AXIOS December 31, 2025
Maria Curi

AI-driven scientific innovation accelerated in 2025 — fueling major progress in fields ranging from robotics to health care.

Why it matters: Powerful new models and computing tools are influencing everything from how experiments are designed to how results are analyzed — with much of that momentum coming from the private sector.

Here are some of 2025’s biggest AI-driven breakthroughs:

1. Making diagnoses for Alzheimer’s and related diseases is on the road to becoming faster and cheaper with AI.

  • Researchers at a wide range of universities and health care institutions announced findings this year about how AI will help with future therapies and better detection in primary care.
  • For example, one study found that a specific gene is a cause...

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