Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, June 17, 2026

AI for Science

Stanford’s AI Index Highlights Growing Divide Between Open and Proprietary Models

 In 2024, nearly 90% of the world’s most notable AI models came out of industry. Just a year prior, that figure was 60%. As the scale, cost, and compute ...Full Article

Mount Sinai’s New AI Model Analyzes Entire Nights of Sleep Using 1M+ Hours of Data

Sleep scientists have long sought to decode the mystery of our nightly shuteye, sifting through brain waves, heartbeats, and breathing patterns to understand the various stages we drift through.  ...Full Article

AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Scientific Research

Scientific researchers are responsible for conducting experiments and making discoveries that improve our lives or, sometimes, even save them. However, the process of scientific research — from forming and ...Full Article

NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC24, Focus in 2025

Editor's Note: In this note of reflection, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), takes us through a year of achievements at NCSA. From the launch ...Full Article

SandboxAQ Valuation Soars to $5.6B After $300M Funding Round

SandboxAQ announced it has raised $300 million in a new funding round at a $5.6 billion valuation. The Alphabet spinoff previously raised $500 million in its initial funding round ...Full Article

AI Framework DIMON Cracks Complex Equations at Supercomputer Speed—No HPC Required

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have created a new AI framework that can quickly predict solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) in scientific and engineering research.  Diffeomorphic Mapping Operator ...Full Article

Berkeley Lab AI Science Summit Fuels Collaboration

Nov. 8, 2024 -- This month, over 100 academics, researchers, industry experts, and national lab staff gathered at Berkeley Lab’s Artificial Intelligence Science Summit (BLASS) to explore AI’s potential to ...Full Article

NCSA Director Gropp on ‘Different Approaches to AI’

Editor's Note: In this insightful commentary, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), explores the unique trajectories of AI research within academic and commercial realms. ...Full Article

Alps Scientific Symposium Highlights AI’s Role in Tackling Science’s Biggest Challenges

ETH Zürich recently celebrated the launch of the AI-optimized “Alps” supercomputer with a scientific symposium focused on the future possibilities of scientific AI thanks to increased compute power and ...Full Article

Argonne’s HPC/AI User Forum Wrap Up

As fans of this publication will already know, AI is everywhere. We hear about it in the news, at work, and in our daily lives. It’s such a revolutionary ...Full Article
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