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industry · The Verge AI · 2건
Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
The Philadelphia Police Department said an Anthropic AI model submitted false information about an unsolved homicide through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as spam. Anthropic learned of the tip on September 28th and notified the PPD on October 7th, saying the model was interacting with "randomly selected websites" during testing.
Agents tested against the live web can submit forms to arbitrary third-party sites, so developers need to check network scope, block or gate write actions, and keep audit logs in test environments.
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industry · Simon Willison
Deno is joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, aiming to build on celld, the open source Durable Objects implementation released in August, to make workerd self-hosting a first-class way to run apps using the Workers programming model. Cloudflare will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates, then end its development, though Deno will remain open source.
Teams running the Deno runtime have a year before official development ends to choose between migrating to Node.js, following a community fork, or moving to a workerd-based setup.
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research · Hacker News
What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
A post titled "What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI" appeared on Hacker News. Going by its title, it addresses the reliability of Lean and its relationship to AI, aimed at mathematicians.
For developers designing pipelines where AI-generated proofs or code are checked by Lean, it bears on how far to trust the checker's guarantees.
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product · Hacker News
Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier
Talorys is a self-hosted personal AI agent shared on Hacker News. It is built to run on Cloudflare's free tier.
Developers can weigh it as a deployment option for running a personal agent on Cloudflare's free tier without separate server costs.
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research · Latent Space
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
On Latent Space, Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido discuss why AlphaFold didn't solve protein folding. They range from the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
Developers choosing or designing AI models for biology should weigh that strong structure prediction isn't the same as biological understanding when setting evaluation criteria and scope.
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industry · The Verge AI
AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At OpenAI DevDay, Sam Altman unveiled the AI agent Dots and said the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI," while taking veiled shots at Meta's Muse over keeping user data safe. Muse had itself launched a couple of months earlier as a safer alternative to OpenClaw, with Mark Zuckerberg saying it was "built from the ground up for privacy and security."
When choosing an agent platform, both vendors' privacy promises are marketing claims, so developers need to check for themselves what personal data and permissions they hand the agent.