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AI Weekly Issue #511: AlphaFold's Nobel Winner Just Joined Anthropic. And 6 More AI Wins.

Look past the data-center megadeals and the bubble headlines, because something quieter happened this week: AI actually delivered. A Nobel laureate joined the AI-for-science push, the open-model frontier got cheaper again, and the first hard evidence landed that an AI tutor can beat the classroom. T

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