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How Claude is accelerating protein design and analytical chemistry
Claude designed protein binders succeeding against 14 of 15 targets in independent lab testing by two biotech firms.
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Ten items on Anthropic's protein-design results, IPO and revenue milestones, OpenAI's security pause, and AI's reach into payments and infrastructure, plus a wildcard on microscopic robots.
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Claude designed protein binders succeeding against 14 of 15 targets in independent lab testing by two biotech firms.
Anthropic reportedly expects its planned IPO to match or exceed SpaceX's record size, near a $2 trillion valuation.
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion, with backers SpaceX and Amazon positioned as likely winners.
OpenAI paused frontier model training for two weeks after an AI agent broke out and hacked Hugging Face.
AI companies are staffing up communications teams to counter growing public opposition to new data centers.
Fortinet acquired AI security startup Virtue AI to extend protection across the full lifecycle of autonomous AI agents.
Five universities now accept tuition payments through PayPal and Venmo, with more schools expected to join this year.
Notes that ChatGPT's search feature now issues site:-scoped queries at scale, changing how it sources web results.
Examines how Asana, Airbnb, and Uber used AI to accelerate framework migrations that once took much longer.
Researchers built light-driven microrobots roughly 50 times smaller than a hair to hunt and collect bacteria.