OpenAI is actively pursuing scientific advancements by tailoring its large language models (LLMs) for researchers, while Russia is reportedly exploiting Interpol's wanted lists to target critics abroad, according to recent reports. Pfizer's CEO Albert Bourla is also navigating the company's future after its COVID-19 "moonshot."

OpenAI launched a new team, "OpenAI for Science," in October, dedicated to exploring how its LLMs could aid scientists and modifying its tools to better support them, according to MIT Technology Review. Mathematicians, physicists, biologists, and others have reported that LLMs, particularly OpenAI's GPT-5, have assisted them in making discoveries or identifying solutions they might have otherwise overlooked.

Meanwhile, a leak revealed that Russia is allegedly abusing Interpol's wanted lists to target political opponents, businessmen, and journalists who have fled the country, according to the BBC World Service and French investigative outlet, Disclose. The data suggests that over the past decade, Russia has been using Interpol to request the arrest of individuals by claiming they committed crimes, according to Hacker News.

In other news, Fortune reported that Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is leading the company after its successful development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Bourla, a veterinarian by training who joined Pfizer in 1993, led the company through the pandemic, collaborating with BioNTech to bring the first FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine to market and introducing Paxlovid.

Researchers are also studying LLMs as if they were biological organisms to better understand their capabilities and limitations, according to MIT Technology Review. The complexity of these models is so vast that even their creators do not fully understand how they work.

In the virtual world, sound is becoming increasingly important for establishing credibility and trust, according to MIT Technology Review. Erik Vaveris, vice president of product management and chief marketing officer at Shure, and Brian Scholl, director of the Perception Cognition Laboratory at Yale University, believe that audio is a crucial human factor that influences how people perceive intelligence and authority in virtual settings. Vaveris stated that "If you're willing to take a little bit of time with your audio set up, you can really get across the full power of your message."