No. 013: Provenance vocabulary, Wikipedia contamination, OpenAI rare-disease diagnoses, ARA paper format - The Hallway Track

The Hallway Track No. 013 - How AI is affecting the practice of science

Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children

Researchers used an OpenAI reasoning model to help diagnose rare diseases, identifying 18 new diagnoses in previously unsolved cases.

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icymi, openai also open sourced how their deep research prompt rewriter works + the full prompts todayyou can now build your own deep research agent - with full o3/o4-mini deep research quality - in 20LOCif you're a fan of Claude Research they ALSO dropped how to add… pic.twitter.com/5moxXjzqTj— swyx (@swyx) June 27, 2025

OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach

OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research

Researchers are drowning in data. AI could help.

Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI | Ai2

Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs | TechCrunch

OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.

AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers

Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.

Going beyond open data – increasing transparency and trust in language models with OLMoTrace | Ai2

Ai2, a non-profit research institute founded by Paul Allen, is committed to breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.

Meet Rosalind Workbench: Empowering every scientist to be their own research team | OpenAI Developers

How guided tasks, scientific viewers, and sequencing analysis help researchers follow a question from data to evidence.

OpenAI can’t tell if something was written by AI after all

OpenAI’s tool struggled with accuracy.

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

Attorney General Marshall Launches Investigation Into OpenAI and Sam Altman for Massive Artificial Intelligence Data Breach - Alabama Attorney General's Office

For Immediate Release:August 24, 2026

OpenAI launches AI model GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research

OpenAI on Thursday introduced an artificial intelligence model touting increased biology knowledge and scientific research capabilities, ​as the startup deepens its push into the ‌life sciences field.