Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 Can Now Design Novel Drug Molecules From Scratch
The next generation of AlphaFold does not just predict how proteins fold — it generates entirely new molecules with desired binding properties, collapsing years…
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Maya covers AI, machine learning, and the intersection of technology and society. Previously at The Atlantic and Wired, she has spent a decade tracking how software reshapes human behavior. She is based in San Francisco.
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The next generation of AlphaFold does not just predict how proteins fold — it generates entirely new molecules with desired binding properties, collapsing years…
Maya Chen
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August 2, 2026
Safety-critical software is getting a complete overhaul. The decision to abandon C++ in favor of Rust signals a sea change in how the industry…
Maya Chen
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August 1, 2026
The project management tool that Silicon Valley's best engineering teams swear by has a product philosophy so specific it borders on dogma. That specificity…
Maya Chen
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July 27, 2026
New research from MIT quantifies the energy cost of inference at scale. The numbers are uncomfortable for an industry that has largely avoided environmental…
Maya Chen
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July 25, 2026
Two years after Meta wrote down $50 billion on its virtual world ambitions, a different vision of immersive computing is gaining traction — in…
Maya Chen
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July 22, 2026
Synthetic voices trained on real human performances are now commercially viable. The legal, economic, and ethical consequences are arriving faster than the law can…
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July 19, 2026
