OpenAI recruits renowned black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca to lead new science team as GPT-5 demonstrates breakthrough capability to solve graduate-level astrophysics problems in minutes that typically require days, signaling the company's ambitious push beyond chatbots into serious scientific discovery territory.
Google DeepMind partners with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to use AI software for simulating plasma physics in their SPARC fusion reactor launching in late 2026, as Google commits to purchasing 200 megawatts of the clean energy despite commercial fusion power remaining years away.
Google DeepMind releases AlphaMissense, a breakthrough AI system that predicts disease risk from 71 million genetic mutations with 90% accuracy, vastly outperforming existing methods and offering free access to researchers worldwide to accelerate rare disease diagnosis and treatment development.
Google DeepMind's AI discovers 2.2 million new crystal materials in a breakthrough equivalent to 800 years of traditional research, with 736 predictions already validated in laboratories and promising revolutionary advances in superconductors, batteries, and electric vehicle technology.
Apple commits to investing over $500 billion in the U.S. over four years, opening a massive Houston server facility by 2026, doubling its manufacturing fund to $10 billion, and hiring 20,000 new employees for AI and research roles.
Cognition launches SWE-grep AI models that accelerate code search by 10x while maintaining accuracy, using reinforcement learning to execute parallel tool calls and reducing context retrieval time from 60% to under 5 seconds for developers.
Google launches DeepSomatic, an open-source AI tool that outperforms existing methods in identifying cancer-driving genetic variants, using advanced neural networks to distinguish inherited from acquired mutations and promising more precise cancer treatments for patients worldwide.
Google's new 27 billion parameter AI model discovers that combining silmitasertib with low-dose interferon can convert immune-resistant 'cold' tumors into 'hot' targets for immunotherapy, with lab tests confirming a 50% boost in immune recognition.
Prime Minister Modi meets Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the AI company announces plans to open its first India office in Bengaluru next year, with Claude Code usage surging five-fold since June amid India's push for responsible AI innovation.
A leaked Google internal calendar suggests the tech giant plans to unveil its highly anticipated Gemini 3.0 AI model on October 22, though the leak's authenticity remains questionable and availability may not immediately follow the announcement.