OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools (Maria Curi/Axios)

<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/29/openai-biodefense-program"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260529/i13.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260529/p13#a260529p13" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Maria Curi / <a href="https://www.axios.com/">Axios</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/29/openai-biodefense-program">OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI is launching a tool to help develop new biodefense and pandemic preparedness capabilities, according to an announcement shared first with Axios.</p>