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OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
Leading today: OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio. Also in this issue: Voxtral 3; WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator. 17 stories in total, selected automatically from 74 candidates across the day's feeds.

| 1 | openai.com OpenAI acquires Orchestra BioOpenAI is acquiring Orchestra Bio to bring AI-powered operations to life sciences R&D, helping biopharma teams accelerate drug development and advance new treatments. |
| 2 | mistral.ai Voxtral 3Trending on Hacker News (521 points, 140 comments). |
| 3 | redact.dev WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulatorTrending on Hacker News (714 points, 208 comments). |

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