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AI is getting better at science. OpenAI is testing how far it can go

OpenAI’s new FrontierScience benchmark shows AI advancing in physics, chemistry, and biology—and exposes the challenge of testing these systems. Read More

Kolmogorov-Arnold networks bridge AI and scientific discovery by increasing interpretability

AI has successfully been applied in many areas of science, advancing technologies like weather prediction and protein folding. However, there have been limitations for the world of scientific ... Read More

Testing AI logic in biomedical research

Manchester researchers have developed a systematic methodology to test whether AI can think logically in biomedical research, helping to ensure safer, more reliable applications in health care ... Read More

Survey of researchers shows active AI adoption for core scientific tasks

A new study provides answers based on a survey with more than 6,000 researchers from the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer Society. The highlights: Researchers actively use AI, including for core ... Read More

IIT Delhi's AILA: The AI system that can perform real scientific experiments

AILA can now manage this instrument, make real-time decisions during experiments, and generate results independently. Read More

AI Startup Edison Raises $70 Million to Speed Up Scientific Research

A startup building artificial intelligence software to speed up and automate scientific research has raised $70 million in a new funding round, the latest sign of investor enthusiasm for using AI in ... Read More

Biohub launches first large-scale scientific initiative combining Frontier AI with Frontier Biology to cure or prevent disease

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ... Read More

A conference just tested AI agents’ ability to do science

In a first, a scientific conference welcomed paper submissions from any area of science, but with one catch: AI had to do most of the work. Called Agents4Science 2025, the Oct. 22 virtual event ... Read More

Will AI Ever Win Its Own Nobel? Some Predict a Prizeworthy Science Discovery Soon

Artificial intelligence models are starting to succeed in science. In the past two years, they have demonstrated that they can analyse data, design experiments and even come up with new hypotheses. Read More

The US Government Has a Big New AI Science Project Brewing, With Big Tech's Help

Tech companies that announced their involvement this week include some of the biggest names in AI -- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind -- as well as hardware companies like Nvidia and Intel and data ... Read More

“A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot

“After the Trump administration has inflicted so much damage to valuable datasets and publicly funded research, the new executive order is a Band-Aid on a giant gash,” Prabhakar said. Read More

AI scientist claimed to do six months of research in just a few hours

An AI scientist can work independently for hours while doing research that would take humans months to complete, and has made several “novel contributions” to science, its creators claim – but others ... Read More