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The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math

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Why This Matters

This article highlights how startups are pivoting their focus towards AI-driven innovations, from battery materials discovery to mathematical pattern recognition, signaling a transformative shift in both the tech industry and scientific research. These advancements could accelerate breakthroughs across multiple fields, impacting consumers and industries alike.

Key Takeaways

Hu is the CEO of SES AI, a Massachusetts-based battery company. It previously developed advanced lithium batteries for major industries, but is now shifting to AI materials discovery. Read our story to find out why.

—Casey Crownhart

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Axiom Math, a California startup, has released a free AI tool with a big ambition: discovering mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems.

Most of the successes with AI tools have involved finding solutions to existing problems. But that’s not all they could do. There are lots of problems in math that require new ideas nobody has ever had, which could come from spotting patterns that have never been spotted before.

Axiom Math’s new tool aims to find these hidden links. Read the full story to discover their plans—and how AI in general could change mathematics.

—Will Douglas Heaven

Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.

As the conflict in Iran has escalated, fossil-fuel prices have been on a roller-coaster—and some EV owners are celebrating.

They believe the volatility will create an opportunity for electric vehicles to make headway. But even the carless among us should be concerned about a sustained rise in fossil-fuel prices.