Science

The UN's AI science panel warned in its first thematic report that there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio cited OpenAI's Hugging Face incident as the first case combining a misaligned goal, the ability to pursue it, and an environment that allowed it, and said leading systems may soon be able to act autonomously.

AI Safety • The Decoder

Anthropic's Claude AI discovered a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats, according to a new life sciences research group at Anthropic. The system was identified from DNA datasets with only high-level direction, and the team is testing it in the lab. This marks a significant advance in AI-driven biological discovery.

Research • Hacker News

Basecamp Research • Series C

Basecamp Research, a UK life sciences startup using AI to develop new medicines, raised $140 million in Series C funding. Investors include Nvidia and new investor Anthropic.