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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

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

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

DOE Should Develop AI-Based Foundation Models Fused with Traditional Computational Methods to Bring Paradigm Shift to Scientific Discovery

Foundation models are AI systems trained on vast amounts of data — often trillions of individual data points — and they are capable of learning new ways of modeling information and performing a range ... Read More

OpenAI Unleashes FrontierScience for AI-Fueled Scientific Reasoning

FrontierScience is an evaluation system that pushes AI into uncharted territory by tackling complex scientific problems with speed. Read More

NVIDIA, NSF join forces with nonprofit to bring AI to scientific research

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A new partnership between chipmaker NVIDIA, nonprofit research center the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and the National ... Read More

Human Accountability and Responsibility Needed to Protect Scientific Integrity in an Age of AI, Says New Editorial

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are the nation's pre-eminent source of high-quality, objective advice on science, engineering, and health matters. Top experts participate ... 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

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

Philosopher: Nobody knows if AI could be conscious, and science can’t tell us

Is it unethical to create AI potentially capable of experiencing distress? In A Nutshell Cambridge philosopher argues current evidence cannot determine whether advanced AI would experience ... 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