Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields — Google DeepMind

Improving AI infrastructure AlphaEvolve has graduated from pilot testing to becoming a core component of our infrastructure. AlphaEvolve has been used as a regular tool to optimize the design of the next generation of TPUs. It also helped discover more efficient cache replacement policies, achieving in two days what previously required a concerted, human-intensive effort…

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Early-career researchers do more ‘disruptive’ science than veterans

Experienced researchers are more likely to hold onto ideas from the past than those at the beginning of their careers, an analysis finds.Credit: RapidEye/Getty Experienced researchers are less likely to produce ‘disruptive’ science than are those just starting their careers, finds an analysis of the scientific papers published by 12.5 million researchers over 60 years….

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