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AI News Oct 23, 2026 03:42 PM

OpenAI and Anthropic Are Racing to Use AI to Develop New Medicines

Developing a new medicine can take more than a decade. Researchers must understand a disease, identify promising compounds, test their ideas, conduct clinical trials, and prove that a treatment is safe and effective. Now imagine if artificial intelligence could help scientists move through parts of that process faster. That is the opportunity OpenAI and Anthropic are pursuing as they expand beyond AI chatbots and compete to make their technology useful in scientific research.

AI News Sep 22, 2026 09:43 AM

Anthropic Is Building a Biology Lab And AI Is About to Get Hands-On

What happens when an AI company stops asking, “What does the model think?” and starts asking, “Can we test it in a real laboratory?” That is exactly where Anthropic appears to be heading. The company behind Claude has quietly established a wet biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it can carry out physical experiments rather than relying entirely on computer simulations.

AI News Sep 08, 2026 11:04 AM

AI-Discovered Lung Drug Shows Signs of Making Patients Biologically Younger

What if a drug designed to help damaged lungs could also make some of the body's biological signals look younger? That sounds like science fiction. But a new study published in Nature Biotechnology has given scientists a reason to take the idea seriously, although there is a very important catch. Researchers studying rentosertib, an experimental drug from AI-focused biotech company Insilico Medicine, found that patients who received the drug showed lower predicted biological ages

AI News Aug 24, 2026 04:47 PM

AI Wants to Cure Cancer. This Startup Says the Missing Piece Is Human Data

For years, the AI revolution in medicine has sounded almost too good to be true. Give AI enough biological data, the thinking goes, and perhaps it could help researchers discover drugs faster, predict which treatments will work, and eventually tackle diseases that have frustrated medicine for decades. Cancer is the obvious prize. But there is a problem: AI can only be as good as the biology it learns from.

AI News Aug 07, 2026 04:22 PM

AI Just Designed 16 Brand-New Viruses That Never Existed Before.

What if artificial intelligence could create a living organism that has never existed before? Just a few years ago, that sounded like the plot of a science fiction movie. Today, it is real. In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to design brand-new viruses from scratch.