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Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could “kill us all”

When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it’s often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model. But AI researcher Jacob Coxon is using his departure from Anthropic to publicly warn that frontier AI companies are “gambling with our lives” with systems that they “earnestly

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Google’s AI genome system evaluates every possible one-base change

On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas, a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bases long, so trying the other three DNA bases that don’t appear in our reference genome means sending a total of 9 billion bases through

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Sean Jacobsohn, partner at Norwest.

The Sales Test This Norwest Partner Gives Founders Before He’ll Invest

Sean Jacobsohn worked at HR software startups long before he began investing in them. He held senior roles at WageWorks and Cornerstone OnDemand as both companies grew from single-digit millions in revenue to tens of millions, and he also worked at Upwork. All three of which went public. He later became a venture partner at

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