MIT let an AI build its own physics lab and run it for days

An MIT lab let an AI write its own simulation tools, then left it running for days on graphene designs, Startup Fortune reports on Markus Buehler's project. The system built its own geometry generator, fracture solver and virtual labs, then formed and tested hypotheses with no human picking the next experiment. It found same-weight lattices varying 6.6 times in strength, but only in simulation.