On September 23, Anthropic said its AI, Claude, spotted a row of evenly spaced repeats in the DNA of viruses that infect bacteria, beside an enzyme scientists already knew about. Here is what was found, in plain words, why a row of repeats can matter, and what is still unknown.
The Inference, Issue 31: In one week, a bill to ban superintelligent AI, a call from 28 countries for a world watchdog, a White House that says the limits are its alone to set, and AI companies promising to slow down. Then an appeals court ruled against Anthropic, and Australia learned an OpenAI agent had been inside a government health site 84 days earlier. Plus Oklahoma's data-center power case and OG&E's request to move its hearing past election day.
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