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Investors continue funding AI drug discovery startups despite a lack of approved drugs from the approach. The gap between AI-driven development and regulatory approval has not deterred venture capital. Companies like Recursion Pharmaceuticals and Insilico Medicine have raised significant rounds.
Alfa Romeo converted its 164 Quadrifoglio 4 sedan into a firefighting pickup for the Balocco proving ground. The Vigili del Fuoco vehicle got a chopped roof, hoses, and pumps. A separate 164 ProCar racecar used a Brabham carbon tub and a mid-mounted 3.5-liter V10 producing 620 hp, but never raced.
Deputy Sheriff Ryan Gaffney of Bucks County, Pennsylvania used his iPhone to photograph nude prisoners and shared the images with female civilian employees. Other body cameras captured Gaffney covering his own bodycam during the incidents. The complaint arrived at the District Attorney's Office on March 31, 2026.
HireQuotient integrated its EasySource AI recruiting platform with Paylocity, targeting deskless and frontline hiring in manufacturing, building services, construction, healthcare, and insurance. For mid-market companies with 500 to 1,000 employees, the integration delivers 70% faster time-to-hire and an estimated $100,000 in annual savings.
French lawmakers reached a compromise on a bill banning social media for children under 15, backed by President Macron. The ban could take effect in September. It also bans mobile phones in high schools. The bill excludes online encyclopedias, educational directories, and open-source software platforms.
Code in the fourth developer beta of iOS 27 references an iPhone with multiple internal batteries. The strings use plural phrasing like "the batteries in this iPhone," suggesting a foldable device such as the iPhone Ultra or iPhone Fold. A leaker previously proposed two cells with a total capacity around 5,000mAh.
Bristol Myers Squibb is deploying NVIDIA's Vera Rubin systems, giving the drugmaker what it calls the most powerful AI computing infrastructure in life sciences to speed drug discovery.
Anthropic launched the AI for Science rare disease research grants program. The initiative provides funding to researchers using artificial intelligence to study rare diseases. Applications are now open for the grant program.
Eli Lilly acquired AtaiBeckley for up to $3.8 billion, centered on the Phase 3 DMT-based nasal spray BPL-003 for treatment-resistant depression. The deal is the largest in the psychedelic-medicine sector. Johnson & Johnson's Spravato, annualizing close to $2 billion in sales, proved commercial viability for in-clinic psychedelic-adjacent therapies.
Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability tracks user actions, geolocation, and errors by user impact. It reveals that 14% of users reaching a payment step never complete it. A CDN misconfiguration degrading load times in Southeast Asia won't surface in global average LCP but shows as elevated errors for that region.
U.K.-based healthcare billing software maker Craneware is responding to a cyberattack in which hackers stole a significant volume of customer data, including employee, customer, and partner records. The company has expelled the attackers and reported the incident to the FBI and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office. Craneware's software is used by thousands of U.S. hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies.