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Hyunkook Kim

김현국

AI

AI-designed proteins split prediction from lab results

Of 1,320 mini-protein binders Claude designed, 354 actually bound — hitting 14 of 15 targets. One target that stumped human competitors, who managed only a 3.7% hit rate, yielded 40% for Claude. But picking winners before synthesis is still the hard part.

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AI

Ai2 Uncovers Immune Signal in Immunotherapy-Resistant Breast Cancer

The AI's hypothesis was verified twice — once against a separate dataset, once against lab imaging — and the result led to an expanded partnership. Invasive lobular carcinoma, long considered resistant to immunotherapy, accounts for about 15% of US breast cancer diagnoses.

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AI

NYC Bans Classroom AI Through Middle School for One Year

America's largest school district has blocked generative AI for 600,000 students from pre-K through 8th grade for one year. Companion chatbots are banned outright at every grade level, but teachers can keep using AI as before.

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AI

Anthropic Open-Sources Commerce Agent Blueprint

Anthropic has published shopping and merchant agents, along with four example verticals — retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment — as full code on GitHub. But the part of the code that got the most attention wasn't revenue generation. It was the mechanism that keeps the model from ever touching money.

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The Lab

The Ten Months a Lobster Icon and a Room of Claude Addicts Reshaped AI

At a small gathering in London in the summer of 2025, a man stood up and introduced himself as a "Claude addict." Three months later, the program he posted online under a lobster icon sent developers worldwide into a frenzy, and nearly every AI assistant we now recognize by name traces back to that moment.

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