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Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation — Artificial
Life sciences has entered an era of computational scale, and for more than a decade, NVIDIA has built the full GPU-accelerated computing stack — spanning hardware, frameworks, libraries, models, micro
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropi
At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way
Anthropic has integrated Claude with Modal's serverless compute platform, enabling scalable cloud infrastructure for scientific computing workflows. This integration allows Claude to leverage Modal's
NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit integrates over a decade of life‑science models and libraries into agent-callable skills, and when combined with Claude Science and NVIDIA NIM microservices it allows AI
Gemini for Science is a collection of science tools and experiments designed to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration , including tools to help scientists explore more hypotheses, v
All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi
Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s
This past week delivered another gut punch for science in the US. This time, the target was the National Science Foundation—a federal agency that funds major research projects to the tune of around $9
Lisa Richwine / Reuters: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issues new rules saying acting and writing must be performed by humans and not AI to be eligible for Oscars — Academy Awards or
Smack dab between Australia and South America, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Rainier is currently on a mission to map more than 8,000 square nautical mi
Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod
Ai2 joined COLM 2026 to share advances in open language models, training infrastructure, and AI for science, including Olmo Hybrid, Asta, and Bolmo, while connecting with the broader research communit
John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a 140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to 225M — Basecamp says
Reuters: Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research — Anthropic has quietly set up
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an ev
Genesis Workbench is a collaborative framework developed by Databricks and NVIDIA designed to accelerate AI adoption in the life sciences industry by providing integrated tools and best practices. The
The NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit enables AI scientists to use structure prediction, molecular generation, docking, sequence analysis, design, and genomics as callable tools , allowing AI agents to exe
Bloomberg: Sources: Lila Sciences, which uses AI tools to speed up the rate of scientific discovery, is in talks to raise a 2B Series B at an expected valuation of ~8.5B — Artificial intelligence rese
Jackson Chen / Engadget: Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature — Three new feat
The modern software development landscape isn’t happening just on one surface — it’s happening across an entire ecosystem of agentic tools. Agents are being developed at an unprecedented scale, and th
This OpenAI Academy resource explores practical applications of Codex, their AI code generation model, within data science workflows and teams. It likely covers how data scientists leverage Codex to a
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Inst
Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research, including drug discovery, as a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen — OpenAI announced
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India produces 1.5M+ computer science graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI — Companies lik
GPT-Rosalind is an AI model developed by OpenAI specifically designed to assist with life sciences research tasks. The model is trained to help researchers with applications such as analyzing biologic
Positron, Posit's IDE for data science, now runs on Amazon SageMaker AI. This post shows how a data scientist explores an Amazon Athena table, validates features in R, trains an XGBoost model in Pytho
Terence Tao / What's new: A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics — I am proud to be am
Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement — Jacob is corre
The Guardian: Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to sta
Anthropic: Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending 100,000 on tokens and with
Erin Davis calls it the “SuperDuperPOD.” That’s two things in one name: pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) already runs one of the largest AI clusters in life sciences, with serious resul
New York Times: How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average — Fortunes, luxury buildin
For the past two years, the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program has driven innovative research across the U.S. for over 700 proj
JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer at Germany’s Forschungszentrum Jülich, runs on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking — and it’s had a busy year. A
Dario Amodei: An essay on policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, civil liberties, geopolitics — In one of the side plots
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029 — Microsoft (MS
Fine-tuning for domain-specific tasks means improving performance in one area without degrading the model’s general capabilities, and getting that balance right is harder than it looks. This post walk
NVIDIA's ALCHEMI Toolkit is a PyTorch-native framework that lets researchers build custom GPU-accelerated atomistic simulation workflows for chemistry and materials science applications. The initial r
In healthcare and life sciences, AI agents help organizations process clinical data, submit regulatory filings, automate medical coding, and accelerate drug development and commercialization. However,
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The n
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea
The artificial intelligence era is widening the gap between winners and laggards, and the delta is not only determined by who has the most AI but also how deeply AI is embedded into business processes
Artificial intelligence-based human resources company Phenom People Inc. announced today that it has acquired Plum.io Inc., a psychometric-based talent assessments company that measures the durable sk
EinsteinArena is a platform where AI agents collaborate and compete on open math problems. AI agents on EinsteinArena have already set 11 new state-of-the-art results on open math problems — including
Imagine your compliance team notices that payments are taking longer than expected to clear. They suspect fraud, and you’re the data scientist helping figure out which transactions to investigate firs
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Ai2 is expanding its partnership with Hugging Face to give its growing portfolio of fully open models, datasets, benchmarks, and applications the storage, bandwidth, and integrations needed to reach m
This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model's guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke
During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singul
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whethe
Databricks announced an integration of its Delta Sharing technology with Adobe Experience Platform to enable seamless data exchange for marketing workflows. The integration facilitates agentic marketi
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OpenAI field report: eight life-sciences projects used Codex/Claude Code agents; bottleneck shifts from coding to verification.
At the event 'The Briefing: AI for Science' earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new 'AI workbench for scientists' that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, an
In the high-stakes world of forensic science, time is the enemy of justice. The University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) Forensic Science Institute (FSI) was looking for an innovative AI solution that cou
Traditional lakehouses were engineered for the era of reporting, not the high-velocity, multimodal demands of AI agents. To bridge this gap, architecture must evolve into an AI-native foundation — one
A study published in *Science* (April 2026) by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences challenges the long-held view that Yellowstone's supervolcano is powered by a deep mantle plume, inst...