Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses

Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657

Commentary: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512

Published 6 August 2026 in Science

Didn’t see anything about how they are treating the model confidentiality - will this be released to select orgs or made open? I guess this could one of the few things I would not want to be open sourced.

It only mentions open models.

https://github.com/arcinstitute/evo2

Bacteriophages present zero threat to humans and could be very valuable as antibiotics.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

What a great quote, man, is it yours?