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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 03/16/2025 23:44 EDT

Google's AI 'Co-Scientist' Solved a 10-Year Superbug Problem in Two Days

Google collaborated with Imperial College London and its "Fleming Initiative" partnership with Imperial NHS, giving their scientists "access to a powerful new AI designed" built with Gemini 2.0 "to make research faster and more efficient," according to an announcement from the school. And the results were surprising...


"José Penadés and his colleagues at Imperial College London spent 10 years figuring out how some superbugs gain resistance to antibiotics," writes LiveScience. "But when the team gave Goog

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