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Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

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The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…

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Do Synthetic Personas Predict Real Audience Response? A Sim-to-Real Study Where a No-Persona Baseline Beats Persona-Based Copy Simulation

arXiv:2609.25010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Marketers increasingly use large language models (LLMs) as "synthetic personas" to predict how an audience will react to a piece of copy before it ships, encouraged by evidence that profile-conditioned LLMs mimic human samples. But is that prediction actually valid against real behaviour - and does the persona machinery help? We present a sim-to-real validity study using the Upworthy Research Archive - thousands of headline A/B tests on shared real traffic, with measured click-through - as held-out ground truth. We compare a ten-persona panel, grounded in the real audience's demographics, against a no-persona zero-shot baseline that simply asks the model how likely a typical reader is to click. Two findings stand out. First, ground-truth reliability is the binding constraint: most A/B tests have no statistically distinguishable winner, so validity can only be measured on the reliable subset (n = 399). Second, and counter to the persona-simulation premise, persona conditioning degrades predictive validity: the no-persona baseline ranks variants markedly better (Kendall {\tau} = 0.361, a medium effect; top-1 accuracy 49.2%) than the per

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Do Existing Preconditioners Improve Biomedical Tabular Foundation Learning? An Empirical Study on TabPFN Optimization

arXiv:2609.25013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models have recently shown strong potential for structured biomedical data analysis. Among them, TabPFN has emerged as an effective approach for low-data tabular classification tasks. However, the impact of optimization and preconditioning strategies on biomedical fine-tuning remains largely unexplored. In this work, we present a comprehensive empirical investigation of five AdamW-based preconditioning strategies for fine-tuning TabPFN v2.5 on 59 biomedical datasets spanning Alzheimer's disease, breast cancer, schizophrenia, significant memory concern (SMC), KEEL biomedical datasets, and UCI biomedical benchmarks. The evaluation considers predictive performance, computational efficiency, and statistical significance analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that the original AdamW optimizer consistently achieves the best overall performance and statistical ranking, while existing curvature-aware preconditioners fail to provide reliable improvements across diverse biomedical learning scenarios. The findings suggest that generic preconditioning approaches may not adequately capture the optimization characteristics of

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