Google DeepMind has quietly disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team less than a year after its historic 2024 Nobel Prize, with key researchers including Nobel co-winner John Jumper defecting to rival Anthropic, which just launched Claude Science to target the biology and drug-discovery space AlphaFold helped pioneer.
The U.S. Department of Energy selects 278 projects under its record-breaking Genesis Mission, spanning all 50 states and 342 institutions, to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery in energy, national security, and beyond, with the largest single award being a $60 million investment in AI-powered nuclear energy research.
The Trump Administration commits over $5 billion to the 'Genesis Mission,' a sweeping AI-powered federal initiative spanning 15+ agencies aimed at curing pediatric cancer, expanding the power grid, and doubling America's R&D output through shared data, computing power, and cutting-edge scientific collaboration.
Google Research's AI-powered Empirical Research Assistants are now used by 100% of its team, evaluating up to 200,000 computational models simultaneously to accelerate breakthroughs in genomics, neuroscience, and epidemiology, while also tackling science's reproducibility crisis — though human expertise remains critical to prevent AI from generating physically impossible results.
Anthropic launches an internal drug discovery program targeting neglected diseases and unveils Claude Science, a new AI tool for drugmakers, positioning itself as a hands-on healthcare player alongside tech giants like Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon.
Google Cloud launches SandboxAQ's quantitative AI models and a new Gemini for Science suite, giving enterprise and research teams powerful tools to accelerate drug discovery, materials science, and semiconductor R&D by combining scientific numerical AI with Gemini's reasoning capabilities.
NumPy v2.5.0 launches as the go-to open-source scientific computing package for Python, boasting over 32,400 GitHub stars, 12,500 forks, and 1,885 contributors, offering powerful tools including N-dimensional arrays, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, and Fortran integration.
Google unveils powerful AI tools including Gemini for Science and AlphaEvolve, partnering with top universities to give every researcher a virtual lab and potentially usher in a golden age of scientific discovery.
NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit is revolutionizing biomolecular research by doubling AI token efficiency and achieving a perfect 100% task completion rate, up from 57.1%, by packaging complex scientific models into autonomous, callable AI tools.
Stanford researchers unveil Proto, a groundbreaking AI-powered programming language that enables scientists to design complex biological systems — including DNA, RNA, and proteins — using natural language, achieving record experimental success rates and already validated in human cell lines.