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AIOct 27, 2026WIRED

Anthropic’s biology ambitions meet the caution of its own IPO filing

Dario Amodei has said AI could help cure most diseases within five to 10 years, and Anthropic promoted a Claude-discovered enzyme likened to Crispr. Its S-1 is far more careful: drug discovery is slow, costly and may never earn revenue, and the enzyme is now described tentatively.

AIOct 27, 2026WIRED

Undisclosed GPT-4 tools in UK asylum cases draw a possible inspection

The UK borders inspector is gathering information that could lead to an inspection of Home Office AI tools that summarize asylum interviews using OpenAI’s GPT-4. Campaigners report error rates above the published 9%, and applicants are not told when the tools touch their case.

AIOct 27, 2026NVIDIA Blog

Dementia researchers aim AI at the data that never gets published

C-BRAIN, an 18-institution consortium led by Washington University’s Randall Bateman, is working with Nvidia on open co-scientist tools and federated learning over unpublished ‘dark data.’ Early case studies are fast and cheap; the big projections are estimates, not results.