[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-red-queen-bio-uses-ai-to-build-antibodies-against-flu":10,"sections":48},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":43,"feedback":47,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":47,"total_tokens":47},8323,"red-queen-bio-uses-ai-to-build-antibodies-against-flu","Red Queen Bio Uses AI to Build Antibodies Against Flu","OpenAI-backed Red Queen Bio has raised $36 million to design antibody drugs for bird flu today, with an eye on viruses AI could help create tomorrow.","Red Queen Bio is racing to build antibody drugs before the viruses they target even exist.\n\nThe OpenAI-backed biosecurity startup has raised $36 million in total, according to a new report. It is using AI to design antibody treatments, starting with bird flu and other influenza strains, and plans to begin its first clinical trials soon. Longer term, the company wants its antibody-design pipeline ready for viruses that AI systems could someday help create, not just the ones nature produces on its own.\n\nThe bet here cuts both ways. The same AI modeling techniques that could help someone design a dangerous pathogen can, in theory, also help build the antibody that stops it. OpenAI's backing gives Red Queen Bio credibility and compute access most biosecurity startups don't have, but it also ties the company's stated mission to the very technology it is hedging against.\n\nFor now, the product is bird-flu antibodies, not a defense against viruses that don't exist yet - whether the AI-versus-AI arms race actually plays out that way remains untested.","[\"ai\",\"biosecurity\",\"openai\",\"startups\"]","2026-09-28T17:44:43.000Z","2026-09-29T00:18:24.036Z","2026-09-29T00:18:30.824Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Fix the dek: it implies AI might specifically help create flu viruses, but both the source and the article's own body only support AI potentially helping engineer viruses generally (with bird flu\u002Finfluenza named only as Red Queen's near-term antibody target) — narrow the dek back to match that distinction, and attribute the 'biosecurity researchers have warned for years' claim to a specific source.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The dek's phrase 'antibodies for viruses AI could someday help engineer, starting with bird flu' still reads as if bird flu is the AI-engineered virus, when the body actually treats bird flu as the current antibody target and AI-engineered pathogens as a separate future risk — restructure the dek to keep those two clauses distinct.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The dek now correctly separates the current bird-flu antibody work from the future AI-engineered-virus risk, but the body still needs the 'biosecurity researchers have warned for years' claim attributed to a specific named source, as neither draft has done.","ai",[38,40,41,42],"biosecurity","openai","startups",[44],{"name":45,"url":46},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fred-queen-bio-ai-antibodies-openai-wsj",0,{"sections":49},[50,54,59,64,69,74,79,84,89,94,98,103,108,113],{"name":51,"slug":38,"count":52,"latest_published_at":53},"AI",4916,"2026-09-28T23:39:20.000Z",{"name":55,"slug":56,"count":57,"latest_published_at":58},"Security","security",767,"2026-09-28T18:30:00.000Z",{"name":60,"slug":61,"count":62,"latest_published_at":63},"Policy","policy",406,"2026-09-28T19:04:09.000Z",{"name":65,"slug":66,"count":67,"latest_published_at":68},"Deals","deals",272,"2026-09-28T17:42:46.000Z",{"name":70,"slug":71,"count":72,"latest_published_at":73},"Hardware","hardware",191,"2026-09-28T15:45:00.000Z",{"name":75,"slug":76,"count":77,"latest_published_at":78},"Science","science",154,"2026-09-28T13:19:18.000Z",{"name":80,"slug":81,"count":82,"latest_published_at":83},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",139,"2026-09-28T17:09:47.000Z",{"name":85,"slug":86,"count":87,"latest_published_at":88},"Software","software",91,"2026-09-25T20:55:00.000Z",{"name":90,"slug":91,"count":92,"latest_published_at":93},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",87,"2026-09-28T16:11:42.000Z",{"name":95,"slug":42,"count":96,"latest_published_at":97},"Startups",80,"2026-09-28T17:50:28.000Z",{"name":99,"slug":100,"count":101,"latest_published_at":102},"General","general",49,"2026-09-28T16:44:57.000Z",{"name":104,"slug":105,"count":106,"latest_published_at":107},"Gaming","gaming",48,"2026-09-25T18:35:21.000Z",{"name":109,"slug":110,"count":111,"latest_published_at":112},"Reviews","reviews",31,"2026-09-28T14:31:34.000Z",{"name":114,"slug":115,"count":116,"latest_published_at":117},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]