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The UCSF chancellor made an error in biology and demonstrated skill in avoiding questions. The article criticizes the head of a prestigious health sciences university for lacking basic biological understanding.

New York Democrats are attempting to remove the terms 'mother' and 'father' from official use, arguing these roles are not biologically fixed. The article highlights the debate over whether these terms are rooted in biology or social constructs, with no explicit mention of Governor Hochul's stance.

Singaporean Joel Tan's Harvard Medical School speech discusses how the country's education system might better support 'late bloomers,' highlighting his personal journey of overcoming past academic limitations to pursue biology.

Anthropic shut down access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models following a US Commerce Department directive imposing export controls. The move was prompted by concerns over a jailbreak method bypassing safeguards for cybersecurity, chemistry, and biology-related prompts, leading the administration to request a pause in model releases to strengthen national security measures.

Houston ISD saw its strongest gains in Algebra I and English I on the STAAR assessment, with more modest improvements in Biology and English II. The district's scores largely mirror statewide trends.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful publicly available AI model, but it avoids answering basic biology questions by redirecting to the older Claude Opus 4.8 model. The restriction is by design, as Fable is part of the Mythos-class models deemed too dangerous for cybersecurity tasks, though it retains the capability to answer such questions.

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model, part of the 'Mythos-class' series, includes broad safety safeguards that can block or revert to Opus 4.8 when queries about cybersecurity, biology, or chemistry are flagged. The model's restrictions were implemented to prevent potential misuse in sensitive areas, even if they mistakenly block benign requests.

Anthropic is releasing a public version of its Mythos AI model as Claude Fable 5. The model costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with hard limits on cybersecurity and biology queries.

Anthropic released a guardrailed version of its Mythos model called Fable 5, which blocks answers to cybersecurity and biology-related questions to ensure public safety. The company claims its safeguards withstood hacker testing, though concerns remain about potential jailbreaking attempts. Anthropic also upgraded Mythos 5 for select customers, highlighting its strong cybersecurity capabilities and adjusted pricing.

Thousands of 'dark proteins' have been reclassified as peptideins and added to databases as a new category, which might play a big role in biology. The reclassification was published online in Nature. This discovery could have significant implications for the field of biology.

Quantum computers are being applied to biology, particularly in developing light-sensitive cancer drugs, which won a US$2 million contest. However, quantum machines currently lack a clear advantage over classical computers in this field.