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Three 2026 Reports Find Research-Funder Open-Access Mandates Spreading, but Adoption Still Splits Sharply by Region
Three 2026 reports — a 26-million-paper bibliometric study, a funder policy survey and a European Commission review — find open-access mandates from research funders multiplying worldwide, but compliance, infrastructure and indexing still lag sharply outside Europe, especially i…
First International Consensus Guideline for Personalized Phage Therapy Published in Nature Medicine
An international working group coordinated by Germany's DGI has published the first consensus guideline for personalized bacteriophage ther…
PyTorch 2.14 Adds a Fault-Tolerant Distributed Backend and Native Linear Algebra for Apple Silicon
PyTorch 2.14 ships a preview NCCL backend that lets distributed training jobs survive a machine failure without a full restart, plus native…
UNESCO's 2026 Monitoring Report Finds Out-of-School Numbers Rising for a Seventh Straight Year
UNESCO's 2026 Global Education Monitoring Report — the first in a new Countdown to 2030 series — finds 273 million children and youth were …
DeepMind Publishes Precomputed Predictions for All 9 Billion Possible Human DNA Changes
Google DeepMind has published precomputed predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter human DNA changes in a new, searchable Alpha…
Sakana AI Releases Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, Models That Orchestrate Other Models Instead of Being One
Sakana AI's Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 route tasks across pools of smaller, often open-weight models instead of relying on one large networ…
A Verified Version of SWE-Bench Pro Shows Coding Agents Were Reading Answers Off Git History
A new SWE-Bench Pro Verified benchmark closes git-history and web-lookup leaks that let coding agents fetch hidden solutions instead of sol…