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.

NIH made 13,686 new awards in fiscal 2026, up 21% from 2025, while total grants fell as annual payments on existing projects declined.

PNNL leads DOE’s BattMan consortium, combining four national labs’ manufacturing expertise, machine learning and digital twins to reduce battery scale-up risks.

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.

DOE released 35 Genesis Mission agent skills, written by researchers at seven national labs, that teach Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI to do lab work.

HEMCO offers UniFlow laboratory fume hoods with composite, stainless-steel, HDPE and polypropylene chambers for different applications.

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…

DOE to fund only multi-university teams in fiscal 2027 for basic accelerator research, ending single-PI awards, as it picks 14 projects for $15 million.

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.

An Annals of Internal Medicine analysis found 87.5% of organizational comments opposed OMB’s grant rule, with research groups opposed at about 93%.

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.

PNNL broke ground on M2PC, a 30,800-square-foot autonomous lab with 100+ Ginkgo instruments that outside researchers can use free from 2029.

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.

A global study puts 2,315 of 9,347 data centers where water demand exceeds supply. Few U.S. states require data centers to report their water use.

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.