AI news archive
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- TechCrunch AIpolicyCrusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
- TechCrunch AImodelsGoogle DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public
- BBC TechnologycommunityThe virtual worlds where robots are trained
Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.
- LessWrongstartupsIf METR is overworked, how to alleviate the bottleneck?
I share the skepticism re: "Is METR a Meaningful Check on Anthropic?" Let's take it as a given that we need an independent, government-funded agency involving thousands of independent auditors to pace and supervise the f…
- Engadget AIagentsGoogle's revamped CC is an AI agent for families and groups
CC gives an AI agent its own Google account in your family or group and sends all members a daily briefing.
- The Register AI + MLagentsAI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
- TechCrunch AImodelsPrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
- Engadget AImodelsAnthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work
The company shared the stat alongside three measurements that help communicate the pace of AI development.
- WIRED AIsafetyHere’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
- TechCrunch AImodelsThe FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.
- Ars Technica AIagentsSmall AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
- LessWrongopen-sourceThe J-lens offset is the model's token frequency: z-scoring helps
This is a linkpost for the write-up on my site ; the full body is below, and the code, decisions ledger and devlog are in the repo . Base-model z-score calibration of the J-lens helps elicit hidden secret words from Cywi…
- LessWrongcommunityGrantmakers aren’t afraid to die
The AI Risk grantmakers do not act like they believe in imminent existential risk from AI The idea of "revealed preferences" is one of the most useful in economics; it allows us to cut through a great deal of metaphysica…
- LessWrongsafetyAgainst AI Safety becoming mainstream
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of p…
- LessWrongcommunityAgainst AI Risk becoming mainstream
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of p…
- TechRadar AImodelsOpenAI tries to build a persona that makes it our equal, and yes, now even I'm very worried
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- LessWrongresearchA Defense of Gradual Disempowerment
(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al. ) Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website ) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes…
- TechCrunch AIagentsThe fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyOpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to h…
- Ars Technica AIagentsGoogle announces new experimental “CC” AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyIs the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
- LessWrongagentsSwarm Organization as the Exponent on Test-Time Compute
Swarm organization - the efficacy of cooperation between AIs in a multi-agent system - may change how parallel test-time compute increases AI capabilities, moving it from a sublinear [1] to a superlinear exponent. [2] Th…
- Ars Technica AIcommunityMicrosoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
- TechCrunch AIagentsUN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
- Google AI BlogmodelsMaking global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.
- WIRED AIpolicyThe AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
- TechCrunch AIpolicyMicrosoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
- The Verge AIagentsThe AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI co…
- TechRadar AImodelsYou'll soon be able to talk to Slack — and if you're lucky, it'll even talk back
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- The Verge AIagentsClaude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage group…
- WIRED AIchipsThe AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyLLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
- LessWrongresearchGood and bad ways to evaluate a definition
Sometimes conversations involve people using the same word differently. In the best case scenario, participants notice and choose a favorable provisional definition. Outside of conversations, people advocate for specific…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogresearchReduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping recruiters identify s…
- TechCrunch AImodelsEven the king of England has his hesitations about AI
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government.
- TechCrunch AIresearchBase Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
- TechCrunch AImodelsPinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting, and more in photos of their own rooms — potentially helping turn saved inspiration into purchases.
- TechRadar AImodelsMicrosoft's AI chief warns that treating AI as conscious is a huge mistake
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- TechRadar AImodelsWhen AI sounds certain, ask why
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- TechRadar AImodelsThe winner from Elon Musk's $100k competition to make The Odyssey with AI
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- TechRadar AImodelsHalf of UK businesses say AI fears mean they want more control over their data as calls for digital sovereignty grow
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- TechRadar AImodelsSome consumers may prefer to pay for less AI
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- TechRadar AImodelsAI is changing discovery. What does that mean for your business?
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- TechRadar AIagentsTrusted measurement in the era of autonomous operations
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- TechRadar AIagentsAutonomous AI agent hit Spanish firm with vulnerability scans before accessing files and data
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- TechRadar AIresearchBeyond EAA compliance: Accessibility becomes the benchmark for digital quality
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- TechRadar AIagentsIrregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic self-modification’ phenomenon
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- Google Cloud AI & Machine LearningagentsGoogle is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Assistants
By Peder Ulander • 5-minute read
- Google Cloud AI & Machine LearningmodelsWhat Google Cloud announced in AI this month
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- Tom's Guide AImodelsI used Gemini and Google Maps’ Ask Maps to find the weirdest spots in my city — and these 7 oddities didn't disappoint
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