AI Research News 17 July 2025 - 6 September 2025

In mid-2025, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent that uses Google’s Gemini LLMs, an evolutionary search process, and automated testing to autonomously design and improve algorithms. AlphaEvolve generates, tests, and evolves programs in an autonomous pipeline, refining entire codebases rather than a single function. It discovered a 4×4 matrix multiplication method over the complex domain using 48 multiplications, beating Strassen’s 49 from 1969 for the first time in 56 years. It devised a data-center scheduling algorithm that recovers about 0.7% of Google’s worldwide compute capacity, with the code in production for over a year. In hardware, it produced