Claude designs protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins

Eleven Realtime bundles speech recognition, reasoning, turn-taking, and voice generation into two managed models, Mini and Max. Both use a cascaded architecture, but developers can't select or independently configure the underlying components.

Locked Chats are secured with a four-digit PIN or Face ID/Touch ID and move to a separate section hidden from chat history, pinned chats, and search. OpenAI says locking doesn't add end-to-end encryption, change retention, or alter the "Improve the model for everyone" setting.

OpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, aiming to help biopharma teams accelerate drug development. No financial terms were disclosed.

NVIDIA's Cosmos3-H-Dreams model is presented as a generative simulation system for clinical surgery, per a Hugging Face blog post. The post frames it as bringing surgical scenarios to life through synthetic video rather than real footage.

MemCurrent combines episodic memory with derived memory across three access patterns: plugins that log and load context automatically, tools the agent calls, and a third pattern. Databricks frames it as a fix for production agents that "start from zero" each session.