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Technology
Anthropic Blocks Accounts in Suspected Attempt to Use Claude for Bioweapon Research
Anthropic banned accounts tied to a grant application that sought to make chikungunya virus more harmful and shared find...
Health
AI Model Generates Entirely New Viruses, Opening Medical Promise and Biosecurity Fears
Stanford and Arc Institute researchers trained an AI model on 9 trillion nucleotides, then produced functional viruses n...
Technology
OpenAI’s Evo Model Designs 16 Functional Viruses in Landmark Biosecurity Test
Stanford scientists used a DNA-trained AI to create novel bacteriophages that infected E. coli, reigniting debate over A...
News
How 20 Rabbits Released in 1859 Became a Continent-Scale Ecological Disaster
One settler's hunting hobby triggered one of the fastest mammal invasions ever recorded—and left Australia with some of ...
Logistics
Strait of Hormuz Shutdown Could Trigger Global Marine Bioinvasion, Research Warns
A prolonged halt to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has left 1,500 vessels anchored in warm Gulf waters for months...