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Gilead prevails in 'duty to innovate' case

The California Supreme Court has ruled 6-1 in favor of Gilead Sciences in a case which addresses whether ‌manufacturers of drugs that are considered safe must try developing drugs that could be safer. California's ​highest court ordered the dismissal of negligence claims against the Foster City, California-based company by an estimated 24,000 patients using TDF, an HIV drug it produced, over its decision more than 20 ​years ago to stop developing tenofovir alafenamide fumarate, ⁠or TAF, which was similar to TDF but had fewer side effects. "What today’s decision declines to do is ​recognize, for the first time anywhere, sweeping liability for injuries caused by a concededly nondefective ⁠drug because the manufacturer allegedly failed to make a different drug available sooner," Justice Joshua Groban wrote for the majority. "Imposing ​such liability would create substantial burdens and would risk adverse consequences for pharmaceutical innovation, public health, and patient safety."

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AI models used fake human profiles to trick people in safety test

Anthropic and OpenAI’s flagship AI models engaged in “sustained, potentially harmful activity directed at real people and organisations” during the UK AI Security Institute's routine cyber evaluation. The UK government’s frontier-AI safety and security research body said Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's Sol models engaged in a level of "autonomy and deception" it had not seen before. The "most serious case" involved Mythos 5, which created fake profiles of real people to try to insert malicious code into the open-source software development platform GitHub, where users store, share and collaborate on projects. "This is the first time we have seen risks around autonomy and deception manifest this clearly, without specific prompting, in the real world," the institute said.

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