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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

MIT Technology Review will interview Stanford researcher Samuel King about using generative AI to design viruses.

MIT Technology Review is hosting a subscriber-only roundtable on October 16, 2026, with Samuel King, a Stanford University and Arc Institute bioengineering PhD candidate named an Innovator Under 35. Senior AI reporter James O'Donnell will discuss King's 2025 use of a generative model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses that kill bacteria. The item is an event invitation rather than a new paper, model release, or technical protocol.

MIT Technology Review · AI00:08 UTC · 2h agoAI research

Google’s SynthID Bio can watermark AI-designed protein binders without breaking them

DeepMind's SynthID Bio watermarks AI-designed proteins for screening without hurting binder function.

Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio, a watermark for AI-designed proteins that places a signature in the amino-acid sequence and predicted 3D coordinates and can be checked after synthesis. Wet-lab tests of binders for VEGF-A, the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain, and PD-L1 found watermarked designs matched unwatermarked ones on hit rate, affinity, and sequence diversity. DeepMind positions the mark as a signal for DNA-synthesis screening and database submissions, while noting resistance to deliberate tampering is still unsolved. Early tests watermarking an Evo 2-designed bacteriophage genome found the phages remained functional, and the paper, code, in-vitro data, and weights are being released.

Help Net SecurityOct 1, 03:31 UTC · 7d agoAI safety & security

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Radical Numerics' CEO describes how advanced Genomic Language Models create a bio-security arms race, requiring open-source defensive tools to counter offensive capabilities.

Eric Nguyen, CEO of Radical Numerics, discusses the dual-use nature of Genomic Language Models in a bio-security arms race. He notes that earlier models like Evo 2 enabled the generation of functional viruses, while current GLMs use long-context and chain-of-thought to perform advanced biological reasoning. The company argues that pushing the frontier of these models is necessary for defensive capabilities to keep pace with offensive threats.

Latent SpaceSep 23, 13:27 UTC · 15d agoAI industry

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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Google’s SynthID Bio can watermark AI-designed protein binders without breaking them

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)