#drug discovery

Outer Biosciences Trains AI on Living Skin For Cosmetics, Not Drugs

Four years in stealth, $23m raised, and a closed loop between a model and donated human tissue — aimed at a market with no approval gate at the end of it.

Aug 22, 2026

A studio portrait of Outer Biosciences co-founder and chief executive Michael Polansky.

AI Research

Claude Hit 14 of 15 Protein Targets, But Three in Four Failed

354 confirmed binders from 1,320 designs, up to 12,500 H100-hours a session — and the capability is blocked in Anthropic's most capable model.

Aug 19, 2026

The word ANTHROPIC rendered from ribbon diagrams of designed protein binders, captioned with target names and binding affinities including Nipah G, TREM2, TrkA, IL-7Ra and EGFR.

AI Agents

Schrödinger Launched an 'AI Co-Scientist' and Published No Benchmarks At All

Bunsen plans, executes and interprets molecular discovery cycles across the company's physics-based tools. What it does not come with is any evidence that it works.

Jul 28, 2026

Three colleagues at a bank of monitors in an open-plan office, two seated and one standing, one pointing at a screen

AI Chips

Bristol Myers Squibb Buys the First Life-Sciences Nvidia Vera Rubin SuperPOD for Drug Discovery

The pharma giant says it will run proprietary AI models across oncology, immunology and neuroscience on what it calls the most powerful single-owned Nvidia system in life sciences — up to 10x the performance per megawatt of its predecessor.

Jul 20, 2026

Google AI

DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs Launch a 'Bioresilience' Push for Pandemic and Bioweapon Defense

Google's AI lab is standing up pathogen surveillance, faster vaccine design and a rapid-response drug-discovery unit — explicitly covering both natural outbreaks and AI-enabled misuse.

Jul 17, 2026

Google DeepMind bioresilience program illustration

Anthropic

Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Working Scientists

In beta since June 30 for paid subscribers, it plugs Claude into 60-plus scientific skills and databases with reproducible, reviewer-checked outputs — plus up to 50 grants of $30,000 to seed real research.

Jul 7, 2026

Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Working Scientists