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AI Is Searching for Physics' Holy Grail

Plus the fusion gold rush: how smart money reframed fusion from a climate bet into an AI-infrastructure bet. One edition, two energy frontiers.

The Scientist That Never Sleeps: The Lab Running 50,000 Experiments With Nobody There

A self-driving lab lets an AI pick each experiment, robot arms run it overnight, and every result steers the next guess, with no human at the bench. Here is what happens when a machine stops describing science and starts doing it.