Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Saturday, June 13, 2026
Fujitsu and Nvidia Are Quietly Rewiring Japan’s AI Future
Some of the most meaningful progress in AI is not coming from viral demos or flashy chatbot releases. It is showing up quietly, in the background, as companies and institutions build the systems that let these tools actually work in complicated environments like research labs and hospitals. Right now, a lot of that work is ... Full article
With MAI-1, Microsoft Asserts Control Over Its AI Future
Big tech has spent the past few years racing to plug AI into everything. Microsoft has leaned heavily on outside models to fuel that push, from OpenAI’s GPT powering Copilot to a growing mix of open-source systems running on Azure. That approach helped it move fast, but now the company is signaling a new phase—one ... Full article
Meet 2025 AIwire Person to Watch Ian Buck
GPUs began as graphics accelerators, built to rasterize triangles and shade pixels. Then they trained deep nets. Now they run the large models behind climate research, protein design, materials discovery, and automated lab work. What happens when these engines start to plan, reason, and act in the real world? Few people have had a closer ... Full article
Shadow AI at Work Is Quietly Rewriting Job Dynamics
In a recent report, MIT’s NANDA team has uncovered a workplace trend where employee use of generative AI is widespread, but official enterprise deployment remains more limited. In "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025," the authors found that workers are using personal AI tools to do parts of their jobs, often without ... Full article
d-Matrix Takes On AI ‘Memory Wall’ with 3D Stacked In-Memory Compute
The AI revolution has created huge demand for processing power to train frontier models, which Nvidia is filling with its high-end GPUs. But the sudden shift to AI inference and agentic AI in 2025 is exposing gaps in the memory pipeline, which d-Matrix hopes to address with its innovative 3D stacked digital in-memory compute (3DIMC) ... Full article
Ai2 Launches Asta, an Open Agentic Ecosystem for Science
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has introduced Asta, a new AI platform that combines an agentic research assistant, a benchmark suite for evaluating scientific agents, and developer resources for building and testing tools. Ai2 positions Asta as a way to make agentic workflows more transparent and reproducible for research tasks. At the center of ... Full article
AI Growth Outpacing the Grid — Can Nuclear Help Catch Up?
The story of AI is often told in terms of GPUs, breakthroughs, and billion-parameter models. However, behind every chatbot and AI application lies a more fundamental force: electricity. Without it, even the most advanced AI comes to a grinding halt. At the blinding pace at which AI is scaling, power is becoming both a currency ... Full article
Agents4Science: A Science Conference Where AI Runs the Show from Draft to Debate
In October, Stanford will host a new conference that puts AI at the center of science and engineering. Called Agents4Science, the event requires that every paper be generated by AI, reviewed first by AI systems, and even presented by AI using synthetic voices. It’s been described as the first conference where artificial intelligence must serve ... Full article
DeepSeek R2 Stalls on Huawei Chips as OpenAI Opens Its Weights
Several developments around Beijing-based startup DeepSeek and its ripple effects on global AI competition surrounded the AI in China front this week. The headlines ranged from a hardware-driven delay of the firm’s next large model to a new release tuned for domestic chips. In the U.S., OpenAI CEO Sam Altman credited Chinese open-source pressure for ... Full article
Why Your New AI Tools (and the Companies Making Them) Are Failing You
The initial euphoria surrounding generative AI is officially over. It has been replaced by a simmering, and in many cases boiling, frustration from the very users these platforms are meant to serve. The recent rollout of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-5 is a case study in this growing chasm between the ambitions of AI developers and the realities ... Full article
Anaconda Report Links AI Slowdown to Gaps in Data Governance
The push to scale AI across the enterprise is running into an old but familiar problem: governance. As organizations experiment with increasingly complex model pipelines, the risks tied to oversight gaps are starting to surface more clearly. AI projects are moving fast, but the infrastructure for managing them is lagging behind. That imbalance is creating ... Full article
Trump Ties AI Chip Exports to Revenue Sharing
The Trump administration has put a price on access to China’s AI market. Nvidia can now continue shipping select AI chips to Chinese customers as long as it observes performance caps and returns 15% of those sales to the U.S. The decision replaces blanket bans with conditional permission, opening a narrow lane back into a ... Full article
Google and NASA Pilot an AI Medical Assistant for Deep Space
Space travel has always rewarded improvisation. Astronauts often rely on quick and practical fixes with whatever is on board. A strap becomes a sling. A checklist gets rewritten on the fly. Now there is a new partner on board.  NASA and Google are testing an AI medical assistant called the Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant ... Full article
Can AI Turn the Tide on the Global Diabetes Epidemic
Across the world, diabetes is disrupting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. Current estimates put the number at about 589 million adults, roughly one in every nine, and projections suggest it could even pass 850 million within a generation. And that is just the adults we know about. Many view diabetes as a ... Full article
NSF Unveils Vision for AI to Transform Science and Engineering
Artificial intelligence continues to reshape how science and engineering are done from the ground up. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)  is putting serious weight behind that shift, funding new efforts that weave AI into discovery, testing, and deployment. These programs work together to speed up the journey from bold ideas to real-world impact and ... Full article
From Trust to Scale in LLMs: Insights from Key Leaders at TPC25
In the TPC25 session Science Updates from Key TPC Leaders, two distinguished speakers shared different yet complementary perspectives on the future of large language models in science. Franck Cappello from Argonne National Laboratory introduced EAIRA, a new framework for evaluating AI research assistants. His focus was on how to measure reasoning, adaptability, and domain-specific skill ... Full article
GPT-5 Arrives As OpenAI Explores $500B Valuation and Ships Open Models
It’s been a monumental week for OpenAI. Tuesday saw the release of a new open weight family of models, gpt-oss. Midweek, news broke that the company is in talks with investors for a potential stock sale at a valuation of $500 billion. And now, as one of the most anticipated releases since the LLM arms ... Full article
Menlo Sees Enterprises Enter Third Wave of LLMs With Focus on Stability
LLM adoption is surging across enterprises, with usage up nearly 150% year-over-year in some sectors. Yet the money flowing into infrastructure is slowing dramatically, with new infrastructure investments down by more than half compared to last year. These changes are part of a broader shift highlighted in Menlo Ventures’ 2025 Mid-Year LLM Market Update. The ... Full article
TPC25 Highlights AI’s Expanding Role: Multimodal Data, Model Evaluation, and Non-LLM Architectures
How do we speed up AI-powered scientific discovery without sacrificing control? Is it possible to trace a language model’s answers back to the data it was trained on? What does fairness look like when AI is used to interpret maps instead of text? And what happens when these systems fail in ways no human ever ... Full article
Leena AI Brings Voice To The Workplace With AI Colleagues
Text-based AI assistants are now deeply embedded in the workplace. They’ve made it easier to access information and complete simple tasks, but the experience still depends on screens and typing. Voice AI is starting to offer something different. It allows people to speak naturally, keep moving, and get support without switching context. As comfort with voice ... Full article