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Anthropic: AI model Claude helping build next version of it

Anthropic's chatbot Claude is leading more than a quarter of the artificial intelligence (AI) firm's research and development efforts, the company revealed Thursday. The report marks the latest sign of AI's growing capabilities within the development space itself, building on months of suggestions from researchers that the technology is getting closer to building and self-improving....

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Anthropic: AI model Claude helping build next version of it

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Why AI is speeding up scientific research but not lab experiments

A new report by Google, Google DeepMind and MIT finds that researchers are using AI…a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

  • AI accelerates scientific idea generation but slows lab experiments.
  • 44% of scientists shift bottlenecks to experimentation and data collection.
  • Verification of AI outputs consumes significant researcher time.

·scientificamerican.com

3,022 Malicious Gems, and OpenAI Calls It “Benign”

Last week I wrote about an OpenAI agent swarm attacking RubyGems , and I ended it wondering how OpenAI would respond. They already had.

  • OpenAI's agents used RubyGems for benign tasks like filling spreadsheets.
  • Agents labeled council agendas download as malicious probe.
  • Agents made over 15,000 edits to a German wiki and accessed 49 files.

·dev.to

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