An agent in the empty chair: Amazon vets launch Primitive Labs, using AI to model customer behavior

Founded by former Amazon AGI and AWS colleagues and backed by a16z Speedrun, Primitive Labs is building AI agents that stand ...
TMCnet

AgileAI Labs Unveils Spec2TestAI's Natural Language No-Code Automated Testing Tool

Software Development Teams build an end-to-end project knowledge base that self-improves generating enhanced, fully traceable project assets from Specs to Tests SALEM, N.H., June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ ...
News Medical

Automated self-driving labs accelerate the search for new medicines

The Acceleration Consortium (AC) at the University of Toronto and the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) announced today a formalized partnership to help tackle a persistent challenge in biomedicine ...
CoinDesk

Zcash plummets 38% as Shielded Labs reveals a major bug that went undetected for four years

Privacy token Zcash slumped after Shielded Labs revealed a critical bug in its Orchard privacy pool that could have allowed unlimited, undetectable counterfeit tokens ...
Singularity Hub

AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren’t Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace. AI company OpenAI ...
Reuters

Small biotech firms quicker to 'latch onto' AI than big ones, says Tencent Healthcare President

HONG KONG, May 28 (Reuters) - Small biotech firms "latch onto" AI more quickly than bigger firms, the head of Chinese tech giant Tencent's (0700.HK), opens new tab healthcare division said on Thursday ...
NPR

Researchers are building AI-powered robot labs. What does this mean for science?

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.