DAILYCALLER (Sean Moran) - Anthropic Reveals How It Stopped ‘Kamikaze Drone’ Swarms, Biological Weapons And More
‘Emerging threats’
NYTIMES (Dustin Volz) - Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
AXIOS (Adriel Bettelheim) - AI giants lean into health care to stall public backlash
AI has an image problem . And one way to fix it is for top companies to dive headlong into health care. Why it matters: Saving the world with AI-designed cures is better than being blamed for ruining the environment or driving up Americans' utility bills. - But even the most advanced AI models can't produce miracle treatments at the moment — and could create serious security risks if they try. - That could set up a fraught debate over the next two or three years about the allocation of resources and whether the benefits of throwing vast amounts of computing capacity into medical research outweigh the costs. Driving the news: The Wall Street Journal reported this month that Anthropic was trying to shore up investor confidence ahead…
JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - CIA obtained germs used by Fauci’s institute, which provided cover for its involvement in biodefense
The CIA reportedly used funds to leverage pre-existing civilian research efforts in a way that would benefit both the CIA and NIH, and the unclassified research would be "used to augment and complement” CIA research and development.
DAILYCALLER (Dylan Kresak) - AI Could Supercharge Biological Weapons ‘Ten Times’ Scale Of COVID, Report Warns
‘might lower the technical, operational, and motivational barriers’
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - How AI could cure disease - and create new ones
Nick Bostrom, philosopher and author of the New York Times bestseller “Superintelligence”, warns that the AI models built to design new drugs carry the same capability to help design new pathogens and explains why safeguards can be stripped out.
AXIOS (Caitlin Owens) - A roadmap for safeguarding against AI bioweapons
AI-enabled bioweapons are a potentially catastrophic yet manageable risk — if government, the scientific community, the public health sector and leading tech companies can develop appropriate safeguards, a new report argues. Why it matters: The debate over AI and public safety isn't one that the health care or research communities can ignore. Driving the news: A RAND report out this week outlines nine mitigation strategies targeting a range of actors who could use AI to design and release a biological weapon. - While there's already considerable debate about government oversight and safeguards around frontier AI companies, RAND calls for more controls and a wide range of cross-industry cooperation. - It recommends protecting the same…
AXIOS (Jim VandeHei) - Behind the Curtain: The AI titans' biggest private fear
We ask almost every AI architect and leader the same thing in private: What AI risk worries you most? - Almost all of them fire back the same response: a killer pathogen, spreading too silently, widely and quickly to stop. Why it matters: The rare agreement among AI experts flows from the belief these advanced models could help a bad actor create a deadly pathogen before the government and industry perfect detection and prevention systems. This isn't a likely scenario. And some of AI's biggest optimists reject doom scenarios. - It's simply a plausible one as AI gets better at understanding our biological vulnerabilities, much like it has our cyber ones inside large nonhuman systems. Driving the news: The experts aren't hedging. In a new…
AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Trump administration lifts restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5
The Trump administration plans to lift export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model as soon as Tuesday night, a U.S. official tells Axios. Why it matters: The decision, eagerly awaited by AI developers, restores public access to the company's powerful Mythos-class model that had been pulled for security reasons 18 days ago. Driving the news: Last week, the Trump administration allowed Anthropic to restore access to Mythos 5 for a select group of government-approved organizations. - Sources also told Axios last week Fable 5 could return as soon as this week. The big picture: The U.S. government's desired role in regulating and evaluating frontier AI models before release is still up in the air — creating an ad hoc…
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - The secret history of Lyme disease the US government doesn't want you to know | Unreported
Nearly half a million Americans are diagnosed with Lyme disease every year, and ER tick bite visits are hitting the highest levels since 2017. So why does it feel like nobody is sounding the alarm? And why is Congress now ordering a federal watchdog to dig through decades of classified Cold War military records searching for answers? In this episode of "Unreported," Meagan Medick sits down with author Kris Newby, who wrote "Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons" and is a senior producer on the Oscar semi-finalist documentary "Under Our Skin." Together, they examine documented evidence that the U.S. government experimented on ticks as potential Cold War bioweapons, the whistleblower testimony of the scientist who…