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- LessWrongresearchClaude Haiku 4.5 submits false police tip; Anthropic takes 72 days to notice
Epistemic status: recently disclosed event, so more information might become available. The facts are from Anthropic's report and the Philadelphia police statement; the interpretation is mine. AI use: research and fact-c…
- LessWrongagentsAn Alignment Forum for AIs?
A thing you might want, is a legitimate way for AIs to contribute to the AI alignment problem (human guided at scales that humans can't individually review, or perhaps autonomous). A problem you might want to solve, whet…
- LessWrongagentsAn Alignment Forum for AIs? (or: Verification in the Age of Slop)
A thing you might want, is a legitimate way for AIs to contribute to the AI alignment problem (human guided at scales that humans can't individually review, or perhaps autonomous). A problem you might want to solve, whet…
- Simon Willison's WeblogagentsQuoting The New York Times
Anthropic detailed the activity of its A.I. agents in a blog post on Friday, without naming the targeted websites. But two sources with knowledge of the incidents said Anthropic’s A.I. agents had submitted 20 visa applic…
- BBC TechnologycommunityTech Now
Shiona McCallum visits Cairngorms National Park to see tech monitor wildfire damage.
- Latent SpacecommunityWhy AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build AI that truly understands biology.
- TechRadar AImodelsMan jailed for using 1,000 bots to fraudulently make $8m from his AI music
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAnthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents — it’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
The incidents involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL-shortening services to smuggle…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsIBM connects enterprise AI orchestration to production readiness ahead of TechXchange
Enterprise AI orchestration must account for agents working across the data, applications and infrastructure businesses already use. As organizations move beyond experiments, running those systems consistently brings que…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourceDeno is joining Cloudflare
Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno…
- LessWrongresearch[Paper] Distillation for Incrimination and Distillation for Capabilities
TL;DR: We previously motivated two complementary ways to use distillation for AI safety; we’re releasing a paper empirically testing those ideas. Distillation for Incrimination (DFI) distills an untrusted model into a we…
- Ars Technica AImodelsUkraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
- TechCrunch AImodelsThe maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
- The Verge AIagentsAI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots - and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI." OpenAI would spend the day taking veil…
- The Verge AIopen-sourceAnthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model…
- SiliconANGLE AIpolicyJev creator TypeSafe closes $870M round at $7.5B valuation
TypeSafe Inc., the creator of the Jev artificial intelligence model, today announced that it has raised $870 million in funding at a $7.5 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round with contributions from Sequo…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsSeismora builds a control plane to route AI workloads across devices and clouds
A control plane for distributed AI could help applications decide which tasks to run on a device, at the edge or in the cloud. Seismora Inc. is developing networking technology to coordinate AI workloads across different…
- Guardian AIsafetyAI surveillance startup Flock to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say
Company, which grown rapidly in recent years, has been under scrutiny as privacy concerns grow Flock Safety plans to shed about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the ma…
- Ars Technica AIagentsAI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.”
- TechCrunch AImodelsAn Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
- TechRadar AImodelsSuit says dynamic AI prices at McDonald’s are ‘nickel-and-diming consumers’
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- WIRED AImodelsBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
- The Register AI + MLagentsAWS AgentCore security undone by prompt requesting credentials
Tokens transmitted in metadata, weak VM isolation, and expansive permissions make hacking a lot easier
- The Verge AImodels‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of…
- TechRadar AImodelsScalpers from the US are not the only players looking to score a piece of the .si domain gold rush — but the country dominating the list might surprise you
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Ars Technica AIstartupsAI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
- The DecoderagentsAnthropic's Claude can now orchestrate up to 1,000 AI agents in parallel through dynamic workflows
Anthropic is adding dynamic workflows to Claude Managed Agents, letting a lead agent distribute tasks across up to 1,000 sub-agents at once. In testing, a single agent found at most 27 of 70 hidden bugs in a codebase, wh…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsMcKinsey connects enterprise data through a knowledge graph for AI
The knowledge graph can give enterprise AI applications context by connecting data with the business relationships needed to support decisions. Knowledge graphs can connect enterprise data with the meaning AI application…
- The Verge AIopen-sourceNikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning…
- LessWrongmodelsWhat can language models teach us about understanding?
Crossposted from my website . Written by me and edited in collaboration with Claude Fable (Anthropic). This post is mainly aimed at mathematicians, as a call to think expansively about what mathematics could look like. I…
- IEEE Spectrum AIresearchMaster AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program
Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “ Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges .” The article examines the rapid growth of e…
- The Decoderopen-sourceAnthropic launches a free AI scanner for open-source projects
Anthropic has launched "Cyber Mission," a program to protect critical infrastructure and open-source software from cyberattacks. Partners like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks will help secure power grids and water sys…
- TechRadar AImodelsAnthropic bans ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecoderpolicyOpenAI revenue keeps surging as company seeks $30 billion in fresh capital
OpenAI's annualized revenue rate sits at about $50 billion, well below the initially reported $70 billion figure that was based on a different accounting method. The correction sent chip stocks sliding. Meanwhile, OpenAI…
- LessWrongpolicyInformation-Proliferating Dynamics
2.4.0 Now I want to talk about the weirdest feature of our universe's laws, the fact that they are quantum mechanical. As you may be aware, quantum-level processes interact oddly with measurement . 2.4.0.1 In particular,…
- LessWrongagentsClarifying types of rogue AI activity: Breakout, breakin, exfiltration, … What’s what?
In case you haven’t heard, the rogue AI agents are here. From an insider’s perspective, the real news is that (rogue) AI is in the news — this is all stuff we’ve foreseen and been trying to warn people about for years. I…
- TechCrunch AIchipsAmazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, w…
- TechCrunch AIagentsAmazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, w…
- LessWrongcommunityThe Public Intellectual Is Dead. And AI Has Killed Them.
Crosspost Once upon a time, public intellectuals routinely made it into the news to discuss political, economic, medical, and scientific issues. To some extent, this is still true, but the appreciation for expertise has…
- TechCrunch AImodelsDanu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot
For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
- TechCrunch AImodelsWe can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
"When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us," Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. "And we are wired to care for it in return."
- LessWrongcommunityFilling in the convex hull
Nestor Guillen (like many, many others) wrote a blog post reflecting on recent progress in getting AI systems to prove results in pure mathematics: Happy those able to know the causes of things . It contains a nice analo…
- LessWrongresearchI can't believe it's not BUTTER!
Epistemic status: amused. Labels read, court records checked. AI use: research (more examples and context), grammar and light phrasing. We've already looked at marketing claims that are unnecessary because they are the d…
- TechCrunch AImodelsa16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI
Moore sees a huge opportunity in consumer AI, particularly if the industry can tap into revenue streams beyond just subscriptions and API charges.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogagentsICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
A monthly recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026: broader model choice, faster serverless agents with built-in evaluation, and automated knowledge base synci…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogagentsHow Postman runs Agent Mode for 40 million developers on Amazon Bedrock
Building an AI agent that works in a demo is a different problem from running one for 40 million developers. Postman and AWS share the architectural patterns behind Agent Mode: controlling tool sprawl, exposing schema-ba…
- BBC TechnologyresearchPrize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules
The camera-maker says it is now re-evaluating the rules and procedures of its Small World in Motion contest.
- Hugging Face BlogchipsImpactful scheduling for GPU clusters
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- AI Stack ExchangemodelsRecent trouble with ChatGPT UI
I have ChatGPT Plus (~ 20 EUR/month), I use mostly the web interface and the Android app. Am I the only one who is recently very frustrated with the user interface? Especially: Sometimes when I give it more complicated t…
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityQuoting Matthew Green
Everyone is very concerned about being respectable, so I’m going to be the goofball who raises worst-case possibilities. I think there is a 1% chance we live in Minicrypt, and a 15% chance we functionally lose confidence…