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Google Releases Free Android Upgrade To Millions: Samsung Galaxy Next
Samsung's Android 17 upgrade is coming to Galaxy phones via One UI 9. But the biggest feature, Gemini Intelligence, raises serious security questions. Here's what to know
Google's extensive June security update fixes tons of lingering Pixel problems
Problems from May persist, but Google's offering some fixes.
Google Calendar expands color options for event differentiation
Predefined colors nearly double and there's now a color picker
Google Photos rolls out AI-powered ‘Edit with Ask Photos’ to these new countries
After launching in just four countries last year, Google Photos is expanding its AI-powered “Edit with Ask Photos” experience to...
Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker
Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces the rigid commands of the Google Assistant era with more conversational Gemini interactions.
The Gemini-powered Google Home Speaker arrives on June 25 for $100
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week
The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.
WHO Step-by-Step programme recognized as a promising innovation for mental health in humanitarian settings
WHO, in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Lebanon’s National Mental Health Programme, showcased Step-by-Step at the World Bank Group’s biennial Fragility Forum in Washington, DC. The forum convened more than 1500 representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society to advance the development agenda in the world’s most fragile and crisis-affected communities. WHO was invited to demonstrate Step-by-Step – a digital self-help intervention for depression, alongside innovations presented by Stanford University and Google. The World Bank Group selected Step-by-Step from among more than 50 innovations that they reviewed in the lead up to the Forum.About Step-by-StepStep-by-Step is a free digital tool developed by WHO in collaboration with Lebanon’s National Mental Health Programme and other partners, that helps people manage depression and anxiety on their own, with light guidance from a trained supporter. It uses a picture-based story to walk users through evidence-based techniques for managing common mental health conditions. Users complete five modules, with weekly contacts – of around 15 minutes each – from a trained non-specialist helper, such as a community health worker.Evidence-basedClinical trials in Lebanon involving nearly 1250 participants – including 680 Lebanese participants and 569 Syrian participants – showed that Step-by-Step significantly reduced depression, anxiety and stress, and improved daily functioning. By the end of the programme, a reduction in depressive symptoms of more than 50% was reported by almost half (46%) of Lebanese participants and more than one third (37%) of Syrian participants compared to approximately 14% of those who did not use the programme. Cost-effectiveness analyses further suggest that Step-by-Step may offer a cost-saving response to depression in humanitarian emergencies in low- and middle-income countries.Used globallyStep-by-Step is already in use nationwide in Lebanon and Thailand, as part of each country’s mental health system. In India, the NGO – Kaya Guides – has adapted Step-by-Step for delivery through a widely used messaging app. Together, these programmes have provided thousands of people with evidence-based support for depression. The content is freely available from the WHO website for any organization or country to adapt for their own context.A new implementation guideThe Fragility Forum coincided with the recent launch of WHO’s new practical guide: Psychological self-help interventions: delivering self-help for individuals, featuring Step-by-Step and Doing What Matters in Times of Stress (WHO, 2026). The guide is designed to help governments, health workers, organizations and planners bring evidence-based mental health support to more people, particularly in low-resource and crisis-affected settings.
Google’s June Pixel Drop expands AirDrop compatibility, creation tools, and Pixel Watch safety
Quick Share on Pixel 9a and 8a gets AirDrop compatibility
Google rolling out Wear OS 7 to Pixel Watch
Alongside Android 17, Google is rolling out Wear OS 7 to the Pixel Watch today. Available for supported devices...
Wear OS 7 drops today with Live Updates, Gemini, and more
The launch of Wear OS 7 is upon us as Google officially announces the arrival of its smartwatch platform's latest update, bringing in a handful of
Google launches Wear OS 7 with Live Updates and a battery life boost
Track your meal delivery from your Pixel watch.
Google launches Android 17, rolling out now to Pixel
Google is ready to launch Android 17 for Pixel devices today. Today's release also coincides with the June 2026 Pixel (Feature) Drop.
Google Releases the June 2026 Pixel Drop
In addition to today's Android 17 release, Pixel users are getting the June 2026 Pixel Drop with numerous new features for supported devices.
The Google / Xreal Aura XR glasses are now available to preorder
You can reserve them for $99, with a full launch expected this fall.
Steam Machine could launch as early as this month, leak claims
After Valve posted a hopeful, yet vague, update on its exciting new console, new leaks point to an official Steam...
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro upgrade to Snapdragon X2 and start at $1,499
Roughly two years after the last generation debuted, Microsoft is today unveiling its new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro models,...
Pokémon Champions Now Available For Mobile Devices!
Good day, Pokémon trainers! It’s finally time, after months of waiting, Pokémon Champions is now available on Android and iOS devices! If you’ve been eager to participate in thrilling battles with your favorite Pokémon on your smartdevice, now is your chance. You can get Pokémon Champions by downloading it frome either the Google Play or […]
Community Market a super summer kickoff in Fulton
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Gmail's AI summaries are live for everyone, but here's how you can turn them off
Google is bringing Gmail's automatic AI email summaries to users across the globe for free. No paid AI plan required.
James Manyika
The Google senior vice president talks about the need to reset the relationship between the government and academic and industrial science
Live Update 1.33.0
ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.
Google Earth's Flight Simulator Is Now on Browsers: Here's How to Play
Take to the virtual skies without having to download the desktop app.
Google Earth's Flight Simulator Mode Is Now Available In Your Browser
Google Earth's flight simulator mode is now available in your browser as an experimental feature.
Gemini suddenly can’t make calls on Android and Android Auto for some
The transition to Gemini on Android Auto has been a bit rough for a number of reasons, but a current...
More Galaxy Z Fold 8 ‘Ultra’ leaks confirm it looks just like a normal Samsung foldable
Previous reports indicated that Samsung has reassigned the standard naming scheme to a shorter, wider foldable. The latest leaks from...
Google Chrome is closing the loopholes that let old ad blockers keep working
No more workarounds for running uBlock Origin.
Google is finally killing Manifest V2 in Chrome, and ad blockers will never be the same again
A big blow for some
Samsung Galaxy Book 6 Edge with Snapdragon X2 Elite is $2,100, only 16GB of RAM
Samsung has just announced its first Galaxy Book laptop powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite and, while it looks great,...
IBX team wins first place at Google Code for the Cure Hackathon with AI prototype to make prior authorization clearer and fairer
A team of associates from Independence Blue Cross’s (IBX) Advanced Analytics and Data Science department won first place at a recent Google Code for the Cure Hackathon in New York City. The event, run by Google Cloud, brings together teams to build real-world AI solutions to health care challenges. In just four hours, the IBX team designed and built a fully functional prototype that shows how AI can make prior authorization decisions clearer, more consistent, and fair for patients and providers.
Google Chrome’s next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers
Google Chrome’s move to Manifest V3 for extensions is closing its final loophole and, with it, bringing the end of...
Galaxy Z Fold 8 ‘Wide’ reportedly has a stronger inner display than the ‘Ultra’
A new report reveals that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, the wide one, will have a stronger inner display than the Ultra thanks to its glass.
Google Earth’s flight simulator is now available in your browser
Yet another way to waste a few hours on the web.
Google leaked its next Pixel Drop with Screen Reactions and paid features
Google's next Pixel Drop looks set to add Screen Reactions, Gemini Omni video tools, and AI music creation.
Is David Flippo's primary win the death blow for Old Nevada politics?
He rallied Washington's Trumpiest voices, poured in his own money and went straight for the jugular. That approach trounced James Settelmeyer's legacy campaign.
Google ads tease next Pixel Drop with Screen Reactions and Gemini Omni [Video]
We’re due for Google’s next Pixel Drop and, thanks to some early ads, we now know that Screen Reactions and...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoids AI in his Stanford graduation speech
Google CEO Sundar Pichai played it safe during his graduation speech at Stanford on Sunday.
Signal Veterans Want to Encrypt Slack, Google Docs, and Basically Every Other App
Encrypted Spaces provides "verifiable, encrypted, untrusted storage.”
The ‘Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra’ has the potential to be a cruel joke
There are actual reasons to get excited about Samsung’s upcoming foldables but, the more I think about it, the more...
Health groups continue to step in following City on a Hill closure
Health groups continue to step in following City on a Hill closure
I deleted most Android Auto apps, but only 6 earned a permanent spot on my dashboard
I can't drive without these apps
Small Business Tech News This Week: Google, Ramp, Slack, Anthropic, Microsoft
Google is warning of fake IT workers, Payables management company Ramp unveils a new product, Slack has more workflow capabilities and more news.
All Android Users Can Now Update Android Auto to Version 17.1
Google started the rollout of a new Android Auto version for production devices; the update brings the app to version 17.1
What Makes International Google Pixels Different From American Ones?
The U.S. version of the Pixel 10 lacks a SIM card slot, allowing Google to implement mmWave 5G since most users in the country already utilize eSIMs.
Fly around the globe with Google Earth’s new flight simulator
The new tool allows you to explore the world from above. However, it’s harder than it looks…
Active Minds Launches National Youth-Led Mental Health Movement to Equip 100,000 High School Student | The South Pasadenan
Altadena and Pasadena youth lead a new mental health movement with Active Minds and Google.org to build resilience following the devastating Eaton Fire.
What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a UW alum, returned to campus Friday with an optimistic but clear-eyed message about AI for Allen School graduates — many of them headed into the industry to help shape the future of technology.
What a longtime Google AI leader told UW computer science students at their graduation
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a UW alum, returned to campus Friday with an optimistic but clear-eyed message about AI for Allen School graduates — many of them headed into the industry to help shape the future of technology.
Gemini's Daily Brief replaced my morning routine, and I'm shocked how well it works
Gemini's Daily Brief provides helpful nudges and reminders, making mornings easier
Every Major Streaming Device Brand Ranked Worst To Best
Nvidia, Apple, and Roku lead our ranking of the best streaming device brands, while Google, Amazon, and Onn offer distinct strengths.
The Fitbit Air made me ditch my Pixel Watch, and I couldn’t be happier
I have fully ditched my Pixel Watch for the Fitbit Air and while it's a step back in utility, I couldn't be happier with that decision.
Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication
Splunk issued security updates for a critical CVSS 9.8 vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise that allows unauthenticated remote code execution.
Google AI Mode starts rolling out Search agents that keep track of information for you
At I/O 2026, Google announced the concept of “Search agents,” with information agents now rolling out in AI Mode for...
Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit
Attackers hijacked 400+ Arch Linux AUR packages to run a Rust credential stealer, with optional eBPF rootkit support on root systems.
HBOT USA Expands Education and Business Consulting Initiatives as Interest in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Continues to Grow
HBOT USA is expanding its focus on education, compliance, and business consulting to help healthcare professionals build safe and scalable hyper...
Waze now shows traffic lights on your route, but it’s rolling out slowly
In testing for several months now, Waze is starting to roll out traffic lights more widely in navigation, but it’s...
Telegram brings back its Wear OS app after five years with chats, voice messages, more
Five years after killing its Wear OS app, Telegram is reviving support for Android smartwatches with its latest update. Earlier...
Galaxy Z Fold 7 gets two more Galaxy S26 features in its latest update
The Galaxy Z Fold 7 may be last year’s foldable flagship, but it’s still getting features from the Galaxy S26...
New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files
GreatXML can bypass BitLocker on Windows systems where Defender Offline Scan was used, exposing encrypted drive data.
Gemini can now control your Google TV’s settings, but only on these models
Announced earlier this year, Google TV is now rolling out a Gemini update that lets you adjust TV settings with...
Boox updates 6-inch pocketable Android e-reader with stylus support
The Boox Go 6 Gen II turns one of the best Android e-readers into a pocketable notepad with support for...
Google Pixel updates left phones useless, bootlooping for some – a fix is now in sight
Some Google Pixel phones have been hit with bootloop issues, but a fix is now available, sort of. For the...
A Google director quit over the company's Pentagon AI deal
"Proactively harming people is not something that I can or will be involved with," a Google director wrote in his resignation letter.
As OpenAI leans into enterprise business, Apple and Google set sights on the masses
OpenAI's aggressive push into the enterprise, where it competes with Anthropic, coincides with efforts by Apple and Google to bring advanced AI to consumers.
Google exits CBRS SAS administration business
The company is not accepting new customers and is giving existing customers until June 10, 2027, to tr | Google is shutting down its Spectrum Access System (SAS) business and telling Citizens Broadband Radio Services (CBRS) customers to migrate to a new SAS provider by June 10, 2027.
Here’s everything new in Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4 [Gallery]
With Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4 today, Google is rolling out a much needed update that addresses various bugs from the last big release.
Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4 Just Released for Pixel Phones
Following the release of Android 17 QPR1 Beta 3 at Google I/O a few weeks back, Google has now given its Pixel phones another update, this time to Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4. In this new QPR1 Beta 4...
Google releases Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4 for Pixel
After the big release at I/O 2026 last month, Google is rolling out Android 17 QPR1 Beta 4 for Pixel devices.
YouTube rolling out new in-app messaging with invite-only chats
After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system...
Gemini app facing partial outage for some users
As of Wednesday morning (PT), the Gemini app is facing an outage for some users. Over the past few hours,...
Gemini app adding Google Business Profile integration, Business notebooks
Google today announced two features that make the Gemini app a more powerful tool for business owners. This starts with...
Gemini Is Down? Live Updates on Google Workspace's AI Errors
It's not just you. Many Google users are encountering "Something went wrong" issues on Wednesday.
Lenovo’s new rugged Android tablet has a removable battery, now on sale for $499
Announced earlier this year at MWC 2026, the Lenovo ThinkTab X11 is now available in the US as a rugged...
Google Gemini is down — live updates on rapidly growing outage
Gemini users are reporting problems today
Google TV Streamer update unlocks a major hidden upgrade for your smart home setup
The Google TV Streamer received its first major 2026 update, adding the April patch and Thread 1.4 for a convenient smart home experience.
MediaDailyNews: Google Now Reports Local Metrics By Linking Analytics With Business Profiles
Google on Tuesday introduced a direct integration between Google Analytics and Google Business Profiles, bringing local engagement data including phone calls, direction requests, bookings, and website clicks into the same reporting environment as web and app metrics.
Google TV Streamer’s new update turns it into a better smart home device
The first big Google TV Streamer of 2026 is here – yes, six months into the year. Timing aside, though,...
Microsoft Patches Record 206 Flaws, Including Three Zero-Days and Critical RCE Bugs
Microsoft released fixes for 206 vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, including 39 Critical flaws and three publicly disclosed zero-days.
The Hidden Cost of AI Search That Business Leaders Are Missing
Despite its size and reach, Google's latest innovation makes it vulnerable to disruption now more than ever.
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
Google makes its AI Plus plan cheaper, doubles the cloud storage that comes with it
Previously, the Google AI Plus plan cost $8 a month and came with 200GB storage. Google scored a big victory yesterday as its Gemini model became the...
Verizon says these Pixel Watch models are about to get Wear OS 7
Google announced Wear OS 7 less than a month ago and, apparently, it’s already ready to roll out, as Verizon...
Google's Gemini 3.5 Live Translate Is Built for Real-Life Conversations
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate doesn't wait for one speaker to finish before generating a response.
Google announces Gemini 3.5 Live Translate for instant voice-to-voice translation
Voice translations preserve speaker's tone, pacing, pitch—with SynthID watermarks for security.
Google Fi lands some major improvements ahead of the summer, expanding to 22 new regions
Much appreciated ahead of a busy travel season
Google teams up with Paris Hilton to showcase Android and AI app building
In what is now her second big partnership around Android, Google has named Paris Hilton as an “Icon in Residence”...
Meta to Use Off-Site Business Data for Feed and AI Personalization
Meta will use off-site business data for Feed and AI personalization next month, expanding ad data use across 10 countries.
Nomad’s best Qi2 25W wireless charger just got a transparent version, and I can’t stop looking at it
The Stand One charger from Nomad got a massive visual upgrade that leaves the view of the Qi2 wireless charging...
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate rolling out to Google Meet & Translate with new ‘listening mode’
Google today announced Gemini 3.5 Live Translate as its latest model for live speech-to-speech translation.
macOS 27 Golden Gate makes it clear when apps are sneakily running in background
Google Gemini for macOS was recently flagged for not being a very good app citizen on the Mac. Apple’s new...
Apple's New AI Models Contain 'None' of Google's Gemini Assistant
Apple executives have detailed the architecture of the company's new Apple Foundation Models (AFM) and clarified exactly how Google's technology factored into their development.
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Chrome V8 Zero-Day CVE-2026-11645 Exploited in the Wild
Google released security updates for 74 Chrome vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-11645, a high-severity V8 out-of-bounds memory access flaw.
Gemini could soon get a lot better for multitaskers
Google seems to be working on making Gemini more useful for multitaskers by adding useful new features that could roll out soon.
Google patches new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild
Google has released emergency updates to patch another Chrome zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild, the fifth such flaw patched since the start of the year.
We can create the future of science right now
Paul Litvak is the founder and Executive Director of the Robyn Dawes Institute and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. He has a PhD in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon where he studied emotions and the sunk cost bias. Over 15 years in industry, he solved a wide range of challenging technical problems. At Meta he created models optimizing the ad review process. At Google he ran experiments to measure social influence. At Airbnb, he was a product manager leading machine learning teams optimizing search ranking and price suggestions. He also co-founded and led product at Rhythmic Health, a venture-backed biosensing startup, creating an accurate low cost system using a color changing strip and a smart phone to measure salivary lactate. The bottleneck At this point, it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins: I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision-making. I can see second-by-second real-time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but a school board can’t see the best evidence on whether their 8th graders should be taught algebra. As a society, we don’t treat this as an important problem. Again, not controversial. Not only is the problem well understood, but the solution has already been laid out. What we need is AI-assisted living evidence synthesis - (1) an open knowledge graph of atomic claims, (2) claims linked to evidence, (3) assessment and synthesis of each piece of evidence, and (4) continuous updating with new data. What few realize (yet) is that the technical capacity to build this vision for a significant portion of science already exists. Not only that, scientists and startup teams are already building many of these components. I know this because I’ve been surveying the space and talking to many of the builders. There are some missing pieces: for example, evaluations of how well some of the components work. But at this point, most of what’s missing is a fully end-to-end working integration of all of these parts. In the rest of this essay, I’m going to lay out all the parts of a working living evidence layer for science and who is working on them, and propose concrete next steps for building this system. What’s now possible The diagram above outlines the components of a living evidence synthesis platform, including some of the teams working on each component1. Scientific PDFs are processed into claims with associated evidence. The evidence is subjected to a forensic audit, methodological evaluation and robustness and reproducibility checks. Finally it’s given a weight in a continuously updating synthesis. What follows is a description and status of each component and a few of the teams working on them. Document understanding The first thing you need to be able to do is turn an article into structured data. Mostly that means parsing PDFs. There are often multicolumn layouts that confuse non-specialized PDF to text processing libraries. For scientific papers, there is the added complexity of parsing formulas and tables and figures. This is a really hot area - there are startups offering APIs, and it seems like a new open source package gets posted to Github every few weeks. What follows isn’t exhaustive. A package called GROBID was the state of the art for a while, they didn’t update their package for nearly two years until very recently. In the meantime reducto.ai released an AI powered PDF extraction API, PaddleOCR became popular, IBM released a model called Docling, and both Mistral and Gemini created models and libraries. I also know of at least one other well-funded psychology research group working on a paper parser. By contrast, there are few open evals in this space, with no extensive evals for complex table comprehension in particular. Nonetheless, I’m confident this will be a solved problem soon, given the combination of LLM advances and developer interest. Hypothesis level extraction There has been increasing interest in comprehending the extracted text of papers and linking information to evidence for each hypothesis. A lot of work has already been done. Trialstreamer (Marshall et al. 2020) and RobotReviewer LIVE (Marshall et al. 2023) demonstrated automated extraction of trial population, intervention, and outcome at scale on clinical RCTs. PaperQA2 (Skarlinski et al. 2024) and Ai2 ScholarQA (2024) extended this to retrieval-augmented question answering with citation grounding. Elicit, Consensus, and SciSpace operationalized claim-level extraction for end users. OpenEval (Booeshaghi et al. 2026) is the most recent and most ambitious: 1.96 million atomic claims extracted from 16,087 eLife manuscripts using Claude Sonnet 4.5, grouped into ~299,000 results, with LLM evaluations showing 81% agreement with human peer review on a 2,487-paper subset. None of these solutions link claims to test-statistics, as you would need to evaluate randomized controlled trials. This is why I built the evidence.guide API - to extract hypotheses and associated test statistics from behavioral science papers. The best public eval of this kind of extraction I’m aware of comes from the recent SCORE project - they had humans code thousands of psychology papers to extract their claims by hand. It would be extremely helpful to the world if all scientific PDFs were available as structured open data. I’ve been working to make this happen, both directly at Berkeley and through coordination with large entities I can’t yet speak of; as hard as it is to do, I think it’s possible2. Forensic audit A lot of work has been done on forensic audit, but some gaps remain. Of course, for biology papers that rely on images for evidence, there are a variety of tools (notably Proofig and ImageTwin) to spot anomalies. These are still well short of what sleuths like Elizabeth Bik can do on her own, but these tools are constant companions among fraud analysts. There’s someone working on auditing Excel files for anomalies, and a number of teams are automating numerical checks like GRIM and SPRITE, including Scrutiny project, the INSPECT-SR team as well as statcheck. The regcheck team is building a way to use AI to compare preregistrations to analyses in papers, to ensure there aren’t significant deviations. Nonetheless, there are many other kinds of anomalies to screen for, both public and less publicly known. And there are no formal evals for anomaly detection that I’m aware of. Still, there’s a lot to draw from in this space and I’m pretty certain we will be able to scan papers for most kinds of obvious anomalies in the near future. Methodological review This area has been white hot, though I fear for many of the startups in this space, because this capability may become commoditized. There are at least six different AI peer review companies, including Refine.ink, Reviewer3, ReviewerZero.ai, Q.E.D. Science, Paper Wizard, and Isitcredible. Coarse (a pun on refine) was also recently created as an open source alternative. These systems provide qualitative feedback on the content of papers, spotting methodological weaknesses and mathematical errors. They seem to work pretty well, and many academics report bitterly that they exceed the average quality of typical peer reviewers. But there are few evals here either. What evals exist so far involve using LLM-as-judge (circularity problems abound) or comparing against human reviews of questionable quality. What you’d ideally want is an eval that measures capturing known errors in papers3. Reproducibility and robustness Another active area has been using AI agents to automate computational reproducibility4 and robustness5 checks in papers that report numerical results. For more recent papers where data and code are available, AI agents can see whether they can re-run the analyses and produce the numbers reported in the published paper. In addition to a handful of individual academics who have been experimenting using Claude Code for this, the Institute for Replication is a leading group working on building an end to end system. The evals related to this problem are the most mature, with CORE-Bench (Siegel, Kapoor, Narayanan 2024) and PaperBench (OpenAI 2025) available to benchmark agents on this task. There is also work on getting AI agents to test alternative ways of analyzing the data to ensure the results are robust to small analytic design choices. Synthesis This is the most underdeveloped area where significant investment is required. Although some automated evidence synthesis systems exist — for example, otto-sr is building an AI agent to write systematic reviews — none of these incorporate the full range of paper level signals to weight evidence appropriately. Nor is there anything like an eval or a gold standard for a good systematic review. Arguably Cochrane reviews are the closest we have to gold standard human systematic reviews, though I’ve heard academics in the know complain about their uneven quality. A key question for a synthesis platform is how to weight anomalies and methodological issues in assessing the quality of a piece of evidence. This is an unsolved problem and one I’m very keen to work on. Continuous updating There are many pieces of basic infrastructure available for monitoring for new research and initiating updates. OpenAlex is the current open citation graph. Retraction Watch integrated into Crossref in October 2023. Scite tracks how citations support, contrast, or mention prior claims. The Living Evidence Network demonstrated continuous-update workflows in clinical guidelines. Engineering this is a relatively straightforward task. When you look over this technical architecture and all the progress being made, it’s hard not to be optimistic that a living guide to scientific evidence will be built. The stakeholders are ready The social infrastructure for this is starting to coalesce — it’s not just a pie in the sky academic exercise to imagine this coming into existence. Institutions like the Center for Open Science, the Institute for Replication, the INSPECT-SR, the Living Evidence Network and more are all working on scaling work to improve research quality. Funders are also aligned. The Sloan Foundation has funded living evidence work through COS. Coefficient Giving supports the Institute for Replication and COS. The Astera Institute and the Institute for Progress have shown interest in this space. NIH has established an Office for Replication and Reproducibility. Although there are (very unfortunately) serious headwinds in science funding generally, there is an active group of funders interested in metascience. A brief word about what I’ve been doing at RDI. First, as a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley I’ve been actively figuring out how a non-profit and a public university can conduct and make public the results of large-scale academic article data mining. With some of the money I raised from donors, I commissioned a legal analysis of recent case law and publisher text data mining (TDM) agreements in order to understand whether a massive open data mining of academic articles is possible (with caveats, it is). I’ve also been working to bring together stakeholders in this space, and identify gaps. I’ve also been doing some software development in this space, with more to come. A pilot proposal The assumption undergirding all of this is that an AI, given all this information, would make the right judgment about a scientific claim with lots of conflicting evidence, weighing all the factors appropriately. That’s the hypothesis we need to test. Randomized control trial research is the best place to focus on first. RCTs are used to make many of the important decisions in society - from medical trials to public policy changes. And they use a relatively uniform set of inferential statistics with lots of known and available diagnostics. Behavioral science experiments, within the broader realm of RCTs, should be first used as a testbed whose results can be generalized. Because behavioral science is at the vanguard of open science practices, replications abound (there are thousands of them) to serve as ground truth training data. Key Hypothesis Therefore the pilot would test, in behavioral RCTs that have been replicated, whether the quality of evidence for a claim can be used to accurately predict whether that claim will replicate. Secondary Hypotheses Compared to claims that replicated, non-replicated claims demonstrate a greater share of forensic anomalies in their source literatures. Hypothesis level claim and statistic extraction is accurate enough to scale living evidence without onerous human review costs. Replication prediction is more accurate than prediction markets6 or journal prestige. If all the different quality signals we gather do accurately predict which studies will replicate, then we can use that model to score evidence to power the living evidence layer. Why this is informative regardless of outcome If the pilot succeeds, the architecture extends to medical RCTs (where Living Evidence already operates and integration is mostly about claim representation), then to slices of basic biology with stable replication structure. If it fails, the field learns which quality signals are load-bearing and which ones metascience has oversold. Either result is a contribution to knowing what the literature supports. Implications for funders Because this burgeoning ecosystem of builders already exists, a well-informed philanthropic or government funder could play a crucial catalyzing role in bringing this future about. They could play at least three roles: creating open structured datasets, publishing open benchmarks and incentivizing the solving of key technical challenges. First, open archives of papers that the government maintains, like PubMed, could be turned into structured data amenable to large scale metascience and claim aggregation. I know the US government already has an interest in doing this, though some key open questions remain unanswered. How do you determine the best models and systems for accurately extracting information from papers? How can you establish a robust way to allow researchers to flag errors and correct them? And finally, how do you create a legal regime in working with publishers to maximize the scope of available papers? For the latter, a university or a private philanthropy may be better positioned to make structured data publicly available under journal subscription terms or fair use. Philanthropists or government funders could also coordinate to create or commission benchmarks that evaluate whether important problems have been solved. For example, an open benchmark for claim extraction from a range of different scientific article types would be extremely helpful. Ensuring the underlying data are accurate is vital for creating these evaluations. I’ve discussed opportunistically using various human-created datasets for this purpose, but a consistent problem is that errors in human data make it difficult for them to serve as a gold standard. Finally, with structured data and benchmarks available, the government or private philanthropy could use them to incentivize groups to develop machine learning systems that meet these benchmarks. Prizes are one potentially valuable tool for this. For example, you could establish a prize for a system that accurately updates a living meta-analysis for a small set of claims. Prizes are particularly useful as signals of problem importance, and can help create vibrant ecosystems of public and private research—see, for example the role the government played in kickstarting the current work on nuclear fusion. Conclusion The drawbacks of the current scientific publishing system are known. Scientists agree, metascientists agree, philanthropists agree: the published PDF plus citation graph isn’t the right substrate for maintaining a representation of the evidence base in science. The pieces needed to build the alternative either already exist or are rapidly taking shape. The community is forming around exactly this problem, with concrete partnerships and shared infrastructure. A pilot should start on behavioral science RCTs because that’s the slice of empirical science most amenable to legibility, where replication ground truth is richest, and where the failure modes are best documented. What’s been missing is the galvanizing mission to assemble these pieces into something that works. That’s what I’m proposing to build. *** 1 I have a broader field map that I’ll release publicly soon. This is me, building in public! 2 If this is something that you are excited about, please reach out and talk to me. 3 More on this very soon too! 4 This tests whether, given the code and the data, you can get the same statistics as reported in the published paper. 5 This tests whether the results are the same as a paper’s given alternative analytical decisions in conducting the analysis (like outlier omission). Closely related is the idea of a “multiverse” where you come up with many different ways of answering the same underlying research question with the same data, and test whether the results hold in all those alternative methods. There’s been work on the latter as well. 6 Some of the replications, e.g. those from the SCORE project, had paired the experiments with forecasts from prediction markets. So we get to look at this for free.
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