> The AI system identifies and analyzes the composition of over 100 million potential alloys that would have the right properties to be a permanent magnet, be free of rare-earth elements, and meet the requirements of affordability and sustainability. The potential of this approach for the creation of new materials is enormous.

This is deeply annoying to me. AI didn't do anything - An engineer / scientist with a deep toolkit used a particular statistical algorithm (or just search + analysis?) to discover a useful thing. In the same way it might be newsworthy in some circles if a pure-theory mathematical result found surprising use in sports betting or medicine.

OTOH, I question whether I am moving the goalpost a little. Certainly it still requires a specialist with lots and lots of expertise to build a system that can algorithmically find solutions to a very hard problem. But those who look at an increasing amount of generality of a given algorithm and want to call it intelligence - who am I to say it's not?

So, I can see it both ways.