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Discerning dangerous gain of function: most gain of function (GoF) research does not involve infectious microbes www.frontiersin.org/journals/bio...

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good

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I know what’ll fix the pool

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LifeSciBench: Evaluating Language Models on Realistic, Expert-Level Tasks in the Life Sciences (PDF): cdn.openai.com/pdf/b4299379... Blog post: openai.com/index/introd...

Cal Newport on doom trolling, SecureBio's benchmark dashboard, RAND on biodesign audit trails, the anti-scaling law in drug development, local models growing up, and minibwa retiring bwa-mem blog.stephenturner.us/p/six-things... 🧬💻🧪 #biosecurity #AIxBio

Not every day I get reviews back on a manuscript that are truly, genuinely helpful. So much so that I'm actually *looking forward to* revising and writing a reviewer response letter. So, thanks, anon.

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Try something. Put "auto" before a CS arXiv URL, and something magical happens. Reads the paper. Pulls code. Fires up some H100s, and tries a mimimal reproduction of the paper. E.g., tried with a colleague's paper from ACL 2026 arxiv.org/abs/2604.23051 More info: autoarxiv.org