Google's AI discovers new cancer therapy

PLUS: Windows gets an AI and NVIDIA open-sources its playbook

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October 17, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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Researchers at Google and Yale have demonstrated AI's potential for genuine scientific discovery. Their Gemma-based model identified a novel cancer therapy pathway, a finding that has now been successfully validated in a lab.

This moves AI's role beyond generating text and images into the realm of foundational science. As these systems scale, could we be on the verge of AI-driven breakthroughs becoming a regular occurrence in medicine and other scientific fields?

Today in AI:

  • Google's AI finds a new cancer therapy

  • Microsoft gives AI the keys to Windows

  • NVIDIA open-sources its AI playbook

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What’s new? Researchers from Google and Yale used a Gemma-based AI to discover a previously unknown cancer treatment pathway, which was then validated in living cells.

What matters?

  • The AI system, C2S-Scale 27B, interprets cellular data like a language to predict how cells will behave and respond to treatments.

  • It identified the drug silmitasertib as a compound that helps the immune system find cancer cells, a function never before linked to the drug.

  • Laboratory tests confirmed the AI's prediction, showing the drug combination made tumor cells approximately 50% more visible to immune defenses.

Why it matters?

This breakthrough shows AI's capacity for genuine scientific discovery, moving beyond its role in generative content. As research suggests biological models follow scaling laws, we can anticipate more significant medical progress as these AI systems grow in power.

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What’s new? Microsoft is deeply integrating its Copilot assistant into Windows 11, giving it system-level permissions to control apps, manage files, and see what's on your screen.

What matters?

  • The integration creates a new conversational interface, allowing you to give commands and let the AI see your screen to act on files and applications directly.

  • Microsoft's vision is to make every Windows 11 computer an 'AI PC', changing the operating system from a passive platform into an active partner.

  • While the update promises a major boost in efficiency, it introduces a significant privacy trade-off that hinges on users trusting the AI with unprecedented access.

Why it matters?

This move signals a major shift in personal computing, turning the OS from a passive tool into a proactive assistant. The success of this vision will depend entirely on whether users are willing to trust an AI with deep access to their digital lives.

What’s new? In a major strategic shift, NVIDIA is open-sourcing its complete collection of AI development tools, including models, training data, and algorithms, making them available for free.

What matters?

  • The release gives developers access to the entire AI cookbook that powers NVIDIA's own internal development, showing them exactly how to build and run high-performance models.

  • This move enables professionals and businesses to run powerful AI on your own hardware, ensuring data privacy and control by eliminating the need to send information to the cloud.

  • The release includes specialized models for a range of applications, such as the humanoid foundation model for robotics, Project GR00T.

Why it matters?

This gives developers unprecedented access to build powerful, private AI systems without depending on large cloud platforms. The move fosters a more open ecosystem, potentially accelerating AI adoption and innovation across industries.

Everything else in AI

OpenAI dropped its new AgentKit, an integrated toolkit designed to help developers build, test, and evaluate autonomous AI agents.

Uber launched a pilot program that will pay its drivers to perform data labeling microtasks, turning its workforce into AI trainers.

Andrej Karpathy released nanochat, a full-stack open-source implementation for training ChatGPT-like models for as little as $100 on a single 8xH100 node.

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