RealFeedApp betaTop science & technology news, October 19, 2026
- Maxwell operates inside the code execution process
doubleAI launched Maxwell, a model that optimizes code execution in real time using profiling and data streams. The system adapts to hardware and environment without human intervention.
- European labs unite to develop AI
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics and Mistral signed an intent of agreement to establish a long-term strategic partnership focused on developing foundation models for scientific discovery.
- Mercury 3 runs 4–8x faster than GPT-6 Luna
The new Mercury 3 model runs at 1068 tokens per second on GPUs and supports a 1 million token context. It outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 in quality at a significantly lower cost.
- NorForge identified 20 exposed Cairn panels linked to attacks
Analysts at NorForge examined public Cairn control panels and found over 20 linked to malicious activity, including coordination of autonomous AI agents for hacking.
- Tenstorrent raises $1.5 billion at $6.2 billion valuation
Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion led by Trace Capital and Innovation X to expand Galaxy servers for running DeepSeek models and video generation.
- Disc Medicine shares rise more than 35% after positive results
Positive Phase 3 trial results show bitopertin met all primary and secondary objectives. Disc plans to resubmit its approval application by year-end.
- A5 v1.0 uses 64-bit cells for global data
The A5 system, originally created for visualization, now includes powerful libraries and tools. It uses compact 64-bit integers to represent any positions, lines, or polygonal regions on Earth.
- Merck buys Silence Therapeutics for $1.3 billion
German company Silence Therapeutics for a $1.3 billion premium of 130% to gain control of divesiran for polycythemia vera. Merck KGaA expects to close the deal in Q1 2027, with analysts rating the drug best in class.
- Town secured a $108 million Series B funding round
Founded by former Plaid CTO Jean-Denis Greze, Town raised $108 million in a Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, reaching millions in annual recurring revenue within weeks of its public launch.
- PIONEER-ALS enrollment expands before efficacy data
VectorY Therapeutics expanded the PIONEER-ALS trial from 12 to 36 participants to test VTx-002, an antibody targeting TDP-43 protein aggregates found in 97% of patients.
- Probiotics lower plasma pTau181 levels
A clinical trial showed that older adults with early cognitive impairment who took multistrain probiotics for six months saw improved cognitive test scores and reduced plasma pTau181 levels.
- Qwen-Image-Edit-2509 handles up to 3 images at once
The DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 model with 552 billion parameters and an Engram table runs on approximately 125 GB, while FLUX.3 Image Klein requires only 24 GB to process up to 10 reference images.
- Self-HPO uses RL to improve agents
Researchers introduced Self-HPO, a framework where a coding model proposes new tools for itself by analyzing its failures, then retrains under those tools.
- New controller saves tokens on real coding tasks
The system automatically identifies active micro-skills, prunes irrelevant tools, and intervenes in unproductive failure loops. Tests on Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot paired with frontier models showed average token cost dropping to 2.5% of the baseline.
- JOTROL dose taken orally over 12 weeks
Jupiter Neurosciences initiated Phase 2a trial RESET using the JOTROL micellar formulation. The clinical study involves 30 participants with Parkinson's disease.
- Study combines 100 million data points to map human immune cells
The collaboration will create a high-resolution immune dataset by profiling tens of thousands of samples with over 100 million data points using IMU's HD Immunology platform and Waters instrumentation.
- tauSTED provides higher-resolution RNA imaging at reduced depletion powers
RhoBAST-FLIM enables high-fidelity live-cell RNA imaging by exploiting fluorescence lifetime differences to suppress background while maintaining high brightness.
- HexaShell converts code into two-armed robot motions
The HexaShell system converts agent commands into robot motion using three RGB cameras and triangulation for object localization. After each failure, the agent analyzes logs, identifies the cause, and fixes tools, storing knowledge as code.
- Minecraft players beat the Ender Dragon without human intervention
Google DeepMind researchers demonstrated that four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated the Ender Dragon in Minecraft by coordinating via in-game chat and shared memory. The experiment utilized no assigned roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.
- Spin-wave imaging in YIG reveals two chirality channels via NV centers
Researchers used nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond as polarization analyzers to image Damon-Eshbach spin waves in yttrium iron garnet, separating incident and reflected waves by their handedness.
