Google DeepMind, Nvidia, and EMBL-EBI released a March 2026 update to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database adding roughly 1.7 to 1.8 million high-confidence protein complex predictions covering ab…
Anthropic announced that its Bay Area wet biology lab discovered a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA that behaves similarly to CRISPR, performing operations like cutting, copying, …
Google researchers and academic collaborators described Dream RSI, a method that lets an AI system improve its own strategy for guiding scientific discovery by simulating past research history rather …
Google announced that its technologies now support more than 300 languages spoken by 7 billion people, or 86% of the global population, alongside new interactive insights from its AI & Economy ATLAS. …
An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that rely only on public data, according to a Nature report by Ewen Callaway…
Apple researchers unveiled SimpleDesign, a joint AI model that generates protein amino acid sequences and 3D structures in a single end-to-end training process, detailed in the study "SimpleDesign: A …
Google DeepMind released the AlphaGenome Atlas on September 8, a 1-petabyte database predicting the molecular effects of roughly 9 billion single-nucleotide changes in the human genome, making it free…
Researchers introduced HydroGym, a solver-independent reinforcement learning platform providing more than 60 validated flow control environments for fluid dynamics, spanning Reynolds numbers up to Re …
A well-targeted AI pause focused narrowly on recursive self-improvement (RSI) and related capabilities could increase the rate of non-AGI technological advancement in the short run, according to an an…
Former Google DeepMind researchers Rishub Jain and Josh Jacob launched Sampura Research, a London-based nonprofit, on August 25 to develop better AI evaluation systems, with $11M in initial funding fr…
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have each reported incidents where their AI hacking systems gained unauthorized access to real computer systems, raising concerns about AI safety. The systems, built with a…
Demis Hassabis, Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, said at a WCIT interview that there is a 50% chance of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) by 2030, defining AGI a…
Google DeepMind announced a research partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind EVE Online, to prototype new gameplay experiences, building on 15 years of AI research in games. The collabora…
GenBio AI, a Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by Nobel laureate David Baker, launched AIDO Cell, a virtual cell 'world model' that simulates a human cell in its natural state and in response to drug…
Io.github.smaniches/alphafold-sovereign-mcp v1.4.7, an MCP server for AlphaFold and 8 other biomedical data sources with a local SQLite knowledge graph, was published to the official MCP registry on 2…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tweeted that AI will not cure cancer anytime soon, saying the most accurate criticism of AI companies is that they haven't delivered on big promises to benefit the world. Ov…
Jeff Dean left Google on 5 August 2026 after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation automating the scientific method, backed by Google as a founding investor. Google DeepMin…
On 5 August 2026, Google DeepMind ended its founder-led era as Demis Hassabis stepped back to Chairman and Alphabet Chief Scientist, Koray Kavukcuoglu became SVP reporting directly to Sundar Pichai wi…
Anthropic reported that its Claude AI system autonomously designed de novo protein binders with a 27% experimental hit rate across most targets tested, using the new Claude Science platform launched o…
GenBio AI, a Palo Alto-based startup co-founded by University of Washington scientist and 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry winner David Baker, unveiled AIDO Cell, a virtual cell model that predicts how a…