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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/11/anthropic-christians-claude-morals/

The company hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia and the business world at its headquarters in late March for a two-day summit that included discussion sessions and a private dinner with senior Anthropic researchers, according to four participants who spoke with The Washington Post.

Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how the chatbot should respond to users who are grieving loved ones and whether Claude could be considered a “child of God.”

Really deep dive into an increasingly important question. https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-we-tell-ourselves-scary-stories-about-ai-20260410/

"Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models....After talking to experts, I was convinced there’s no reason to fear AIs developing a will to live, and then tricking or destroying us to avoid shutdown and take over the world. Unless, of course, we tell them to."

We matter!!

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-ai-scans-reddit-flag-overlooked.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00108-y

Social media can reveal patient experiences with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) that extend beyond clinical trial data. We analysed 410,198 Reddit posts (May 2019–June 2025) mentioning semaglutide or tirzepatide. A total of 67,008 users self-reported using these medications, and 43.5% described at least one side effect. Gastrointestinal symptoms predominated, including nausea (36.9%), fatigue (16.7%), vomiting (16.3%), constipation (15.3%) and diarrhoea (12.6%). Notably, reproductive symptoms (for example, menstrual irregularities) and temperature-related complaints (for example, chills and hot flushes) emerged as unrecognized potential effects. These findings highlight patient concerns not well captured in current labelling or trials. Large-scale social media analysis can complement traditional pharmacovigilance by detecting emerging safety signals and expanding understanding of the real-world safety profile of GLP-1 RAs.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents

This part struck me as interesting. Modularizing agent components? "We virtualized the components of an agent: a session (the append-only log of everything that happened), a harness (the loop that calls Claude and routes Claude’s tool calls to the relevant infrastructure), and a sandbox (an execution environment where Claude can run code and edit files). This allows the implementation of each to be swapped without disturbing the others...

The solution we arrived at was to decouple what we thought of as the “brain” (Claude and its harness) from both the “hands” (sandboxes and tools that perform actions) and the “session” (the log of session events). Each became an interface that made few assumptions about the others, and each could fail or be replaced independently...

In Managed Agents, the session provides this same benefit, serving as a context object that lives outside Claude’s context window. But rather than be stored within the sandbox or REPL, context is durably stored in the session log. The interface, getEvents(), allows the brain to interrogate context by selecting positional slices of the event stream. The interface can be used flexibly, allowing the brain to pick up from wherever it last stopped reading, rewinding a few events before a specific moment to see the lead up, or rereading context before a specific action."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/08/1135398/mustafa-suleyman-ai-future/

Consider that leading labs are growing capacity at nearly 4x annually. Since 2020, the compute used to train frontier models has grown 5x every year. Global AI-relevant compute is forecast to hit 100 million H100-equivalents by 2027, a tenfold increase in three years. Put all this together and we’re looking at something like another 1,000x in effective compute by the end of 2028. It’s plausible that by 2030 we’ll bring an additional 200 gigawatts of compute online every year—akin to the peak energy use of the UK, France, Germany, and Italy put together.

What does all this get us? I believe it will drive the transition from chatbots to nearly human-level agents—semiautonomous systems capable of writing code for days, carrying out weeks- and months-long projects, making calls, negotiating contracts, managing logistics. Forget basic assistants that answer questions. Think teams of AI workers that deliberate, collaborate, and execute. Right now we’re only in the foothills of this transition, and the implications stretch far beyond tech. Every industry built on cognitive work will be transformed.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01024-7

Ye olde Yamanaka factors are leading to more innovations. This one's on eyesight. Funny it didn't come out of Bezos et al.'s Altos Labs--I thought they were the frontierest lab.