Scientists used AI to create 16 new viruses that never existed in nature; they worked and now experts fear how the technology could be usedResearchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to design entirely new viruses. These laboratory-tested viruses function as inte...
08 Aug, 2026, 08.29 AM IST
Anthropic AI safety chief abruptly quits, raises alarms in emotional farewell letterAnthropic AI safety chief quits: Mrinank Sharma, Anthropic's safeguards research lead, has resigned. He cited global crises and ethical pre...
11 Feb, 2026, 02.10 AM IST
OpenAI backs a new venture trying to thwart AI bio attacksValthos, a New York-based biosecurity startup founded by Kathleen McMahon and Tess van Stekelenburg, has emerged from stealth with $30 mill...
24 Oct, 2025, 11.12 PM IST
China developing deadly Marine Toxins, may be merging AI with bioweapons: U.S. ReportTwo Chinese nationals were apprehended in the U.S. for allegedly smuggling a dangerous fungus, raising concerns about China's bioweapons ca...
04 Jun, 2025, 05.14 PM IST
Top scientist wants to prevent AI from going rogueThe winner of the Turing Award, also known as the Nobel Prize for computer science, has been warning for several years of the risks of AI, ...
04 Jun, 2025, 12.48 PM IST
Researchers reboot push for AI safety after Paris summit bustExperts researching threats stemming from artificial intelligence agreed on key work areas needed to contain dangers like loss of human con...
08 May, 2025, 08.24 AM IST
Elon Musk brands USAID 'criminal', Donald Trump calls its leaders 'radical lunatics'Elon Musk labels USAID a "criminal organization" amid Donald Trump's assertion that it is led by "radical lunatics." Musk claims, without e...
03 Feb, 2025, 11.07 AM IST
Elon Musk helped kill a congressional spending bill. But much of what he spread was misinformationElon Musk, via a barrage of X posts containing misinformation, derailed a bipartisan funding bill, prompting a government shutdown threat. ...
21 Dec, 2024, 01.48 PM IST
AI startup EvolutionaryScale raises $142 million to advance tech in biologyCalling it a "ChatGPT moment for biology," Lux Capital cofounder and managing partner Josh Wolfe told the company has developed the first l...
25 Jun, 2024, 06.55 PM IST
Covid-19 was created as a 'bioweapon' by China: Wuhan researcherThe deadly SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, was deliberately engineered as a "bioweapon" by China, claimed a researcher at the infamo...
29 Jun, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
Anti-war film 'Victor One', featuring Shaktee Singh, to make its OTT debut soonThe film has been produced by Shaktee Singh, Lalit Vashista and Saurabh Arora.
23 Jan, 2023, 08.55 AM IST
Russia using UN to spread propaganda, Western states say"Russia is once again attempting to use this council to launder its disinformation, spread its propaganda, and justify its unprovoked and b...
19 Mar, 2022, 11.51 AM IST
View: COVID-19, China’s bioweapon warfare strategy and global securityAn issue which needs to be discussed at length is whether Covid-19 is a mere virus having a natural origin or has it been developed in a la...
08 Jun, 2021, 12.30 PM IST
'Outright lies', says China on reports that it probed weaponising coronaviruses in 2015According to media reports, which referred to the documents obtained by the US officials, scientists of the Chinese People's Liberation Arm...
11 May, 2021, 04.03 PM IST
The misinformation guide: Coronavirus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theoriesTheir claims were explosive, but the evidence was weak.
15 Feb, 2021, 05.33 PM IST
Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID-19, China took leading roleA nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Resear...
15 Feb, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
Canary in the Bioweapon Coal Mine: The lessons of Covid 19 pandemicCovid 19 is the canary in the coal mine, warning humanity against trying to harness the destructive power of pathogens whose lethal nature ...
05 Apr, 2020, 09.39 AM IST