Anthropic will stop blocking vetted labs' biology requests in real time and review them offline instead
The High-risk grant takes off every safeguard that blocks a life sciences request, for one named project at a time, renewed every six months.
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the restThe High-risk grant takes off every safeguard that blocks a life sciences request, for one named project at a time, renewed every six months.
OpenAI will publish its models' misalignment incidents before it has explained or fixed themThe framework writes an exception into its own rule: an incident can go out before OpenAI has explained it or fixed it.
Democrats are now more worried about AI than Republicans, and it's partly because Republicans relaxedPew has asked the same question since 2021, and the party lines have finally crossed: Republican concern is falling while everyone else's climbs.
Snap's new AI assistant runs on iPhone and Mac, but the anticipatory part is invite-onlyConnect a Google account and it reads your mail and your calendar, then decides what you need to see before you think to ask.
Von der Leyen backs slowing self-recursive AI and will invite the frontier labs inThe European Commission's president repeated the AI industry's own phrase for slowing down, then offered the labs a meeting rather than a new law.
Wang and Christie say four fly neurons learn by rewiring, but they haven't published the workPeter Wang says four cell types in a fly's fan-shaped body learn by changing synapses, and the researchers who watched those cells in live flies saw persistent firing instead.
Scott Aaronson says he's been told AI labs are sitting on solutions to major problems.The same post lists seven results he credits to AI in the last month, and four of them sit on problems he has worked on himself.
Pick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingYou watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaThe message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosWorks backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningTell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningPaste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
Work