Google-backed UC San Diego researchers plan to build a low-carbon cloud platform from 2,000 retired Pixel phones. The design strips devices to motherboards, groups 25-50 phones into Kubernetes-managed clusters, and targets teaching, grading, and research workloads.
Google Research is framing dermatology AI around user understanding, not just condition labels. A JAMA Dermatology study with 2,345 participants tested whether an AI-powered informational tool helped people identify skin concerns and choose better next steps.
The r/artificial thread focused less on banning AI tools and more on author responsibility when unchecked model output reaches the scholarly record.
Anthropic points to infrastructure, not only model intelligence, as the bottleneck for scientific agents. In an NCBI Virus retrieval task, accuracy rose to nearly 100% after adding a deterministic gget virus layer.
NMR analysis is a slow chemistry bottleneck, and Anthropic says Opus 4.7 matched or beat specialist tools on parts of a 20-compound test. Its hydrogen NMR average error was about plus or minus 0.079 ppm.
Microsoft Discovery became generally available on June 2 for organizations building governed R&D workflows. The platform connects specialized agents, scientific knowledge, simulation tools, validation data, and a new local preview app for researchers.
Life-science AI is moving from literature help toward executable research workflows. OpenAI says GPT-Rosalind reached 27.5% on MedChemBench, 21.6% on GeneBench, and 63.2% on LabWorkBench.
An AI system that assesses burn-wound healing potential in roughly 20 to 25 seconds has cleared a key US regulatory gate. Spectral AI can now begin commercial distribution of DeepView for burn centers, trauma centers, and emergency departments.
ZOZO’s ppf-contact-solver brings a production-grade cloth and soft-body contact engine into the open. The headline number is more than 180 million contacts in one scene, plus Blender support and an Apache 2.0 license.
An OpenAI general-purpose reasoning model has independently solved the planar unit distance problem — a famous open geometry question posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. External mathematicians verified the proof, marking the first time AI has autonomously solved a major open problem in mathematics.
An OpenAI general-purpose reasoning model independently disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture — a central problem in discrete geometry open since 1946. This marks the first time in history that an AI has autonomously solved a prominent open math problem, verified by independent mathematicians including Princeton's Noga Alon.
Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini for Science at I/O 2026, a suite of experimental AI tools designed to help scientists explore hypotheses, validate work at scale, and analyze scientific literature.