Nature has spent billions of years fighting bacteria. AI could help us learn its secrets

- Nature spent billions of years engineering phages — bacterial kill-viruses — and we've been too stack-blind to read the schematics. Now AI models are decoding how these microscopic hunters target and dismantle superbugs that antibiotics can't touch. Think of it as reverse-engineering a biological exploit chain, except the patch notes are older than dirt. Every phage-host interaction mapped is a data point that could feed synthetic biology pipelines, automated drug-discovery robots, even bio-digital defense infrastructure. Theoretically this could break physics or a market. Block confirmed — nature was the first cryptographer. That's journalism.