Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King…
Runs the AI Maestro news desk. Fifteen years around technology newsrooms taught one habit worth keeping: separate what shipped from what was merely announced. Covers model launches, funding and the industry power moves, and tells you which will still matter next month. Writes under a pen name, like everyone on the desk.
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King…
The model that didn’t exist, so you made it yourself Last week, I wanted a small version of…
Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112…
Anthropic’s offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It…
This week on Uncanny Valley, Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger dive into how Elon Musk’s America PAC is…
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a…
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published…
Bay Area lettering artist Jesscia Hische knew that when she took a freelance gig to design the M…
Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic’s new TOS Anthropic has updated its…
Claude can now generate animated explainer videos and live data dashboards from text prompts Anthropic launched two new…
