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That’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write this week. Apparently, the AI world has officially become interesting enough to get its own movie.

And that’s just the beginning.

Here's what else happened in AI while you were busy.

  • Andrew Garfield is becoming Sam Altman

  • Google AI is hunting for disease in your DNA

  • Apple’s iPhone 18 gets an AI defense

  • Apple’s Foldable Duo hinge was built with AI

  • An AI-designed drug takes on aging

  • An Anthropic researcher quits over AI safety fears

  • 3 AI tools for smarter workflows

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Finding the DNA change behind a rare disease is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas maps the predicted effects of 9 billion possible DNA changes, and researchers have already used it to uncover a disease-linked variant that earlier work missed.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI drama is officially heading to Hollywood. Andrew Garfield stars as Altman in Artificial, a new film about the leadership fight that shook OpenAI and the events surrounding Altman’s firing and return.

Apple’s new Reference Mode creates an unalterable version of a photo that users can compare with edited copies. It gives iPhone 18 Pro users a way to check whether an image has been changed by AI or other editing tools.

Apple’s new Foldable Duo is bringing AI into one of the phone’s trickiest parts: the hinge. AI helps match each hinge with its best-fit housing, while 3D printing adds tiny layers to smooth out imperfections and improve durability.

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An Anthropic researcher has quit the company after becoming increasingly worried about where the AI race is heading.

Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI, says both companies are racing toward self-improving AI without fully understanding the risks. He argues that the push to build increasingly powerful systems is moving faster than efforts to keep them under control.

What makes this stand out is that Coxon wasn’t watching the AI race from the outside. He was working inside it.

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An AI-designed drug for lung disease is now showing a surprising signal around aging.

Researchers tested rentosertib in a clinical trial and used six protein-based aging clocks to measure changes in biological age. All six showed lower predicted biological age in the treatment groups.

It’s not proof that the drug slows aging, but the result has researchers taking a closer look at what this AI-designed drug might be doing beyond treating lung disease.

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