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How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

23 July 2026 - MIT Technology Review Insights

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to treat conditions across most major acute and chronic diseases), the complexity is even greater. Scientists explore vast quantities of possible molecules, looking for the rare few that will bind to the right target, remain stable in the human body, and be manufacturable at scale. Today, [...]

Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation

21 July 2026 - Christine McGuiness and Devang Khariwala

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every new generation of AI technology demands more processing power, more memory, greater energy efficiency, and higher reliability. Every increase in computing performance increases the physical demands placed on the systems that make and run AI. Delivering these gains depends not only on advances in chip design and system architecture, but on advances in the materials that enable them to perform [...]

China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself

20 July 2026 - James O'Donnell

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, the president’s AI and crypto “czar” until March, branded Anthropic’s models as “lobotomized” and “woke.” Emil Michael, a top Pentagon official, called OpenAI’s new head of strategic futures a “supreme village idiot.” It began because no one can agree on what to do about Kimi, a free, open source model that Chinese [...]

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

20 July 2026 - Michelle Kim

The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also develop their own biases from experience—and stereotype job applicants more than humans do. As AI companies race to build agentic models that remember the tiniest details about users, they may be handing them ammunition for forming those biases. Researchers at Princeton University and the University of Chicago ran LLMs, including [...]

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

17 July 2026 - Monique Kuglitsch, Jesper Dramsch, Franz G. Kuglitsch, Andrea Toreti

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in many industries, with real money, livelihoods, and even actual lives at stake. Farmers use them to determine which crop variety to sow, when to fertilize, how much to invest in irrigation infrastructure, and how long livestock should graze. Utilities use them to decide where to build solar and wind farms, as well as how to price wholesale electricity. Predictions [...]

Pursuit of Autonomous Cars May Pose Risk of AI Tapping Forbidden Knowledge