Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program

At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond "in silico" or computer evaluations.

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Amazon enters AI safety fray, calls for "rigorous testing," safeguards

The company provided its views in response to a Reuters inquiry days after many of the largest labs called for slower AI development, following an outcry among researchers and others who fear the technology could evade human control and threaten global systems and even humanity itself.

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UK silence over demand for Apple data access is farcical, lawyer says

The British government's refusal to confirm whether it has issued an order to bypass encryption to access customer data held by Apple has become farcical, a lawyer for civil rights groups told a London tribunal on Thursday.

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Kissht parent OnEMI board approves Rs 832 crore preferential issue

Kissht plans to issue up to 26.49 million equity shares at Rs 314.11 apiece to 34 investors in the non-promoter category, according to an exchange filing on Thursday. The transaction is subject to shareholder and other statutory and regulatory approvals, the company said.

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Decoding MDR’s impact; EV bikes’ policy change sparks debate

Happy Thursday! The return of MDR is set to change UPI's market share game. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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Revolut hackers demand $3 million ransom: FT

Hackers behind a data breach at Revolut threatened to sell confidential records of hundreds of customers to other criminal groups unless the British fintech pays a ransom of $3 million within 24 hours, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

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Anthropic to fold Claude AI features into one interface, launches document tools

Anthropic said on Wednesday it is combining the chat and Cowork features of its Claude AI assistant into a single interface and launching new document and presentation tools.

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Anthropic’s Amodei to AI industry: set your own safety standards before regulators do

On the back of publishing an essay urging AI companies to slow down, the Anthropic chief made the case for industry-wide safety standards.

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Ex-Google worker adds to AI alarm, warns of 'potential to kill us all'

A former Google DeepMind employee warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable and has "the potential to kill us all," adding to a growing list of industry insiders sounding the alarm. "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome," wrote Chughtai, who has joined BlueDot Impact, a non-profit organization dedicated to training on artificial intelligence.

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China's DeepSeek hires dealmaker as CFO ahead of possible IPO

A ⁠CFO typically plays a central role in managing investor communications, financial controls, capital allocation and disclosure ​processes required for a listing.

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Mid-tier VCs scout deeptech deals; ETSA winner Varaha’s India play

Happy Monday! Sector-agnostic mid-tier venture capital investors are recaliberating focus on India's deeptech startups. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.

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