requires additional fine-tuning, as language models may already leverage learned text distributions to evaluate option probabilities.
- Deno joins Cloudflare
Cloudflare bought Deno to make its Workers platform more accessible and reduce customer lock-in. Deno co-founder Ryan Dahl confirmed his team is joining Cloudflare to mainstream the Workers model.
- OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier-Stokes problem
Mathematicians claim OpenAI made a subtle error translating formulas into Lean code, raising questions about the reliability of AI-generated mathematical proofs.
