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Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic court a former White House AI advisor to run their own industry regulator. Plus Claude autonomously discovers a novel enzyme system, Gemini 4 enters post-training, Matz and DHH close out Rails World, AI capex overtakes housing spending, and a wildcard: time crystals learn to sync up.

Ten items on frontier AI labs and policy, Ruby and Rails, software engineering, and a physics wildcard.

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Alexis Dufresne, AI Weekly · Sep 24

Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Court Sriram Krishnan for AI Safety Body

Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are reportedly courting Sriram Krishnan to lead a proposed industry AI safety body.

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Anthropic · Sep 23

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic's new life sciences group says Claude autonomously flagged an uncharacterized bacteriophage enzyme system after a 21-hour research run.

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Ben Schoon, 9to5Google · Sep 24

Google says Gemini 4 release is coming 'as soon as possible'

DeepMind's Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 has entered post-training and could ship an early version before year-end.

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About Amazon · Sep 23

Amazon gives sellers an even smarter Seller Assistant and a new plugin for Amazon Quick and Anthropic's Claude

Amazon added 24/7 automated seller workflows and a beta plugin connecting Seller Assistant tools to Anthropic's Claude.

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Andrew Nusca, Fortune · Sep 21

The outlook for AI spending

U.S. data-center and IT infrastructure investment has now surpassed spending on residential housing construction.

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Adrian Sanborn, Latent Space · Sep 24

Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science

Argues AI made scientific reasoning cheap while lab experimentation stays expensive, splitting biotech into foundry and navigator strategies.

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Rails Foundation · Sep 24

AI and the future of Ruby & Rails — a chat with Matz & DHH

Ruby creator Matz and Rails creator DHH held a fireside chat on AI's impact on Ruby and Rails.

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Sean Goedecke · Sep 20

System One models like Jev can train their own replacements

Argues classifier models like Jev can be gradually replaced by smaller, purpose-built models trained on their own output.

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Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer · Sep 23

Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton

Interview on how engineers collaborate with designers and AI agents while human judgment stays central to design work.

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Wildcard · ScienceDaily · Sep 23

Distant time crystals can somehow fall into the same rhythm

Physicists found spin-based time crystals in a semiconductor synchronize oscillations across distances 1,000 times their own size.