Quantum computers, such as this one shown at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, could run programs that have been almost completely generated by artificial-intelligence tools. Credit: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg/Getty ‘Vibe coding’ is moving into quantum computing — a field in which programming has notoriously required sophisticated skills. To lower this barrier, researchers at
Paper introductions and discussions show more signs of AI use than results sections. Credit: Laurence Dutton/Getty The use of artificial intelligence to write scientific papers could be much more prevalent than was previously thought. That’s the upshot of a study that estimates that almost nine out of ten papers published in December 2025 in a
The AI company Anthropic says that its Claude models will label AI-generated content with a watermark.Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Anthropic, the firm behind the artificial-intelligence model Claude, has announced that text generated by any models launched on or after 2 August will be invisibly embedded with a watermark that indicates the output was written
One of the earliest applications of ‘AI scientists’ was to research AI itself.Credit: La Pico de Gallo/Getty Artificial intelligence has made leaps in AI research itself, finding ways to make existing algorithms smarter — or writing new ones. But computers are not yet ready to replace their makers, according to a study posted on the
The rising use of artificial-intelligence tools by scientists could increase their productivity, but this might come at the cost of quality.Credit: Getty Scientists who use large language models (LLMs) to help them with their research will spend less time refining their work and instead jump quickly to fresh projects, according to a modelling study1. Adoption
Artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated into hospitals and healthcare clinics. However, the benefits of AI tools come with new risks to patient safety and questions about who is responsible when things go wrong. Conventionally, health care responsibilities are clearly delineated. Doctors must provide an established standard of treatment. Institutions must organize safe treatment processes.