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OpenAI has bought Orchestra Bio, a San Francisco startup whose AI agents help drug companies keep sprawling development programs on schedule, the ChatGPT maker <a href="https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-orchestra-bio/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>announced Tuesday</a>. “Our goal is to help scientists make discoveries and manage the work needed to turn them into treatments that reach patients sooner,” OpenAI said in the announcement. Orchestra’s team and platform will be folded into <a href="https://openai.com/rosalind/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>Rosalind</a>, OpenAI’s family of AI models and tools for biologists and chemists. The financial terms were not disclosed. Getting a new medicine from first idea to U.S. approval takes time—up to 15 years according to OpenAI. Every month shaved off that timeline is a month earlier that a new treatment can reach the people waiting for it, and a month earlier that the company can generate cash. The process is also absurdly expensive: bringing one approved drug to market can cost more than <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12668846/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$2.6 billion</a>, and <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.05386" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS" rel="nofollow">fewer than 10%</a> of candidates that enter human testing ever make it to pharmacy shelves. Beyond the science itself, OpenAI says drug teams have to coordinate work across internal departments and outside partners, often relying on systems that don’t talk to each other. Those partners usually include contract research organizations, the outside labs hired to run studies, and contract manufacturers that produce the experimental drug. Orchestra’s AI agents—software that can watch over tasks and flag problems on its own—work out which activities and deadlines take the hit, gather the relevant information and compare ways to respond, while scientists and program leaders make the final call. Founded in the fall of 2022, Orchestra raised its <a href="https://jobs.8vc.com/companies/orchestra/jobs/28818089-senior-software-engineer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>seed round</a> from Andreessen Horowitz, Definition Capital, Insight Partners, and 8VC, and about $20 million in total, according to <a href="https://www.caplight.com/company/orchestra-bio" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS" rel="nofollow">Caplight data</a>. The company should not be confused with Orchestra BioMed, an unrelated Nasdaq-listed medical device maker that trades under the ticker OBIO. In April, OpenAI launched <a href="https://decrypt.co/364783/openai-gpt-rosalind-drug-discovery-life-sciences-model" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS" rel="nofollow">GPT-Rosalind</a>, a model built specifically for biology and dru
data abandons its self-built blockchain and migrates to SUI, securing $30 million in investment.
Crypto news outlet reports that a16z-backed startup data has announced it is abandoning its plan to build its own blockchain and will migrate to the SUI network, securing $30 million in investment. Going forward, the company will focus on the AI training data sector.
LiteLLM poisoned for the second time this year: steals keys even without being invoked
According to CoinWorld news, LiteLLM has suffered its second supply chain attack this year. Security firm JFrog discovered that its latest version 1.107.0 was implanted with malicious code, and the official Docker image was also affected. The hackers hid three additional files in the Python installation package. After users install it, even if they do not call LiteLLM, the malicious code will run automatically, collecting browser passwords, SSH private keys, credentials for cloud platforms such as AWS, and authentication information for development tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor. The attackers left a persistent backdoor that checks for remote commands once every hour. JFrog reminds users who have installed or run 1.107.0 to treat the relevant credentials as potentially compromised, isolate and rebuild the environment, and rotate sensitive credentials such as API keys. The confirmed safe rollback version is 1.106.2.
US official: Russia has accepted the US proposal to hold trilateral talks with Ukraine.
CoinWorld news, US officials: Russia has accepted the US proposal to hold trilateral talks with Ukraine.
Bybit CEO: Plans to partner with local institutions to enter the US market
CoinWorld news, according to Coindesk, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said the company will seek to partner with institutions that have a local customer base when entering the U.S. market, citing Interactive Brokers as an example of the type of potential partner, and has not yet announced any specific partnership. He said that applying for licenses state by state would take two to three years, and the company will wait for the regulatory framework to become clearer and for the right timing to enter. In addition, Bybit plans to launch a comprehensive app covering derivatives and tokenized stocks in Europe as early as the first quarter of 2027, and is studying entry into the UK market.
Solana Alpenglow goes live, cutting transaction confirmation time to 150 milliseconds.
According to CoinWorld news, Grayscale has announced that Solana's Alpenglow is now live, reducing transaction confirmation time from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, an 85-fold increase in speed.
Egypt's military intervention is strictly limited to defending Saudi Arabia.
Egyptian President Sisi: Egypt's military involvement is strictly limited to defending Saudi Arabia and does not include offensive operations against Yemen.
US officials: AI companies required to improve remediation procedures
According to BiJie Network news, U.S. officials have recently made the following statements in succession: the U.S. side has asked artificial intelligence companies to improve their rectification procedures, and artificial intelligence companies discovered vulnerabilities rather than creating them.
The United States requires AI companies to improve their detection capabilities.
CoinWorld news: U.S. officials have explicitly demanded that AI companies improve their detection capabilities.
Market rumor: U.S. President Trump wants Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin to sign a peace agreement at the G20 summit in Miami.
BiJie Network news, market news: U.S. President Trump hopes that Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin will sign a peace agreement at the G20 summit held in Miami.