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Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils

B1IntermediateJuly 24, 202612 min
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Nature staff discuss the young but deadly dinosaur kings, the prowess of ancient Egyptian princesses, and how London is becoming the world’s AI safety capital. 00:34 London is transforming into an AI-safety hub Nature: A global capital for AI safety is emerging — and it’s not in Silicon Valley 05:52 Bones reveal that ancient Egyptian princesses weren’t pampered Scientific American: Ancient Egyptian princesses were ‘powerful’ weapon users, new analysis suggests 9:30 T. rex was born ready to kill Discover magazine: Fo...

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Hello and welcome to the Briefing Chat podcast, the Friday show where we talk about a couple of articles that have been highlighted in the Nature Briefing, Nature's daily email newsletter of the latest science news. I'm your host Nick Petrichow and joining me today is Lizzie Gibney. Lizzie, how's it going?

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Hi Nick, thanks for having me. Well thank you for coming on and you know I've got a very interesting story I think this week to tell everyone about but I know you've got maybe even more than one to talk to me about tell me what you are most interested to talk to me about this week. Well I'll start with the story

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that I wrote a little bit of bias in there it's a story on how London is becoming an AI capital of the world but a very specific one kind of AI safety is something that London is like carving out a niche in so you might remember the mythos model for Anthropic from a month or two ago that It was like the most powerful model that was released.

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