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Most workers are using AI wrong, Google and Stanford study finds
Microsoft makes water utility cybersecurity programme permanent after pilot reveals sector's vulnerability
Roche deploys 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to embed AI across drug discovery and manufacturing
Microsoft trains AI model to convert standard pathology slides into protein maps
Lilly inaugurates LillyPod AI supercomputer to accelerate drug discovery in Indianapolis
Virgin Galactic enters high-altitude imaging collab
SpaceX IPO may anchor a game-changing year for investment in the space economy
Microsoft pushes agentic AI into retail as automation moves from pilots to execution
Wayve trains camera-first self-driving AI on Azure to speed global rollout
Scale urges shift to agentic warfare as traditional military planning breaks under data load
Japan pushes humanoid caregiving robots as ageing crisis deepens
AI agent cuts particle accelerator experiment setup time by 100x at Berkeley Lab
Chai Discovery partners with Eli Lilly to accelerate biologics design with AI
Lifting the lid on Nvidia's Vera Rubin, a six-chip AI supercomputer built to scale like one machine
Donut Lab claims solid-state battery breakthrough that could reset electric vehicle economics
What you need to know about ChatGPT Health as a secure hub for personal health information launches
Multiply Labs uses robotics and NVIDIA simulation to scale cell therapy manufacturing
NVIDIA expands BioNeMo platform as pharma groups commit up to $1bn to AI-driven drug discovery
Basecamp Research unveils AI models for programmable gene insertion
Anthropic expands Claude tools within Microsoft Foundry for healthcare and life sciences
Owkin partners with NVIDIA to upgrade OwkinZero biological reasoning model
Moon miner signs up robotics firms for Helium-3 mission
Microsoft disrupts RedVDS cybercrime service in joint US–UK legal action
Deepgram sets out real-world framework to benchmark medical speech recognition accuracy
SAP, Syngenta strike multi-year AI technology partnership
Prediction markets: A virtual time machine. Here's News Defused's guide to trading the future and avoiding the traps
Biological age tests explained: What they measure, what they miss, and how to read the results
Lab-on-a-chip explained: Tiny microfluidic devices that could shrink the laboratory
Robot batteries explained: why they are not just smaller electric vehicle packs
CRISPR delivery explained: Why editing DNA is easier than getting the editor to the right cells
Biofoundries explained: Inside the robot labs, engineering biology at industrial scale
New antibiotics explained: Phages, bacteriocins and AI, and why none is a silver bullet
Brain-computer interfaces today: Real communication breakthroughs, stubborn engineering limits, and the hype traps to...
The quiet revolution in protein design: Enzymes and binders made by algorithms, built in yeast
Organoids on a chip: Miniature human tissues that are changing how drugs are tested
Living medicines, strange ethics: the rise of engineered microbes that treat disease from the inside
The cell’s postal service: How extracellular vesicles could become the next drug delivery revolution
CRISPR’s next act: Editors that rewrite single letters without cutting the DNA
Batteries, not brains: Bioelectricity and the new map of how bodies heal
The immune system’s new teachers: Personalised cancer vaccines and the logistics of made-to-order medicine
The end of antibiotics, again: phage therapy, bacteriocins, and precision antimicrobials
Biology’s new supply chains: Why the future of biotech may be manufacturing, not discovery
NVIDIA reveals Earth-2 open weather models
Google.org awards $20m to AI-led science projects tackling health, energy and biodiversity
10X Health and Verséa unveil mitochondrial test developed from NASA research
FLock.io partners with Blockchain for Good Alliance to expand decentralised AI initiatives
First human trial of cellular reprogramming approved in bid to treat blindness
Helus Pharma looks to lead a new approach to treating depression
Phoneme Error Rate offers deeper insight into speech model performance, says McGillivray
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