Latest AI (Artificial Intelligence) News
Google highlights breakthrough year with Gemini/Gemma advances
Google reported major 2025 progress across reasoning, multimodality, efficiency and agentic tools with models such as Gemini 3 and Gemma 3, boosting search, developer workflows and on-device AI capabilities. These advances were framed as part of a broader push that produced scientific discoveries and productivity gains across industries
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Nvidia and chip demand power massive wealth gains in 2025
Strong demand for AI accelerators in 2025 drove extraordinary returns for chip vendors and executives, contributing hundreds of billions in market value and adding substantially to leading tech billionaires’ fortunes. Analysts warned this rapid surge raised bubble risks if hype outpaces fundamentals and energy and infrastructure constraints persist
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AI-driven drug discovery and biotech boom accelerates
Investment and industrialization of AI in drug discovery, combined with CRISPR and mRNA platforms, marked 2025 as a pivotal year for biotech, with Asia emerging as a leading region for AI-driven drug discovery funding. The sector is moving from experimental pilots to high-throughput discovery engines and integrated multi-modal datasets for target validation
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New AI reveals simple rules behind complex systems
Researchers at Duke University developed an AI that uncovers simple, human-readable rules describing the evolution of complex systems, improving scientific interpretability and potential discovery workflows. The system aims to make complex-model outputs more actionable for scientists and engineers
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Science names AI among top breakthroughs of 2025 alongside renewables and biotech
Science’s 2025 list highlighted AI as a central enabling technology in breakthroughs spanning protein prediction, lab automation and discovery acceleration, tying it to other major scientific milestones of the year. The recognition underscores AI’s cross-disciplinary impact on research productivity
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Year-end assessments show AI’s mixed labour impacts in 2025
Analyses of 2025 labour markets indicate AI reshaped roles but did not trigger mass unemployment; while major firms cut thousands of positions, employment in many AI-exposed occupations continued to grow and wages rose in some sectors. Observers emphasize re-skilling, occupational change, and geographic shifts rather than pure job destruction
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Final weeks of 2025 focus on agentic systems and personalization risks
Industry roundups noted a shift toward more agentic AI systems and hyper-personalization in consumer and enterprise products, raising concerns about autonomy, safety and over-reliance as deployments scale. Policymakers and researchers flagged the need for robust evaluation and governance as agentic capabilities spread
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UK assesses one year of AI infrastructure push amid energy and grid challenges
A December assessment reviewed the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan launched in January 2025, crediting private investment in data centres and compute while noting high energy costs and grid connection delays as key constraints. The report called for continued coordination between government, industry and grid operators to realize infrastructure ambitions
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AI aids major scientific facilities and astronomy data challenges
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory began commissioning and will generate unprecedented time-domain data, with AI pipelines expected to be central to alert triage, transient classification and long-term archiving. This represents a testbed for scaling AI in scientific workflows and real-time decision-making
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Community reviews point to progress and persistent bottlenecks in 2025
Independent reviews and EA-community syntheses documented tangible AI benefits in health, weather and agriculture deployments while noting bottlenecks in compute access, connectivity and maintenance capacity—especially in lower-resource regions. The reports stress that models alone are insufficient without local infrastructure and governance
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