| 01 | AI & Computing· Notable An open vision-language model for diverse medical applicationsOpen medical AI models built on Gemma 3 beat their general-purpose base across medical images and text E 91I 96N 64 | 74 | 91 | 96 | 64 | Early signal | Oct 1, 2026 |
| 02 | AI & Computing· Notable Generating interesting scientific ideas using knowledge graphs and LLMs: Evaluations with 100 research group leadersAsked to rate over 4,400 AI-generated ideas, 100-plus group leaders called a quarter interesting E 88I 63N 72 | 73 | 88 | 63 | 72 | Early signal | Nov 9, 2026 |
| 03 | AI & Computing· Notable Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agentsE 94I 69N 75 | 72 | 94 | 69 | 75 | Early signal | Sep 16, 2026 |
| 04 | AI & Computing· Notable Intrinsically motivated humans and agents in open-world explorationChildren, adults and AI agents in a Minecraft-like game seem to seek novelty first, then control E 91I 57N 71 | 71 | 91 | 57 | 71 | Early signal | Nov 4, 2026 |
| 05 | AI & Computing· Notable Sequential diagnosis with language modelsA language-model system simulating a panel of physicians correctly diagnosed 83.2% of NEJM case-conference cases in a benchmark, against 36.1% for generalist physicians. E 93I 81N 59 | 71 | 93 | 81 | 59 | Early signal | Oct 22, 2026 |
| 06 | AI & Computing· Notable Human–artificial intelligence collaboration for comanaging epilepsy in real timeE 93I 48N 73 | 69 | 93 | 48 | 73 | Early signal | Oct 13, 2026 |
| 07 | AI & Computing· Notable Tangermeme: a toolkit for understanding cis-regulatory logic using deep learning modelsE 91I 65N 68 | 69 | 91 | 65 | 68 | Early signal | Oct 8, 2026 |
| 08 | AI & Computing· Notable BeyondMimic: From motion tracking to versatile humanoid control via guided diffusionOne training recipe gives a humanoid cartwheels, spin kicks and sprinting, and one distilled model handles new tasks E 86I 92N 63 | 68 | 86 | 92 | 63 | Early signal | Aug 26, 2026 |
| 09 | AI & Computing· Notable Advancing mathematics research with AI-driven formal proof searchE 91I 85N 52 | 67 | 91 | 85 | 52 | Early signal | Oct 8, 2026 |
| 10 | AI & Computing· Notable Emergence of polarization in networks of large language model agentsSimulated networks of 1,000 LLM agents talking politics drifted into polarized, like-minded camps E 87I 68N 61 | 66 | 87 | 68 | 61 | Early signal | Oct 8, 2026 |
| 11 | AI & Computing· Major Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-ScientistA multi-agent AI system on Gemini that generates and validates scientific hypotheses E 94I 93N 72 | 66 | 94 | 93 | 72 | Firming up | May 19, 2026 |
| 12 | AI & Computing· Notable Retrofitting language models to operate over bytesE 94I 58N 62 | 65 | 94 | 58 | 62 | Early signal | Oct 7, 2026 |
| 13 | AI & Computing· Notable Denoising the US Census: Succinct block hierarchical regressionA new algorithm could make 2020 Census tables more accurate without weakening their privacy protection E 89I 49N 62 | 64 | 89 | 49 | 62 | Early signal | Nov 5, 2026 |
| 14 | AI & Computing· Notable Foundation model for particle collision data analysisPretrained on 500 million simulated collisions, one model handles new searches and rediscovers a known particle E 88I 52N 60 | 64 | 88 | 52 | 60 | Early signal | Oct 29, 2026 |
| 15 | AI & Computing· Notable Large language models unlock the ecology of species interactionsE 88I 58N 62 | 64 | 88 | 58 | 62 | Early signal | Oct 8, 2026 |
| 16 | AI & Computing· Notable Toward a future space-based, highly scalable AI infrastructure system designE 88I 63N 59 | 63 | 88 | 63 | 59 | Early signal | Oct 1, 2026 |
| 17 | AI & Computing· Notable Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect informationE 94I 54N 62 | 63 | 94 | 54 | 62 | Early signal | Sep 30, 2026 |
| 18 | AI & Computing· Notable Rembrandt through the eyes of the machine: Toward explainable Human–AI collaboration in painting attributionE 89I 0N 81 | 61 | 89 | 0 | 81 | Early signal | Oct 26, 2026 |
| 19 | AI & Computing· Notable AI-generated language remains systematically distinguishable from human communicationE 91I 52N 56 | 61 | 91 | 52 | 56 | Early signal | Oct 12, 2026 |
| 20 | AI & Computing· Notable Function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteinsE 92I 43N 63 | 61 | 92 | 43 | 63 | Early signal | Sep 30, 2026 |
| 21 | AI & Computing· Notable Explainable deep learning improves human mental models of self-driving carsE 94I 49N 62 | 60 | 94 | 49 | 62 | Early signal | Sep 2, 2026 |
| 22 | AI & Computing· Notable Decoding systemic vascular health and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy through retinal imaging and Visionary AIE 91I 0N 78 | 58 | 91 | 0 | 78 | Early signal | Oct 6, 2026 |
| 23 | AI & Computing· Notable Large-scale semidefinite programming with graphics processing unitsE 91I 33N 63 | 58 | 91 | 33 | 63 | Early signal | Sep 28, 2026 |
| 24 | AI & Computing· Notable Clinical usability of an explainable AI decision support tool and evaluation of multimodal models in NSCLCE 91I 44N 59 | 58 | 91 | 44 | 59 | Early signal | Sep 1, 2026 |
| 25 | AI & Computing· Notable A clinically-oriented foundation model for intraoperative pathologyE 89I 27N 66 | 57 | 89 | 27 | 66 | Early signal | Sep 10, 2026 |
| 26 | AI & Computing· Notable Turing-like tests for language and vision demonstrate a narrowing gap between humans and AIE 91I 0N 65 | 53 | 91 | 0 | 65 | Early signal | Oct 26, 2026 |
| 27 | AI & Computing· Major Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Meet ScienceA framework using Kolmogorov-Arnold networks to discover symbolic physical laws from data E 85I 97N 64 | 51 | 85 | 97 | 64 | Settled | Sep 30, 2025 |
| 28 | AI & Computing· Major AlphaProof reaches silver-medal level at the Math OlympiadAn RL agent writes machine-checkable Lean proofs for competition mathematics. E 96I 82N 59 | 50 | 96 | 82 | 59 | Firming up | Nov 12, 2025 |
| 29 | AI & Computing· Notable Plausible nonsense and deliberative reasoning: Benchmarking LLMs against human judgmentE 91I 0N 58 | 47 | 91 | 0 | 58 | Early signal | Sep 9, 2026 |
| 30 | AI & Computing· Notable A multimodal whole-slide foundation model for pathologyA multimodal whole-slide foundation model for pathology that works without fine-tuning E 94I 85N 49 | 47 | 94 | 85 | 49 | Settled | Nov 1, 2025 |
| 31 | AI & Computing· Notable Delphi-2M: A Generative Transformer for Lifetime Disease RiskA GPT-style model forecasts more than 1,000 diseases decades ahead and generates synthetic health records. E 91I 84N 57 | 47 | 91 | 84 | 57 | Settled | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 32 | AI & Computing· Notable DeepSeek-R1: reasoning learned through pure reinforcement learningAn open model develops self-reflection and verification with no human reasoning examples. E 97I 100N 43 | 46 | 97 | 100 | 43 | Settled | Sep 17, 2025 |
| 33 | AI & Computing· Notable Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogelsE 94I 79N 59 | 46 | 94 | 79 | 59 | Settled | Aug 6, 2025 |
| 34 | AI & Computing· Notable AI-enabled virtual spatial proteomics from histopathology for interpretable biomarker discovery in lung cancerAn AI model generates spatial proteomics from H&E slides to improve lung cancer prognostic accuracy E 93I 74N 42 | 44 | 93 | 74 | 42 | Settled | Jan 1, 2026 |
| 35 | AI & Computing· Notable A Robot Performs a Full Surgical Step on Lifelike Tissue Without Human HelpA two-level, language-guided policy autonomously completes the clip-and-cut phase of gallbladder removal and corrects its own mistakes. E 90I 94N 48 | 44 | 90 | 94 | 48 | Settled | Jul 9, 2025 |
| 36 | AI & Computing· Notable AlphaEvolve breaks a 56-year-old matrix-multiplication recordAn evolutionary coding agent finds new, provably correct algorithms and optimizes Google's own infrastructure. E 68I 95N 53 | 41 | 68 | 95 | 53 | Firming up | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 37 | AI & Computing· Notable TabPFN Beats Decades of Tabular Machine Learning in SecondsA foundation model for spreadsheets outperforms tuned gradient-boosted trees on small data. E 97I 98N 42 | 40 | 97 | 98 | 42 | Settled | Jan 8, 2025 |
| 38 | AI & Computing· Emerging AMIE Matches Physicians at Diagnostic ConversationA blinded trial pits a medical language model against 20 primary care doctors on text consultations. E 97I 88N 40 | 39 | 97 | 88 | 40 | Settled | Apr 9, 2025 |
| 39 | AI & Computing· Emerging Gemini Robotics brings a foundation model into physical controlA vision-language-action model drives real robots through dexterous, open-vocabulary tasks. E 69I 59N 59 | 37 | 69 | 59 | 59 | Early signal | Mar 25, 2025 |