Washington University's Maxim Artyomov and colleagues link memory T cells favoring granzyme K over granzyme B to healthier aging in a study in Immunity. The 17-year link to illness and death comes from UK Biobank adults whose cell levels were estimated from blood proteins, so the case for an aging blood test is still indirect.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives35
- Confidence58
Google's open-source RRSI rewrites agent scaffolding to add six points on Terminal-Bench
Google Cloud AI Research has released RRSI, an Apache 2.0 tool whose self-rewriting agent harness lifted Terminal-Bench 2.1 scores from 74.2% to 80.2%. Any team can use it commercially, though on tasks the agent never trained against the reported gain falls to 4.7 points.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives50
- Confidence40
An AI-drafted pre-bunk still blunted rumor damage to voter confidence a week later
Pre-bunking has strong evidence behind it, though the cost of producing it has been prohibitive. The Caltech-led team's fix is to spend the human expertise once. The trial measured stated belief, leaving open how the pre-bunk affects forwarding behavior.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
Psilocybin's 'oneness' now has a brain-network correlate, and it was found by sorting people on self-report
A Nature study of 62 psychedelic-naive adults reports that the feeling of dissolved self-world boundaries tracks integration between self-referential and sensory networks.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives40
- Confidence52
Harvard's $2.2 billion SpaceX position is half its disclosed US equity book
A single 13F line turns a decade-old venture bet into a marked-to-market concentration: one stock, about 51% of disclosed equities, and roughly 4% of a $57 billion endowment.
Reality
- Evidence61
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives38
- Confidence58