Can Scientists Trust AI Research Assistants? What the Evidence Shows
AI research assistants can speed up literature searches, but fabricated citations and patchy recall remain real risks. Here is what 2026 studies say about which tools hold up.
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AI Just Mapped 2,812 Viruses to Outrun the Next Pandemic
AlphaFold has released free, AI-predicted protein complex structures for more than 2,812 human-infecting viruses. Here is what the pandemic preparedness update means for global science.
AI Scribes Are Quietly Reshaping Hospital Bills, and Insurers Are Alarmed
Why Simple Maths Keeps Beating Billion-Parameter AI Cell Models
Pentagon Bets $47M That AI Can Out-Evolve the Next Bioweapon
The World Just Built an AI Factory for the Next Pandemic
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See allAI Co-Scientists Are Here, and Nature Just Put Them to the Test
A Nature feature published this week tracks how AI co-scientist platforms from Google DeepMind, FutureHouse and others are already generating validated hypotheses in real labs, and why human judgement is becoming the scarcest resource in science.
This Open-Source AI Just Beat 23 of 26 Radiologists
Alibaba's DAMO Academy has open-sourced RADAR, a Science-published AI that outperformed 23 of 26 radiologists reading abdominal CT scans for 146 conditions, free for any hospital to run.
The AI Biotech With 37,000 Virtual Employees Just Published in Science
Stanford's 37,000-agent Virtual Biotech mined 55,984 clinical trials and independently designed a lung cancer drug strategy Merck was already pursuing.
Big Pharma's AI Arms Race: Why Novo Nordisk Just Bet on Claude
Novo Nordisk just added Anthropic's Claude Science to an AI drug discovery stack that already includes OpenAI. Here's what the deal reveals about AI in healthcare.
AI Says It Can Beat the WHO at Picking Flu Vaccines. Can It?
A new protein-language-model study claims to out-predict the WHO's flu vaccine picks, reviving a live dispute over whether AI truly beats expert judgement here.
Tiny AI Models Just Outsmarted the Frontier Giants on Ageing Science
A new Cell study pits 18 leading AI systems against ageing biology data. Small, specialised models beat every frontier system, and the whole toolkit is free to use.
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Evolution as Training Data: How Biohub's Open Protein World Model Is Rewiring Drug Discovery
Biohub's open-source ESM models learned the rules of protein biology from evolution alone — and designed working drug binders in days. Here's what the release means, and where it falls short.
