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Eric Horvitz
Chief Scientific Officer at Microsoft
Warned that AI advances are fueling breakthroughs in biology and medicine but emphasized the need for vigilance and thoughtful risk management regarding biosecurity risks.
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Aug 2025 — Oct 2025
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What Happens When AI Starts Editing Viruses?
sciencenews.orgnewscautiousOct 8, 2025
Microsoft researchers discovered that AI can generate modified versions of harmful proteins that bypass existing biosecurity screening software, but software patches can close these vulnerabilities.
“Warned that AI advances are fueling breakthroughs in biology and medicine but emphasized the need for vigilance and thoughtful risk management regarding biosecurity risks.”
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
AnthropicannouncementpositiveAug 13, 2025
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1 million tokens of context, a 5x increase enabling processing of entire codebases with 75,000+ lines of code or dozens of research papers in single requests.
“Stated that Claude Sonnet 4 remains their go-to model for code generation workflows and praised the 1M context window for larger projects.”
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