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Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic as AI Race Intensifies
Anthropic has hired prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy as the company accelerates efforts to compete with OpenAI and Google.
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Anthropic has hired prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy as the company accelerates efforts to compete with OpenAI and Google.
Mantis Biotech is developing AI-powered digital twins to generate synthetic biomedical data and improve research across healthcare and life sciences.
Eli Lilly has signed a $2.75 billion deal with Insilico Medicine to commercialize AI-developed therapies globally.
Lace has secured $40 million to advance helium atom beam lithography, a technology that could significantly shrink chip features beyond current limits. The approach targets next-generation AI chip manufacturing.
Anthropic conducted a large-scale global study to understand how users perceive AI, revealing diverse expectations, benefits, and concerns shaping real-world adoption.
Tether introduced BrainWhisperer, a brain-computer interface system that converts neural signals into text with up to 98.3% accuracy using on-device AI processing.
OpenAI introduced Prism, a free AI-powered scientific workspace integrated with GPT-5.2, designed to assist researchers with writing, reviewing, and visualizing scientific papers.
Nvidia unveils Earth-2, a fully open AI software stack for weather and climate forecasting, offering faster, more accessible predictions for scientists, energy firms, and financial institutions.
Japanese researchers created an AI model that simulates how humans form emotions, combining body signals, senses, and language to help machines better understand feelings.
AI-native biotech Proxima raised $80 million in an oversubscribed seed round to develop proximity-based therapeutics. The funding supports AI-driven discovery for previously “undruggable” targets across oncology and immunology.
NVIDIA and Eli Lilly are creating a $1 billion AI co-innovation lab to accelerate drug discovery. The lab will integrate AI, biomedical data, and robotics to transform medicine development.
Former Meta AI head Yann LeCun criticized the company’s young AI chief, Alexander Wang, and warned that a lack of research experience could trigger staff departures from the firm.