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The Economist is asking a question that researchers may not be ready to answer: what happens when artificial intelligence takes over the scientific process itself? It is not science fiction anymore. As AI systems grow capable of forming hypotheses, running experiments, and interpreting results, the deeper question becomes who is accountable when the machine is wrong.
On a more practical note, a developer has released a free MCP server designed to correct one of the most persistent and quietly damaging flaws in large language models — their tendency to get basic facts wrong. Time zones, currency exchange rates, public holidays. These are small errors, but in real applications they erode trust fast, and this tool is a direct attempt to patch that gap.
Meanwhile, a project called Hypereffect is proposing a fresh approach to user interfaces. The idea is a hypermedia protocol that can render reactive, interactive UIs across wildly different environments — terminals, native apps, even sandboxed WASM modules. It is an ambitious attempt to decouple the interface from the platform entirely, and the developer community will be watching closely.
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