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Mastercard Is Giving AI Agents Virtual Cards to Handle Your Shopping
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Virtual biotech company puts thousands of AI scientist agents to work on drug discovery
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The latest company to spin out of a Stanford Medicine lab is a biotech undertaking with 37,000 employees—and none of them are human.
There's no lab space, no lunch breaks and no payroll.
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- The latest company to spin out of a Stanford Medicine lab is a biotech undertaking with 37,000 employees—and none of them are human.
- Reported by Phys.org and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:00:10 UTC.
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