This weekly update brings exciting news about AI agents helping scientists make important discoveries. Scientists are creating smart computer helpers that can work on their own to solve hard problems.

One big breakthrough came from researchers who made an AI system called VaxSeer that can predict flu vaccine strains better than the World Health Organization. This smart system looks at virus genes and figures out which flu strains will be most common. It got the right answer 7 out of 10 times for one type of flu, which is much better than older methods.

In West Virginia, USA, scientists built AI models that can spot heart failure in people living in rural areas. These areas often don't have fancy medical equipment. The AI works with simple heart monitoring tools that doctors already have. This could help save lives by catching heart problems early in places where it's hard to get good healthcare.

At UCLA in California, USA, engineers created a wearable brain-computer system that helps people control computers and robot arms with their thoughts. The system uses AI to understand what people want to do. It made people almost 4 times faster at controlling things with their minds. This could really help people who can't move their bodies normally.

The medicine industry is also getting ready for agentic AI. The Pistoia Alliance, a group that helps drug companies, started a new project to make sure AI agents are used safely. They want to create rules for how AI should work in making new medicines. The company Genentech gave money to start this important work.