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Science-driven technology coverage, including energy systems, advanced materials, research tools, physics, biotechnology, and commercially relevant scientific breakthroughs.
GPT-6 Rosalind Costs $15/$75 and Remains Locked to Approved Labs
OpenAI's GPT-6 Rosalind brings Astra reasoning to life-sciences research at $15/$75 per million tokens. Here is what changed, who can use it and why human review remains mandatory.
UK’s AI Biosecurity Lab Gets £100M Cash and £200M in AI Credits
The UK is launching an independent AI Biosecurity Lab with £100 million in public funding and up to £200 million in OpenAI and Anthropic credits. Here is what it will do and what remains unresolved.
Google’s Constellation Nuclear Deal: What the 3.59 GW Figure Really Means
Google and Constellation signed agreements covering 3.59 GW in PJM, but only 890 MW is planned new nuclear capacity. Here is how the uprates, supply contract and Gemini work differ.
OpenAI Published 722 AI Math Papers. The Proof Audit Starts Now
OpenAI released 722 AI-generated math manuscripts across 372 result families. Here is what Lean can verify, what remains unproven, and why the review will take time.
OpenAI GeneBench-Pro Shows Scientific AI Agents Still Need Supervision
OpenAI’s GeneBench-Pro benchmark tests whether AI agents can make messy judgment calls in genomics and translational biology. GPT-5.6 Sol leads the field, but a 31.5% top score shows scientific AI still needs expert supervision before it can be trusted with consequential research decisions.
Claude Science Turns Research AI Into a Lab Workflow Layer
Anthropic’s Claude Science beta gives researchers an AI workbench for literature review, code, compute jobs, scientific figures, and lab-specific agents. The launch matters because it treats AI for science less like a single model race and more like a workflow layer that has to connect databases, HPC systems, NVIDIA BioNeMo tools, and reproducible artifacts.
NASA’s Space Medical AI Test Moves Care From Cloud to Edge
NASA researchers are testing the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant with Red Hat’s RamaLama so astronaut medical guidance can run locally when a spacecraft cannot depend on Earth or the cloud. The work turns space medicine into a serious edge AI test case.
Google’s AI Talent Losses Put Coding and Science Roadmaps Under Pressure
Google DeepMind lost Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and John Jumper to Anthropic in the same week. The moves matter because AI labs are competing for researchers who can steer coding agents, scientific AI, and frontier model strategy, not just write papers.
SandboxAQ’s $500M CHIPS Award Moves AI Into Chip Materials
The Commerce Department awarded SandboxAQ $500 million to use physics-based AI for semiconductor materials discovery. The target is not a new chip, but the chemicals, magnets, catalysts, and backup-power systems that fabs need to run.
OpenAI o3 Helps Doctors Revisit Rare Disease Cases in NEJM AI Study
Researchers at Boston Children’s, Harvard, and OpenAI used o3 Deep Research to reanalyze 376 previously unsolved rare disease cases. The model surfaced evidence-linked leads that helped specialists confirm 18 diagnoses, but the study is careful about what AI did and did not decide.