Science & Tech news · 24 October 2026
UK Commits £600 Million to AI Security, Including World's First AI Biosecurity Lab
The British government announced a £600 million package to guard against AI-amplified biological and cyber threats, with a new AI Biosecurity Lab at its centre and model credits pledged by OpenAI and Anthropic.
Close to 2,000 AI Agents Analyse a Mouse-Brain Gene Atlas in 32 Minutes
OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research deployed close to 2,000 GPT-Rosalind agents in parallel to analyse a mouse-brain CRISPR dataset in 32 minutes, surfacing new leads for conditions including tuberous sclerosis and Perry syndrome.
China's Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3-Trillion-Parameter Model That Beats GPT-6 Astra on Coding
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro on 23 October 2026, a post-trained upgrade to its Kimi K3 model that outperforms GPT-6 Astra on key coding and financial benchmarks and will be open-sourced by 4 November 2026.
Two-Year Clinical Trial Finds Fish Oil Supplements Do Not Protect the Brain Against Alzheimer's
A rigorous two-year trial by University of Southern California researchers found that high-dose omega-3 fish oil supplements successfully reached the brain but produced no improvement in memory or prevention of hippocampus shrinkage in older adults at Alzheimer's risk.