Google DeepMind has effectively dismantled the team behind Alphafold, the Financial Times reported on July 29. The report said Google reassigned core Alphafold staff and most original paper authors to other units, with some already leaving the company. DeepMind began Alphafold in 2018 and was credited in 2020 with effectively solving the protein-folding problem. In 2024, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel chemistry prize for the research.

LG CNS said on July 27 it was selected as a founding member of the AI Materials Foundry, a global materials development collaboration led by British AI startup CuspAI. The alliance includes 48 companies and research institutes including Nvidia, Meta, AMD, 3M and Merck. LG CNS will oversee the platform’s introduction and operations in South Korea, supporting data integration, result interpretation, and platform deployment and maintenance for firms developing new materials.