AI's impact on various sectors dominated headlines this week, with developments ranging from market disruptions and advancements in AI models to breakthroughs in biotech and agentic AI safety. The stock market experienced volatility, and researchers continued to push the boundaries of AI capabilities.
The market saw a significant downturn, with a trillion dollars in market cap wiped out before partially recovering, according to Time. This was largely attributed to AI company Anthropic's release of new add-ons for its AI model, Claude, which can perform functions traditionally handled by software providers. Shares of software-as-a-service companies like Adobe, Intuit, and Salesforce declined sharply, as reported by Time, while legacy tech giants with large AI businesses also felt the impact.
Simultaneously, the field of AI witnessed advancements. Researchers developed a new technique called TTT-Discover, allowing AI models to adapt and learn during inference, as highlighted by Vox. This progress comes amid ongoing discussions about AI's potential to reshape various industries.
In the biotech sector, AI is poised to revolutionize clinical trials. Ben Liu, CEO of Formation Bio, an AI company in the biotech space, noted that the real limiting factor in bringing new medicine to patients is the running of clinical trials, which can take years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, as reported by Time.
Meanwhile, in the realm of agentic AI safety, a GitHub repository by DesoPK, titled "Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamers Take on Agentic AI Safety," proposed a shift in focus. The author argued that the industry's attempts to make agents trustworthy are failing. Instead, the focus should be on "hard, kernel-enforced limits on authority that keep any agent, aligned, confused, or malicious, from ever getting god mode by accident," according to the GitHub repository. This is an engineering argument, not a moral one.
In other news, a correction was issued to a Nature article regarding environmentally driven immune imprinting, with updated images provided in the HTML and PDF versions.
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