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AI will help find cure for cancer ‘within our lifetimes’, says Arm Holdings chief

TL;DR

Rene Haas also claims artificial intelligence could pave way for widespread use of humanoid robots within five years Business live – latest updates The boss of one of the UK’s biggest chip companies has claimed AI will be able to find a cure for cancer “in our lifetime”. Rene Haas, chief executive of the chip designer Arm Holdings, said that, while modelling how a DNA marker is affected by cancer was currently “too complex” a problem for either humans or technology, computers were “going to solve it” in the future.

Nauti's Take

For AI teams, this is primarily a verification task: medical applications depend on validated data, reproducible models, and clinical outcomes far more than predictions from the chip industry. Tools for drug discovery and genomic modeling are worth watching, but any pilot should first check the evidence base, data access, and regulatory requirements.

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