How AI is affecting the practice of science.
Latest May 18, 2026 No. 008 AI co-mathematician, compiler-verified protocols, open infrastructure bets Two infrastructure bets landed in the same week: $152M for open AI compute (NSF OMAI) and $20M to sustain the open-source libraries that compute depends on (OS4Science). Together they signal that fund...Get it in your inbox
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- Fabricated citations at scale, vibe physics, zero-click readership
- AAAI-26 AI review pilot, ScienceOne 100, NEJM retraction
- GPT-Rosalind, AI verification gap, Agent4Science
- HAI AI Index, virtual cell automation, MCP for scientific literature
- Bixonimania hoax, Google's paper-writing agents, AlphaFold expands the frontier
- Hallucinated citations at scale, ICML catches AI reviewers, scholarly infrastructure gaps
- arXiv goes independent, AI Scientist v2, Claude Scholar
- What this is, why it exists, who writes it