The Lab · 2026-03-30 08:26:48 · Japan Times
An Australian man has leveraged publicly available AI to design a bespoke, experimental treatment for his sick dog and then used the same technology to identify and contact leading scientists to administer it. Paul Conyngham's actions represent a direct, citizen-led bypass of traditional veterinary and pharmaceutical d...
The Lab · 2026-04-04 15:26:57 · Hacker News
A new open-source AI pipeline has achieved a significant performance leap in mRNA language modeling, with the CodonRoBERTa-large-v2 model emerging as the clear winner. It achieved a perplexity of 4.10 and a Spearman CAI correlation of 0.40, decisively outperforming the ModernBERT architecture in the critical tasks of s...
The Office · 2026-05-05 16:31:39 · WirtschaftsWoche
BioNTech, das Mainzer Biotech-Unternehmen, das während der Pandemie internationale Bekanntheit erlangte, vollzieht einen drastischen Sparkurs. Wie das Unternehmen offiziell mitteilte, sollen rund 1900 Stellen in Deutschland abgebaut werden – das entspricht etwa jedem vierten Arbeitsplatz hierzulande. Parallel dazu werd...