Can we understand the mechanisms of a frontier AI model?

📝 Blog post: www.anthropic.com/research/tra...
🧪 "Biology" paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
⚙️ Methods paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...

Featuring basic multi-step reasoning, planning, introspection and more!

Something you don't see every day!
Digitizing the human proteome in >53,000 individuals with 15-year follow-up and, with machine learning, unraveling nearly 500 disease-causing proteins
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
open-access

Looking back on 2024, science writers at the Office of Communications picked some of the most significant scientific achievements at Stanford Medicine.

I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.

In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.

What are some good sci-fi books for a winter break reading list for novels involving AI? I'll start: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. www.goodreads.com/book/show/54...

New work from my team at Anthropic in collaboration with Redwood Research. I think this is plausibly the most important AGI safety result of the year. Cross-posting the thread below:

Just over a week to go until our virtual open day on 13th. We've made a little video about the DTC to help potential applicants get a feel for what life might be like doing a PhD, and demystify Oxford. youtu.be/Pq9KRWM0i4M. To sign up for the open day visit www.ilesla.ox.ac.uk. Please share ❤

“On a log-log plot, my grandmother fits on a straight line.”
-Physicist Fritz Houtermans

There's a lot of truth to this. log-log plots are often abused and can be very misleading

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A common question nowadays: Which is better, diffusion or flow matching? 🤔

Our answer: They’re two sides of the same coin. We wrote a blog post to show how diffusion models and Gaussian flow matching are equivalent. That’s great: It means you can use them interchangeably.

Let's talk about the cross-eyed king of regeneration, the planaria.

A single organism can be cut into 279 pieces, and after a few weeks, you'll have 279 new planarians (take that, Ship of Theseus!).

Their Wolverine-like powers come from "neoblasts", specialized stem cells...

Reminder that the deadline is on December 6th. Email me with any questions.

Hello BlueSky! Joao Henriques (joao.science) and I are hiring a fully funded PhD student (UK/international) for the FAIR-Oxford program. The student will spend 50% of their time @UniofOxford and 50% @MetaAI (FAIR) in London, while completing a DPhil (Oxford PhD). Deadline: 2nd of Dec AOE!!

Just started my DPhil, a group of us with varied backgrounds are meeting weekly to discuss all things AI/life-science. Began today with ‘Attention is all you need’ paper, next week Alpha-fold coupling analysis, any suggestions welcome 🙏

📝Admissions for our STATML are now open!
⏱️Deadline: 8th Jan '25

STATML is an @EPSRC funded CDT in Statistics & Machine Learning. Studentships are fully funded for a 4-year PhD/DPhil research programme.

🔗For more info, please visit: statml.io

Just jumped, hoping this place is good for AI/life-science research discussions and the odd post to make me smile