An incredible breakthrough in synthetic biology. It has overall been a great year for scientific progress. nytimes.com/interactive/20
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Quanta has a good writeup, as always:
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Update: I've joined and taken leave from the university. Excited to work with many talented, mission-driven people on the defining technology of our time.
A lot to unpack here. Anthropic is burying some hard truths in careful political language. Some initial reads:
1) Anthropic verifies that none of the jailbreaks provided a capability beyond what many other models, including Chinese models, could do.
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Claude Fable 5 will be available again globally tomorrow.
After a series of productive conversations with the US government, we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding
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I haven't said much recently about what I'm working on, but since this article is out now, I might as well say a few things. 
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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI, are now making money for quant hedge funds techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the