AI Designed Drugs Face Their Reckoning: Isomorphic Labs, Insilico's Phase 3, and Medicine's Make or Break Year - July 20, 2026

AI Designed Drugs Face Their Reckoning: Isomorphic Labs, Insilico's Phase 3, and Medicine's Make or Break Year - July 20, 2026

AI Designed Drugs Face Their Reckoning: Isomorphic Labs, Insilico's Phase 3, and Medicine's Make or Break Year Two milestones just turned AI drug discovery from promise into a real world test. Isomorphic Labs, the Google DeepMind spinoff built on the AlphaFold lineage, is moving its first AI designed molecules into human oncology trials, while Insilico Medicine has pushed rentosertib, an AI discovered treatment for the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, into a pivotal Phase 3 study. With roughly 60 billion dollars invested since 2019, around 200 AI originated programs in human trials, and still zero FDA approvals, Chris and Laura dig into why 2026 is the year AI designed medicines finally have to prove they actually work. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #DrugDiscovery #AlphaFold #Biotech #ClinicalTrials

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 20, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, July 20, 2026 Today's briefing: Alibaba unveils Qwen 3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model headed for open-weight release; the European Commission orders Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data; China's Moonshot AI preps a Hong Kong IPO as revenue surges past $300M; TSMC pledges another $100 billion for Arizona; Anthropic's free access to Claude Fable 5 ends, ushering in a credits era; SAP completes its billion-euro Prior Labs acquisition to bet on tabular AI; the White House's David Sacks warns the US could lose the AI race after Kimi K3; Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Embed tops a retrieval leaderboard; AGIBOT debuts its A3 Ultra humanoid; the World AI Conference closes in Shanghai as the new WAICO bloc takes shape; Nubia reveals an agentic AI phone with no app grid; and Japan's Noetra consortium builds a sovereign AI stack on Nvidia chips. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #OpenSourceAI #Semiconductors #Robotics #DXToday

Inkling Arrives: Mira Murati's 975 Billion Parameter Open Weight Bet Against One Size Fits All AI - July 19, 2026

Inkling Arrives: Mira Murati's 975 Billion Parameter Open Weight Bet Against One Size Fits All AI - July 19, 2026 Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, a 975 billion parameter mixture of experts model whose weights anyone can download, customize, and own. Rick Spair and Laura dig into the architecture, the Bridgewater fine tuning result that beat top proprietary models, the business model behind giving a frontier model away, and what an American open weight contender means in a race Chinese labs have been winning. Hosted by Rick Spair and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #OpenWeightAI #MiraMurati #ThinkingMachines #TechNews

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 19, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, July 19, 2026 In today's briefing: Microsoft prepares Project Perception, a multi model security tool drawing on Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft models. Moonshot AI adds three reasoning effort levels to Kimi K3 on web and mobile. Japan and NVIDIA launch the world's first national AI infrastructure for physical AI with a Vera Rubin AI factory in Tokyo. Protesters rally in more than 125 US locations in the first coordinated national demonstration against the data center buildout. At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, AGIBOT debuts four robots led by the A3 Ultra humanoid, KEENON shows humanoids working complete laundry workflows, Unitree unveils its unmanned robot factory, and Huawei gives the public a first look at the Atlas 950 SuperPod. A suspect in the attack targeting Sam Altman's home is held without bail as threats against AI executives surge. Free access to Claude Fable 5 ends tonight before the model joins paid tiers Monday. Apple closes the week as the world's most valuable company. And SpaceX AI opens its Grok Build coding harness to public audit after a codebase upload controversy. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. Send us fan mail #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #DataCenters #DXToday

The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026

The Shanghai Counterweight: China's 29 Nation WAICO Alliance and the Two Futures of Global AI Governance - July 18, 2026 Chris and Laura go deep on the launch of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, the 29 nation alliance China unveiled in Shanghai with Xi Jinping framing open source models as a public good for the Global South. They unpack the founding membership, the pledge of 5,000 AI training spots for developing countries, and what a world with two competing AI governance frameworks means for everyone else. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the most consequential stories in the AI ecosystem. #AI #WAICO #AIGovernance #China #GlobalSouth