Biohub, the organization financially backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, has announced the launch of the $500 million “Virtual Biology Initiative.” The massive investment aims to build advanced artificial intelligence models capable of accurately simulating human cell behavior in a virtual environment, a move expected to radically accelerate drug discovery for the most severe diseases
American startup OpenEvidence has scrapped plans to enter the European Union and UK markets, citing fears over the fallout from the AI Act. However, developers of European AI systems explain why these stringent regulations – while deterring global players – are ultimately meant to build the world’s safest medical ecosystem.
Seven families of victims from the tragic shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, have filed lawsuits in federal court in San Francisco against OpenAI and Sam Altman. The plaintiffs allege the tech giant’s leadership deliberately concealed the 18-year-old shooter’s violent plans from the police, ignoring direct reports from its own safety team.
Internal OpenAI documents reveal that the company expects its Plus subscriber base to plummet by 80 percent – dropping from 44 million in 2025 to just 9 million in 2026. The artificial intelligence giant plans to plug this financial hole through an aggressive rollout of its cheaper, ad-supported ChatGPT Go plan.
European Union member states and lawmakers have failed to reach an agreement on relaxing artificial intelligence regulations. Following a 12-hour marathon session, negotiations were suspended until next month.
Swedish Tesla owners are one step closer to utilizing Full Self-Driving (FSD). Following its January debut in the city of Nacka, Strängnäs is joining the supervised testing program. Although drivers won’t receive this feature overnight, the rollout of the pilot program is a crucial legal step in getting this technology approved for the Scandinavian market.
Medicine is one of the most promising fields where AI is already delivering remarkable results — in radiology, for instance, or during patient intake. At the same time, medicine is a quantitative science built on protocols and strict, evidence-backed rules. So the temptation to train AI to think like a doctor — and eventually replace one is understandable. But how feasible is that?
Foreign entities, most of which are based in China, are conducting broad, industrial-scale campaigns aimed at stealing the most advanced artificial intelligence models from US companies. The Donald Trump administration is announcing decisive steps, including cooperating with the private sector and holding the perpetrators accountable. At the center of the geopolitical scandal is the Chinese startup DeepSeek and a copying process known as “distillation.”
The demand for AI computing power is growing at such a pace that existing networks simply can’t keep up. In response to this crisis, Google Cloud engineers have unveiled Virgo Network. It is an entirely new data center network architecture capable of linking over 130,000 TPU chips into a single, giant computing machine.
Artificial intelligence is no longer just a “helper” at Google and it has become its primary programming engine. As CEO Sundar Pichai announced during the Cloud Next 2026 conference, three-quarters of all new code at the company is already generated by AI. The role of engineers is shifting merely to approving and supervising it. Despite massive financial results and impressive productivity gains, behind closed doors, the tech giant is engaged in a fierce battle with increasingly strong competition, and some teams prefer to use rivals’ tools.