Halo: Campaign Evolved is a remake of the original story, coming to Xbox, PC and PS5 in 2026

Before there’s a new Halo game, Halo Studios is revisiting the past. Xbox has announced Halo: Campaign Evolved, a remake of the first game in the storied shooter series, Halo: Combat Evolved, develo [...]

DNA building blocks on asteroid Ryugu, bacteria that eat plastic waste, and more science news

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival to Earth, that sample has yielded some insights about what [...]

Deepmind’s AlphaGenome predicts how small DNA changes affect genes

DeepMind has introduced AlphaGenome, a new AI model designed to predict how even small changes in DNA can influence gene activity. The model focuses on the non-coding regions of DNA - stretches that d [...]

Anthropic's AI kiosk agent bought a PlayStation 5, ordered a live fish, and drove itself to bankruptcy

The Wall Street Journal tested Anthropic's AI vendor - and watched it lose $1,000 in three weeks through giveaways, a PlayStation purchase, and a live fish order.<br /> The article Anthropi [...]

Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, [...]

'The original code is in this game' — Halo Campaign Evolved executive producer says some level layouts have been redesigned to avoid 'repetiveness' but 'you are playing the DNA of the original game'

Halo Studios has confirmed that Halo Campaign Evolved still has Halo: Combat Evolved's original code buried underneath the new Unreal Engine 5 build. [...]

AI can now coach amateur virologists, and top tech leaders want Congress to act on DNA security

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, and other tech leaders are urging the US government to make screening of synthetic DNA orders a legal requirement. AI systems already outperform PhD-level vir [...]

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki will regain control of embattled DNA company after all

In a surprise twist, 23andMe founder and former CEO Anne Wojcicki is set to regain control of the DNA company's assets, according to a press release from 23andMe. In May, a company called Regener [...]

“We intend to launch our first end-to-end commercial DNA Data Storage solutions before the end of 2026”: Biomemory outlines its DNA storage roadmap after Catalog deal

French DNA storage pioneer Biomemory has acquired rival Catalog, and told us where it sees the technology in the years ahead. [...]