The parking lot outside Tesla’s Fremont factory is still crowded with familiar-looking vehicles, including Model 3s, Model Ys, and occasionally older Model Ss. However, something is subtly shifting on the inside. Production lines that used to hum with automotive precision are being reconsidered and, in certain situations, repurposed. There’s a…

A researcher looks at a screen full of shapes that don’t quite look familiar in a quiet lab with soft fluorescent light and humming freezers. These are proteins that have been folded, predicted, and simulated by an algorithm that was nonexistent a few years ago. Problems that once required entire…

The conversations don’t sound very dramatic on some afternoons in lower Manhattan. Screens flickering with bond yields, a few traders hunched over desks, someone whispering about inflation expectations. Occasionally, however, a remark goes farther than anticipated—it is picked up by analysts, repeated in newsletters, and amplified on financial television. Markets…