Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, June 3, 2026

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PNNL: AI Is Accelerating the US Bioeconomy

Sept. 23, 2025 -- Biodiesel, bioplastics, penicillin: “If you look at important industrial bioprocesses, most of them use organisms that naturally make a product,” said Jeff Czajka, a bioprocess scientist ...Full Article

PNNL: Unique Active Memory Computer Purpose-built for AI Science Applications

RICHLAND, Wash., Aug. 21, 2025 -- With the particular needs of scientists and engineers in mind, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have co-designed with ...Full Article

It’s Time to Get Comfortable with Uncertainty in AI Model Training

It’s obvious when a dog has been poorly trained. It doesn’t respond properly to commands, pushes boundaries, and behaves unpredictably. The same is true with a poorly trained artificial intelligence ...Full Article

Harnessing Physics for Remote Sensing Precision: PNNL’s AI Breakthrough

Scientists observe Earth and other planetary bodies via remote sensing satellites that detect and record reflected energy. However, as sunlight travels in space it interacts with various atmospheric components, ...Full Article

PNNL, NVIDIA Host LLM Day Amid Generative AI Surge

RICHLAND, Wash., June 20, 2024 -- Even before generative artificial intelligence (AI) became an overnight sensation last year, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) were working to leverage ...Full Article

Graphcore Announces Wafer-on-Wafer IPU, ‘Good’ Computer

Graphcore introduced its AI-focused, PCIe-based Intelligent Processing Units (IPUs) six years ago. Since then, the company has done anything but slow down, announcing a second generation of IPUs in ...Full Article

Hurricane Intensity Predictions Getting Help From AI

AI techniques to better predict hurricane intensity compared to the most widely used existing U.S. hurricane models are being deployed by researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) ...Full Article