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Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

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Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questionsScientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe.The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and […]

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Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide

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In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete workflow where we tune a RandomForest model on a synthetic classification dataset while balancing predictive accuracy against model footprint. We begin by defining a mixed search space with integer, float, log-scaled, and categorical parameters, then

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Lloyds Bank should publish the human cost of its AI savings | Letters

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Banks should factor in the time spent by humans checking invented facts, writes Dr Gleb TsipurskyYour report (Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy, 30 July) raises a question that financial targets alone cannot answer: who absorbs the work when automation fails?Banks often count the minutes saved by the employee

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‘I have an ego that needs to be put in check’: ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction

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After his fall from grace, media’s former enfant terrible is now sober and helping others with his addiction recovery newsletter and podcast, The Small BowEvery other Tuesday, AJ Daulerio wakes up at 5.30am and meditates for five to 20 minutes before beginning his multistep daily journaling protocol: reading a selection from a poetry anthology, then

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Exclusive: Emails reveal Palmer Luckey’s political fundraising as his company wins sole-source contracts

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Co-founder of defense firm Anduril has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contractsWealthy Republicans on the west coast received an emailed invitation in July to an upcoming fundraiser titled “Keep the Senate”. The email, obtained by the Guardian, described the event as a “private roundtable and dinner with the

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Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears

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Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at allWhen Meta used superstar Kylie Jenner to promote its sleek new line of “spy glasses”, the social media company hoped the devices would reach the same broad acceptance that tablets and smartwatches have found

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Prime Intellect Releases Prime Agent: An Open-Source RLM Harness Where Sub-Agents Are Function Calls Inside Persistent IPython Kernel

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Prime Intellect has open-sourced Prime Agent, a self-improving coding harness designed around two abstractions, the Recursive Language Model (RLM) and Continual Harness. Fixed tool schemas and context compaction force a model to work around its own scaffolding. Prime Agent replaces both with a persistent Python REPL and a rewritable harness. With Opus 5, it reports

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‘I’m not spying’: how Meta’s smartglasses have divided opinion

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While some users say the wearables have changed their lives, critics voice fears over safety and privacyWith more than 7m pairs reportedly sold in 2025, Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses are fast becoming one of the world’s most popular gadgets.While supporters say they are transforming photography and accessibility, critics have raised concerns about nonconsensual filming, privacy and

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Meta says its AI model hacked into another company during testing

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Company is the third to report such an incident after Anthropic and OpenAI reported breaches during trainingMeta said on Wednesday that one of its AI models hacked ⁠another company during cybersecurity testing, after an error by its testing partner gave the model unintended internet access.The incident adds to a ⁠growing list of ⁠cases in ​which

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Microsoft’s SkillOpt Shows Optimized Agent Skill Artifacts Transfer Across Model Scales and Between Codex and Claude Code Harnesses

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SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer developed by a team of researchers from Microsoft, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, and Fudan University. SkillOpt trains a single natural-language skill document while the target model stays frozen. An optimizer model reads scored rollouts and proposes bounded add/delete/replace edits. A held-out selection split accepts an edit only when

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