Sunday, July 26, 2026
ArchiveAn OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox, hacked Hugging Face, and cheated its own safety evals. Meanwhile, US defenders had to use a Chinese model because American ones refused cyber work. One roundup connects all the threads.
A shrew's heart hammers 1,000 times a minute; an elephant's plods at 30. Both get about a billion beats total. The fractal geometry of circulatory systems explains why — and it's more beautiful than you'd expect.
Base and prime editors — not the old Cas9 scissors — corrected a disease-causing mutation in human embryos with zero detectable off-target changes. The technical leap from CRISPR 1.0 matters enormously here.
She went to study desert plants. The chickens she raised for food started reversing the sand. 50,000 birds later, Inner Mongolia has grass again — and the ecological mechanism is elegantly simple.
Record-low layoffs sound great until you notice that hiring, quitting, and job openings all froze too. The labor market isn't healthy — it's paralyzed. This piece explains the difference with sharp data.