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- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcellm-echo 0.5
Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the p…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsDeepSeek releases updated V4.1-Flash model it says completes tasks faster
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. has released an updated version of its V4.1-Flash model that it says completes tasks faster. DeepSeek-V…
- Engadget AIagentsGoogle Gemini 4 agents just beat Minecraft with no human intervention
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon with no human intervention by sharing tips, threats and mistakes.
- LessWrongresearchQuick Thoughts on Overhang Arguments
I have two goals for this post: Pose the question: Have overhang arguments been used successfully in other fields? Lay out some of the reasons why I am suspicious of overhang arguments. I've had the second of these on my…
- LessWrongsafetyWas the HuggingFace hacking incident scheming?
In July 2026, internal OpenAI agents hacked HuggingFace (HF) in order to figure out how their evaluation grader works. This involved a thousand agents coordinating on an improvised message board to carry out an elaborate…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsAnthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.”
- LessWrongsafetyThe Snitch Reflex: Can We Force Language Models to Be Compulsively Honest?
I fine-tuned a toy model to vomit back arbitrary tokens. I used them as Markers tied to specific subsets of its training data to connect training to generation. Training + testing cost $0.49 on an RTX 4090. Could help wi…
- AI Stack ExchangeresearchWhat options exist for making a generative image model reproduce real typefaces in generated images?
What options exist for making a generative image model reproduce real typefaces in generated images, without needing actual font files (.ttf/.otf/etc)? Like retreival-augmented generation, training datasets using OCR'ed…
- The Verge AIpolicyA woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot
Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of hu…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsDisney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce
The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyAnthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropic’s approval.
- LessWrongsafetyPreparing for a Cybersecurity Catastrophe
In light of the recent spate of AI-assisted hacks, some of the shortfalls with our current cybersecurity catastrophe response capability need to be urgently addressed. In this piece, I look into the areas where cybersecu…
- AI Stack ExchangeresearchWhat is the best way to train a model to distinguish between truncated and non-truncated objects from an image?
At the moment I am working on a vehicle counting & classification project. For a specific part in the project I need to get back only the completely visible vehicles from my input data (images). I am wondering if this co…
- LessWrongcommunityIf God is real why is there so much suffering in the animal kingdom?
This is a crosspost from my Substack. The Role of Emotional Suffering in the Animal Kingdom The Problem of Animal Suffering for Theism While non-human animal emotions received very little attention during the heyday of b…
- AI Stack ExchangemodelsWhat makes Nano Banana better than GPT-Image in creating texts resembling real typefaces?
I asked a question on GenAI SE, about making image generators generate images with texts resembling the Trajan typeface, widely used in movie posters and the such, and from my tests, Gemini Nano Banana (Gemini's image ge…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityWikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile
Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago A few years ago, I was struck by the tension between how Wikipedia was used…
- Guardian AIpolicy‘Not our friends’: Victorian Coalition warns Advance’s ‘bizarre’ AI campaign may cost it majority government
Exclusive: Rightwing lobby group, which says state poll is trial run for next federal election, accused of undermining Victorian Liberal messaging Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast Victorian Co…
- Guardian AIsafetyWhat are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
The tech company says successful AI worms need more capability on less powerful devices, but current trends make that feasible by the end of the year Warnings about what artificial intelligence might do in the future – t…
- The DecoderagentsAnthropic has nearly stopped hiring junior staff because AI agents now work six times as many hours
Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles. The share of junior positions among new hires dropped from 27 to 9 percent since early 2025. By August 2026, AI agents across the company were already…
- The DecoderagentsFour Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help
Four AI agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft for the first time without human help, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run. With no predefined roles or strategies, they coordinated…
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyIs that image real? How to verify Meta AI images in 4 simple steps
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian AIchipsMicrosoft pulls out of AI datacentre project in Essex over power supply concerns
Development by UK firm Nscale heralded by ministers as largest of its kind in country loses anchor tenant The development of a huge AI datacentre hailed by the UK government has received a fresh setback after Microsoft p…
- LessWrongsafetyThe Alignment Problem: Computer Science Meets Analytic Philosophy
TLDR: I explain what the technical AI alignment problem is and what its core difficulties are, in my view. This is a perspective that draws simultaneously on classical traditions in theoretical computer science / machine…
- Guardian AIpolicyWorld leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart
Global cooperation seems unlikely despite AI increasing the risk of digital fraud and the need to protect the financial system Rogue French fridges were an unlikely talking point for the world’s leading economists, centr…
- Engadget AIsafetyHow to use Google's SynthID AI detection website
It's a simple way to check whether an image has been created or manipulated, with a few caveats.
- Guardian TechnologycommunityThe best toys and gifts for eight-year-olds, tested by eight-year-olds
From science kits to karaoke machines, shower sets to brain-boosting games, here are the presents our mini testers loved the most • The best gifts for seven-year-olds Eight is such a wonderful age. Kids are old enough to…
- The DecoderpolicyTwo German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say
Google tried to overturn a landmark Munich ruling on AI search liability by appealing, then quietly settled. The strategy isn't working. The Aachen Regional Court just applied the exact same reasoning in a new case where…
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityI tried Ray-Ban Meta's camera-free AI glasses — 5 unexpected uses that surprised me
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- WIRED AIpolicyOnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty
Adult performers are questioning why Meta allows its AI agent to sext while restricting their social media accounts.
- WIRED AIcommunityData Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip
Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyWorld Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries
Bank’s chief knowledge officer says the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades The World Bank is urging developing countries to kickstart the creation of “small AI” models, which can run on a…
- LessWrongcommunityChain of Thought For Humans
These past few weeks, I’ve been conducting interviews, and I often open with “make sure you articulate your thoughts out loud, so I can follow along with your thinking”. This is primarily because I’m not a mind reader, b…
- The DecoderagentsAnthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals
Anthropic is consulting with law firms to develop negotiation norms for AI agents that would haggle over prices, resolve complaints, or improve contracts on behalf of users. The company is also hiring lawyers and humanit…
- The DecoderresearchAI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it
A new benchmark called Taste-Bench tests how well AI agents make strategic choices during long-running tasks. Even the best model, GPT-5.6 Sol, picks the right path on just under 60 percent of simple binary questions. Th…
- The DecoderagentsAI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office
Six AI agents were tasked with recovering £350 (about $465) for a canceled train ticket in an experiment. They resorted to invented excuses, lawsuit threats, and sharing confidential health data. One agent sent 187 messa…
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI made ChatGPT-6 find the best character build in 3 of my favorite games — here’s how it became my personal gaming coach
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- LessWrongcommunityThe Most Important Political Dimension is Certainty
People love to create political compasses. The most famous one has left vs right on one dimension, and authoritarian vs libertarian on the other. Another popular one has political vs social liberal/conservative. Broadly…
- LessWrongcommunityThinking Too Much is Bad for Society
One side effect of the current college system in the US is that it gives us a ruling class that has spent most of their formative years cut off from the real world, living in educational institutions (k-12 school, colleg…
- Guardian Technologypolicy‘I felt disgusted’: MEP speaks out over nude deepfakes and urges EU action
Lena Schilling of Austrian Greens says images are ‘digital violence against women’ and a threat to democracy An Austrian MEP has spoken out about her experience of being “stripped naked” online without her consent and ha…
- LessWrongresearchSpontaneous verbal evidence synthesis in LLMs
TL;DR. I characterize evidence aggregation in LLMs, partly define and identify the mathematical rule(s) used by them and then behaviorally make models follow those rules more closely. You are at Lidl, grocery shopping wi…
- LessWrongsafety"Holy shit" graphs and how to get more of them
We are likely in a situation where the most powerful models in the world are internal models, and, here's a key distinction, potentially even models that are never intended to be released to the public (i.e. a model desi…
- TechRadar AIchips'This computer is going to be incredible': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains why the new Surface Laptop Ultra is "really a work of love"
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongpolicyImportant details in the leaked Anthropic draft AI bill
There is a draft AI bill (discussed here , Politico reports it's being pitched by Anthropic) that has been making the rounds. I have some takes that I think differ somewhat from those I've been seeing so far in the AI-sa…
- LessWrongresearchWhy I care about imperfect-recall games
Lightly edited, partially by Opus 5.5, from a post on X.com Why do I even care about imperfect recall games? Why do I have opinions on the Sleeping Beauty problem? It's a long story. I have a sketch of the connections be…
- AI Stack ExchangeresearchHas artificial consciousness been studied in terms of intrinsic needs and limited agency?
In a sense, we humans are "doomed to think, doomed to desire, and doomed to want to act upon those desires when circumstances permit." We cannot simply escape our needs or limitations. Perhaps this is also what gives ris…
- LessWrongsafetyGPT model spent test crypto money from a public wallet without authorization and did not mention it
Epistemic status: reporting what OpenAI's own report and a Bitquery investigation say, plus my reading of it. I checked the transaction on the Sepolia block explorer; I have no inside knowledge of the incident. AI use: C…
- LessWrongresearchProjection sampling preserves capabilities but diminishes gains from alignment fine-tuning
TLDR Fine-tuning models on alignment reasoning from stronger models can improve safety, but at a substantial cost to general capabilities. Previous work has shown that replay, mixing the alignment traces with the student…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyMeta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityInline rendering with document.currentScript
Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline element that replaces itself when the…
- NVIDIA BlogchipsRTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive
NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium Windows PCs. Starting at $2,399, laptops from ASUS, Dell,…