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How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with AlphaEvolve

Schrödinger achieved a 4x speedup in molecular dynamics MLFF training by using AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary AI coding agent from Google DeepMind, to optimize the computationally expensive Ewald summation algorithm. The agent replaced simple for-loops with parallel batch matrix multiplication, improving performance from a baseline of 7.9 to nearly 30 and raising the program success rate from under 1% to over 60%.

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Pro-Russia Influence Ecosystem: Drivers, Dynamics, and Tactics

This report from Google Threat Intelligence Group maps the pro-Russia influence ecosystem across six core components, revealing how four years of war have hardened its tactics, expanded the use of generative AI, and created a resilient, interconnected machine now pivoting back to global strategic objectives targeting NATO and the EU. Essential reading for anyone tracking state-backed information operations.

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Cross-Origin Storage API: Ending duplicate downloads for browser AI

If you've ever watched your browser re-download 177 MB of Whisper model weights just because a second site lives on a different origin, this article explains exactly why that happens—and how the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API fixes it using cryptographic hashes instead of URLs. Transformers.js already supports it experimentally, and you can test the whole thing today with a Chrome extension.

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PP-OCRv6: Lightweight, Multilingual OCR from 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters

PP-OCRv6 is a practical, tiered OCR model family from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters that improves detection and recognition accuracy over its predecessor while supporting 50 languages in a single architecture. It's worth reading if you need a lightweight, deployable OCR pipeline that integrates with Paddle Inference, Transformers, or ONNX Runtime backends.

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LifeSciBench: A Realistic Benchmark for AI in Life Science Research

Current life science benchmarks fail to capture the messy, iterative reality of real research work. They tend to ask clean fact-recall or prediction questions with neat reference answers, but practicing scientists spend their time interpreting incomplete evidence, reconciling conflicting results, designing difficult experiments, and making decisions under uncertainty. **LifeSciBench** was built to close this gap by measuring whether AI systems can actually support the workflows that matter in applied biotech and pharmaceutical research, not just answer biology trivia. It was designed by 173 PhD-level scientists with direct drug-discovery experience, and every task reflects a realistic request a scientist might make to a knowledgeable collaborator.

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