The Download: AI accelerating scientific discovery, and Tesla's EV charging meltdown

What's new: Google DeepMind has released an improved version of its biology prediction tool, AlphaFold, that can predict the structures not only of proteins but of nearly all the elements of biological life. How they did it: AlphaFold 3's larger library of molecules and higher level of complexity required improvements to the underlying model architecture. So DeepMind turned to diffusion techniques, which have been steadily improving in recent years and power image and video generators. It works by training a model to start with a noisy image and then reduce that noise bit by bit until an accurate prediction emerges--a method that allows AlphaFold 3 to handle a much larger set of inputs. Why it matters: It's a development that could help accelerate drug discovery and other scientific research.