Research & Industry
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
César de la Fuente’s lab uses Codex and ChatGPT to search living and extinct genomes for antimicrobial candidates to fight drug-resistant infections.
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
Show HN: AI Brand Visibility for Free Forever
Suppose you have a brand you care about — your own business or a nice business you are a fan of. I built a thing which lets you see what…
The AI policy window is open. We need to act.
Chris Lehane argues that stronger AI capabilities require stronger safety evidence, shared standards, and durable policy action while the policy window remains open.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
Paul Christiano joins the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that…
‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that…
Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
I'm feeling extremely depressed and anxious lately. After seeing Astra saturating ARC-AGI-3 and blowing through many other benchmarks, it's hard to believe we won't have a strong form of AGI…
Show HN: Can you tell a real tweet of a certain user from an AI one?
Just a small game I coded up for research. After some limited tests, people tend to pick the AI-written post as the real one more than 55% of the time,…
OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
Show HN: P(doom) – AI safety parody of DOOM 64
I had astra build a DOOM 64 clone where you play as elizier fighting hordes of misaligned AI demons • the goal is to reach the shutdown button • it's…
Show HN: Mu, two-minute visualized lessons on modern AI
Hi HN, I am Sreedath Panat. A year ago, I had started a habit of making small explainer videos of 2-3 minutes to help me understand, in a nutshell, some…
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
Show HN: Oconee Runtime – Policy enforcement for browser AI and coding agents
AI agents are changing the enterprise security boundary. Prompt-level controls are no longer enough when AI can execute commands, modify files, invoke tools, and act against enterprise resources.
OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting
Edelson PC is filing 30 new lawsuits against OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge shooting, escalating claims to aiding and abetting and naming Chris Lehane, though evidence remains unconfirmed.
Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT
ChatGPT can now connect to trusted healthcare data, helping clinicians securely access patient context, medical research, and more.
Show HN: 10x token savings for AI Web Scraping
I have been working on this problem for 6 months. Makra brings down the cost of web scraping by quite a lot, using novel memory and layout caching mechanisms. Currently…
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a…
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply chain risk label
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington.
Show HN: OpenWand – A mission to remove chat interface from working with AI
Hi everyone, I'm working on OpenWand, an "LLM chat interface" that is optimized for AI co-work. Its function is to truly integrate AI into your workflow, so no more switching…
Ask HN: AI agent acts. Your logs say so. But you wrote the logs
Hi I am really lost here, if you are deploying AI agents in production, how are you handling auditability? also what would make you trust an external witness protocol? fo…