{
  "id": 233679,
  "title": "This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/this-a-i-just-created-viruses-not-found-in-nature",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-06T18:00:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}