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Genesis Mission deploys AI agents to recover critical metals from lithium-ion battery waste

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is leading a Genesis Mission project to recover critical metals from lithium-ion battery waste using specialized AI agents. The nine-month initiative aims to extract cobalt, nickel, and manganese at 80% purity or better, potentially reducing US dependence on imported minerals while addressing the growing challenge of electric vehicle battery recycling.

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Genesis Mission deploys AI agents to recover critical metals from lithium-ion battery waste

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Genesis Mission unveils 278 AI projects with $5 billion federal commitment to transform science

The Department of Energy announced the first 278 awards under the Genesis Mission, a national initiative using AI to tackle challenges from nuclear reactor design to battery recycling. With over $5 billion in federal commitments across 15 agencies and 342 institutions, the program aims to build an integrated science discovery platform combining AI, supercomputing, and quantum systems to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, national security, and scientific discovery.

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Genesis Mission unveils 278 AI projects with $5 billion federal commitment to transform science

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Trump unveils $5B Genesis Mission AI research grants as White House proposes major science overhaul

The Trump administration announced 278 winning projects from its Genesis Mission, pledging $5 billion for AI-powered research. At the same time, chief science adviser Michael Kratsios released a controversial plan to shift US science funding away from universities toward individual researchers, sparking debate about the future direction of American scientific enterprise.

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Trump unveils $5B Genesis Mission AI research grants as White House proposes major science overhaul

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AI disproves 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, sparking debate on AI's role in mathematics

Mathematician Levent Alpöge used Anthropic's Fable 5 to disprove the Jacobian conjecture with a simple 216-character counterexample. The breakthrough adds to a growing list of AI-driven mathematical discoveries, including solutions to the Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture and Erdős problems. But experts debate whether finding counterexamples represents genuine mathematical progress or just efficient search capabilities.

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AI disproves 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, sparking debate on AI's role in mathematics

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SafeDrive AI model scores every possible driving path before self-driving cars move

Seoul National University's SafeDrive model generates multiple trajectories, scores each for safety using sensor data, and selects the safest path. The first Korean end-to-end autonomous driving paper to earn a CVPR 2026 highlight, it addresses critical safety and explainability gaps that plague current self-driving systems.

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SafeDrive AI model scores every possible driving path before self-driving cars move

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Uttar Pradesh aims to become global hub for AI and robotics with India's first PRAGATI park

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiled plans to transform Uttar Pradesh into a global deep tech manufacturing hub with PRAGATI, India's first integrated robotics and advanced manufacturing cluster spanning 75 acres in Noida. The initiative targets over one lakh jobs and Rs 2,000 crore in value addition over five years while reducing import dependence.

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Uttar Pradesh aims to become global hub for AI and robotics with India's first PRAGATI park

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Phantom Twist drone spins at 1500 rpm to become almost invisible using AI-driven design

Northwestern University researchers unveiled a stealth drone that achieves near-invisibility by spinning at 25 revolutions per second. The Phantom Twist, designed entirely through AI-driven optimization algorithms, exploits motion blur in human visual perception to blend into backgrounds. The breakthrough could transform wildlife monitoring and surveillance, though serious limitations remain.

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Phantom Twist drone spins at 1500 rpm to become almost invisible using AI-driven design

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Whatnot acquires AI startup Shaped to accelerate live shopping recommendations and discovery

Livestream shopping unicorn Whatnot has acquired Shaped, a machine learning startup specializing in real-time recommendation and search technology. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell will lead a new applied AI research team at Whatnot, bringing expertise from Meta to improve how buyers discover live streams, sellers, and products across the rapidly expanding marketplace.

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Whatnot acquires AI startup Shaped to accelerate live shopping recommendations and discovery

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Brain-computer interface helps man with paralysis feed himself and regain touch after two years

Keith Thomas, paralyzed from the chest down after a diving accident, can now feed himself and feel his sister's hand thanks to a double neural bypass system. The AI brain implant, developed by the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, combines brain-computer interface technology with electrical stimulation to restore both movement and touch. Remarkably, the gains have persisted for over two years, suggesting genuine nervous system rewiring.

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Brain-computer interface helps man with paralysis feed himself and regain touch after two years

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This AI tool doesn't just translate languages—it invents brand-new ones from scratch

Researchers at the University of Miami unveiled ConlangCrafter, an AI tool that invents languages complete with their own sounds, grammar, and vocabulary. The tool has already generated over 60 languages, including one with zero consonants and another designed for an alien species that communicates through color and gesture.

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This AI tool doesn't just translate languages—it invents brand-new ones from scratch

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Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million as AI Drug Discovery Moves From Promise to Deployment

Chai Discovery secured $400 million in Series C funding at a $3.8 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth since December. The AI-driven drug discovery startup has landed partnerships with Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Novartis, signaling growing investor interest in AI applications for life sciences despite the industry's challenge that no AI-discovered drug has yet received approval.

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Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million as AI Drug Discovery Moves From Promise to Deployment

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Over 200 Economists Warn AI Economic Impact Could Eclipse Industrial Revolution in Just Years

More than 200 economists, including 16 Nobel laureates and chief economists from OpenAI and Anthropic, have signed a statement urging immediate action on AI's economic impact. The group warns that artificial intelligence could drive an unprecedented economic transformation larger than the Industrial Revolution but unfolding in just a few years rather than decades, raising urgent concerns about large-scale job displacement and the need for regulatory guardrails.

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Over 200 Economists Warn AI Economic Impact Could Eclipse Industrial Revolution in Just Years

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OpenAI head of safety Johannes Heidecke exits as company merges AI safety with research teams

Johannes Heidecke, OpenAI's head of safety systems, is leaving the company following an internal restructuring that integrates safety and research teams under a single leader. The reorganization places safety teams under VP of Research and Safety Mia Glaese, marking the latest in a series of executive departures from the AI company's safety leadership.

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OpenAI head of safety Johannes Heidecke exits as company merges AI safety with research teams

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Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi leaves Berkeley to lead China's AI materials institute

Omar Yaghi, who shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left the University of California, Berkeley, to head a new AI institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The move comes as the Trump administration disrupts US science funding while China invests heavily to attract international talent for AI-driven materials research.

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Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi leaves Berkeley to lead China's AI materials institute

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Stanford's Biomni AI agent autonomously handles complex biomedical research across 10,000+ labs

Stanford researchers unveiled Biomni, an AI agent that autonomously executes biomedical research tasks from hypothesis formation to experimental design. Already deployed in over 10,000 labs, it represents the most widely used AI co-scientist system in biomedicine, completing in 40 minutes what would take researchers 60+ hours.

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Stanford's Biomni AI agent autonomously handles complex biomedical research across 10,000+ labs

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