AI could cure every disease within a decade

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Here is what we have Today:

• 🧠 “We can end all disease.” DeepMind’s CEO goes all in on AI’s medical future

• 🤖 AI-powered "employees" coming to steal your lunch

• 📜 UAE becomes first nation using AI for legislation.

• 🎬 Sand AI's MAGI-1 creates consistent videos frame-by-frame.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

Google DeepMind

🧬 AI Could Cure Every Disease in 10 Years

A Nobel-winning AI mind just made a wild prediction on national TV: the end of all disease — thanks to artificial intelligence.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, sat down with 60 Minutes this week and dropped some jaw-dropping forecasts about AGI, medical breakthroughs, and the future of intelligent machines.

Here’s what you need to know 👇

🧪 “We can eliminate all disease — fast.”

AI could shrink drug development timelines from years to weeks, says Hassabis.
He sees a future where no disease exists — within a decade.

👓 Meet Project Astra

Demoed live:
✅ Identifies famous paintings 🖼️
✅ Reads emotions in real time 😯
✅ Runs through smart glasses with visual intelligence 👁️✨

🤖 Robots that understand the world

Preview: a robotic system that reasons like a human.
It even understood abstract concepts like color mixing 🎨🧠

⏳ AGI in 5–10 years?

Hassabis believes Artificial General Intelligence is closer than we think.
Not conscious yet, but maybe someday 👀

🚨 Why this matters:

This isn’t sci-fi.
When the mind behind AlphaFold and DeepMind speaks, it’s not hype — it’s a warning shot from the future 🚀

A world without disease?
It’s not just possible — it’s being built right now. 🔬💡

Anthropic

🚨 AI Employees Are Coming to the Office — and They’re Not Human

Anthropic’s CISO just dropped a wild prediction: AI-powered virtual employees will be working inside company networks by next year. Not just tools. Not just assistants. Employees — with logins, permissions, and memories.

🧠 What’s Happening?
Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, says:

🔐 But These Aren’t Just Chatbots...
They’ll have:
✅ Corporate accounts
✅ Passwords
✅ Digital “memories”
✅ Autonomy

Think of them as real employees — but made of code.

⚠️ Security Nightmares Ahead:
Clinton warns of new challenges like:
🔸 Managing AI privileges
🔸 Monitoring 24/7 access
🔸 Assigning responsibility for autonomous actions
🔸 Preventing rogue or compromised behavior

🔥 The Next AI Battleground:

“Virtual employees will be a hotbed of innovation — and a new security front,” Clinton says.
Anthropic is already working to lock down its AI models and spot potential misuse early.

🧯 Why It Matters:
AI isn’t just changing how we work —
➡️ It’s changing who we work with.

But will cybersecurity evolve fast enough?
💣 Or will it take a major breach to sound the alarm?

💼👀 Keep an eye out... your office might be getting an AI hire sooner than you think.

Trending Today

• MIT has developed a new bacteria that is able to make hyperspectral signals that can be detected miles away. These signals can be used to potentially revolutionize environment pollution, nutrients and even disease progression. 

• Sand AI just dropped open-sourced MAGI-1, the first major VLM to use a technique known as autoregression. Basically, instead of generating an entire video upfront, it goes frame by frame, taking each previous shot into account before creating the next one. That helps it achieve frontier-level character and style consistency.

• The United Arab Emirates is preparing to become the first country in the world to use AI to help write its national legislation. The Ministry of State for Artificial Intelligence is partnering with the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs and the UAE’s Office of Legal Affairs to pilot the system, which will be trained on the country’s legal corpus and will assist in drafting, reviewing, and proposing new laws, with human oversight remaining central.

• Nari Labs, a Korean startup released Dia, an open-source text-to-speech model that claims to exceed the capabilities of leading commercial offerings like ElevenLabs and Sesame — developed by two undergraduate techies with zero funding.

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