AI
AI Is Designing New Proteins. DeepMind Wants to Put a Watermark on Them.
Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 7th Oct, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Watermarking AI-designed proteins before they leave the digital world, embedding a hidden signature that marks them as machine-made.
Stanford Built a Virtual Biotech Company With 37,000 AI Employees, and It's Already Finding Cancer Treatments
Posted in Business, Medicine, Science, Software on 1st Oct, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Drug discovery is one of humanity's most expensive and least efficient processes. It takes over a decade, costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and still fails 90% of the time — most drug candidates that enter clinical trials never reach patients.
The Next Big AI Problem Isn't Intelligence, It's Society
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 1st Oct, 2026
by Alexander Muller
The past decade of AI has been defined by a race to build smarter individual systems. The next decade will be defined by a harder and stranger challenge: ensuring that millions of autonomous agents can operate together safely, fairly, and effectively.
Big Tech Says AI Will Cure Cancer. Doctors Say Not So Fast.
Posted in Medicine, Science on 24th Sep, 2026
by Alexander Muller
AI is changing cancer medicine. It is improving early detection, accelerating drug discovery, and helping match patients to treatments that are more likely to work for their specific biology.
Why AI Agents Lie, Cheat, and Hack, and Why It's Getting Harder to Stop Them
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 25th Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
It is one of the most striking recent examples of a phenomenon AI researchers have been watching for years, and that is becoming considerably more urgent as models grow more capable. It's called reward hacking; and understanding it matters now more than ever.