Mpox Is Still Spreading. Can AI Get Ahead of the Virus This Time?
Mpox is still circulating, and new clades are mixing. We look at what genomic surveillance has revealed, where machine learning genuinely helps, and where the evidence stops.
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Medical AI Just Hit 90% Accuracy. But Why Can't Hospitals Trust It?
A new Nature Medicine study shows on-premise medical AI agents can diagnose at near-cloud accuracy. The bigger story is why the field still can't agree on how to know when to trust them.
AI Just Mapped 2,812 Viruses to Outrun the Next Pandemic
AI Scribes Are Quietly Reshaping Hospital Bills, and Insurers Are Alarmed
Why Simple Maths Keeps Beating Billion-Parameter AI Cell Models
Pentagon Bets $47M That AI Can Out-Evolve the Next Bioweapon
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The World Just Built an AI Factory for the Next Pandemic
As world leaders gather at the UN for a High-Level Meeting on pandemics, a new AI-powered global infrastructure (the Pandemic Preparedness Engine and Global Pathogen Analysis Platform) is quietly being built to compress vaccine development from months to days.
AI Co-Scientists Are Here, and Nature Just Put Them to the Test
A Nature feature published this week tracks how AI co-scientist platforms from Google DeepMind, FutureHouse and others are already generating validated hypotheses in real labs, and why human judgement is becoming the scarcest resource in science.
This Open-Source AI Just Beat 23 of 26 Radiologists
Alibaba's DAMO Academy has open-sourced RADAR, a Science-published AI that outperformed 23 of 26 radiologists reading abdominal CT scans for 146 conditions, free for any hospital to run.
The AI Biotech With 37,000 Virtual Employees Just Published in Science
Stanford's 37,000-agent Virtual Biotech mined 55,984 clinical trials and independently designed a lung cancer drug strategy Merck was already pursuing.
Big Pharma's AI Arms Race: Why Novo Nordisk Just Bet on Claude
Novo Nordisk just added Anthropic's Claude Science to an AI drug discovery stack that already includes OpenAI. Here's what the deal reveals about AI in healthcare.
AI Says It Can Beat the WHO at Picking Flu Vaccines. Can It?
A new protein-language-model study claims to out-predict the WHO's flu vaccine picks, reviving a live dispute over whether AI truly beats expert judgement here.
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Evolution as Training Data: How Biohub's Open Protein World Model Is Rewiring Drug Discovery
Biohub's open-source ESM models learned the rules of protein biology from evolution alone — and designed working drug binders in days. Here's what the release means, and where it falls short.
