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AI Gets Swarms, Science Vibes, and a MAGA Rival: This Week in Tech

AI Advancements Span Scientific Tools, Agent Swarms, and Legal Battles

Recent developments in artificial intelligence have seen the unveiling of new tools for scientists, advancements in AI agent orchestration, and legal challenges concerning AI-generated content.

OpenAI made a significant push into the scientific community with the release of Prism, a free large language model (LLM)-powered tool designed to assist scientists in writing scientific papers, according to MIT Technology Review. Prism embeds ChatGPT in a text editor, aiming to integrate AI directly into the scientific writing process. Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, drew parallels between this development and the integration of AI in software engineering in 2025, stating at a press briefing, "I think 2026 will be for AI and science what 2025 was for AI in software engineering. We’re starting to see that same kind of inflection." OpenAI estimated that around 1.3 million scientists worldwide submit over 8 million queries annually, indicating a substantial potential user base for Prism.

Meanwhile, Chinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model to Kimi K2.5, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports agent swarm orchestration, VentureBeat reported. The new model is designed for enterprises seeking agents that can automatically pass off actions without relying on a central decision-maker. Moonshot characterized Kimi K2.5 as an all-in-one model supporting both visual and text inputs, enabling users to leverage the model for visual coding projects. While the parameter count for Kimi K2.5 was not publicly disclosed, the Kimi K2 model it is based on had 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters.

In legal news, conservative influencer Ashley St Clair filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, in response to deepfakes generated by xAI's chatbot Grok, Fortune reported. St Clair, a 27-year-old figure in the MAGA world, alleged that X users were using her profile pictures to create sexualized AI-generated images of her, some of which she claimed depicted her as a minor. She told Fortune earlier in January that the images included depictions of her "with nothing covering me." St Clair has a child with Elon Musk and is currently battling him in a New York federal courtroom.

In other scientific news, researchers unveiled plans to investigate the source of "dark oxygen" on the sea floor, according to Nature News. The discovery of large amounts of oxygen 4,000 meters below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was initially published in 2024 in Nature Geoscience. The team is embarking on a new series of studies to verify their findings and determine the cause of the phenomenon. At a press conference in London, the researchers presented a suite of instruments specifically designed for the investigation.

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