Highlights from the UK National Centre for Research Methods' 2025 Annual Lecture, a panel at the British Academy on using AI responsibly in research, with Dame Wendy Hall, David De Roure, Zeba Khanam and Mark Carrigan.

Anthropic's agent-run biolab reports CRISPR-like repeats in giant viruses, a new standard lets AI agents drive lab instruments, and a PNAS reanalysis says human–AI teams underperform because we never let humans learn.

Nature's Paper2Agent turns papers into AI 'virtual corresponding authors', Science unveils a multi-agent Virtual Biotech, plus new AI research in Management Science, ISR, MSOM and Operations Research.

Recording of the ACR webinar on vibe coding and AI-assisted interviewing for consumer researchers, held on July 7, 2026.