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Six Things: June 18, 2026
Cal Newport on doom trolling, SecureBio's benchmark dashboard, RAND on biodesign audit trails, the anti-scaling law in drug development, local models…
Jun 18
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things (June 5, 2026): AIxBio, and a Red Alert for US Science
Open-closed model gap, evals in the biorisk hierarchy, DARPA AI Forge, refusal benchmarks, OpenAI’s Rosalind Biodefense
Jun 5
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things (May 29, 2026): AI & writing, ESM
Writing and thinking, the despair of the professor, ESMFold2 and a world model of proteins, Pope Leo on AI, NIH’s foreign co-author crackdown
May 29
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Stephen D. Turner
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OpenScholar Synthesizes Scientific Literature and Reduces Hallucitations
An open-source small AI model from Allen Institute beats previous-generation frontier models in literature review and synthesis, and reduces…
May 25
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things (May 23, 2026): AI in life sciences
Jassi Pannu on AI and biosecurity, RAND/Helena AIxBio biosecurity mitigations, Blekhman on genomics AI, Nature’s AI scientists week, AI in peer review.
May 22
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things (May 15, 2026): AI is why we can't have nice things
GitHub problems, vibe coding regrets, Elsevier sues Meta, fabricated citations, the arXiv banhammer for AI-generated content
May 15
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Stephen D. Turner
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Five Things: May 7, 2026
BioMysteryBench, the Mythos vetting U-turn, USC’s $200M AI bet, Yihui Xie on AI coding, NIH Highlighted Topics
May 7
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Stephen D. Turner
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Weekly Recap (April 24, 2026)
ggsql, web to markdown, Claude Code pricing, GPT-5.5, AIxBio hackathon ideas, flu vaccine, NIH, Qwen, AI literacy, biosecurity, research security.
Apr 24
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Stephen D. Turner
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Weekly Recap (April 17, 2026)
Opus 4.7, GPT-Rosalind for bio, what's a PhD for?, NIH chatbot research, code review for data, git, Sam Altman, Satoshi Nakamoto, Posit Assistant vs…
Apr 17
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Stephen D. Turner
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FOCUS Prompt for Summarizing Academic Papers
Trying a very detailed prompt from the FOCUS paper (find, organize, condense, understand and synthesize) for summarizing academic papers.
Apr 15
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Stephen D. Turner
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Weekly Recap (April 2, 2026)
AI automating AI research, AI + being PI, DL course, Neion Bio, NIH highlighted topics, TIP, Python type checking in Positron, R updates, biosecurity…
Apr 2
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Weekly Recap (March 27, 2026)
NSF AI readiness, AGI forecasts, White House AI policy framework, NIH genomics technology, statistical rethinking, context anchoring, R+Quarto, NOFO…
Mar 27
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Stephen D. Turner
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