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• 1. 🦾 Turn your AI enthusiasm into marketable skills with Innovating with AI
• 2. 🧬 AI designs a complete virus genome from scratch
• 3. 💊 How AI cut pharmacy charting time by 40%
• 4. 🧠 Book a three-week workflow audit with Agentic Brain
• 5. ▶️ YouTubers sue Snap over AI training data
• 6. 🦅 China trains drones to hunt like predators

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Latest in AI

AI designs complete virus genome from scratch

🚨 Our Report

Scientists at Stanford University have used artificial intelligence to design the complete genetic blueprint of a virus from nothing, marking a historic first in synthetic biology. The AI-created virus, named Evo-Φ2147, was created in laboratory conditions, where it successfully attacked and killed E. coli bacteria.

🔓 Key Points

• The virus comprised just 11 genes encoded within 5,386 base pairs of DNA, and researchers observed clear patches spreading across petri dishes as the pathogen destroyed the bacteria, proving the AI-designed genome was functional.

• British molecular biologist Adrian Woolfson called the achievement "a massive, consequential moment," describing it as a shift from "a Darwinian world into a post-Darwinian landscape" where life can be authored rather than simply inherited.

• Complementing this breakthrough, researchers at Caltech have developed Sidewinder, a DNA construction tool published in Nature that can assemble genetic sequences with accuracy up to 100,000 times greater than previous methods, while also being faster and cheaper.

🔐 Relevance

This experiment demonstrates that AI can draft entire genomes from scratch rather than merely editing existing genetic material. For biotech leaders and investors, this opens new possibilities for designing medicines, materials, and therapeutics. Bob Langer, co-founder of Moderna and an adviser to the researchers' company Genyro, called the technology a "remarkable advance" that could create "new possibilities for new medicines, materials and countless other applications."

Partner Perspective

I Broke Up With ChatGPT After 3 Years. Here's My New Stack.

Partner Column exclusively available in this edition of The AI Report
By Charlie Hills — Founder at Linked Agency

“The stack you built in 2025 is already obsolete. Your job isn't to pick the perfect tools. Your job is to keep evaluating.”

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Case Study

How AI cut pharmacy charting time by 40%

• Legacy Health, a regional healthcare system, deployed an AI documentation tool so clinical pharmacists could focus on patients instead of typing notes during visits.

• Pattern: AI listens to appointments and drafts clinical notes automatically, while pharmacists review outputs, edit for accuracy, and approve before records are finalized.

• Why it matters: Pharmacists reclaimed time for direct patient care, reduced after-hours charting, and increased daily appointment capacity without adding staff.

• Metric: Average daily note time dropped from 65 to 39 minutes over three months, and appointments per pharmacist increased by 25%.

• Steal this: Pick one high-volume documentation workflow your team completes daily. Deploy an AI note-taker with human review required for every output. Track time savings weekly for 90 days, then expand access after validation.

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AI News Story

YouTubers sue Snap over AI training data

• A group of YouTubers has filed a class action lawsuit against Snap, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content without permission to power features like the app's "Imagine Lens," which lets users edit images using text prompts.

• The plaintiffs claim Snap used large-scale video datasets originally designed for academic and research purposes, violating YouTube's terms of service and licensing restrictions that prohibit commercial use. The suit specifically calls out Snap's use of the HD-VILA-100M dataset and alleges the company circumvented YouTube's technological protections.

• This case adds Snap to a growing list of tech giants facing copyright litigation from content creators. Over 70 copyright infringement cases have been filed against AI companies, with outcomes ranging from judge dismissals to settlements, while many remain in active litigation.

AI News Story

China trains drones to hunt like predators

• Chinese engineers at Beihang University, a military-linked institution, developed a system where defensive drones mimic hawks by targeting the most vulnerable enemy drones, while attacking drones behave like doves to evade them. In a five-on-five simulation, the hawk drones destroyed all dove drones in just 5.3 seconds.

• The system earned a patent in April 2024 and represents part of a broader People's Liberation Army (PLA) push to use AI for autonomous drone swarms and other unmanned systems with minimal human input. Since 2022, at least 930 patents related to swarm intelligence have been filed by Chinese military-linked institutions, compared with around 60 in the United States.

• Analysts warn that China’s combination of AI-driven autonomy and mass drone manufacturing could shift regional military balance, while also raising concerns around accountability and control when lethal decisions are delegated to algorithms.

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A curated look at the AI tools quietly transforming how teams work.

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3. SpeechEvalPro is an API for evaluating pronunciation using advanced voice AI technology

Companies to Watch/Raising Now

Early-stage AI startups on our radar, before they’re everywhere.

• Rainbow Weather 
What they do: Delivers minute-level weather forecasts by fusing satellite, radar, and smartphone barometer data through machine-learning models.
Why it matters: Forecasts update every 10 minutes with 1-kilometer resolution, beating legacy providers on timing precision. Already passed 1M installs on word-of-mouth alone after users watch rain start exactly when predicted.
Stage: Seed
Raising: $5.5M
Signal: Over 100K active users, expanding from precipitation to wildfire detection using the same real-time infrastructure.

• Upwind 
What they do: Cloud security platform that prioritizes threats based on what is actually exploitable in production, not static scan results.
Why it matters: 900% YoY revenue growth as enterprises ditch alert-heavy posture tools for runtime evidence that shows real risk in AI-driven environments.
Stage: Series B
Raising: $250M
Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Picture Capital

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