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Science
Anthropic says Claude found a previously uncharacterised enzyme system in bacteriophages. The company says it does not yet know what the system does.
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Measurement
Epoch AI estimates that since 2023 the cost of reaching a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47 percent per quarter. The figures are Epoch's own estimates.
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Power
Governor Gavin Newsom's office has named four advisers to help work out how independent oversight of frontier AI might operate. An emergency shutoff is a proposal under study, not a requirement.
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Care
OpenAI has released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark of 1,215 conversations that runs from everyday well-being to emergencies. The scores it reports are OpenAI's own.
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The ordinary object
Epoch AI has tested whether models can spot mistakes in photographs of IKEA builds. The best score has risen from 28 percent last November to 80 percent.
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