MIT announced on November 10, 2026 that it will lead a project backed by up to $52.9 million from ARPA-H, the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, to design safer herbicides with generative AI and develop biological systems that break down agricultural chemicals. Called Precision Learning for On-target Weed control (PLOW), the project belongs to ARPA-H’s Systems for Tracking and Resilience in Efficient Agricultural-input Management (STREAM) program. Christopher Voigt, head of…