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University AI researchers are being squeezed out of their own field
The cutting edge of AI has moved from campuses to private labs. Academics at a recent Schmidt Sciences gathering described a field that is harder to fund, harder to study, and harder to justify than ever before.
Science's next AI leap will come from reasoning agents, not data-hungry models like AlphaFold
AlphaFold was a landmark, but the conditions that made it possible took 53 years and $21 billion to build. For most of science, a different kind of AI, one that reasons and experiments step by step, is already showing what comes next.
Scientists used an AI protein tool to make gene editing safer
Researchers adapted AlphaFold, the AI software famous for predicting protein shapes, to pinpoint and fix the parts of gene-editing proteins most likely to cut the wrong stretch of DNA.
Google is putting $40 million of AI credits into America's national science labs
The Genesis Mission gets access to AlphaFold, AlphaEvolve and Gemini, and one lab has already cut a 90-minute task down to 13 minutes.
Vertu's $6,880 AI Phone Promised to Replace an Executive Assistant. We Tested It.
The Alphafold is wrapped in calfskin leather and titanium, and its AI agent can handle real workflows. But does it do them well enough to justify the price?
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs open their bioresilience playbook
The two AI labs say they will share models with vetted partners to speed vaccine design and spot outbreaks earlier, while adding safeguards to stop misuse.