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Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins.

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MIT researchers said AI may soon become the default way to solve theoretical problems, as twenty-five Fields Medal winners in the West warned against AI-generated proofs.

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Researchers used AI design tools to create proteins that break chemical bonds that are otherwise stable for hundreds of years.

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