Anthropic says Claude found CRISPR-like enzyme system in viral DNA

Quanta profiles Dzmitry Bahdanau, the then-23-year-old intern in Yoshua Bengio's University of Montreal lab who in 2014 helped solve neural machine translation's fixed-memory bottleneck. His attention mechanism, developed with Bengio and postdoc Kyunghyun Cho, underpins everything since ChatGPT's 2022 release.

A Suno user says a track written the same day, backed by FL Studio stems, live guitars and Superior Drummer 3 MIDI, was flagged as copyrighted; stripping drums and second guitar did not clear it.

A 9th-grade developer released Atticus, a Mac assistant triggered by holding Control-Option-Space to speak or type a task. It runs on Claude and is described as fast and cheap.

A r/StableDiffusion user posted sketch-to-image outputs generated with H3 Minimax, noting composition and head angles matter most. The user observed the model sometimes forces sketch shapes onto subjects with short or thin hair, suggesting looser strokes over clear lines.

A Reddit user in r/OpenAI reports their credit card was charged for a Claude Pro upgrade, after which Claude requested a photo of their government ID to complete the upgrade. They say their account was blocked after they refused.