Brian Buntz

CAS AI leader Andrea Jacobs on bringing CAS data and its Newton agent into Microsoft Copilot through MCP, and on connecting AI agents to lab instruments.

Google unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon at the AI frontier. A day later, Alphabet shares fell 12.6% as investors weighed Search monetization, negative free cash flow and rising infrastructure spending.

SpaceX is accelerating its shift from rocket company to major AI infrastructure player. Anthropic, the developer of Claude, disclosed in its IPO prospectus that it has agreed to spend up to $120.5 billion on computing capacity from SpaceXAI, SpaceX’s AI subsidiary. The related agreements would extend into 2029 while monthly payments would reach about $3.1…

Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon scores 59 on Artificial Analysis’s v5.0 index, a point ahead of Claude Opus 5.5, with access limited to cyber defenders for now.

Twist Express Screening Antibodies uses LenioBio’s ALiCE cell-free system to deliver purified IgG in five business days, or eight to ten with SPR data.

OpenAI says its models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis and proved results in math and physics; Anthropic posted its own ETH refutation hours later.

Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, whose sole employee used Claude to run 11 outside labs and reach mouse results for a muscular dystrophy antibody.

  The 2026 R&D 100 Awards issue profiles this year’s winners and three professional honorees. M. Parans Paranthaman, the 2026 Researcher of the Year at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, also worked on PASTREE, a winning process from ORNL and the Florida Industrial and Phosphate Research Institute that recovers rare earths and other materials from phosphate-industry…

Jellyfish data from 1,300 companies: agents touch 27.7% of pull requests at the median company, while software factories open 0.0% at nine in 10.

Anthropic’s S-1 shows $9.74B of first-half R&D, more than any big U.S. drugmaker’s ongoing R&D, and $14.2B over 12 months, near Eli Lilly’s.

Google’s MAPL-EMIT model found about 50% more plausible methane plumes than human analysts in NASA EMIT data after training on 3.6 million simulated plumes.

Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks fourth on Artificial Analysis’s index at $2.11 per task, with open weights due Nov. 4. How it compares with Opus 5.5.

IMU Biosciences says each of 80,000 UK Biobank blood samples will yield over 100 million data points from Waters flow cytometry and single-cell sequencing.

Jabil’s 2026 survey of 208 decision-makers finds 50% have digital health products in production, up from 11%, while device integration tops the challenges.

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the IMF the singularity has begun and AI could put a billion virtual scientists to work if labs can test the results.

Anthropic’s Claude Duet, a personal AI agent that keeps working after users step away, joins always-on agents from Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and SpaceXAI.

Porsche and Voxel51 pull rare scenes, such as animals on the highway, from exabytes of fleet data and rerun them overnight in simulation with NVIDIA tools.

Northwestern and Western Digital wrote and read antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions with an electrical current at room temperature, reaching 363% TMR.

RFD4-Proteina, an open model from NVIDIA and UW’s Institute for Protein Design, produced 158 TrkA binders from 188 designs plus active designed enzymes.

OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research split a whole-brain CRISPR atlas among 1,946 GPT-Rosalind agents, which proposed research leads in 32 minutes.

CAS Connections brings the CAS Content Collection and CAS Newton into Microsoft 365 Copilot through a federated MCP connector tied to CAS subscriptions.

Tracking global R&D since 1959 2026 Global R&D Funding Forecast: AI and chips redraw the research spending map Alphabet and Meta now spend nearly as much on R&D as the 10 largest drugmakers combined. South Korea is closing in on Germany, while Taiwan could edge past France by 2028 as semiconductor research expands. The 2026…

Medical device development offers lessons in the gap between a working prototype and a product people can, and will, use. Across R&D, translating a promising discovery into a product requires finding someone who needs it, a practical way to deliver it and a business model that can sustain it. The stakes are especially high in…

Google and chipmaker Synaptics are previewing a microcontroller designed to bring multimodal AI to devices constrained by power, memory and cost, from wearables to industrial sensors. Synaptics CEO Rahul Patel outlined the chip’s capabilities Oct. 14 at Google Research’s annual Research@ event in Mountain View, ahead of its formal launch Oct. 20. It combines Google’s…

Not long ago, a running joke took hold among software engineers and aspiring “vibe coders.” The bit was to hand an AI model a monumentally complex, multi-month task, building a full Slack clone from scratch, recreating a game like GTA, or even designing and training its own successor on a laptop, and demand it do…