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DAY 3 is over, and with it, #HAICON26 comes to a close. The final day at the House of Communication opened with two parallel sessions, covering AI-enabled neonatal monitoring, MRI reconstruction, agentic AI frameworks, swarm learning for stroke outcome prediction, and scaling scientific AI workflows to 16,384 GPUs. The morning keynote by Cordelia Schmid (Inria, Google), "Video-Guided Policies for Robotic Manipulation", offered a compelling look at how AI is advancing robotics and embodied intelligence. Taken together, this year's keynotes and invited talks made one thing clear: AI is no longer a tool sitting alongside science, but is becoming integral to how science itself is conducted. Another highlight of DAY 3 was the special session “Helmholtz Munich: Discovering Future Health”, chaired by Marie Piraud, which showcased how AI is helping to advance biomedical research. Talks covered translational genomics of osteoarthritis, biophysics-informed optoacoustic imaging, predictive models of human airway function, and the biochemistry of the virtual cell, highlighting the growing role of AI in enabling breakthroughs that have the potential to transform patient care and save lives. The conference concluded with the Poster Prize Awards, sponsored by NTT DATA. Congratulations to all six winners, and to every poster presenter who shared their work and sparked discussions throughout the conference. Most importantly, thank you to every speaker, session chair, poster presenter, sponsor, partner, volunteer, and participant who made #HAICON26 so special. Over the past three days, researchers from across disciplines, institutions, and borders came together to explore how AI is transforming scientific discovery, and the conversations will continue long after the conference has ended. We look forward to seeing you in Dresden, Germany, for HAICON27 between 14–17 June, 2027. Save the date. 👋 #HAICON26 #AIforScience