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On September 30, 2026, Google DeepMind announced SynthID Bio, a family of methods for embedding imperceptible provenance signatures into AI-generated protein sequences and predicted three-dimensional structures. The work was published as a proof-of-concept study titled "Function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteins" in Nature.
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