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John Templeton Foundation Partners with FirstPrinciples to Advance AI-Driven Discovery in Fundamental Physics

The AI Physicist reaches its first autonomy milestone (ahead of schedule)

The case for specialization: Building scientific AI that thinks like a physicist

Strings, Symmetry, and the Shape of Space: The Physics of Shiraz Minwalla

AI and openness at CERN: FirstPrinciples demos the AI Physicist at the Open Science Fair

In the age of AI, small colleges are punching above their weight

Chain-of-thought seen as key to AI safety, but experts warn it’s fragile

The physics of AI hallucination: New research reveals the tipping point for large language models

Scientists are leaving academia for industry, here’s why it’s happening now

Bridging minds and disciplines: The IAIFI Summer School and the future of collaborative science

Where quantum breakthroughs begin: Inside Columbia University’s culture of collaboration

New AI models and the benchmark paradox

AI enters the scientific loop: Simulation, integrity, and the rise of open reasoning

Inside the global race to build the quantum internet

Sabine Hossenfelder on AI, bad physics, and why science needs reform

Peer review in the age of AI: When scientific judgement meets prompt injection

Inside the Flatiron Institute: Where algorithms and inquiry shape modern science

AI faces a tough physics exam: New benchmark reveals the challenge

How string theory lost its strings

Artificial intelligence: A FirstPrinciples Primer

How the Sloan Foundation picks scientific winners

Prediction isn’t understanding: AI’s evolution and the soul of science

Engineering the implausible? Paper explores stable Dyson spheres and ringworlds

An excerpt from Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins