2026-08-04
Chugai Deploys Phylo’s Biomni Lab AI Agents Across Drug Discovery
Phylo, Inc. announced on August 4, 2026 that Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will deploy Biomni Lab, Phylo's agentic AI platform for biomedical research, across Chugai's drug discovery workflows, covering four areas: single-cell analysis, human genetics, disease biology, and target evaluation. The Tokyo-based drugmaker, a Roche Group member listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Prime [...]
2026-08-04
Anthropic names global affairs chief to lead AI diplomacy as Trump tensions escalate
Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuellar its first chief global affairs officer, hiring a veteran policy hand at a moment when the AI company’s relationship with the US government remains deeply strained. Cuellar will report to Anthropic president Daniela Amodei and work from the company’s San Francisco headquarters, a spokesperson told Reuters. His job will include […]<br /> Thi [...]
2026-08-04
The AI memory shortage reached your phone bill, so T-Mobile will let you pay it off slower
The AI memory shortage has reached the phone-shop counter. T-Mobile is rolling out financing that lets customers walk out with a new handset for nothing down. It does this by spreading not just the device but its taxes and fees over three years. The reason its executives give is unusually blunt: chips are getting dearer, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-04
15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls
Fifteen US states have put OpenAI on legal notice over the summer’s most unsettling AI security incident. They wrote to chief executive Sam Altman. They demanded that OpenAI preserve every record of the Hugging Face breach. That demand includes something strange. The attorneys general want any notes the agent left, “apparently for future versions of […]<br /> This story continues at Th [...]
