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May 21, 2026

Anthropic Co-Founder Predicts AI Will Make Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery Within a Year

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, stated that AI will help make a Nobel prize-winning discovery within a year, describing a 'vertiginous sense of progress' alongside risks of the technology.

May 21, 20261 source

Apr 19, 2026

mRNA Cancer Vaccines Show Effectiveness Even Without Key Immune Cells in New Research

Scientists discovered that mRNA cancer vaccines can still destroy tumors even when a key immune cell type is missing, revealing unexpected mechanisms of action. The research advances understanding of how Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology can be adapted from COVID-19 vaccines to fight cancer.

Apr 19, 20261 source

Top claims

▪Jack Clark predicted that companies run solely by AIs would be generating millions of dollars in revenue within 18 months of May 21, 2026
▪Professor Edward Harcourt, director of the Institute for Ethics in AI, warned that the rise of AIs that did more and more things for humans risked creating cognitive atrophy which could weaken humans' decision-making and powers of judgment
▪Critics of frontier AI companies such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google fear over-reliance on their few AI models could create a single point of failure in global systems

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AGI timelines & forecasting1 AI1 AI capabilities1 AI research & benchmarks1 Cancer immunotherapy1 COVID-19 vaccines1 Drug Approval and Clinical Trials1 MRNA vaccine technology1 Scientific discovery1 Vaccines and Immunization Policy1

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