Life Sciences AI Moves to Datacenter Scale; Wet Labs Become Workflows; Genomics Turns GPU-Bound; Drug Discovery Becomes Always-On Infrastructure
Rackbound Daily News Update for January 20, 2026
Today's news theme? Life sciences research is no longer running
When Retrosynthesis Becomes Infrastructure
AI-driven retrosynthesis is no longer a point tool for chemists but a continuous, stateful system that must store, replay, and
When the Genome Stops Being a File
Mapping regulatory switches at population scale turns genomics into a continuously running system whose limits are set by infrastructure discipline
What National-Scale Genomics Teaches Us About Modern Data Architecture
National-scale genomics is breaking legacy health IT long before it reaches scientific limits. PCORnet shows why federated architectures are becoming
AI Trust Has a Latency Budget
In regulated life-science AI, explanations must arrive on time, survive drift, and be replayable. Meeting those requirements is an infrastructure
When AI Becomes Evidence, Infrastructure Becomes Memory
AI-driven discovery is turning models and simulations into scientific records, forcing data infrastructure to preserve not just results, but the
