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A ripple reaches Earth.

Half a second of real detector data. A rising trace. A new way to stay with the signal.

Watch / Explore · GW150914
Source-derived time-frequency relief of the GW150914 recording

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DISCOVERY

Finding more workable grid plans

Google DeepMind reported that AlphaEvolve improved a trained graph neural network's ability to find feasible solutions to the AC Optimal Power Flow problem from 14% to more than 88%.

Source published 2026-05-07 · Demonstrated
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Reading more of a DNA change's consequences

AlphaGenome is a unified DNA-sequence model that takes up to 1 Mb of DNA and predicts thousands of functional genomic tracks, including gene expression, splicing, chromatin features, transcription-factor binding, and contact maps.

Source published 2026-01-28 · Demonstrated
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Rehearsing a fusion pulse before it happens

Google DeepMind and Commonwealth Fusion Systems announced a partnership in which CFS uses the open-source TORAX plasma simulator in daily workflows to test and refine SPARC operating plans before the tokamak is turned on.

Source published 2025-10-16 · Emerging
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Quieting the mirrors that listen to space

Researchers developed Deep Loop Shaping, a reinforcement-learning feedback controller tested on the LIGO Livingston Observatory to reduce control noise in a difficult mirror-control loop.

Source published 2025-09-04 · Demonstrated
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Personalizing an ablation for persistent AF

A multicenter randomized, controlled, double-blind superiority trial tested whether adding AI-detected spatio-temporal electrogram-dispersion targets to pulmonary-vein isolation improves treatment of drug-refractory persistent atrial fibrillation.

Source published 2025-02-14 · Demonstrated
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New paths through mathematics.

FunSearch combined language models with program evaluation to discover mathematical constructions.

Source published 2023-12-14 · Demonstrated
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Listening to the ancient world.

Historians working with Ithaca improved the restoration of damaged ancient Greek inscriptions.

Source published 2022-03-09 · Demonstrated
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Holding a plasma in shape.

Researchers used reinforcement learning to control magnetic confinement in a research tokamak.

Source published 2022-02-16 · Demonstrated
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A GPU goes into orbit.

Starcloud says its Starcloud-1 satellite launched with an NVIDIA H100 and later trained nanoGPT in space.

Source published date unknown · Emerging

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Short source reports on announced work, early results and emerging uses.

SIGNAL · SOURCE REPORT

A generative model proposed inorganic materials under target constraints.

This is a narrower, experimentally connected materials-design claim than a large database of predicted candidates. One synthesis does not establish usefulness in a device or manufacturing pathway.

A generative model for inorganic materials design · published 2025-01-16Captured 2026-09-06 · a lead, not a verified achievement.

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