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• Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026

  Australian Team’s AI Method Independently Confirms the First Black Hole Image

  A new analysis of the 2019 Event Horizon Telescope data, built by a model trained on cats, dogs and cars, recovers the same glowing ring around M87’s black hole.

• Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026

  DeepMind’s AlphaGenome 2 Pinpoints How DNA Variants Act in Individual Cells

  The new model, trained on more than 100 million cells, is designed to help researchers trace disease-linked mutations to the cells where they matter.