Amazon and HUMAIN are investing over $5 billion to establish an 'AI Zone' in Saudi Arabia, featuring dedicated AWS AI infrastructure, services like SageMaker and Bedrock, generative AI capabilities like Amazon Q, and initiatives to develop AI solutions, a unified AI marketplace, Arabic language models, and AI talent.
DeerFlow is a cutting-edge framework that harnesses language models, web search, and Python execution to revolutionize automated research, enabling seamless integration of AI agents, human collaboration, and content creation for groundbreaking discoveries.
AI's untapped potential in accelerating species discovery, ecosystem tracking, and addressing biodiversity knowledge gaps offers a transformative opportunity to meet global conservation targets, but requires expanding data-sharing, refining algorithms, and ensuring ethical practices.
A new analysis warns that the remarkable progress in AI reasoning models, which has driven recent breakthroughs, could hit a roadblock by 2026 due to factors like computing limitations and high research costs, potentially stalling further massive performance gains.
Groundbreaking epigenetic research suggests legal age could soon be redefined based on biological age rather than chronological age, potentially transforming how we understand and apply age-related laws and regulations across various domains.
Google unveiled the AI Futures Fund, a strategic initiative to empower startups leveraging Google's AI tools, providing early access to models, expert support, cloud credits, and potential investment, while also committing resources for AI education, training, and supporting nonprofits in the field.
MBZUAI unveils the Institute of Digital Public Health, harnessing AI foundation models and a data-driven approach to drive innovation across computational biology, precision medicine, infectious disease monitoring, and the UAE Genome Atlas for transformative public health solutions.
OpenAI's reasoning models like o3 are rapidly improving, but it's uncertain how much further they can scale, with current training compute likely below the frontier but not drastically behind, suggesting potential for continued rapid scaling in the near term before growth slows.
Meta appoints former Google DeepMind director Robert Fergus to rescue its struggling FAIR lab as researchers flee en masse to competitors and the company's own GenAI division.
The Trump administration's deep cuts to science funding, including capping medical research grants and restricting diversity initiatives, threaten U.S. leadership in scientific research, potentially leading to layoffs and missed discoveries at agencies like the National Science Foundation.