LLMs Can Now Self-Improve at Coding as Artemis II Crosses the Halfway Point to the Moon

Apple researchers showed that LLMs can self-improve at coding through Simple Self-Distillation, sampling their own outputs and fine-tuning on them with no verifier, teacher, or reinforcement learning. This lifted Qwen3-30B-Instruct from 42.4% to 55.3% on LiveCodeBench, with gains concentrating on the hardest problems.

Meta researchers translated an entire graduate math textbook into Lean using 30,000 LLM agents. Lean is a programming language for writing mathematical proofs that a computer can verify. This turns proof into a parallelizable compute job.

Open-source labs are now training mRNA language models across 25 species for just $165.

Gladstone Institutes and NVIDIA unveiled MaxToki, a temporal model trained on nearly a trillion gene tokens that simulates cell-state trajectories across the human lifespan to program therapeutic interventions against diseases of aging.

Microsoft has quietly admitted its Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. Redmond has now applied the name "Copilot" to 78 separately marketed products and added a physical Copilot key for summoning them.

OpenAI's Codex has modified the DOOM engine so players can walk up to a rendered Codex terminal inside the game and ask it to work on their code mid-level.

Developers are cutting Claude Code token usage roughly 75% by making Claude talk like a caveman while keeping full technical accuracy.

Anthropic has effectively banned OpenClaw from non-API Claude by making subscribers pay extra for third-party tool access.

Elon says the new Tesla chip research fab will host logic, memory, packaging, and masks in one building for a fast dev cycle.

Almost half of US data centers planned for this year are expected to be delayed or canceled due to a shortage of transformers, switchgear, and batteries, despite electrical gear representing under 10% of total cost.

Microsoft is investing $10 billion in Japan by 2029 to expand AI infrastructure and cyber cooperation.

IRENA reports renewables accounted for 85.6% of new global capacity last year, pushing renewables to 49.4% of total installed capacity worldwide.

CU Boulder researchers discovered para-tyramine-O-sulphate in python blood, an appetite-suppressing compound that lets snakes eat enormous meals and fast for months while staying metabolically healthy. It suppressed food intake and weight in obese mice without the nausea of GLP-1s.

The average age of AI-unicorn founders fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024.

A field experiment on 515 high-growth startups found that firms given information about AI reorganization used 44% more AI, completed 12% more tasks, and generated 1.9x higher revenue.

Roughly 800 US court sanctions have now been issued against attorneys for filing AI-hallucinated briefs.

Colorado's new automated vehicle ID system computes average speed across multiple cameras and auto-tickets anyone 10 mph over the limit.

The UK is courting Anthropic for a dual US-UK IPO listing amid the lab's Department of War fight.

The Artemis II crew has crossed the halfway point to the Moon, now closer to the lunar surface than to Earth. They are carrying modified iPhones as their primary cameras in a NASA first.

Commander Reid Wiseman captured "Hello, World," showing Earth eclipsing the Sun with twin auroras and zodiacal light. Zodiacal light is a faint glow caused by sunlight scattering off dust in the solar system.

Victor Glover became the first Black astronaut to travel to deep space.

Planet Labs will indefinitely withhold satellite visuals of Iran at US government request.