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Medable's Digital Data Flow Agent focuses on protocol translation as the agentic race accelerates
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (212+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 18, 2026 Image based on art from Adobe Stock In the two years since, AI's capabilities have expanded rapidly, and the industry's instinct, visible well beyond clinical trials, has been to agentify an array of functions in coding…...
Q&A: Owkin's five-year Sanofi deal bets on 'purpose-built' AI agents
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (404+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 15, 2026 Owkin focuses on validation through a "lab-in-the-loop" system in which the AI designs the experiments needed to confirm or kill its own hypotheses. "That's what you would expect from a real scientific copilot," he said in…...
Is Karpathy's viral LLM wiki helpful? Mostly yes.
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (411+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 11, 2026 A shot of the graph view of my LLM wiki If you can faintly recall a fact from months ago and bothered to add it to the wiki, an LLM can retrieve it in moments. My…...
Leica, Indica Labs and Lunit team up as AI biomarker scoring moves toward clinical scale
1+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 10, 2026 The Aperio GT 450 DX scanner (left) and the browser-based Aperio HALO AP DX image-management software, the FDA-cleared clinical digital pathology workflow Leica Biosystems and Indica Labs launched in the U. S. in March 2026. (Leica Biosystems) Leica is laying…...
Causaly and Microsoft target one of drug discovery's most expensive decisions: which target to pursue
1+ week, 1+ day ago (201+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 10, 2026 Causaly's "Scientific Workflows" diagram lays out how the platform moves from inputs such as a target and a research question through three evidence gates, mechanistic plausibility, biological rationale, and prioritization, to a ranked shortlist with the…...
How Claude Fable 5 stacks up against Opus 4. 8 and GPT 5. 5
1+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 10, 2026 The benchmarks also indicate a capability shift that is more than other recent launches. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, Fable 5 ranks scored 65, ahead of Open AI's GPT-5. 5 at 60 and Google's Gemini 3. 1 Pro Preview at 57. The most…...
Sanofi deepens its Owkin bet with a five-year deal to build bespoke drug-development agents
1+ week, 6+ day ago (193+ words) By Brian Buntz | June 5, 2026 A 3 D rendering of a biological cell from the company's homepage, where it animates to reveal layers of internal complexity. Image credit: Owkin. Jonas B'al, Owkin's head of product, described the platform as "modular by design....
Creator of galaxy-inspired algorithm torque clustering envisions a path toward AI beyond human blind spots
2+ week, 1+ day ago (921+ words) R&D World Infrared view of the M81 galaxy [NASA] The core intuition of torque clustering is that a cluster joins its nearest higher-mass neighbor unless that connection is both heavy and long. In other words, two large clusters separated by…...
How Atomis is using AI simulations to commercialize MOFs
2+ week, 2+ day ago (677+ words) By Julia Rock-Torcivia | June 2, 2026 Atomis, a Japanese startup advised by 2025 Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa, is bringing Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) to applications such as CO2 capture, refrigerant recycling and next-generation deodorization and coatings. One tool they are using to accomplish this…...
Nature opens its anti-publications-bias format to all fields
2+ week, 2+ day ago (762+ words) By Julia Rock-Torcivia | June 2, 2026 Nature issued new guidelines expanding the types of research and research fields that can use the Registered Report format." Registered Reports are a format for empirical articles in which the hypotheses, methods and planned analyses undergo…...