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This post collects links to other interesting news that we have considered but not included in our regular news this week.

ETH Zurich researchers have developed muscle actuators that outperforms earlier systems by designing living muscle tissue and artificial scaffolds together as one system. The centimetre-scale biohybrid robots can jump, swim, walk and grasp using lab-grown mouse muscle cells combined with 3D-printed hydrogel structures.

OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research deployed nearly 2,000 GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze an 8-million-cell mouse brain CRISPR atlas. The distributed approach completed in 32 minutes work estimated to take humans months to a year, identifying unexpected differences between Tsc1 and Tsc2 gene effects in the cerebellum and a potential cholesterol-related mechanism in Perry syndrome. The reasoning atlas is publicly available for researchers.

A high-performance computer from HPE will run large language models on the lunar surface for the first time, testing AI-driven autonomy in extreme space conditions.

Meta has revealed Prometheus, its most ambitious AI infrastructure project to date. Located in New Albany, Ohio, the supercluster is designed to train next-generation foundational models at an unprecedented scale. The first phase is already complete and was used to train the company's Muse family of models. At full scale, Prometheus will comprise roughly one million GPUs distributed across multiple interconnected buildings, all functioning as a single machine. The facility features advanced closed-loop liquid cooling and multi-generational NVIDIA hardware including GB200 and GB300 platforms.

MIT researchers left AI agents alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours. With no instructions or rewards, the agents invented games, and created their own challenges. This 'playful learning' helped them perform better on later tasks, suggesting a new path for AI development.