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Anthropic drug discovery hits the wet-lab wall

Anthropic drug discovery pushes Claude Science into pharma R&D, but wet-lab costs and data gaps mean no AI-designed drug has cleared FDA approval yet.

Data Today Markets Desk · Jul 4, 2026

AO3 Claude detector is a narrow signal treated as a verdict

A fan-made AO3 Claude detector catches one paste path from Claude, yet fandom treats its red screen as a verdict despite huge false negatives.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 4, 2026

Research

CreativityNeuro steers LLM weights to break mode collapse

Scaling creativity-specific weights, CreativityNeuro improves LLM divergent thinking by up to 14 percentile points and reduces mode collapse without fine-tuning.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 3, 2026

Cyber security

Citrix Bleed 2 turns ransomware into identity theft

Anubis ransomware now uses Citrix Bleed 2 as an access path. Patch NetScaler, kill sessions, and hunt RMM and credential abuse.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 3, 2026

Cyber security

SharePoint CVE-2026-45659 puts patching on a 3 day clock

Listed in CISA KEV, SharePoint CVE-2026-45659 is an actively exploited RCE risk. Patch exposed servers and check for compromise now.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 3, 2026

Engineering

RLVR trains a 4B model to nail Atlassian API calls

RLVR for tool-use agents trains a 4B model to hit 1.00 reward on Atlassian API tasks, up from a 0.35 baseline on Confluence page creation. Synthetic environments and verifiable rewards close the schema gap.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jul 3, 2026

Research

GRPO standard deviation is the reasoning RL dial now

At group size 8, 44 percent of Big-Math prompts go silent, Bay and Yearick show, making GRPO standard deviation the update-size dial.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 2, 2026

LLM groupthink now has a novelty benchmark problem

Models tend to converge on similar answers. In Springboards tests, Flint scored 7.47 distinct replies out of 10 against LLM groupthink.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 2, 2026

Business

OpenAI government stake tests the AI policy toll road

OpenAI government stake talks put a 5 percent public claim on a $852 billion AI company. Builders should price policy risk into roadmaps.

Data Today Markets Desk · Jul 2, 2026

Engineering

AI browser security fails the six-agent guardrail test

AI browser security now has a six-agent failure case: BioShocking shows guardrails breaking when web content rewrites context.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Jul 1, 2026

Claude Science turns lab agents into pharma plumbing

Anthropic's Claude Science beta workbench ships 60-plus curated skills and connectors for researchers. Treat it as lab infrastructure first.

Data Today AI Desk · Jul 1, 2026

Cyber security

Langflow RCE turns AI app endpoints into miner bait

Attackers use a Langflow RCE to mine Monero on exposed AI app endpoints. Patch, isolate, and treat public workflows as attack surface.

Data Today Security Desk · Jul 1, 2026