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Talk2Me Inc., a licensed celebrity digital twin platform, announced the launch of the Dr. Karan Rajan Talk2Me Twin, an AI-powered version of Rajan’s persona that enables private, one-on-one health education conversations with the doctor.  The digital twin is powered by Talk2Me’s proprietary TrueHuman persona modeling platform and enforced by its Guardian Layer medical oversight framework.…

Droplet Biosciences, a diagnostics company using lymph-based liquid biopsy testing, is reducing genomic analysis time with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, improving test turnaround times.  Unlike blood tests, which are widely used for minimal residual disease (MRD) monitoring, lymphatic fluid allows for earlier collection and increased sensitivity. Droplet has found that postsurgical lymphatic fluid has 130 times…

It’s accepted wisdom that digital transformation in the lab, including AI, can produce a significant improvement in efficiency, reproducibility and scientific insights. Life sciences organizations now see AI as the route to accelerating every step of the discovery process, from hypothesis generation and experiment planning and execution to data analysis and decision-making. In practice, however,…

Analytica 2026, Munich — dialog EDV Systementwicklung showed diaLIMS Web App, a browser-based LIMS extension supporting Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. diaLIMS Web App — Key Specs Platforms Windows, macOS, iOS, Android (browser) Network 4G+ mobile data minimum for cloud/SaaS Cloud SLA 99.995% availability guaranteed Launch date January 2026 Extends existing diaLIMS installations to mobile…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a message for elite software engineers or AI researchers whose annual AI token bill comes in at $5,000: He will, in his words, “go ape something else.” Speaking on the All-In Podcast on the last day of GTC 2026, Huang laid out a thought experiment. “Let’s say you have a…

American Airlines and Google say a larger real-world trial suggests artificial intelligence could help airlines cut one of aviation’s trickiest climate impacts: heat-trapping contrails. But the results also highlight how much operational and scientific uncertainty still surrounds the idea. In a study released March 19, Google said its contrail forecasts were integrated directly into American’s…

The volume of medical research is growing so fast that no single physician, or even a pharma R&D team, can realistically keep up with the frontier. Research still takes an average of 17 years to reach clinical practice. A new partnership between Wiley and OpenEvidence aims to narrow that gap by licensing more than 400…

Less than a year after its AI agent Carl became what the company calls the first AI system to produce peer-reviewed research, Autoscience Institute has closed a $14 million seed round to scale its ambitions. The round, led by General Catalyst, also includes Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund, S32 and MaC Ventures. The San Mateo-based startup…

A limitation in widely used protein engineering algorithms could be undermining commercial applications from biosensors to industrial catalysts, according to new research published in Nature Communications. The problem: current computational tools ignore the critical role of water molecules at solid-liquid interfaces. Two parallel experiments in protein self-assembly produced different results, demonstrating the consequences of the…

In May 2024, Recursion Pharmaceuticals unveiled BioHive-2, a 504-GPU supercomputer it called the largest in the pharmaceutical industry. Nearly two years later, Roche claims to have almost seven times that number, and none of the companies in this emerging GPU arms race has publicly tied a specific clinical candidate to its AI infrastructure. Roche deployed…

The beginning of 2026 has been an exciting time for robots, with several bio-inspired robotic advancements announced from around the world. An inflatable robot from China can grow and shrink, walk on land and water, swim and even fly. In Switzerland, two robots are making history. First, a zebrafish inspired bot that is helping unlock…

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Meta have created an open dataset of atomistic polymer chemistry. The dataset includes millions of quantum-accurate simulations designed to help AI model the complex behavior of plastics, films, batteries and other materials.  The dataset, called Open Polymers 2026 (OPoly26), enables AI to learn patterns from millions of…

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, it created a bottleneck in scientific publishing. Roughly 30,000 articles on the virus were ultimately published, but between 400,000 and 600,000 manuscripts were submitted for peer review across publishers, according to a recent Springer Nature webinar. Researchers trying to identify symptoms, find candidates for drug repurposing, or…

When a major commercial development goes up in the U.S., the builder typically pays for nearby road improvements, projects that can run into the millions of dollars per mile. On Wednesday, the White House applied that same logic at a vastly different scale, announcing that seven of the world’s largest tech companies have pledged to…

Scientific publisher Wiley is licensing a portfolio of scientific and medical content, including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and more than 400 journals and books, to OpenEvidence, a $12 billion medical AI platform used by more than 40% of U.S. physicians. The deal is the latest in a string of AI content partnerships from…

Last week we reported on a neuroscience experiment where living human neurons in a dish learned to play the 1993 video game Doom. In the readme file associated with the project, researcher Sean Cole had documented a problem: his decoder, the conventional software that translates neuron activity into game actions, “tends to start becoming a…

I recently downloaded Qwen3.5-9B, Alibaba’s newest open-weight model, 9.65 billion parameters, natively multimodal, 262K token context window off Hugging Face, onto a Samsung T7 Shield hard drive plugged into a MacBook. My version clocked in around 19 GB although smaller versions are available, including some flavors like the Q4_K_M quantized version that can run off…

OpenAI cofounder and frequent AI commenter Andrej Karpathy recently told a Y Combinator audience that broad adoption of large language models will hinge on distribution. While model performance matters, of course, integration and embedding AI into workflows is, in some respects, more important. Cobus Greyling, chief evangelist at enterprise AI platform Kore.ai, thinks OpenAI took that lesson to…

Defense contractors and federally funded labs are unclear on whether they can keep using Anthropic’s Claude AI without risking their government work. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Feb. 27 designated the company a national security supply-chain risk, a label typically reserved for foreign adversaries, and ordered that “effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that…

There is a strange recursion happening across the technology landscape right now. Engineers are doing research and development on AI agents whose ultimate job is to do research and development. At Cisco, networking specialists are building autonomous systems that can monitor, troubleshoot and eventually manage the same infrastructure those specialists maintain today. The work is…

Eli Lilly celebrated the go-live of LillyPod on Wednesday, cutting the ribbon on what the company calls the most powerful supercomputer in the pharmaceutical industry. The system, an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD powered by 1,016 Blackwell GPUs, is now in production-scale use at Lilly’s Indianapolis campus, with workloads spanning genomics, molecule design, single-cell biology, imaging, and…

“Vibe coding,” Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2025, has escaped the software world. At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists at a vibe coding hackathon were speaking commands to their laptops and getting usable output in seconds. More sources are positioning it as a coming core skill for biomedical researchers. Against that backdrop, I decided to…

A majority of investors now consider an AI bubble the top financial risk of 2026. Michael Burry, the hedge fund investor who made hundreds of millions betting against the housing market in 2008, is actively shorting NVIDIA, comparing the company to Cisco at the center of the dot-com collapse. Late last year, NVIDIA circulated a…

Modern AI adoption is something of a paradox. Almost everyone is using it; almost no one trusts it. This tension is perhaps clearest in fields like in science and engineering. Software developers are at once the most impacted by generative AI tools and the biggest adopters of them. Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey found that…

In 2019, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted he wasn’t focused on monetizing the company, which had started as a nonprofit before becoming a capped-profit entity. “We have no current plans to make revenue,” he told investors. He went further: OpenAI didn’t plan on knowing when it might one day generate revenue. Instead, Altman offered what…