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Top AI talent avoids pharma careers despite industry demand
MIT and Harvard researchers like Mazdak Abulnaga represent the AI expertise drug companies need but struggle to recruit.
FDA delays Leqembi subcutaneous approval to August 24
Biogen and Eisai face a two-month delay as the FDA requests additional information on their subcutaneous Alzheimer's drug formulation.
AI fabricated citations jumped sixfold in academic papers
Columbia study finds fake citations rose from 1 in 2,828 papers in 2023 to 1 in 458 in 2025, with AI chatbots blamed for the pollution of scientific literature.
xAI seeks Anthropic partnership amid competitive pressure
Musk's AI company explores deal with Claude maker, suggesting xAI trails in foundation model competition despite massive infrastructure spend.
NVIDIA releases Model Optimizer for FP8 quantization
New library handles post-training quantization to FP8 format, with CLIP demo showing minimal accuracy loss on three benchmarks.
GB200 clusters need block scheduling to avoid 90% bandwidth drops
NVIDIA's 72-GPU racks deliver 1.8TB/s per GPU internally but drop to 50GB/s across boundaries, forcing new Slurm scheduler constraints.
AMD ROCm trains medical AI model in 5 minutes, no CUDA needed
HuggingFace ecosystem runs medical question-answering fine-tuning on AMD MI300X hardware with three environment variables.
Simplex cuts web app development time 40-70% using OpenAI agents
Japanese consulting firm measures significant time savings across design, development, and testing phases using ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex.
ChatGPT adds crisis contact alerts for self-harm detection
OpenAI's Trusted Contact feature notifies designated contacts when automated systems detect serious self-harm discussions in ChatGPT conversations.
OpenAI launches ads in ChatGPT for free users in five countries
Free and Go tier users in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK will see sponsored content while paid tiers remain ad-free.
OpenAI ships three voice models with reasoning and live translation
GPT-Realtime-2 adds reasoning to voice interactions while new models handle live translation across 70+ languages and streaming transcription.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber for critical infrastructure defense
OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber with GPT-5.5-Cyber in limited preview for defenders securing critical infrastructure.