Revvity Receives FDA Clearance for Total Testosterone Assay Enabling Comprehensive Automated Testosterone Testing Solution
Revvity, via its Immunodiagnostic Systems unit, secured FDA clearance for a Total Testosterone chemiluminescence immunoassay (ChLIA). The new assay joins FDA‑cleared free testosterone and SHBG tests, creating the only single‑platform, fully automated testosterone testing suite. The portfolio targets hypogonadism diagnosis and replaces complex equilibrium‑dialysis LC/MS methods. Revvity’s expanded endocrine portfolio now also includes 17‑OH progesterone, androstenedione and prolactin assays.
Charles River Laboratories and MEDIPOST Sign Non-Exclusive MOU to Advance GMP Testing Solutions
Charles River Laboratories and South Korean biotech MEDIPOST have signed a non‑exclusive memorandum of understanding to provide GMP‑compliant testing and regulatory support for MEDIPOST’s cell‑therapy pipeline. The collaboration will initially focus on the Asia‑Pacific and North American markets, with the...
Putting the Boat Out at ASGCT26
Recent oncology‑focused CAR‑T developers are redirecting pipelines toward autoimmune diseases after compelling proof‑of‑concept data in refractory systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis. The shift includes both autologous and allogeneic cell products as well as emerging in‑vivo RNA‑based therapies delivered via...
AI Agents for Data Scientists: Automations vs Agents
The post argues that data‑science workflows built around a single, well‑defined LLM call often outperform elaborate, fully autonomous AI agents. It highlights how “boring” pipelines—simple, deterministic steps—reduce hidden complexity, lower failure rates, and improve reproducibility. The author contrasts these lean...
Anthropic Is Building a Legal Tech Ecosystem in Claude. Can Companies Adapt?
Anthropic is expanding its Claude platform into a full‑stack legal tech ecosystem, offering AI‑driven contract analysis, compliance monitoring, and litigation support tools. The company has secured pilot partnerships with three leading law firms and opened a public API priced at...
How AI Agents Will Transform Data Science Work in 2026
AI agents—autonomous systems that can understand data, reason, act, and learn—are set to become core teammates for data scientists in 2026. They will take over repetitive tasks such as data cleaning, feature engineering, model selection, and hyper‑parameter tuning, freeing humans...
The Safety Net Most AI Workflows Rely on Has a Serious Flaw
The article argues that the widely‑touted “human‑in‑the‑loop” safety net for AI is largely an illusion. Prompt engineering is portrayed as a negotiation with an opaque model, producing text that users cannot independently verify. The hidden assumption is that a human...
Quest KACE SMA Flaw CVE-2025-32975: When One Unpatched Tool Opens the Door to 60 Organizations
Quest KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) suffers a critical authentication‑bypass flaw (CVE‑2025‑32975) rated CVSS 10.0. The vulnerability lets an unauthenticated attacker impersonate any user, including administrators, via the SSO module. Although a patch was issued in May 2025, more than 12,000...
Schneider, Microsoft Show How AI Can Enable Green Hydrogen Production
Schneider Electric and Microsoft announced a partnership to bring AI‑powered, open‑software automation to industrial processes, highlighted by a green‑hydrogen project in India. Together they deployed the country’s first fully autonomous solid‑oxide electrolyzer for h2e Power, achieving over 6,000 hours of stable operation...
Beyond Bluetooth and UWB: How Low-Energy UWB Is Redefining Presence and Proximity Sensing
Low‑Energy Ultra‑Wideband (LE‑UWB) merges Bluetooth LE’s low power with conventional UWB’s pinpoint accuracy, delivering high‑resolution presence and proximity sensing while consuming a fraction of the energy. The technology boasts up to 25× lower power use and 60× lower latency versus...
Forus Raises US$160m for AI-Powered Medicine Platform
Formerly known as Tandem, Forus announced a $160 million funding round led by Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel and other top VCs to scale its AI‑powered platform that links doctors, payers, pharmacies and biopharma. The platform automates insurance authorisation, financial assistance...
Anbernic RG Rotate Now Available for $83 and up (Handheld Game Console with Flip-Out Display)
Anbernic has launched the RG Rotate handheld, a compact device with a flip‑out 3.5‑inch 720×720 screen, priced from $83 after a $5 launch discount. The console runs Android 12, is powered by a Unisoc Tiger T618 processor, 3 GB RAM, and offers 32 GB...
IonQ Opens New Quantum Computing R&D Lab in Colorado
IonQ announced a 22,000‑square‑foot research facility in Boulder, Colorado, dedicated to quantum‑computing R&D and semiconductor ion‑trap chip testing. The lab, part of the Boulder 38 campus, will house the company’s next‑generation trapped‑ion systems and aims to install its first quantum computer...
Society At A Crossroads
AI leaders privately warn that rapid automation could create a permanent underclass, even as they publicly tout optimistic futures. Anthropic’s new Institute proposes higher‑paid relational jobs funded by AI taxes or government transfers, while OpenAI’s policy ideas remain vague. Democratic...
Learn How Profitability Meets Sustainability Through Physical AI at the Robotics Summit
Ranpak CEO Omar Asali will discuss how physical AI transforms warehouse logistics at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston on May 27, 2026. The session highlights sensor‑driven automation that links software intelligence with tangible material handling. Ranpak’s data shows...
Professors Are Disposable Now
Arizona State University quietly launched Project Atomizer, a $5‑per‑month web app that uses an AI chatbot called Atom to stitch together faculty‑generated content from Canvas into personalized learning modules. The tool creates courses without informing or compensating professors, and early...
Data Centers Need a Social License to Operate
The rapid expansion of AI data centers is sparking community backlash over water, energy, and land use. While tech firms argue the facilities are essential for cloud services and large language models, residents question whether promised jobs and investment outweigh...
Palantir, Power, and the White House: A Ballroom or a Bunker in the AI Era? (Part 5)
Palantir Technologies has moved from a data‑analytics vendor to a core component of U.S. government operations, embedding senior engineers in the Army’s Detachment 201 program and supplying a unified data‑fusion layer for agencies ranging from immigration to defense. The company’s...
NEO Semiconductor Demonstrates 3D X-DRAM Proof-of-Concept, Secures Strategic Investment to Advance AI Memory
NEO Semiconductor announced that its 3D X‑DRAM proof‑of‑concept chips meet key DRAM performance targets, including sub‑10 ns read/write latency and over 10¹⁴‑cycle endurance, using mature 3D NAND manufacturing lines. The results validate a new scaling path for high‑density, low‑cost AI memory....
SAIMEMORY Selected for NEDO Grant to Advance Commercialization of ZAM Next-Gen Memory
SAIMEMORY Corp., a SoftBank subsidiary, was chosen by Japan’s NEDO to lead a project developing its next‑generation Z‑Angle Memory (ZAM) alongside Intel and RIKEN. The initiative aims to prove that ZAM can deliver higher density, bandwidth and lower power than...
OCP EMEA Summit 2026: Supermicro Expands Data Center Building Block Solutions Flexibility with Arm-Based Platforms and OCP Systems for Next-Gen...
Supermicro announced an expansion of its Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) portfolio, adding Arm‑based server platforms powered by the new Arm AGI CPU and Open Compute Project (OCP) ORv3‑compliant rack offerings. The new 2U and 5U systems deliver up...
OCP EMEA Summit 2026: Celestica Accelerates AI-Scale Networking with the DS6000-Series 1.6TbE Switch
Celestica announced that its DS6000‑series 1.6 TbE switches are now available for order, moving the platform from development to production. Powered by Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 silicon, the switches deliver up to 102.4 Tbps of non‑blocking capacity across 64 ports of 1.6 TbE. The lineup...
Citizen's New Black Panther Collab Watch Is Now Officially Available in the US
Citizen has officially released the Marvel Black Panther 60th Anniversary AW1858‑03W watch in the United States, pricing it at $450 with free shipping. The timepiece features a 42 mm stainless‑steel case, green‑white dial, gold‑toned Black Panther mask, and a black ion‑plated...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Is as Good as Mythos at Finding Security Vulnerabilities
OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5 was benchmarked against the Mythos tool on the libcurl codebase and identified only a single new vulnerability, matching Mythos’s modest gain. The test also produced three false positives and one bug classified as non‑vulnerable, underscoring the incremental nature...
Podcast 117a. True Human Verification™ for Autonomous Systems.
Artificial intelligence has moved beyond analytics to become the decision‑making engine of enterprises, handling tasks from financial approvals to clinical documentation. The blog argues that while AI’s capabilities have surged, the industry has ignored a critical layer: verifying the human...
Sir Robert McAlpine Adopts Workforce Planning Platform
Sir Robert McAlpine has implemented Bridgit’s AI‑enabled workforce planning platform, shifting from spreadsheet‑based scheduling to a data‑driven model. The system aggregates the contractor’s historical crew data, certifications, location and availability to surface real‑time skill insights. Planners can query the platform for...
Start Here — How to Use SDCourse
The SDCourse "Start Here" guide outlines a 254‑lesson curriculum that walks learners through building LogStream, a production‑grade distributed log processing platform used by firms like Cloudflare, Datadog, and Stripe. The program is split into six modules covering ingestion, Kafka messaging,...
Claude for Legal: What the Industry Needs to Know
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Legal, a foundation‑model AI tailored for law firms and corporate legal departments. The service provides secure, on‑premise deployment, jurisdiction‑aware reasoning, and citation verification, and is priced at $0.12 per 1,000 tokens. By offering native integrations with...
Clio, Once A Feisty Startup, Says It Has Now Surpassed $500M In Annual Recurring Revenue
Clio announced it has surpassed $500 million in annual recurring revenue, cementing its status as a leading legal‑tech SaaS provider. The milestone reflects rapid growth since its 2012 founding, driven by AI‑enhanced practice‑management tools and a expanding global customer base....
LLM System Design Interview #50 - The Rejection Sampling Paradox
In a DeepMind interview scenario, a 70B target model paired with a 1B draft model for speculative decoding delivers no speedup because the draft’s token distribution diverges sharply from the target’s. The resulting near‑zero Token Acceptance Rate forces the 70B...
Broadcom BCM67142, BCM67192, and BCM68565 Chips Target Low-Cost WiFi 8 10 Gbps Fiber Access Points
Broadcom unveiled three new chips aimed at low‑cost residential broadband: the BCM67142 and BCM67192 Wi‑Fi 8 (802.11bn) radio solutions and the BCM68565 system‑on‑chip that adds 10 Gbps fiber PON capability. The Wi‑Fi 8 chips support dual‑radio 3×3+4×4 and 4×4+4×4 spatial streams, 4096‑QAM, multi‑link...
Are Legal Tech AI Acquisitions Masking an Architectural Problem?
Recent legal‑tech M&A, such as DocuSign’s purchase of Lexion and Workday’s acquisition of Evisort, have added AI capabilities to existing contract‑life‑cycle management (CLM) platforms. The article argues that bolting AI onto document‑centric systems creates an "AI‑led" architecture, whereas platforms built...
Boost for Miners as Online Export Permit System Now 96% Complete
Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Mines reports the Online Mineral Export Permit System is 96% complete, moving the country closer to a digital platform that will replace the cumbersome paper‑based process. The system is designed to streamline approvals, boost transparency and cut...
The Next Wave of Healthcare Cyber Risk, From IoMT to AI-Enabled Attacks
Healthcare cyber risk is evolving beyond ransomware and data breaches as connected medical devices, remote telehealth services, and cloud platforms expand the attack surface. Legacy equipment lacking modern security controls now coexists with IoT and OT, creating vulnerable footholds for...
Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas Selects Motorola Solutions to Drive Supply Chain with AI-Powered Video Security
Aeropuertos Argentina Cargas (AAC) has partnered with Motorola Solutions to install AI‑powered video security and analytics across its cargo operations at Ezeiza International Airport, Argentina’s primary air freight hub. The system will monitor cargo handling in real time, improving traceability...
Citadel’s Quant Chief: AI’s New Market Paradox — Faster Information, More Crowded Trades:
AI is reshaping hedge‑fund markets by delivering unprecedented research speed, but it may also synchronize trading behavior, creating new inefficiencies. Goldman Sachs’ Osman Ali warned that similar AI models could produce correlated trades, while Citadel’s new AI assistant exemplifies how...
Latest TechBio News
A wave of AI‑driven partnerships and funding rounds is reshaping drug discovery, from Insilico Medicine’s collaboration with Ribo on automated oligonucleotide research to LenioBio‑Twist’s 24‑hour cell‑free protein platform. AstraZeneca deepened its Immunai alliance, while Simulations Plus joined forces with NVIDIA...
Kibo Migrates EU Sandbox From AWS EU to Google Cloud Platform EU
Kibo announced that its EU sandbox environment will transition from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform on June 2, 2026. The six‑hour maintenance window begins at 13:00 US Central Time (20:00 CEST), during which the sandbox endpoints will be temporarily unavailable. Kibo will...
Amp Raises $1.3B to Build a Shared “AI Compute Grid” Giving Startups and Universities Access to AI Computing Power
Amp, a Menlo Park startup founded by former Andreessen Horowitz partner Anjney Midha, raised over $1.3 billion to launch a global “AI compute grid.” The fund, sourced from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator and cloud providers, will pool specialized chips for startups, universities and...
What Success Can Look Like, Darn It
Vepdegestrant, marketed as Veppanu, became the first FDA‑approved bifunctional degrader, a new PROTAC‑type therapy that eliminates target proteins. A Phase III trial showed it works but delivered no clear efficacy advantage over the existing degrader fulvestrant. Pfizer and Arvinas have now...
★ Nextpad++
Nextpad++ is a newly released macOS native port of the popular Windows editor Notepad++. Built by Andrey Letov, the app was created in just weeks using multi‑agent AI development workflows, bypassing traditional manual coding. It ships as a 14 MB universal...
Open Source ERP and CRM in 2026: Best Platforms, Tradeoffs, and How to Choose – Shopify
The Shopify guide maps the 2026 open‑source ERP and CRM landscape, explaining how businesses must move beyond popularity metrics to assess fit, licensing models, and internal capabilities. It distinguishes true open source, open‑core, edition‑split and source‑available approaches, then profiles leading...
True North Dreamin’ 2026 Summary
True North Dreamin’ 2026 in Toronto saw a larger, better‑organized gathering of the Salesforce community. As the event’s first official sponsor, Dryad Receipting secured a prime booth and showcased its Salesforce receipting solution to qualified leads. The company also participated...
HPE Preps Customers for AI Inference with Greenlake, Storage Updates
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced a suite of upgrades to its GreenLake hybrid cloud platform aimed at accelerating AI inference workloads. The updates include a Kubernetes‑enabled Private Cloud runtime, expanded Alletra Storage MP X10000 capacity to 23 PB across 16 nodes, and...
The Gap in Anthropic’s Legal Push May Be the Legal Practitioner’s Insight
Anthropic announced a major expansion into legal technology, unveiling more than 20 new MCP connectors that link its Claude AI to the software platforms lawyers rely on, alongside 12 practice‑area specific plugins. The company also struck partnerships with the Free...
Scaling with Intent: Removing the Constraints to Growth with Holly LaBoda
In a recent Logistics of Logistics podcast, Holly LaBoda, founder and Chief Growth Officer of Formula L, explained how logistics firms can break through growth ceilings by replacing ad‑hoc, hero‑centric selling with a systematic, sales‑operating‑system approach. Formula L provides a proprietary diagnostic,...
Vinted’s Manifest Destiny
Thomas Plantenga took over Vinted in 2017 when the Lithuanian resale marketplace was cash‑strapped after years of aggressive growth. He rejected a $250 million takeover bid from Naspers, opting instead to raise €25 million (about $27 million) to keep the company independent. Plantenga...
AI Consulting Wins When It Embraces Model Freedom
The AI frontier is shifting from pure model releases to full‑scale consulting services. OpenAI is forming a $14 billion "Deployment Company" with private‑equity partners, while Anthropic has launched an enterprise‑services venture backed by Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman. Google is supporting...
Physionic Podcast Videos and Summaries / Transcripts
A 2023 meta‑analysis of 29,913 patients shows that pure EPA, administered as icosapent ethyl, significantly reduces myocardial infarction, cardiovascular death and all‑cause mortality. The REDUCE‑IT trial, using 4 g daily of prescription EPA, delivered a 25 % relative risk reduction and a...
Trump’s Mythos Panic Attack
After a year of a hands‑off stance on artificial intelligence, the White House is now weighing tighter oversight. The New York Times reported that President Trump is considering executive actions to regulate new AI models. National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett suggested...