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8 things I learned when the biggest strategy report of 2026 turned to AI x bio

Apr 10, 2026

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13 min read

8 things I learned when the biggest strategy report of 2026 turned to AI x bio

Amy Webb's Convergence Outlook devotes two of ten convergences to AI × bio. I read the 40+ pages so you don't have to.

Peter Ottsjö

OpenAI and Arc launch full-scale attack on Alzheimer's

Apr 9, 2026

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12 min read

OpenAI and Arc launch full-scale attack on Alzheimer's

Plus: An AI designed enzymes for chemistry nature never invented, and a new study shows AlphaFold reversed a long-running decline in scientific novelty.

Peter Ottsjö

Anthropic spent $400M for a team with no product

Apr 5, 2026

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13 min read

Anthropic spent $400M for a team with no product

Plus: A massive AI model predicts aging and a paper says AI can replace biological clocks.

Peter Ottsjö

Comparing AI x bio with quacks is not skepticism - it's just lazy

Apr 2, 2026

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9 min read

Comparing AI x bio with quacks is not skepticism - it's just lazy

A Johns Hopkins professor says AI in biology is starting to look like pseudoscience. Here's what covering 60+ stories in the past six weeks have taught us.

Peter Ottsjö

Apr 2, 2026

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14 min read

The AI saw what the doctors missed

Plus: three ex-Ginkgo leaders argue biology needs its Bauhaus moment, and the LabOS team builds a simulation universe for AI agents.

Peter Ottsjö

Here's Lilly's $2.75 billion bet on AI-designed drugs

Mar 30, 2026

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13 min read

Here's Lilly's $2.75 billion bet on AI-designed drugs

Plus: Meta open-sources a digital model of the brain, an AlphaFold veteran's agent designs drugs from a text prompt, and Anthropic may be building a biology mode.

Peter Ottsjö

Mar 25, 2026

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13 min read

Here's OpenAI's big bet on biology

Plus: A $787 million AI biologics company emerges, and a multi-agent AI for dementia validated across 3 million patients.

Peter Ottsjö

This AI runs inside a chemical reaction (well, sort of)

Mar 22, 2026

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13 min read

This AI runs inside a chemical reaction (well, sort of)

Plus: The field's own reality check, and experts preferred BioReason-Pro's reasoning over curated databases.

Peter Ottsjö

A virtual cell model just predicted biology it was never trained on

Mar 18, 2026

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16 min read

A virtual cell model just predicted biology it was never trained on

Plus: NVIDIA breaks the size ceiling on protein folding, a million AI-designed proteins get tested in actual wet labs, and OpenClaw gets a science layer.

Peter Ottsjö