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Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in minutes. It published the two experiments on Tuesday. The company reported the results itself. It framed them as early evidence that Claude can speed up parts of drug development. Anthropic shared the work on its research blog. The headline numbers [] This story continues at The Next Web

Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the largest Tesla Semi deployment in the world to date. Einride announced [] This story continues at The Next Web

Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first majority since it began asking in 2021, with 73% expecting fewer jobs. A European Commission survey found displacement fears highest among younger, lower-income and less-educated workers. Americans under 30 have changed their minds about AI. For the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Alphabet priced its first Australian dollar bond on Wednesdayat A$5.5bn, about US$3.9bn, roughly 10% more than the market had pencilled in when the deal was trailed at the start of the week. It is the largest corporate bond sale ever done in the Australian market. The companyhired banks on Mondayfor a four-tranche transaction sized at [] This story continues at The Next Web

Research published in Science finds that scrapping a petrol car in its first year and replacing it with a battery electric vehicle cuts emissions by 58% over 16 years, with carbon payback in about three years. The benefit does not hold for efficient hybrids, very low-mileage vehicles or the dirtiest electricity grids. Retiring a petrol [] This story continues at The Next Web

A new study out of Cornell has handed the AI industrys climate critics a fresh statistic to wield, and the internet has duly rounded it up. Planned US data centres, one widely shared headline announced, are set to produce as much carbon dioxide as 24 million cars. The figure is arresting. It is also a [] This story continues at The Next Web

Over the past 12 months, I have become increasingly convinced that one of the most underappreciated shifts in the artificial intelligence ecosystem is financial. While much of the market remains focused on OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and the latest model releases, a quieter transformation is taking place in the investor base funding the next generation of [] This story continues at The Next Web

Jeff Gundlach has criticised Nvidias plan with six asset managers to mobilise more than $500bn for AI infrastructure, asking why assets of unknown life are collateral for long-term debt. Mark Cuban compared chips as an asset class to crypto. Jeff Gundlach thinks Wall Street has told on itself. Assets of unknown life as collateral for [] This story continues at The Next Web