Science & Technology — September 9, 2026

Anthropic researcher warns AI 'could kill all humans.' A senior safety researcher put the odds above 10% by decade's end, hours after a colleague resigned saying AI labs are 'gambling with our lives.'

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DeepMind atlas maps every human gene mutation. Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas forecasts the consequences of all 9 billion possible human gene mutations, a tool that could transform understanding of genetic disease.

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Physicists observe quantum gravity effect for first time. Using ultracold atoms, researchers directly observed a long-predicted quantum effect of gravity, putting one of Einstein's foundational ideas to a new test.

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OpenAI claims solution to Millennium math problem. The company says 10,000 AI agents solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes fluids problem in 88 hours; mathematicians immediately challenged the proof's validity and provenance.

The Navier-Stokes problem, which concerns the physics of fluids, is one of the Millennium Prize challenges carrying a $1 million award and is considered among the toughest puzzles in mathematics. According to Nature, the company's formal announcement said 10,000 agents produced the result, but mathematicians raised objections almost immediately, questioning both whether the proof holds up and where it originated.

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