AI’s Big Bang: Breakthroughs, Billion‑Dollar Bets & Backlash (AI News Roundup Aug 6–7, 2025)
MIT and Duke used AI to design iron-based ferrocene polymers that absorb stress, cutting additive discovery time from weeks to days, published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio’s OpenCRISPR-1, the first CRISPR enzyme fully designed by AI, edited human cells with high precision and was open-sourced after publication in Nature. OpenAI released two open-weight language models, now available on AWS Bedrock. Google pledged $1 billion for AI training at over 100 universities.
