Advances in AI's ability to take on novel scientific work are helping researchers move faster, connect siloed knowledge, and design treatments more efficiently, according to a new report from OpenAI's policy, research and sciences team shared first with Axios.
Why it matters: The life sciences have saved hundreds of millions of lives over the past century, but progress has slowed dramatically — even as the toughest diseases remain unsolved.
Hilbert, an AI startup rethinking how companies drive growth, raised a $28 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, the startup told Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: Companies are pouring money into AI without always seeing returns, which Hilbert hopes to change by helping automate business decisions that drive growth.
Turion Space raised more than $75 million and plans to spend the money on improving its spacecraft production rates and its reconnaissance capabilities in orbit.
Why it matters: Turion is one of 14 companies recently selected by the Space Force to compete for work on the Andromeda program.
Republicans are betting big on AI to defend their imperiled congressional majorities in the midterms — and not just to make cartoonish images of their opponents on TV and social media.
The big picture: GOP strategists are using AI to quickly simulate voters' attitudes toward events such as the Iran war — and to scan millions of social media sites for up-to-the-second trends in public opinion.
AI's rapid advance is raising the risk of both large-scale attacks on financial infrastructure and small, targeted fraud that can drain individual accounts.
Why it matters: Banks have long been the gold standard for cybersecurity — but they need to move faster in an AI world.
