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Cisco’s bet on agentic ops, when the network cannot wait for a human
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (1114+ words) Cisco's bet on agentic ops, when the network cannot wait for a human'R&D World Edwards, a vice president of product management who oversees the company's enterprise campus switching portfolio, described a field at an inflection point. "You have this…...
Sapio survey finds 45% of scientists using unauthorized AI tools, view ELNs as 'glorified filing cabinets"
2+ week, 1+ day ago (496+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 11, 2026 Scientists want AI in the Lab" on their terms Nearly all scientists surveyed want their electronic lab notebooks to evolve into intelligent research partners. But enthusiasm comes with conditions. Eighty-one percent said they…...
OpenAI's GPT-5 autonomously ran 36,000 protein synthesis experiments in Ginkgo Bioworks' cloud lab
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (425+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 5, 2026 GPT-5 handles the cognitive layer (data analysis, biochemical reasoning, hypothesis generation) and sends experimental designs down to the RACs, which handle the physical execution (liquid handling, incubation, fluorescence measurement), then push data back…...
Claude Opus 4.6 targets research workflows with 1M-token context window, improved scientific reasoning
3+ week, 1+ day ago (155+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 5, 2026 Caveats apply. Anthropic's 76% figure is self-reported and awaits independent verification. Google's 26.3% dates to the Gemini 3 Pro launch in November and may improve with the production non-preview version of Gemini 3 Pro. The MRCR v2 benchmark…...
NVIDIA, Dassault Systèmes target materials discovery, drug development and more with industrial AI platform
3+ week, 3+ day ago (426+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | February 3, 2026 For materials research, Dassault Syst'mes" BIOVIA platform will combine with NVIDIA"s ALCHEMI generative AI services. The unification will enable atomistic and molecular simulations enhanced by machine learning. The companies claim scientists can…...
How Radical AI is building a self-driving materials lab
4+ week, 22+ hour ago (830+ words) Research & Development World By Julia Rock-Torcivia | January 29, 2026 A Radical AI scientist monitors an automated lab workflow alongside a robotic arm. [Radical AI] The company's AI system screens billions of material compositions to predict structures and physical properties to identify experimental…...
Lilly’s Chief AI Officer on the NVIDIA alliance behind a Bay Area lab and pharma’s biggest supercomputer
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (515+ words) Research & Development World By Brian Buntz | January 26, 2026 At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, NVIDIA and Eli Lilly announced a Bay Area co-innovation AI lab, with the two companies planning to invest up to $1 billion over five years in talent, infrastructure and…...
Machine learning model predicts binding of molecules used for bioimaging
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (411+ words) Research & Development World By Julia Rock-Torcivia | January 2, 2026 Researchers from the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyv'skyl', Finland, have developed a computational model that could expedite the use of nanomaterials in biomedical applications. Their machine learning framework is capable of…...