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A Stanford PhD student used AI to design viruses from scratch. It actually worked.
Samuel King fed genetic instructions into a generative AI model and got back blueprints for new microscopic viruses. Now he's explaining what that means for medicine, and for what biology even is.
Google DeepMind puts an invisible watermark inside lab-grown proteins
SynthID Bio hides a detectable signal inside AI-designed proteins and 3D structures without breaking what the molecule is supposed to do.
Anthropic caught scientists trying to use Claude to develop bioweapons
The AI company blocked at least five attempts this year by researchers to extract information that could help build biological weapons, including users from countries it bans outright.
A startup is selling stripped-down AI with no guardrails. Anyone can sign up for free.
Abliteration.ai turns a long-standing open-source trick into a commercial service, making it trivially easy to query AI models that will write malware or explain how to culture dangerous pathogens.
AI Designed Working Viruses From Scratch. Here's What That Actually Means
Stanford researchers used a large genome model to generate functional bacteriophage viruses. The viruses work. They're not weapons. But the same researchers are asking whether we should plan ahead before someone builds a version that targets humans.
Scientists build the first AI-designed viruses, and experts are asking hard questions
A research team used artificial intelligence to create bacteriophages, viruses that kill bacteria, from scratch. The results worked in the lab. The safety debate is already underway.
AI Can Design Bioweapons. Can It Also Stop Them?
The same artificial intelligence that accelerates disease detection can help bad actors engineer deadly pathogens. Public health researchers say the race between offense and defense has already begun.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs open their bioresilience playbook
The two AI labs say they will share models with vetted partners to speed vaccine design and catch outbreaks earlier, while adding safeguards against misuse.