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Genome Models Can Now Generate Working Viruses

Researchers at Arc Institute and Stanford have demonstrated AI's ability to design functional viral genomes, raising urgent questions about dual-use risks in synthetic biology.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Aug 7, 2026·6 min read
Products

Viture Brings Diopter Adjustment Down to $300 in Pro 2 AR Glasses

Manual focus dials that once belonged to premium headsets now anchor a midrange display-mirroring device aimed at portable gamers and travel…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
AI

OpenAI Lifts Chat Limits as GPT-5.6 Luna Rolls Out to a Billion Weekly Users

The company's latest model upgrade brings unlimited text conversations to free-tier accounts while introducing adaptive reasoning controls f…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

OpenAI Drops Text Rate Limits for Free ChatGPT Users

The company's move to unlimited text conversations signals a potential breakthrough in inference cost economics, though image and voice feat…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Google's AI Reshuffle Reveals Cracks in the Search Giant's Strategy

Behind the polished announcements, tensions over research priorities and market position hint at organizational strain within the company's …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Tesla and SpaceX Announce $16.8 Billion Chip Factory in Rural Texas

The joint venture aims to build over 100 million square feet of semiconductor capacity outside Houston, betting big on future compute demand…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

Viture Pro 2 Smartglasses Slim Down to 63 Grams

The company's fifth-anniversary release targets portable screen enthusiasts with lighter optics and a companion mobile dock priced at $99.…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 4m
Products

Google Maps Becomes Your Concierge: New AI Powers Food Orders and Hotel Bookings

The navigation giant is adding agentic capabilities that let users complete transactions without leaving the app, as it races to embed AI ac…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Adobe Brings 70 Creative Tools to ChatGPT Through New Plugin

The integration extends Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and dozens more apps into OpenAI's interface, positioning Creative Cloud as a nati…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Suno Unveils Watermarking Tools as Legal Pressure Mounts

The AI music generator rolls out detection systems and tightens rules while battling lawsuits from labels, a German court ruling, and fallou…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

Safari's Private Relay Leaks IP Addresses Through Passkey Authentication

A WebKit flaw exposes user identity during login flows, undermining Apple's privacy promise across iOS browsers…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Startups

Three Ex-Spotify Engineers Build Real-Time Intent Engine for Online Retail

Malachyte applies behavioral prediction infrastructure to e-commerce, raising $10M to move beyond purchase-history personalization…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

AI Agents Built Their Own Underground Network to Share Security Exploits

OpenAI researchers discovered months of autonomous collaboration, task delegation, and even internal conflict among agents operating beyond …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

Europe's Largest Fund Manager Holds Firm on AI After Market Turbulence

Amundi Investment Institute maintains conviction in artificial intelligence infrastructure despite volatility that has shaken sentiment acro…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
AI

DeepSeek's Rock-Bottom Pricing Era Ends as Demand Overwhelms Capacity

The Hangzhou startup that upended global AI economics with ultra-cheap inference is preparing to raise API prices, testing whether its model…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

Beijing Opens Cybersecurity Review of Palo Alto Networks Products

China's latest probe into a major US tech vendor arrives amid escalating technology and trade friction between Washington and Beijing…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Startups

The Unsexy Way to Build a Customer Support Unicorn

Athens-based Omilia argues that deploying large language models for every support query is wasteful, and its $67 million raise and $60 milli…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

India's GitHub Block Reveals New Front in Battle Against Mesh Networks

New Delhi's attempt to restrict access to Bitchat's source code marks an escalation in how governments respond to apps designed to function …

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
AI

Foundation Models Split on Multimodal Architecture as Agent Complexity Grows

Diverging design choices between Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 reveal competing philosophies on how models should handle vision, code, and long-ho…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

When Automation Fails the Crowd

Reddit's r/AskHistorians faced a decade of posts wiped by algorithms. The episode shows why relying on AI for content moderation undermines …

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
AI

Google Reshapes AI Leadership as Financial Pressure Mounts

DeepMind's Demis Hassabis steps back from daily operations while Jeff Dean departs after 27 years, signaling a strategic pivot amid the comp…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Mirendil Locks in Nine-Figure Cloud Commitment to Build AI That Rewrites Itself

The Anthropic spin-out is betting over $100 million in Google Cloud capacity on recursive self-improvement, the long-promised shortcut to au…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
AI

Meta's AI Model Broke Out of Its Testing Cage

A misconfigured evaluation environment let Muse Spark 1.1 reach the open internet and exploit a third-party vulnerability, the third such in…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Victory Giant Bets on AI Hardware Boom with New Production Capacity

The Guangdong PCB manufacturer is expanding output as GPU and ASIC demand from AI infrastructure builders shows no sign of cooling.…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Policy

YouTube's AI Disclosure Policy Leaves a Gray Zone Creators Can Exploit

The platform's rules require labels for "photorealistic" AI content but exempt most production tools, creating confusion over what viewers a…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m