- OpenAI opens the books on its AI research intern
- Insilico's AI-designed drug hints at slowing aging
- Turn a family scheduler idea into an app with Astra
- U.S. voters’ rare bipartisan issue is fearing AI
OpenAI opens the books on its AI research intern
Image source: OpenAIThe Rundown: OpenAI released a look at how much of its own research its coding agents handle, with agents logging 3.1 workdays for every one a human puts in, and the company hitting its “automated research intern” goal Sam Altman had set for September.The details: - Altman posted the timeline last October, calling for an intern-level system by this month and a fully automated researcher by March 2028.
- The typical OAI researcher now burns $600+ a day of agent tokens, with the 90th percentile above $7,000, and token output up 124x since December.
- Around 80% of researchers now use 4+ agents at a time, with OAI saying experiments per researcher are “at an all-time high” within the company.
- The agents’ tasks are also evolving, with more complex, longer tasks seeing greater success and areas like tech troubleshooting surging across the team.
Your customer research function is broken
The Rundown: A customer rating is a fire alarm with no address: something's burning, but you don't know where or why. Unwrap's AI-powered feedback platform pairs a best-in-class semantic analysis engine with autonomous surveys, helping teams turn vague feedback into fixable problems.With Unwrap, you can:- Install targeted, on-site surveys in minutes, all configurable without frontend changes
- Probe every open response with real-time AI follow-ups
- Auto-fire targeted surveys in response to feedback gathered across channels
Insilico's AI-designed drug hints at slowing aging
Image source: Insilico MedicineThe Rundown: Insilico Medicine published trial data showing that rentosertib, a drug its AI designed for a lung disease, left patients reading as biologically younger on all six “aging clocks” — an early signal (on a small sample) that it may help slow aging itself.The details:- Rentosertib treats idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, where scarring slowly chokes the lungs, and Insilico's AI picked the target protein and drew the molecule.
- The drug’s trial last year included 42 patients, with blood samples then used for the aging study and compared against a broader UK Biobank database.
- Six aging clocks (AI models by separate teams that read age markers from blood) rated treated patients as younger, with one group’s estimates falling 2.7–3.5 years.
- The dosing with the clearest aging signal was different than the one with the biggest lung-function gains, potentially showing effects beyond just disease relief.
Turn a family scheduler idea into an app with Astra
The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to turn an idea from our Workflow Hub into your app with Astra in Codex. We’ll go from a product brief to mockups and a family planner, then test whether its calendar saves and shares events as we expect.Step-by-step:- Find an idea in the Rundown University Workflow Hub and adapt it to your needs, as we did by turning Shawn's eldercare log into a family planner
- Open Codex, select Astra, and use /plan to request a product requirements document covering calendar and layouts, asking for MCQs to clarify the details
- Ask for four design mockups showing desktop and mobile side by side, then choose a direction before building
- Tell Astra to build your chosen design and open it in its browser, then add an event, reload, and switch users to test whether it saves and shares correctly
You're not a system. Stop acting like one.
The Rundown: Somewhere in your team, a spreadsheet is doing the job of software. A request is stuck three replies deep in an inbox. None of it is technically broken, but it works because you remember how it works. That's not a process. That's you, holding it together by hand.With Pave, you can:- Turn that spreadsheet into a real, working app
- Replace the email chain with an actual approval flow
- Build the fix once and never explain the workaround again
U.S. voters’ rare bipartisan issue is fearing AI
Image source: NBC News The Rundown: NBC News released a new poll of 7,105 adults on how Americans feel about AI, finding that 70% feel more worried than excited, and the concern spans both major parties — even as a growing share of Americans report using the tech.The details: - 52% use AI very often or sometimes, up six points from June 2025, but just 18% trust AI-generated information most or almost all of the time.
- Local data centers are a universal issue, with 69% against having one nearby and 45% strongly against, next to just 31% who would somewhat or strongly support.
- 70% believe AI is costing people jobs, and majorities expect it to hurt schools and elections, with science and healthcare as the only net positive wins.
- Washington's AI rules fall short for 81%, and when asked which party they trust on AI policy, 44% say neither, with Democrats at 20% and Republicans at 16%.
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