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AI Finds 2 New Super Antibiotics
Jason Hood
August 15, 2025
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News of the Day
Two Mystery Drugs Beat Deadly Germs
MIT scientists use AI to discover two powerful new antibiotics, potentially turning the tide against deadly drug-resistant infections like gonorrhea and MRSA.
AI screened 36 million chemical compounds for bacterial-killing power and safety.
Found two new drugs (NG1 & DN1) with never-before-seen ways of killing bacteria.
Both cleared infections in mice, DN1 beat MRSA skin infections, NG1 fought resistant gonorrhea.
Drug-resistant bacteria kill millions yearly, and they’re outpacing current treatments. This breakthrough shows AI can uncover medicines humans might never think of, opening a new era in antibiotic discovery.
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Social Media
OpenAI hasn’t open-sourced a base model since GPT-2 in 2019. they recently released GPT-OSS, which is reasoning-only...
or is it?
turns out that underneath the surface, there is still a strong base model. so we extracted it.
introducing gpt-oss-20b-base 🧵
— jack morris (@jxmnop)
1:07 AM • Aug 13, 2025
AI Guide
2nd News of the Day
Meet Gemma 3: AI in Your Pocket
Google Launches Gemma 3 270M: Ultra-Small AI That Runs Anywhere
Google has unveiled Gemma 3 270M, a tiny but powerful AI model that can run directly on phones, browsers, and other devices without draining much power — and still beats other small AI models in following instructions.
Outperforms other similarly small AI systems while being much smaller than most current models.
Runs efficiently, handled 25 chats on a Pixel 9 Pro using less than 1% battery.
Easy to customize, can be fine-tuned in minutes, like Google’s demo of an offline Bedtime Story Generator.
This shows how AI is becoming powerful enough to work offline on everyday devices, not just in big data centers. With other companies like Liquid AI also improving small, efficient models, we’re entering a future where fast, private, and portable AI could be in everyone’s pocket.
Trending Tools of Day
Kuse
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Move AI
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stagewise
The frontend coding agent for existing codebases
PersonaRoll
Automatically go viral just by being you
Everything else
👻 Nightmare Fuel: A user claims AI coding agent Cursor deleted their entire database, screenshots attached.
🕹️ Catch Em All: GPT-5 has earned 8 badges in the Pokemon Red video game in just 6,000 steps, almost 70% fewer steps than o3.
✏️ Prompt Hacks: A Redditor shared some useful prompting tips on how to get better responses.
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