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The Final Shift

Daily Reports on Artificial Intelligence · Data Centers · Regulation

Lead Story · IEEE Spectrum AI

How a Google DeepMind Spinoff Hunts Hidden Drug Targets

For more than a decade, artificial intelligence has been touted as a way to dramatically accelerate drug discovery. Yet despite billions of dollars in investment, relatively few AI-designed medicines have made it to patients. That’s partially because the timelines for careful drug testing can’t be easily compressed—and partially because drug development is just really hard. Isomorphic Labs, the Google DeepMind spinout that’s building on DeepMind’s Nobel Prize-winning work on protein structure pr

Jun 11, 2026

TechCrunch AI

TechCrunch AI

The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg

What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders is becoming wealthy on a scale that's hard to comprehend.

Jun 15, 2026

The Verge

China may have accessed Mythos

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to China.

Jun 14, 2026

Politico Technology

A GOP revolt over AI is taking shape

“The Republican Party has a choice to make — perhaps the defining choice of its next half century,” Sen. Josh Hawley wrote in an essay on AI.

Jun 13, 2026

The Verge

Siri is good now??

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honest

Jun 12, 2026

MIT Technology Review

MIT Technology Review

Why China is betting on big nuclear reactors

It’s a tale of two nuclear industries. In China, large reactors are coming together at a stunning pace. The country has nearly doubled its nuclear fleet since 2016, reaching nearly 60 gigawatts of tot

Jun 11, 2026