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White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job – Slashdot
It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's "Mythos". To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked at OpenAI and...
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Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser...
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FDA Gives Green Light To the First Gene Therapy For Deafness – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very...
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This Professor Converts Visualization Into Discovery
When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an extraordinary journey that began far from the world’s technology hubs.Wang was born in a small farming village in...
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AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials
Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold has already revolutionized scientists’ understanding of proteins. Now, the ability of the platform to design safe and effective drugs is about to be put to the test.Isomorphic Labs, the UK-based biotech spinoff of Google DeepMind, will...
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Sony’s table tennis robot made me think about what happens when AI gets a body
I wanted to dismiss Sony’s table tennis robot as another expensive lab flex. A machine that can rally against elite players is impressive, sure, but it also sounds like the kind of demo built to make executives clap in...
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Is stem cell therapy about to transform medicine and reverse ageing?
I’ve covered the ageing field for many years and seen a lot of promising rejuvenation therapies get hyped up...
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US Special Forces Soldier Arrested for Polymarket Bets on Maduro Raid
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more...
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Rednote Draws a Line Between China and the World
Some Rednote users have reported that their accounts were automatically converted from the Chinese to the international version of the website recently. One American user, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid being punished by the platform, shared a...
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Catching a cold can delay cancer from spreading to the lungs
Respiratory infections seem to temporarily reduce the spread of cancer to the lungs from elsewhere in the body. Infecting...
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Trump cancels US envoys’ trip to Pakistan for talks on Iran war
Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve...