Latest AI (Artificial Intelligence) News

📅December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In 2025, AI advances significantly accelerate scientific discovery, biotechnology, space robotics, and disease diagnostics, with breakthroughs in lab automation and biomolecular design.
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AI Accelerates Scientific Discovery Across Multiple Fields

OpenAI's GPT-5 is helping scientists at top universities rapidly solve complex research problems in biology, physics, and materials science by generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and analyzing data much faster than before, indicating a major speedup in scientific workflowsSource 5.

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Microsoft Research Predicts AI Lab Assistants Will Transform Science

Microsoft Research foresees AI joining researchers as lab assistants that not only summarize knowledge but also generate hypotheses, run experiments, and collaborate, enhancing productivity in biological and physical sciences and accelerating drug discovery and precision medicine developmentSource 4.

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AI-Controlled Robot Navigation Successfully Tested on ISS

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to control a robot aboard the International Space Station, enabling faster and safer robotic movements and operations without direct human control, which is critical for future autonomous space missionsSource 6.

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Generative AI Platform Identifies Novel Disease Pathways in Biopharma

Biopharmaceutical researchers utilized a generative AI platform to analyze biological datasets that revealed previously unknown disease pathways, allowing design of new small molecule drugs to modulate these pathways and accelerate drug development effortsSource 7.

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DOE Launches AI-Driven Autonomous Biotechnology Platform

The U.S. Department of Energy inaugurated AMP2, an AI-enabled autonomous platform at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, aimed at speeding up scientific breakthroughs by automating biotechnology research and reducing time to discoverySource 8.

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AI Speeds Rare Disease Genetic Variant Diagnosis

Harvard researchers developed PopEVE, an AI model that identifies genetic variants most likely to cause severe rare diseases, enhancing speed and accuracy in genetic diagnosis to improve patient outcomesSource 2.

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Bioinformatics and AI Revolutionize Cell Biology Research

Innovations in stem cell models and bioinformatics, combined with AI training on bulk genetic data, are enabling researchers to distinguish disease subpopulations of cells and advance understanding of gene expression and immune responses, transforming cell biologySource 3.

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Researchers Develop Energy-Saving Membrane Separating Water Vapor from Air

Harvard scientists created a novel membrane similar to a coffee filter that can efficiently separate water vapor from air, a discovery with potential impact on energy savings and environmental technology enabled by computational AI modelingSource 2.

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AI Enables Breakthroughs in Understanding Immune Cell Behavior

A study leveraged AI to analyze B cell and T cell receptor sequences using machine learning to diagnose diseases based on immune cell signaling, a significant advance in cellular immunology and diagnosticsSource 3.

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Quantum Computing Components and AI Integration Progress

Advances in quantum science, supported by AI-driven design and modeling, are bringing core elements of quantum computers closer to realization, potentially revolutionizing computational capabilities in the near futureSource 2.