AI-assisted science moves from computational proposals toward experimental tests

Recent reports span BootLoops' cross-disciplinary manuscript generation, generative search yielding fabricated nano-architectures with 18–23% stiffness gains, AI-generated DHPS fragments with early inhibition and co-crystal evidence, BWI's surrogate-assisted suspension design, and robot-fleet learning with high held-out-task success. These offer concrete signals beyond benchmark-only claims, but evidence is uneven, often small-scale or company-reported, and does not yet establish broad generality.