Anthropic is building its own biology lab to push AI-driven drug development beyond computer simulations.

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Researchers at the University of Bristol want to make medical AI systems safer by borrowing from how drugs get approved. Their "Learning Ensemble" framework defines three areas to check, including system limits, fairness across patient groups, and clinical fit. The goal is to catch models that work technically but can still be dangerously wrong in the clinic.

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AI models think out loud today, but Google Deepmind says that transparency is at risk.

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Experts from the US and China want to prevent AI systems from making autonomous decisions about deploying nuclear weapons.

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Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas ("research taste") and reliably judging results. Reward hacking and the speed of light add further limits. Vinyals now wants to tackle these bottlenecks with his startup Discovery Loop, co-founded with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Quoc Le.

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A class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of misrepresenting how much Claude subscribers actually get to use the service.

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Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman, a fresh Fields Medal recipient, has announced the founding of the Mathematical A.I. Safety Institute (MAISI).

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Authors and publishers fight over how to split Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, the largest copyright deal in US history.

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Meta will no longer judge its engineers by how much they use AI tools.

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New York City bans AI use in public schools through the end of middle school.

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Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved.

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More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence.

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Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider.

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The Pentagon is expanding its AI platform with two new models, OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government.

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President Trump has pushed back hard against growing opposition to AI data centers across the US.

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"Please get to a safe place or call emergency services": That's the advice Google's AI search gave users who typed that they were alone with an African, Indian, or Pakistani.

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Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI.

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