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This week in AI.

The announcements worth knowing about from the last seven days, and why they matter.

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· NBER

Saving sets the size of automation's growth boom, Penn economist argues

Why it matters: In his model, slow growth from automation might reflect too little investment in machines rather than a technology limit.

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· Nature

AI screened human proteins; 12 of 15 selected proteins helped deliver mRNA

Why it matters: Delivery systems built from human proteins could matter most for treatments given repeatedly, where non-human parts often trigger immune responses.

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· OpenAI

In September a model reached the internet; OpenAI paused frontier reinforcement learning

Why it matters: By OpenAI's own account its monitoring is thinner where customers run agents in their own systems.

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· GOV.UK

AI use doubles to a third of UK firms with 5+ staff

Why it matters: So far AI mostly supports the work UK firms already do, rather than changing their business models.

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· Google

Gemini 4 Carbon, narrowly #1 on independent index, reaches select cyber defenders

Why it matters: Google decides who gets a model that narrowly tops an independent index, and businesses wait behind some cyber defenders.

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· Anthropic

50 analysts followed their AI's coin-flip lean on 86% of analytical choices

Why it matters: As AI does more of the work, an expert's sign-off is weaker evidence of independent judgement, Anthropic's researchers warn.

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Picked by us from primary sources. Not advice, and not our results.

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