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Microsoft just launched an AI that discovered a new chemical in 200 hours instead of years

Microsoft launched a new enterprise platform that harnesses artificial intelligence to dramatically accelerate scientific research and development, potentially compressing years of laboratory work into weeks or even days. The platform, called Microsoft Discovery, leverages specialized AI agents and high-performance computing to help scientists and engineers tackle complex research challenges…
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From dot-com to dot-AI: How we can learn from the last tech transformation (and avoid making the same mistakes)

At the height of the dot-com boom, adding “.com” to a company’s name was enough to send its stock price soaring — even if the business had no real customers, revenue or path to profitability. Today, history is repeating itself. Swap “.com” for “AI,” and the story sounds eerily familiar. Companies are racing to sprinkle “AI” into their pitch decks, product descriptions and…
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Notion bets big on integrated LLMs, adds GPT-4.1 and Claude 3.7 to platform

Productivity platform Notion is betting on large language models (LLMs) powering more of its new enterprise capabilities, including building OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 into their dashboard. Even as both OpenAI and Anthropic start building productivity features into their respective chat platforms, bringing these LLMs into a separate service shows how competitive the space…
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Sakana introduces new AI architecture, ‘Continuous Thought Machines’ to make models reason with less guidance — like human brains

Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup Sakana, co-founded by former top Google AI scientists including Llion Jones and David Ha, has unveiled a new type of AI model architecture called Continuous Thought Machines (CTM). CTMs are designed to usher in a new era of AI language models that will be more flexible and able to handle a wider range of cognitive tasks — such as solving complex mazes…
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