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(via DEV) Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI (via DEV)
James Zou used virtual AI ‘scientists’ to find novel covid-19 treatments. Now, he’s having AI review and present all of the research at a controversial new conference.
(via DEV) The Hobbyist Restorer Who Rocked the Art World With an A.I. Innovation (via DEV)
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.
(via DEV) Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome (via DEV)
Nature – Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.
(via DEV) Analysts downplay AI bubble worries as Altman says some investors will be left ‘very burnt’ (via DEV)
Tech’s biggest names all raised capital expenditure guidance to keep pace with AI demand, with Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Meta all set to spend big.
(via DEV) AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work (via DEV)
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
(via DEV) Trump warned by top Senate Democrats to rethink advanced AI chip sales to China (via DEV)
On Aug. 15, top Senate Democrats warned Trump about AI chip deal with China in an open letter
(via DEV) AI helps assemble ‘brain’ of future quantum computer (via DEV)
Nature – As a demonstration, AI system helps to make a miniature, high-speed animation of physicists’ favourite feline.
(via DEV) AI designs antibiotics to fight drug-resistant superbugs (via DEV)
The new drugs were designed atom-by-atom using AI, with researchers hoping they could create a new pipeline for drugs.
(via DEV) They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots. (via DEV)
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.
(via DEV) Beyond Ten Turns: Unlocking Long-Horizon Agentic Search with… (via DEV)
Recent advancements in LLM-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling complex, knowledge-intensive tasks by integrating external tools. Among diverse choices of tools,…
(via DEV) Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good interface design in SwiftUI (via DEV)
A group of Apple researchers took a very interesting approach to get an AI to teach itself how to build good interfaces in SwiftUI.
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(via DEV) Inside the Biden Administration’s Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future (via DEV)
What really motivated the US government to ban Nvidia from selling powerful computer chips to China?
(via DEV) Mechanistic understanding and validation of large AI models with SemanticLens (via DEV)
Nature Machine Intelligence – SemanticLens is a tool that embeds artificial intelligence model components (such as neurons) into a searchable, human-understandable space. This enables automated…
(via DEV) Convo Lang – The language of AI (via DEV)
Convo-Lang is an open source AI-native programming language and ecosystem designed specifically for building powerful, structured prompts and agent workflows for large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, Llama, DeepSeek,...
(via DEV) Exclusive: US embeds trackers in AI chip shipments to catch diversions to China, sources say (via DEV)
U.S. authorities have secretly placed location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced chips they see as being at high risk of illegal diversion to China, according to two people...
(via DEV) What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? (via DEV)
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
(via DEV) The world’s biggest company got caught in the middle of Trump’s AI war with China (via DEV)
Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company
(via DEV) US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China (via DEV)
A “highly unusual” deal.
(via DEV) US to take cut of AI chip sales to China. Security risk or easy money? (via DEV)
Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15 percent of their revenues from AI chip sales to China with the U.S. government in an unusual export deal.
(via DEV) How Much Power will Frontier AI Training Demand in 2030? (via DEV)
The power required to train the largest frontier models is growing by more than 2x per year, and is on trend to reaching multiple gigawatts by 2030.
(via DEV) Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones (via DEV)
New research reveals how OS agents — AI systems that control computers like humans — are rapidly advancing while raising serious security and privacy concerns.
(via DEV) AI Industry Warns That New Lawsuit Could Destroy It Entirely (via DEV)
Anthropic is appealing a judge’s decision that would allow potentially millions of authors to sue for copyright infringement together.
(via DEV) AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights, July ’25 (via DEV)
tl;dr Paper of the month: • Language models can transmit behavioral traits like misalignment through seemingly unrelated data (pure number sequences)…
(via DEV) From bootcamp to bust: How AI is upending the software development industry (via DEV)
Coding bootcamps have been a mainstay in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. Now, as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people, they’re disappearing.
(via DEV) For the First Time in 6 Years, OpenAI’s New Models Are Free for Everyone (via DEV)
The new models could fundamentally change how startups and developers create with AI.
(via DEV) AI is rewriting the rules of storytelling. Will Hollywood adapt or be left behind? (via DEV)
From AI-native studios to interactive platforms, a new generation of storytellers is challenging Hollywood’s role as the center of the entertainment universe.