Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Saturday, June 13, 2026

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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 ...Full Article

The Unlikely Reasonableness of AI-Augmented HPC

Editor’s note: This article from my colleague Doug Eadline at HPCwire explains how HPC researchers are pairing established simulation codes with large AI models to slash runtimes and widen ...Full Article

New AI Tool Unlocks Hidden Proteins in Sequencing Breakthrough

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been hugely instrumental in the field of science. While words like "revolutionary" are often overused, in the case of AI’s role in scientific research, it ...Full Article

AI Explores RNA Dark Matter and Finds 70,000 New Viruses

People often associate artificial intelligence with chatbots like ChatGPT, which generates human-like text by predicting the next word based on large datasets. However, a quiet revolution is underway, where ...Full Article

OpenFold Advances Protein Modeling with AI and Supercomputing Power

Proteins, life’s building blocks, perform a wide range of functions based on their unique shapes. The molecules fold into specific forms and shapes that define their roles, from catalyzing ...Full Article

The Path to Insight Is Changing: The AI-HPC Paradigm Shift

In a recent paper,  the authors suggest that AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data points from previous LLM models. Basically, the snake is eating its tail. Generative-AI has ...Full Article

AI-augmented HPC and the Inflation of Science and Technology

Everyone is aware of the inflationary model of the early universe in which the volume of space expands exponentially then slows down. AI-augmented HPC (AHPC for short) has started ...Full Article

Google DeepMind’s New AlphaFold Model Poised to Revolutionize Drug Discovery

Google DeepMind, an Alphabet subsidiary focusing on AI, ML, and neuroscience research, has unveiled an improved version of its AI model that predicts the structure and interactions between biological ...Full Article