OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, a four-year-old startup whose AI agents handle drug-discovery operations such as clinical trial scheduling and finances. Terms were not disclosed; Orchestra had raised about $20 million. OpenAI says it will fold the team and technology into Rosalind, its life sciences model, and Rosalind Workbench, which it says Moderna and Novo Nordisk use.
Radical Numerics says phages designed by its Omnii-1 genome language model have been given to a patient with an antibiotic-resistant infection under a physician-led compassionate-use pathway, which the company calls the first clinical use of AI-generated phages. The company reports the cocktail cleared the patient's isolate in vitro but did not disclose outcomes.
Blacksmith raises a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia at a $1 billion valuation. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said the platform makes continuous integration less painful as AI agents write more code. Blacksmith reports 17x annual recurring revenue growth and 90 million CI jobs run; customers include Mercury and Granola.
The NSA warns that two critical PHP flaws affect roughly 70% of websites and says unpatched sites should go offline; patches exist and the current version is PHP 8.5.12. OpenAI says a Calif researcher using GPT-5.6 Sol found one hole, and Wiz says its AI agents found others. OpenAI says no exploits have been reported.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says Google's cloud unit forgoes short-term revenue to steer compute toward frontier AI research, calling that allocation non-negotiable. He says Gemini 4 Argon processed nearly 25 trillion tokens in its first 72 hours, about three times Gemini 3, and that Google remains capacity constrained serving it.
Christian Keil argues in an a16z essay that AI models still cannot carry a hardware design from CAD file to assembled part, because translating bits into atoms and back stays lossy. He cites tests of OpenAI's Astra, Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and Grok 4.6 on his LuxoBench lamp project. SpaceX lists 591 supply chain employees.
Databricks AI Research Team introduces MemCurrent, a persistent memory architecture now running inside Agent Bricks Memory and Genie. The company says it lifts agent pass rates on a 114-case internal benchmark from 22.3% to 68.4% versus no memory, while cutting token use 1.44x and running 1.35x faster.
Google, Google DeepMind and MIT FutureTech report that AI saves researchers about seven hours a week, yet 44 percent of 637 surveyed US and UK scientists say their main bottleneck moved downstream and 41 percent face growing backlogs of untested hypotheses. Co-lead Mihai Codreanu says 88 percent spend more than 10 percent of saved time verifying outputs.
Mistral releases Voxtral 3, a family of speech-to-text and text-to-speech models plus a voice agent SDK, claiming state-of-the-art multilingual transcription across 50 or more languages. The company prices Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 at $0.0035 per minute in batch and Voxtral Mini TTS 3 at $13 per million characters. It runs on Mistral's EU-hosted API or on customer infrastructure.
Ramp built Laminar, its own agent harness, rather than depending on a single model provider's managed agent API, engineer Sam Kronick says. The v1 took six weeks and now runs every agentic product at Ramp. It stores sessions in PostgreSQL and orchestrates work with Temporal, keeping agents model-agnostic.