AI Agents Improve DNA Aptamers in 3-Round Wet-Lab Loop
Google Research tested AI agents in three wet-lab rounds against α-thrombin and myoglobin, lifting hit rates to 42.1% and 33.5%.
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PC Shipments Plunge 20% in Worst Q3 Drop on Record
IDC and Omdia report Q3 2026 PC shipments fell about 20% to 62.7M and 58.1M units as AI-driven memory costs reshaped prices and demand.
AI Chose the Experiments, Then Called Every Borylation Site
ETH Zurich and Roche used active learning to pick C-H borylation experiments, then geometric AI predicted sites on 10 unseen molecules.
Margaret Hamilton, Apollo software leader, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, who led MIT's Apollo onboard flight software teams, died Sept. 30 at 90; MIT and family announced it Oct. 7-8.
Sandia Team Reports KiMecO to Tie Experiments to Combustion Theory
Sandia CRF researchers introduced KiMecO, a tool that fits hydrocarbon submechanisms at the master-equation level using multi-species experimental data.
Machine Learning Maps Ethylene Catalysts With R² 0.86 Accuracy
ACS Catalysis published a SMILES-to-XGBoost workflow on Oct. 6, 2026 that predicted Fe/Co bis(imino)pyridyl activity at R² 0.86 and flagged N-aryl geometry.
AlphaProtein Novo Designs Enzymes That Beat Natural Mining
DeepMind and Caltech reported Oct. 5 that AlphaProtein Novo designed piperidine-making and DEHP-degrading enzymes beating natural mining, plus record model-reaction rates.
AgentDiscover Hands Scientific Search Control to AI Agent
Texas A&M researchers published AgentDiscover on Oct. 4, 2026, reporting an agent-led search that cut kernel cycles and topped prior frameworks.
FLIGHTED Turns Noisy Protein Assays Into Better Fitness Maps
MIT team published FLIGHTED in Cell Systems on Oct. 2, 2026, a Bayesian method that turns noisy assays into probabilistic fitness maps.
AI ImmuneAgent Discovers Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Across Viruses
ImmuneAgent found 60 neutralizers from 110 clones, with 100% flu protection in mice and new hMPV and HPV antibodies.
LLMs Discover Complementary Heuristics for Optimization
LACE, published Oct. 1, 2026, scored 0.945 on 36 optimization benchmarks by evolving complementary heuristics.
Initialization Improves LLM-Driven Discovery, Study Finds
A Sept. 30, 2026 preprint reports that parallel exploration before iterative refinement lifts LLM discovery scores under fixed token budgets.
Trump Says Top AI Firms Signed Voluntary Self-Policing Accord
Trump said seven signatories backed a voluntary White House AI accord on Sept. 29, 2026, built around internal controls, external audits and board oversight.
SpaceX Starship Hits Orbit, Deploys 26 Starlinks, Ends Early
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time Sept. 28, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites before a shortened Pacific splashdown.
What OpenAI and Anthropic Gain From Demanding an AI Slowdown
AP reporting from Sept. 27, 2026, found OpenAI and Anthropic paired UN safety warnings with bids to shape testing, politics and IPO timing.
BioDyad Syncs Biomedical Discovery With ML Engineering
BioDyad links biomedical discovery and staged ML testing in Monte Carlo graph search and led rivals on 76 timed BioXArena tasks.
CDC Vaccine Guidance Freezes After New Flu Shot Approval
FDA approved mRNA flu shot mFlusiva for ages 50-64, but CDC issued no recommendation after Kennedy's ACIP overhaul and a March court order froze federal vaccine policy.
Transformer Discovers Molecular Physics Without Built-In Priors
UC Berkeley and LBNL researchers report a prior-free Transformer learned electrostatic-like interactions and physics-consistent cutoffs from Cartesian coordinates.
COFFlow Builds 2D Covalent Frameworks From Molecular Blocks
Florida chemists published COFFlow on Sept. 23, 2026, a building-block AI for 2D COF crystal prediction that yielded top-ranked methane-storage candidates.
Nuance Audio Plus Adds Voice Clarity, 10-Hour Battery to Hearing Glasses
EssilorLuxottica's $829 Nuance Audio Plus adds clearer speech in noise, 10-hour battery and iPhone hands-free calling to FDA-cleared hearing glasses.
Microsoft's RetroChimera Pairs Two AIs to Design Chemical Routes
Microsoft Research unveiled RetroChimera in Nature on Sept. 21, 2026, pairing two AI models to plan chemical synthesis routes chemists prefer.
