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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the life sciences desk.
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The UK government plans to establish an independent, non-profit AI Biosecurity Lab, backed by £100 million in government funding and up to £200 million in company commitments. Its initial goals are to improve early detection of biological threats and speed work on medical countermeasures.
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Anthropic is inviting research teams at academic institutions, nonprofits and government labs to propose 8–12-week life-sciences projects using Claude. The company says it will provide its models and harnesses at no cost and plans to publish the project outputs with accompanying data and code open-sourced.
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OpenAI’s Rosalind Academic Plan offers eligible labs at U.S. universities up to 30 free Business Standard seats for up to 12 months. Access to GPT-Rosalind requires trusted-access approval.
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Anthropic has launched a beta program giving verified life-science teams access to more permissive safeguards on its Mythos, Opus and Sonnet models. The program uses use-case verification and offline monitoring, with separate access levels for standard and higher-risk research.