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"We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable"
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We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable
After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more fire prone.

Study: using weaker AI models to supervise a more capable model could prevent the stronger model from deliberately underperforming on benchmarks and evaluations (Emil Ryd/@emilaryd)
https://x.com/emilaryd/status/2051697625179582606

Emil Ryd (@emilaryd) on X
New paper from MATS, Redwood, and Anthropic! If a capable model is strategically sandbagging, can we train it to stop when the only supervision we have comes from weaker models? We find that we can! Work done as part of the Anthropic-Redwood MATS stream.

OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a "more capable and compute-efficient" architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-memory-dreaming

University of Cambridge researchers say they have developed the first vaccine with a key component entirely designed by AI and subsequently trialed it in humans (James Gallagher/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrpggegwe0o

'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence
Cambridge scientists say they have, for the first time, tested a vaccine designed by AI.

Starlink says that it has 12M "active customers" across 160 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (@starlink)
https://x.com/starlink/status/2062649204359708741

Starlink (@Starlink) on X
Starlink is connecting more than 12M active customers with high-speed internet across 160+ countries, territories and many other markets. Thank you to all our customers around the world! 🛰️🌎❤️ → https://t.co/9VghjFeG1P

Cisco agrees to acquire Astrix Security, which helps companies monitor and control the permissions granted to AI agents, a source says for approximately $400M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/dy5obf581

Cisco acquires AI security startup Astrix for $400 million
The Israeli startup, backed by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic, targets growing risks from non-human identities and autonomous AI agents.

Inside the Trump admin's push to integrate AI into the healthcare system, including an FDA regulatory fast track for digital health tech like AI chatbots (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4vwr1xb

Inside the Trump-backed push to bring AI doctors into American medicine
The administration is laying the groundwork for chatbots that can diagnose illness and prescribe medicine, but physicians say AI can introduce more problems.

Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite frameworks, and says the projects will stay open source (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/

VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.

Kuo: OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its AI agent phone with two NPUs and a custom MediaTek Dimensity 9600 SoC, targeting mass production as early as H1 2027 (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2051523855286776034

郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) on X
【Industry Check Update】OpenAI appears to be fast-tracking its first AI agent phone, with mass production targeted as early as 1H27. Potential drivers include supporting a year-end IPO narrative and intensifying competition in AI agent phones. MediaTek currently appears better

Google has quietly shut down Project Mariner, its Chrome-browsing AI agent for completing tasks on users' behalf, after highlighting it onstage at I/O 2025 (Max Zeff/@zeffmax)
https://x.com/zeffmax/status/2051824497242833234

Max Zeff (@ZeffMax) on X
NEW: Google quietly shut down Project Mariner yesterday, the web-browsing AI agent it highlighted onstage last year at Google IO. I reported for WIRED, nearly 2 months ago, that Google had moved staffers off the Project Mariner team as it responded to OpenClaw-style agents.