How AI is affecting the practice of science.
Latest June 29, 2026 No. 014 Science's AI productivity paradox, Sakana clears peer review, AI proof search on open Erdős problems This week the AI-as-research-agent thread stopped being speculative. Sakana cleared the first round of peer review at an ML workshop, a DeepMind-Lean agent resolved nine open Erdős problems, and senio...Get it in your inbox
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- Provenance vocabulary, Wikipedia contamination, OpenAI rare-disease diagnoses, ARA paper format
- Claude Fable/Mythos, Leiden Declaration, Frontiers editor resignation
- Sum-product conjecture disproof, AI-generated authorship fraud, OMB grant-cost rules
- AutoScientists governance, AI-agent monoculture, nonsense-term retractions
- AI agents p-hacking, submission surge data, Gemini for Science
- AI co-mathematician, compiler-verified protocols, open infrastructure bets
- 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
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