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  1. Latent Space29

    Synthesis Superintelligence: from Semiconductors to Superconductors — Periodic Labs' Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk

    Periodic Labs co-founders Liam Fedus and Ekin Dogus Cubuk explain "synthesis superintelligence" — reinforcement learning grounded in physical experiments rather than internet data. The lab aims to build AI scientists that discover new materials, giving every lab instrument "140 IQ" and compressing decades of trial-and-error into months.

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  1. The Verge · AI62

    Google DeepMind, Meta and Isomorphic Labs invest $300 million in Biohub's 'virtual cell' project

    Google DeepMind, Meta and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into a Biohub-led initiative to build a "virtual cell" researchers can use to study disease. The project is part of a $1.8 billion "Virtual Biology" initiative to create AI datasets that let researchers "ask, predict, and answer biological questions digitally." The US Department of Energy will put in more than $500 million over the next five years, and the National Institutes of Health will contribute datasets, repositories and knowledge bases from prior federal investment totaling over $500 million.

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  1. Google Research34

    Google Earth AI's PDFM geospatial foundation model validated across five global public health challenges

    Google Earth AI's Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM) provides plug-and-play location embeddings that matched or improved conventional epidemiological inputs across five public health challenges without task-specific fine-tuning. Partners including Mount Sinai, NYU, Oxford, and WHO AFRO reported gains such as +36% explained variance in cross-border MMR vaccination and +18.1% Precision@5 for cholera outbreak prediction at 8 weeks.

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  1. Hugging Face Blog42

    AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents

    ServiceNow CoreAI built AutoSynthData, a pipeline that turns a target model's failures and a stronger teacher's successes into new training tasks for enterprise agents. It generates tasks as system specification, user prompt, and verifier, then validates them in the environment and uses accepted samples for post-training, with the curriculum shifting toward remaining weaknesses. The pipeline is illustrated with EnterpriseOps Gym.

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  1. Google DeepMind71

    Google DeepMind introduces SynthID Bio for watermarking AI-generated proteins

    Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio, a family of watermarking methods that embeds a verifiable signature into AI-generated biological code while preserving protein function in laboratory testing. In wet-lab tests across VEGF-A, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein RBD and PD-L1, watermarked binder designs matched the hit rate, binding affinity and natural sequence diversity of unwatermarked versions, and for protein folding the method fine-tunes part of AlphaFold 3's diffusion network so predicted 3D coordinates carry a detectable signature. DeepMind is publishing the methods paper and open-sourcing the code, in vitro data and model weights, and says key challenges include making the watermark more robust against deliberate tampering.

    Why it matters: The post details how a watermark is embedded into protein sequences and structures and what wet-lab tests showed about function.

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