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Funnel chart showing the AI drug discovery pipeline for rentosertib: 79 molecules synthesized narrowing to 1 preclinical candidate, then Phase I, Phase IIa with 71 patients, and Phase III with 320 patients. The AI-discovered drug rentosertib is the first fully AI-originated molecule to reach Phase III.

AI-discovered drug rentosertib enters Phase III trial

Rentosertib, an AI-discovered TNIK inhibitor for IPF, enters Phase III with 320 patients. It is the first fully AI-originated drug to reach late-stage trials.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 8, 2026

Bar chart showing two regulatory regimes: Cambridge Analytica involved 87 million harvested records and a $5 billion FTC fine. Muse Image affects approximately 500 million public Instagram accounts by default, with zero fine so far. Data Today benchmark.

Business

Muse Image pulls 500M Instagram accounts into AI by default

Muse Image is Meta's new agentic AI image model that turns 500M public Instagram accounts into inference-time visual references by default. It is free for everyday use, with no notification to tagged users. The move signals that agentic image generation is now cheap enough to bundle into ad-supported apps.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 8, 2026

Bar chart showing Hy3 has 295 billion total parameters but only 21 billion active parameters per token, a Mixture-of-Experts design. Hy3 hallucination rate dropped to 5.4 percent in internal evaluations.

AI for dummies

Hy3 295B open weights: what 21B active means

Hy3 is Tencent's 295-billion-parameter open-weights model with 21 billion active parameters per token. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to rival larger models at lower cost, cutting hallucination to 5.4 percent.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 7, 2026

LeRobot v0.6.0 ships 5 new VLA policies, 2 reward models, 3 world models, and 6 benchmarks, with data loading 2x faster and subset loading dropping from 275 seconds to 0.06 seconds

Engineering

LeRobot DAgger loop turns robot failures into training data

LeRobot v0.6.0 adds a DAgger correction loop that turns robot deployment failures into training data, plus reward models and world model policies in one CLI.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 7, 2026

Rocket League being simulated by MIRA, a 5B-parameter diffusion transformer that models four independent player views at 20 fps from 10,000 hours of bot self-play, with no physics engine or 3D representation.

Data

MIRA world model simulates Rocket League without a physics engine

MIRA is a 5B-parameter world model that simulates Rocket League from pixels and actions, achieving infinite rollout stability at 20 fps on a single B200.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 7, 2026

Abstract data-art visualization contrasting direct API integrations that scale as apps times tools with MCP connectors that scale as apps plus tools

AI for dummies

MCP explained: what it actually adds beyond a normal API

MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets AI models discover and call tools at runtime instead of you hardcoding an API for each one.