{"id":889800,"date":"2026-10-21T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889800\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T08:08:17","slug":"china-slams-us-ban-on-deepseek-ai-over-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/889800\/","title":{"rendered":"China slams US ban on DeepSeek AI over security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmaceutical giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AstraZeneca<\/a> is teaming up with tech powerhouse Oracle to use artificial intelligence to identify patients for clinical trials and monitor potential safety risks, in a move aimed at speeding up drug development and improving medical research.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will combine AstraZeneca&#8217;s drug development expertise with Oracle&#8217;s AI technology and healthcare data capabilities to help researchers match patients with clinical trials and identify potential safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration will initially focus on cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, immunology and rare diseases, with the technology potentially helping doctors diagnose serious illnesses earlier.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said the partnership could help researchers and healthcare providers improve patient care through AI-driven technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can help clinicians identify patients sooner, optimize clinical trials, and generate evidence continuously across the lifecycle of a medicine,&#8221; Soriot said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The first project will focus on hypertension research in Abu Dhabi, in partnership with UAE-based healthcare company M42.<\/p>\n<p>Patient recruitment remains a major obstacle in clinical research, with enrollment delays often extending trial timelines and driving up development costs.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca has also faced clinical trial setbacks, including delays involving a breast cancer treatment and the failure of a nerve disorder drug, raising concerns about its drug development efforts, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The companies have signed a non-binding agreement and have not disclosed financial terms.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership comes as AstraZeneca seeks to expand its drug portfolio and reach more than $80 billion in annual revenue by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is teaming up with tech powerhouse Oracle to use artificial intelligence to identify patients for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,4,27304,829,2413,3,74,965],"class_list":["post-889800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-latest-news","tag-national-news","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}