AI Models May Have Helped Spot a Possible New Planet 116 Light-Years From Earth

AI models may have helped spot a new planet 116 light-years from Earth.
A product manager with no telescope used Claude Code and Codex to scan NASA data on more than 126,000 stars.
The AI flagged a star whose brightness dips every 3.18 days. The same dips appeared in data from 2018 and 2020.
The possible planet is about 1.4 times the size of Earth and hot enough to melt lead.
NASA's TESS telescope will now watch the star from October 31 to see if it dims on time.