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Anthropic's Jack Clark argues that, while he is optimistic about AI's progress, the industry must do a better job of listening to people's concerns about it (Jack Clark/Import AI)
https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-431-technological-optimism…

Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
What do we do if AI progress keeps happening?

Anthropic AI cofounder Jack Clark: Technological optimism and appropriate fear https://jack-clark.net/2025/10/13/import-ai-431-technological-optimism-and-appropriate-fear/ (archived at

Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
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Not necessarily to believe and he is ignoring some of the large problems, but this blog by the co-founder of AI gives a good impression of the mindset of many people in the AI industry.
https://jack-clark.net/2025/10/13/import-ai-431-technological-…

Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear
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Exploring and Exploiting the Resource Isolation Attack Surface of WebAssembly Containers
Zhaofeng Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Dongyang Zhan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Lin Ye (Harbin Institute of Technology), Haining Yu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Hongli Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Zhihong Tian (Guangzhou University)
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Exploring and Exploiting the Resource Isolation Attack Surface of WebAssembly Containers
Recently, the WebAssembly (or Wasm) technology has been rapidly evolving, with many runtimes actively under development, providing cross-platform secure sandboxes for Wasm modules to run as portable containers. Compared with Docker, which isolates applications at the operating system level, Wasm runtimes provide more security mechanisms, such as linear memory, type checking, and protected call stacks. Although Wasm is designed with security in mind and considered to be a more secure container r…

How AI-powered tools like PainChek, an app that scans a person's face for tiny muscle movements, are helping healthcare providers better assess patients' pain (Deena Mousa/MIT Technology Review)

AI is changing how we quantify pain
Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
We’re launching a new 27 billion parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on the Gemma family of open models.

Google introduces Veo 3.1, with improved audio output and stronger prompt adherence, and rolls out new updates to its AI video editor Flow (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/ai/veo-updates-flow/

Introducing Veo 3.1 and advanced capabilities in Flow
Today, we’re introducing new and enhanced creative capabilities to edit your clips.

Tech whistleblowers like Yaël Eisenstat say coming forward has unexpectedly derailed their lives and careers; Meta is in litigation with Sarah Wynn-Williams (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/15/big-tech-whist…

Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolation
After exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poor job prospects and isolation in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.

An internal Google email said it received many complaints over Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled the ads could remain online (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/15/israel-ads-youtube-famine…

As famine struck Gaza, Google let Israel run YouTube ads claiming, ‘There is food’
An internal Google email said it received many complaints about Israeli government YouTube ads about food access in Gaza, but ruled they could remain online.

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/technology/ai-venture-capital-big-fun…

In A.I. Boom, Venture Capital Firms Are Raising Loads More Money
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley venture firm, has amassed more than $9 billion to invest in artificial intelligence. That is its biggest haul.