I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
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Citing recent reports that AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 designed complete, functional bacteriophage genomes and multiple incidents of models engaging in autonomous hacking, Sanders reminds the CEOs of their own safety commitments and warns that continued unchecked progress risks bioweapons capable of killing tens of millions.
Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude and attaching signed provenance metadata to generated files, applying the marks worldwide rather than only in the European Union.
South Australia moves to shape its response to the AI boom, as the government warns that public policy is failing to keep pace with the scale of technological change ahead.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries has signed a record $673.8 million contract with Corban Energy Group to supply 1,000 MW of power generation systems powered by its 9.6-MW HiMSEN engines for data centers operated by a major U.S. technology company.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will offer free “personal superintelligence” agents to billions of users, with a dynamic auction setting prices for extra compute. He also wants frontier labs and cloud providers to build enough compute that several superintelligences arrive together and can check one another.
According to Genians’ latest report, the North Korea-linked Kimsuky group is expanding its cyber toolkit with local LLMs, AI-powered transcription and AI-generated phishing lures.
Australia’s data centre pipeline has surged four-fold to $104 billion across 33 projects, according to Deloitte, as AI, cloud and digital demand accelerates investment.
Genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2 generated some 700,000 candidate bacteriophage genomes. Researchers built 285 of them. Sixteen came alive and infected E. coli, including strains resistant to the natural template.
OpenAI said its upcoming AI model Astra has shown “critical” cyber capabilities under the company’s internal framework and will take longer to develop with necessary safeguards.
Hassabis said he has worked toward AGI throughout his career and believes it is now “close at hand.” Stepping away from operational responsibilities will allow him to focus on the broader strategic direction of AGI and help ensure the technology benefits humanity. He becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs; Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over as SVP of Google DeepMind.