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Hugging Face Releases Open-Source DNA Model Carbon-X, Runs Locally on a Laptop

Hugging Face on Thursday released the open-source DNA understanding model Carbon-X, which can run locally on a laptop, letting users ask in natural language how DNA changes affect gene activity and health. The model was developed in collaboration with researchers at Zhongguancun Academy and the University of Naples Federico II; it extends the vocabulary of an existing language model to read DNA in six-letter units and was further trained on 300 billion tokens of DNA sequences, English text, and samples pairing DNA with biological descriptions. The model has 14B parameters and can process sequences of about 50,000 base pairs at a time; it cannot upload a complete human genome. The developers also note that the prediction accuracy has not yet been validated through wet-lab experiments.

Artificial Analysis releases AA-PersonalityBench sycophancy evaluation

Artificial Analysis launches AA-PersonalityBench, which evaluates the sycophantic personality trait of models. The three oldest models tested—GPT-4o, Llama 4 Maverick, and GPT-3.5 Turbo—ranked highest, while Grok 4.7, Claude Fable 5.1, and Inkling ranked lowest. All five Meta models tested scored above 65 (Llama 4 Maverick 97, Muse Spark 1.3 87, Muse Glimmer 79, Muse Spark Open 76, Muse Wonder 65), all Claude models scored 55 or below, and Grok 4.7 was the lowest overall.

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Anthropic proposes draft AI safety bill that would block model releases when risk of 50+ deaths exists

Anthropic has pitched a draft AI safety bill to Congress that would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk that could cause 50 or more deaths or more than $1 billion in property damage. The risk must stem from the manufacture of bioweapons, the model evading its developer's control, or cyberattacks. The draft requires an independent evaluator registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce to determine the risk; the evaluator must report within 72 hours, after which the Commerce Department would apply to a Washington, D.C., judge for an order to halt the release. Federal agencies would not be allowed to decide on blocking a release themselves.

Idealab founder Bill Gross opens free access to 1.2 million AI-generated business ideas

Idealab founder and CEO Bill Gross has launched idealab.ai, offering free access to 1.2 million AI-generated business ideas. These ideas were generated by combining 31 ideation methodologies with roughly 17 million source documents, including news articles, research reports, expired patents, public company filings, and community discussions. Users can search by industry, skill, interest, and region, and can also upload a résumé or LinkedIn profile to receive personalized ideas. Gross believes the surge in entrepreneurship brought about by AI can partially offset its impact on employment.

Eka Robotics raises $150 million at a $14.5 billion valuation to build robotic hands with a sense of touch

Eka Robotics has completed a $150 million Series A funding round at a $14.5 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Fidelity's F-Prime. Its vision-force-action model uses force sensors in custom grippers to sense grip strength, allowing it to adjust its hold mid-grasp when an object slips. The robot can pick up about 1,500 objects per hour that are outside its training data, compared with a human baseline of about 600. The gripper costs less than $1,000 and is currently rated for 5 million work cycles; the company aims to raise that to 20 million, the standard for industrial robotic arms.

Sam Altman Reportedly Presented Three AI Safety Endgame Options to Employees

The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman last week internally proposed three AI safety paths: establishing a regulatory body modeled on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a lab merger plan known as the Demis Plan, and a single-developer compute monopoly plan known as the Eliezer Plan. Altman also complained that there are too few speed-limit proposals for AI development, while noting that OpenAI cannot afford to fall behind in the competition, and plans to decide on an IPO path within a year. The United States currently relies on voluntary pre-review of new models, and in June imposed export controls on Anthropic on the grounds that the Fable model posed a jailbreak risk.

a16z Leads Eka Robotics Series A Funding

a16z announced it has led the Series A funding round of Eka Robotics, betting on its approach to solving the challenge of robotic dexterous manipulation. Eka builds a Vision-Force-Action model that combines visual perception with robotic hand force feedback, and trains manipulation policies with reinforcement learning in physical simulation, enabling robots to obtain information from contact itself and correct in real time when slipping or insertion is obstructed. The founding team includes Pulkit Agrawal of MIT CSAIL and Tuomas Haarnoja, co-proposer of Soft Actor-Critic.

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