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★ Must ReadGoogle DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start

During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.

Why social media bans are gaining steam
Platformer

How a recent talk by researcher Candice Odgers explains why ban critics are losing

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Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs
The Verge AI

At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions," and touted a long list of biotech and pharma customers already using Claude. Anthropic also went a step further, saying it would develop drugs of its … Read the full story at The Verge.

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★ Must ReadVercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software

The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.

The website of the future may assemble itself for every visitor

Adobe is experimenting with “agentic sites” that generate pages around an individual user’s intent. At AIEWF, we talked to Carlos Sanchez about the Web's future.

Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI design

Paul Bakaus talks to us about Impeccable, human judgment in a 'loopmaxxing' era, and why agents still need people to steer them.

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New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

Trending on Hacker News with 58 points and 12 comments.

The myth of the AI moat: Why tech giants are bleeding into each other's territory

OpenAI is doing hardware, Nvidia is doing models, xAI is doing data centers, Google is doing everything.

★ Must ReadAIEWF Daily Dispatch: The great loops debate and the state of AI engineering

The AI Engineer World’s Fair ended with a debate about loops, a report on the state of AI engineering, and closing keynotes focused on what to build next.

Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start
Joel Khalili, WIRED AI
The Briefing: AI for Science
Robert Hart, The Verge AI
The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
Natasha Lomas, Romain Dillet, Kyle Wiggers, Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI