Fermilab AI Genesis Mission: Autonomous Agents Deployed into National Laboratory Particle Physics Research Pipeline

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Fermilab published March 2026 progress on the national AI Genesis Mission, deploying autonomous agents via the FemtoMind project to accelerate complex proton-scale calculations and surface new patterns in particle physics simulations that human researchers miss. Confirms active integration of agentic AI into a national laboratory's core research workflow — not a pilot, an active research instrument. Combined with the arXiv HEP agent paper published the same day, this signals coordinated agentic science deployment arriving simultaneously across major physics facilities.