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Apple's AI Designs Proteins by Learning Sequence and Shape at the Same Time
A new model from Apple ML Research skips the usual two-step training process and generates both the chemical sequence and the 3D shape of proteins together, which could shorten the path to new drug candidates.
Nilay Patel on why AI hype hits a wall the moment it leaves software
The Decoder host breaks down his viral 'software brain' essay and names verifiability as the hidden fault line beneath every sweeping AI claim.
Arm Holdings CEO says AI will help cure cancer within our lifetimes
Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer behind most smartphones, believes AI will eventually crack biological puzzles too complex for humans alone. He also sees humanoid robots going mainstream within five years.
AI is designing physics experiments that scientists never thought to try
From gravitational wave detectors to quantum optics, artificial intelligence is now proposing experimental setups that outperform anything humans designed by hand. Here is what that means for science, and for patients.
The VC Who Left $4 Billion Behind to Bet Small on AI Biology
Vijay Pande ran one of venture capital's biggest biotech funds. Now he wants to prove that a smaller, AI-native firm can do what the giants cannot: treat biology like engineering.
AI Is Helping Robot Labs Design New Medicines and Materials Faster Than Ever
Automated biofoundries, labs where robots do the bench work, are getting an AI upgrade. Here is what that means for drug discovery and everyday health.
A Robot Lab Grows Human Tissue to Give AI the Data It Needs to Find Real Drugs
Vivodyne's warehouse-scale machines test drug candidates on lab-grown human organs, not mice. The startup says this is the missing ingredient that could make AI drug discovery actually work.
Science's next AI leap will come from reasoning agents, not data-hungry models like AlphaFold
AlphaFold was a landmark, but the conditions that made it possible took 53 years and $21 billion to build. For most of science, a different kind of AI, one that reasons and experiments step by step, is already showing what comes next.
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 Accelerates the Future of Medicine Design
How AstraZeneca uses AI to speed up drug discovery and what it means for patients.
US Government to Spend $5 Billion Using AI to Crack Chronic Disease and Drug Discovery
Fifteen federal agencies will share the funding and gain access to government supercomputers to run AI experiments on some of science's hardest problems.
Bristol Myers Squibb Just Gave Every One of Its Scientists Access to the Biggest AI Computer in Drug Research
The pharma giant is doubling its AI computing power with a new NVIDIA supercomputer cluster, and opening it up to every researcher at the company, not just a chosen few.
Nvidia launches a new robot brain and builds a Japanese AI coalition
The chip giant's Cosmos 3 Edge model aims to give robots and cameras a better sense of the physical world. Fujitsu and Hitachi are signing on, alongside Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Build AI Drug Discovery Startup, Seeking $200M at $2B Valuation
Miles Wang, who studied how AI can speed up science, is reportedly heading out of OpenAI to start a company focused on finding new medicines faster.
Weekend Science: A Quantum Computer Just Helped Invent New Drug Candidates
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark ran their AI model on a printer-sized quantum computer and produced better peptide candidates than a standard machine, with the sharpest gains where medical training data was thin.