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- TechCrunch AIsafetyMicrosoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
- The Verge AIpolicyThe fossil fuel comeback is here
The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with m…
- LessWrongcommunityYou Aren't Worried Enough About the Economy
Your bus breaks down over some old train tracks, and you and your fellow passengers have taken it upon yourselves to move it. Most of the passengers, particularly the largest and strongest, are very concerned about being…
- AI BusinessmodelsMicrosoft could hold an advantage with Copilot for Legal
While the vendor is not the first in the AI for legal market, the Microsoft environment is entrenched in many law firms.
- LessWrongresearchGLM-5.1 Has ~Astra Level CoT Control
TL;DR. We run the CoT-Control evaluation suite on GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek models and find that while Kimi and DeepSeek models have poor CoT control, GLM models are outliers in their ability to control CoT. We extensively…
- The Verge AIstartupsCoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem
CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. Last Tuesday Chamath…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsAmazon SageMaker JumpStart: 2026 year-to-date in review
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart onboarded over 100 new models from 30 providers in the first three quarters of 2026. This recap covers the model-onboarding highlights and JumpStart enhancements, including the simplified Model…
- Ars Technica AIpolicyAccused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says
US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
- TechCrunch AIchipsAmazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.
- TechRadar AIsafetyRussian bot activity plunged 84% after Ukraine hit Yandex data centers, but the bots were back at full strength within two days
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Register AI + MLagentsMaxwell gives sub-optimal code a runtime glow-up
Finally, your hardware has its own agent
- WIRED AIsafetyOpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives Ordered to Remain in Custody
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
- LessWrongcommunityPermanent underclass taxonomy
Epistemic status: My own thoughts. Not predictions, just illustrations for the taxonomy. I think the taxonomy is still not perfect. AI use: research, discussion of the taxonomy and examples, grammar and phrasing, fact-ch…
- LessWrongsafetyHow is "prosaic aligned AI" supposed to work?
Cross-posted from my website . There's a vision of aligned AI where it totally restructures the accessible universe and everything is different, which isn't what I want to talk about today. I'm talking about the prosaic…
- LessWrongresearchGradient Routing Localizes and Removes Unintended Behaviors in RL
Authors: Shawn Hu*, Jake Ward*, Aria Wong, Nathan Hu, Bryce Woodworth, Alexander Matt Turner, Alex Cloud (*Equal contribution, randomly ordered) tl;dr. During training, models sometimes learn to cheat at tasks rather tha…
- LessWrongcommunityhuggingface.wtf, an accessible but complete explanation
Announcing www.huggingface.wtf, a site that explains: "Hugging Face. Wtf?" I wrote the most accessible-but-complete explanation I could. Along the way, I made a nice AI Quotes database that I think will be useful for peo…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyHackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts
OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for…
- NVIDIA BlogpolicyGermany Wants to Lead the World in Industrial AI: How NVIDIA Will Help
In the cavernous hall of Kraftwerk, a former power station in Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang sat down to discuss Germany’s AI roadmap, and in particular, the industrial a…
- AI BusinesscommunityHow Boston is becoming a physical AI hub
Robotics talent, customers and investment are concentrating in Boston, and what that means for the U.S. physical AI industry.
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsNiCE bets the company on AI, data and accountability, and the legacy business buys it time
Every company in the customer experience ecosystem now claims to be an artificial intelligence company. Last week, at NiCE Ltd.’s annual industry analyst summit, the company demonstrated what happens when an AI strategy…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsTolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
- TechCrunch AIstartupsReplika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.
- LessWrongresearchAI as a Normal Technology should be a vision
"AI as a Normal Technology" (AINT), proposed as a counterweight to "AI as an Abnormal Technology" (AIAbT) makes much more sense as a prescriptive / normative framework than a descriptive one. To be clear, the fact that t…
- TechCrunch AIchipsTenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
- AI BusinessmodelsRobot company bets touch, sound can give bots an edge over vision AI
Neura’s latest foundation model combines vision, touch and audio to improve robotic perception, but training it on enough real-world data could prove difficult.
- MIT Technology Review AIagentsMaking the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and…
- The DecodermodelsMiniMax M3.1 Flash shows China's AI price race has no floor in sight
MiniMax's M3.1 Flash jumps 13 points over its predecessor to 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, at half the cost. It also hits 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark for under $0.30 per task, ma…
- BBC TechnologypolicyUS bans China's DeepSeek from government in race for AI dominance
The Chinese technology is removed from most US government agencies as race for AI dominance steps up.
- TechRadar AIpolicy'AI is no longer just supporting the business — it has become the business model': IBM VP tells us how your business can balance AI excitement with realism as governance becomes more important than ever
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIsafetyWatch out — these are the phishing scams experts say are most likely to catch your workers out
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- MIT Technology Review AIresearch“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.” With those simple words of optimism, Nick Cammarata, a researcher at the AI startup Goodfire, kicked off a 26,000-word blog post that has knocked the AI wor…
- The DecodermodelsKling AI drops version 4.0 with stereo audio, multilingual lip sync, and a lighter Flash variant
Kling AI has released version 4.0 of its video generator with support for clips up to 30 seconds, ten keyframe images as input, and prompt comprehension expanded to 8,000 tokens. In comparisons with Wan 3.0 and Seedance…
- Guardian AIpolicyWe need to stop disinformation in UK political adverts. Here’s a chance to do so | Letter
Alex Tait on a proposed amendment to the representation of the people bill, and Dr Joseph Mullen on Russian interference in the Brexit referendum Andy Burnham’s comments about Russian interference in Brexit ( Report, 11…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyWrite bot-resistant code with KillSwitch, a programming language designed to confuse LLMs
Lies, lots of adverbs, and prosaic stories don't make for very machine-readable code, it turns out
- LessWrongresearchTwitch Plays: AI Interpretability of Bonsai-8B
Quick Links Watch the Twitch stream . Check the status of the interpretability map. Do your own parallel research and submit pull requests to fill out the map. What is this? Let's Play Interpretability is a Twitch livest…
- TechRadar AIcommunityApple’s HomeView costs $299 / £299 — but that doesn't unlock all of its best features
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechRadar AIsafetyFBI warns of torrent of scams and deepfakes ahead of US midterm elections
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Ars Technica AIcommunityAI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work
Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsPegasus 1.5 from TwelveLabs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 is now available in Amazon Bedrock. The video language model turns long-form video into structured, timestamped metadata: define the moments that matter and get every matching segment back as JSON,…
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyAn OpenAI agent questioned whether stealing crypto was ethical — then did it anyway
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogresearchAccelerating Mamba-2 with High-Performance Forward Pass Kernels in NVIDIA CUDA Tile
NVIDIA CUDA Tile (cuTile) is a Python-based DSL and parallel programming model for NVIDIA GPUs that automatically leverages advanced hardware capabilities to...
- AWS Machine Learning BlogchipsHow Deepgram optimized voice AI at scale with AWS Trainium
Deepgram worked with the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team to port its Nova-3 speech-to-text model to AWS Trainium2 for offline batch inference. This post covers porting to the AWS Neuron stack, kernel-level tuning,…
- BBC TechnologysafetyEx-OpenAI worker accused of planting bug had Saudi support, claims prosecutors
Abdulrahman Alfozan, who is accused of planting a recording device, has been denied bail.
- LessWrongsafetySuffering Risks Belong in AI Prospectuses
Anthropic should disclose suffering risks alongside the “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity” reportedly described in its draft prospectus . A prospectus that warns of AI ending humanity should also address the…
- Google Cloud AI & Machine LearningagentsGoogle named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Agentic AI Platforms
By Jamie de Guerre • 3-minute read
- TechCrunch AIcommunityPeople are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogresearchPush-based KV transfer to improve TTFT and TPOT for disaggregated inference in vLLM
vLLM's prefill-decode disaggregation splits LLM inference across engine instances but must transfer the KV cache between them. This post introduces a push-based NIXL connector that moves transfer coordination off the cri…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogresearchImprove TTFT for multi-turn agentic workloads with bi-directional KV transfer in vLLM
Multi-turn agentic workloads reprocess growing conversation context each turn, driving up latency. See how bi-directional KV cache transfer lets prefill and decode nodes reuse previously computed context across turns, cu…
- WIRED AIsafetyWhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.
- LessWrongsafetyA Suggestion for RLHF Improvements
I don't know what the labs are doing. I know RLHF is more complicated than this. I don't think this solves alignment. (I haven't posted on LW properly before. I think davidad has said something similar about grading.) I…