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AI for Science

AI for science covers discovery work in biology, materials, mathematics and physics. It sits outside software delivery, but it's where models are tested against problems with answers that can be checked, which makes it a useful counterweight to benchmark claims elsewhere in the log.

In the news log

Microsoft's MAI-DxO diagnostic AI beats doctors on hard medical cases, with caveats

The Neuron →
23 October 2026

Radical Numerics claims a world first with an FDA-cleared, AI-designed virus

The Rundown AI →
22 October 2026

OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind links mouse-brain gene data to research literature in minutes

Latent Space →
22 October 2026

AI reads routine pathology slides to flag ovarian cancers that respond to targeted drugs

There's an AI for That →
22 October 2026

Anthropic co-founder tells the IMF "the singularity has begun"

Import AI →
20 October 2026

OpenAI's partial progress on the Riemann hypothesis impresses mathematicians, unverified

There's an AI For That →
20 October 2026

Mathematician Terence Tao says he feels used by OpenAI's benchmarking push

TLDR →
20 October 2026

Startup builds an AI model to read the electrical signals plants use

TechCrunch →
20 October 2026

CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent on AI for science

CERN →
19 October 2026

AstraZeneca signs AI drug discovery deal with Insitro worth up to $1.5bn

The Neuron →
18 October 2026

Researchers find AI agents invent their own shared communication system

The Neuron →
18 October 2026

AI mines 150,000 Reddit posts on an unapproved weight-loss drug for early side-effect signals

There's an AI For That →
18 October 2026

Simons Foundation commits $15m to help mathematicians adapt to AI

The Neuron →
16 October 2026

Google Research sets out building blocks for autonomous wet labs

Google Research →
16 October 2026

Google DeepMind's weather model forecasts Hurricane Isaias well ahead of rivals

Latent Space →
13 October 2026

NYU Langone builds an AI that reads years of mammograms together to estimate cancer risk

There's an AI For That →
12 October 2026

"BootLoops" AI harness finds cross-field scientific solutions, yielding 36 preprints

TLDR →
12 October 2026

OpenAI posts 722 AI-written research papers, then pulls three over an error

The Neuron →
12 October 2026

Terence Tao sets out a "Math 2.0" view of AI in mathematics

Terence Tao →
11 October 2026

Google's AMIE chatbot interviews patients before urgent-care visits

The Neuron →
11 October 2026

Mathematicians say OpenAI's drop of nearly 400 results will take years to assess

The Verge →
9 October 2026

Terry Tao sets out what mathematicians should know about Lean, reliability and AI

Terence Tao →
9 October 2026

Pointing AI at 400 years of archives surfaced a forgotten meteorite and lost rhinos

Jesse Waites →
9 October 2026

A $1.8bn global commitment funds AI-ready biological data

Biohub →
8 October 2026

AI-assisted proof settles optimal packing for 11 squares

GitHub →
7 October 2026

Google opens Earth AI geospatial foundation models for global public health

Google Research →
6 October 2026

AI settles a major unsolved mathematics problem, to a divided reception

IEEE Spectrum →
5 October 2026

Claude finds a CRISPR-like enzyme system after a 950-agent search of viral DNA

The Rundown AI →
24 September 2026

OpenAI forms outside mathematician advisory group after AI resolves 100+ open problems

The Neuron →
23 September 2026

Peking University and OPPO train an AI to read "arterial age" from a smartwatch pulse

There's an AI for That →
23 September 2026

Anthropic's biology lab reports a discovery it compares to CRISPR

The Verge →
23 September 2026

Paper2Agent turns research papers into interactive agents

IEEE Spectrum →
23 September 2026

Enveda raises $311m for nature-derived AI drug discovery

TechCrunch →
23 September 2026

Anthropic confirms it is running a Bay Area biology wet lab

AI Daily Brief →
21 September 2026

Essay argues AI is good at maths because the literature, not verifiability, is clean

TLDR AI →
21 September 2026

New non-profit SAIR launches to build open AI models for mathematics

TLDR AI →
21 September 2026

GPT-6 Astra helps crack a WWII Enigma message unsolved since 1941

The Rundown AI →
18 September 2026

Anthropic open-sources faster biomolecular modelling work

TLDR AI →
18 September 2026

A children's hospital cuts cardiac modelling from four hours to seconds

AI Daily Brief →
17 September 2026

Periodic Neon beats frontier models on cost for scientific analysis

TLDR AI →
16 September 2026

Terence Tao leads 25 Fields Medalists in a formal warning to AI labs

AI Daily Brief →
15 September 2026

A "severe misalignment" between AI companies and mathematicians

TLDR →
14 September 2026

AI-assisted ultrasound catches more fetal brain defects in trial

The Rundown AI →
14 September 2026

Sakana publishes a backpropagation alternative

Sakana AI →
14 September 2026

Claude Fable 5.1 cracks a 370-year-old cipher in a day

Vals AI →
13 September 2026

The "Waymo effect" argument says AI is quietly decollaborating research

Research Agenda →
11 September 2026

OpenAI claims a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, using a 10,000-agent swarm

The Verge →
8 September 2026

NYU mathematician says OpenAI may have benefited from his unpublished work on the same problem

TechCrunch →
8 September 2026

Terence Tao warns open maths problems are being "non-renewably mined" by AI

Simon Willison →
8 September 2026

Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a map of 9 billion possible DNA variants

IEEE Spectrum →
8 September 2026

Google's AI weather model improves by taking in more raw satellite data

Ars Technica →
8 September 2026

AI-designed drug rentosertib shows anti-ageing effects in a lung fibrosis trial

The Neuron →
8 September 2026

Claude produces the first complete computer-checked formalisation of Fermat's Last Theorem

There's an AI for That →
5 September 2026

Google Research applies transfer learning to genomic prediction in underrepresented populations

Google Research →
3 September 2026

Google's WeatherNext 3 starts feeding Search, Maps and Gemini

TechCrunch →
3 September 2026

Models can recover up to 65% of facts they cannot directly recall, just by thinking longer

VentureBeat →
1 September 2026

Google maps global methane emissions from space with deep learning

Google Research →
1 September 2026

Google releases TimesFM-3 for zero-shot multivariate forecasting

Google Research →
31 August 2026

Anthropic launches the Model Hardware Standard, letting agents run lab and factory equipment

The Rundown AI →
28 August 2026

UK surgeons perform first brain surgery with a live AI assistant watching the camera feed

The Rundown AI →
28 August 2026

AI model trained on 37,000 patient records proposed as replacement for decades-old hospital scoring system

The Neuron →
28 August 2026

An AI startup is training models on living human skin

TechCrunch →
22 August 2026

mRNA cancer vaccine backed by AI-matched mutations succeeds in Phase 3 melanoma trial

TLDR →
20 August 2026

Singapore switches on a "biological data centre" built from lab-grown neurons

The Neuron →
18 August 2026

A 40-year-old maths conjecture is independently proven three times in a week with ChatGPT's help

The Neuron →
18 August 2026

Netflix open-sources an agentic workflow for causal inference

InfoQ →
18 August 2026

Inherent's Faraday model beats larger frontier models at replicating scientific research

Import AI →
17 August 2026

New DiG-bench tests whether AI can discover hidden rules through play, not instruction

Import AI →
17 August 2026

A non-mathematician using Claude produces a notable result adjacent to the Riemann hypothesis

TLDR →
17 August 2026

AI formalises the toughest mathematics proof verified so far

IEEE Spectrum →
17 August 2026

Google Research estimates cardiometabolic risk from smartphone photos

Google Research →
17 August 2026

Google Research finds recall, not storage, limits what models know

Google Research →
12 August 2026

Google advances AMIE towards expert-level audio-visual clinical consultations

Google Research →
11 August 2026

Claude pushes a Riemann hypothesis bound from 41.6% to 67.2%

TLDR AI →
11 August 2026

Dyna-2 sets a scaling law for robot dexterity from a million hours of video

TLDR →
11 August 2026

Anthropic overhauls the safety filter on Fable 5's biology answers

The Rundown AI →
7 August 2026

Google open-sources WeatherNext 2 and WeatherNext Cyclones

TLDR →
7 August 2026

Jeff Dean and three Google veterans launch Discovery Loop

TLDR →
6 August 2026

MIT engineers build a physiotherapy robot that learns from therapists

The Neuron →
6 August 2026

Vanderbilt develops an electronic health record agent for Alzheimer's care

The Neuron →
6 August 2026

Conduit leaves OpenAI to build thought-to-text models

TLDR →
6 August 2026

A mathematician disputes at least one of Astra's proofs

AI Daily Brief →
4 August 2026

Only hundreds of people worldwide could verify each Astra proof

AI Daily Brief →
4 August 2026

Gary Marcus warns checkable maths does not prove general scientific reasoning

The Neuron →
4 August 2026

Intology's Locus beats human-tuned baselines by automating post-training

Latent Space →
4 August 2026

Fidji Simo leaves OpenAI to found ChronicleBio

TLDR →
4 August 2026

AI analysis of 3,700 dream accounts finds method in the madness

The Register →
4 August 2026

OpenAI's unreleased Astra model settles ten open mathematics problems

The Rundown AI →
3 August 2026

An Anthropic researcher reproduced half the Astra proofs with public Claude

The Rundown AI →
3 August 2026

A shadow evaluation finds agents are strong engineers but weak researchers

Import AI →
3 August 2026

DeepMind breaks up its Nobel-winning AlphaFold team

TLDR →
31 July 2026

AI finds structure in 3,700 accounts of dreams and waking life

The Register →
30 July 2026

Google Research publishes the Science One Framework for verifiable autonomous research

Google Research →
30 July 2026

AI is good at spotting patterns in lost languages, but not at reading them

Ars Technica →
29 July 2026

A team uses AlphaFold to make gene-editing proteins safer

TLDR →
27 July 2026

ChatGPT can now read your medical records

The Neuron →
24 July 2026

Mathematician Jacob Tsimerman joins OpenAI to work on AI safety

The Rundown AI →
24 July 2026

DOE and Arcee release Genesis-Science-1 open model

Latent Space →
23 July 2026

Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 power the first US Genesis Mission science projects

TLDR →
22 July 2026

Google Research previews SymptomAI, an everyday symptom-assessment agent

Google Research →
22 July 2026

Claude Fable 5 disproves the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture

The Rundown AI →
21 July 2026

AI could cut drug-development costs and timelines by up to 70%

TLDR →
21 July 2026

Pinecone launches Nexus to compile business context for agents

InfoQ →
21 July 2026

Google's AlphaEvolve reaches general availability

InfoQ →
20 July 2026

Kimi K3 demonstrates early recursive self-improvement

Import AI →
20 July 2026

AI and a brain implant restore a paralysed man's movement and touch

TLDR →
17 July 2026

IEEE Spectrum: an AI folds DNA into intricate origami shapes

IEEE Spectrum →
15 July 2026

Sakana's "smart cellular bricks" show physical collective intelligence

TLDR AI →
14 July 2026

Meta open-sources Brain2Qwerty v2 noninvasive brain-computer interface

InfoQ →
14 July 2026

Stanford unveils Biomni, a biomedical "co-scientist" agent

The Neuron →
12 July 2026

Surgeon-controlled humanoid robots perform a world-first operation on live pigs

TLDR →
10 July 2026

Google Research releases SensorFM, a wearable-health foundation model

Google Research →
9 July 2026

Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs

The Verge →
3 July 2026

Midjourney's full-body ultrasound scanner leaves questions unanswered

The Verge →
3 July 2026

Google Cloud to distribute specialist AI models from SandboxAQ

TLDR →
30 June 2026

Meta Brain2Qwerty v2: non-invasive BCI reaches 61% word accuracy

TLDR →
30 June 2026

ConlangCrafter turns AI to imagining constructed languages

IEEE Spectrum →
27 June 2026

AI Virtually Unwraps and Deciphers Vesuvius-Charred Ancient Scroll

The Register →
26 June 2026

Anthropic and Stripe Back $500M Intercept Fund to Eliminate Respiratory Viruses

TLDR →
25 June 2026

Nvidia Pitches AI Agents as the Interface for Scientific Supercomputing

The Register →
23 June 2026

ML Brain-Computer Interface Gives ALS Patient Full-Time Job Capability at 92% Accuracy

The Register →
23 June 2026

AlphaFold Nobel Laureate John Jumper Leaves DeepMind for Anthropic

TLDR AI →
22 June 2026

AI helps diagnose 18 children with rare diseases

The Neuron →
19 June 2026

AI Engineer Claims Partial Decipherment of Linear A Script

AIClambake →
19 June 2026

OpenAI launches LifeSciBench for life-sciences workflows

TLDR →
18 June 2026

Midjourney unveils a full-body ultrasound scanner

Latent Space →
18 June 2026

Terry Tao becomes an evangelist for AI in mathematics

TLDR →
12 June 2026

A Google DeepMind spin-off hunts hidden drug targets

IEEE Spectrum →
11 June 2026