This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 8)
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Summary
This week’s round up of the best science and tech stories from around the web includes news that AlphaGeometry2, a product of Google’s AI research branch Deep Mind, has outperformed all human contestants in this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad; hopeful news for patients suffering from kidney cancer, as three years after an experimental vaccine was administered to trial participants, they are yet to show any signs of the disease; a report from mobile security company NowSecure has discovered that the DeepSeek iOS app sends sensitive data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers; OpenAI has claimed its new agent can conduct complex, multi-step online research into everything from scientific studies to personalised bike recommendations, claiming to perform better than human analysts; Anthropic unveils the strongest defence yet against AI jailbreaks; Apple is developing a tabletop robot for the home; and Chinese scientists develop an AI chip the size of a grain of salt that uses light physics to analyse data using a fraction of the energy.