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AI as a research partner: Advancing theoretical computer science with AlphaEvolve https://research.google/blog/ai-as-a-research-partner-advancing-theoretical-computer-science-with-alphaevolve/
Tinker – Thinking Machines Lab
https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/
Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/former-openai-and-deepmind-researchers-raise-whopping-300m-seed-to-automate-science/
Terence Tao + AI for solving hard math problems🤯 In this example the insight comes from Terence, and the muscle—via an hourlong conversation with GPT-5 and some python code it wrote—comes from AI. “”Here, the AI tool use was a significant time saver… Indeed I would have been”” / X https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1974161952260624459
Terence Tao: “I was able to use an extended …” – Mathstodon
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115306424727150237
Yet more evidence that a pretty major shift is happening, this time by Scott Aaronson https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/1972368891239375078
Today, @ekindogus and I are excited to introduce @periodiclabs. Our goal is to create an AI scientist. Science works by conjecturing how the world might be, running experiments, and learning from the results. Intelligence is necessary, but not sufficient. New knowledge is https://x.com/LiamFedus/status/1973055380193431965
We’re leading a $300M founding round for @periodiclabs. Science today is bottlenecked by slow, manual experimentation. Periodic is changing that. They’re building AI scientists paired with autonomous laboratories that can hypothesize, experiment, and iterate at speeds impossible https://x.com/a16z/status/1973057267286098131
Periodic Labs Today, we introduce Periodic Labs. Our goal is to create an AI scientist.
https://periodic.com/
Asher on X: “if i had a nickel for every MIT professor who told me GPT5 made a novel research discovery in the past week, i’d have 2 nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s strange that it happened twice” / X
https://x.com/asher5772/status/1973152790475317290
💥 We’re hiring our first research scientists for OpenAI for Science! As a reminder, our goal is to build the next great scientific instrument: an AI-powered platform that accelerates scientific discovery.”” / X https://x.com/kevinweil/status/1972706870042440051
New AI Tool Pinpoints Genes, Drug Combos To Restore Health in Diseased Cells | Harvard Medical School https://hms.harvard.edu/news/new-ai-tool-pinpoints-genes-drug-combos-restore-health-diseased-cells
Intercept Cancer: Cancer Pre-Screening with Large Scale Healthcare Foundation Models “”We present CATCH-FM, CATch Cancer early with Healthcare Foundation Models, a cancer pre-screening methodology that identifies high-risk patients for further screening solely based on their https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1971521050057072995
Another paper pointing out the inadequacy of older public benchmarks for determining whether AI is actually good for tasks like medicine. Models are clearly memorizing or using heuristics for some answers. A new wave of benchmarks based on real-world data will help, more needed. https://x.com/emollick/status/1971658338594443287
