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- arXiv cs.AIagentsBeyond Direct Access: Resource Hijacking in LLM Agents
arXiv:2608.15108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly connected to high-value resources, including external APIs, GPUs and servers, and workflows such as deployment and ap…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchCoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning
arXiv:2608.19776v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current dexterous grasp planners primarily optimize for physical stability, focusing on whether an object can be grasped rather than how it should be grasped to s…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchA Network Science Perspective on Evaluating Deep Graph Generative Models
arXiv:2609.01015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional network models from network science, such as the Erdos-Renyi and configuration models, generate random networks that reproduce few selected topologica…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMoEMB: Scaling Universal Multimodal Embeddings with Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Models
arXiv:2609.08663v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Universal multimodal embedding (UME) increasingly demands encoder's capacity for handling a broad range of tasks and modalities with increased complexity. Prior s…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsX2Streaming-ASR: wait when uncertain, emit when ready for streaming ASR
arXiv:2609.08672v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Streaming automatic speech recognition (ASR) for real-time voice agents and full-duplex dialogue must provide accurate partial transcripts with low commit latency…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchThe Truth Was Never Gone: Perfect Aliasing in Compliant-Context Truth Probes
arXiv:2609.10739v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Linear probes that decode the truth from a language model's activations have been proposed as deception monitors, and a truth probe scoring below chance on a mode…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchMeddies-PII: A Multilingual Framework for Personally Identifiable Information Extraction in Clinical De-identification
arXiv:2609.12544v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical de-identification relies on accurately identifying personally identifiable information (PII). However, manually annotated datasets are costly to construc…
- arXiv cs.AIagentsSalesforce Koa: An Enterprise Language Model for Agentic Tool Use
arXiv:2609.15066v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Salesforce Koa, an enterprise language model built by post-training the open-weight Nemotron-3-Super-120B foundation model with reinforcement learning…
- BBC TechnologystartupsNvidia-backed data centre firm scraps IPO as AI valuation concerns deepen
Firmus said it had made the decision due to "recent market volatility and prevailing market conditions".
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCoreWeave targets AI inference bottlenecks with full-stack optimization
AI inference is fast becoming the workload that decides the economics of the AI boom. Training built the first wave of GPU clouds, but serving models faster and cheaper will define the next. That shift is pushing special…
- AI BusinessagentsGoogle’s workplace agent is out, but questions abound
The agent can use enterprise business context for knowledge work. However, questions about cost and integration with other tools could be difficult for enterprises.
- LessWrongresearchThree Pieces of Evidence that the NLA Reconstructor Does Not Read Semantics or Syntax
TL;DR The autoreconstructor (AR) in a natural language autoencoder (NLA) is the entire argument for the validity of the method, and at present is poorly understood. The AR does not condition strongly on English grammar o…
- Guardian AIsafetyAnthropic bans users from ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude
A spokesperson for the tech company did not specify what kind of behavior would be considered abusive Anthropic has barred users from exhibiting “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward its models, as th…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsAI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is much lower than believed
Technology stocks fell lower today following a report that artificial intelligence giant OpenAI Group PBC’s annualized revenue this year is about $20 billion less than what was previously reported by the media, sending s…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcettok 1.0
Release: ttok 1.0 I released ttok 0.4 , ran uv tool upgrade ttok , piped a file into the new version... and realized that it was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer when it should very clearly default to GPT-5/GPT-6 instea…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsGallatin AI raises $50M in funding for its military logistics platform
Gallatin AI Inc., a developer of military logistics software, today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding. The Series A round included contributions from 8VC, Silent Ventures and several others. It follows…
- AI Businessopen-sourceWestern open-weight campaign could give enterprises more control over AI
New Western open-weight models could give enterprises an alternative to Chinese and proprietary AI, but greater control also brings new responsibilities.
- MIT Technology Review AIresearchRoundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscop…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyAI company moves to defend critical infrastructure and open-source projects from AI
Anthropic says for the next two years, attackers will have the advantage
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcettok 0.4
Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-…
- Engadget AIopen-sourceAnthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner.
- Latent Spacecommunity[AINews] not much happened today
a quiet day.
- LessWrongresearchSocial Theory and Agent Foundations
Lately I’ve been writing a lot about the sociopolitical considerations that economic-style reasoning misses . I view this work as continuous with my agent foundations research; in this post, I lay out some of the connect…
- LessWrongcommunityWhy you should run a rationality group at your university
This post was crossposted to the EA Forum TL;DR: If you enjoy LessWrong (and/or do EA/AI safety field building), you should consider starting a rationality reading group at your university. It’s fun, cheap, a good way to…
- BBC TechnologycommunityWhy are more roofs not made of solar tiles?
Solar tiles were touted as an attractive alternative to solar panels - why have they not taken off?
- LessWrongsafetyTelling a CoT monitor that a wrong answer is correct makes it un-see errors it already found
Epistemic status: Confident in the direction and approximate size. The effects are large and all 7 monitors moved the same way. Physics only, natural (non-adversarial) errors, one fixed group of monitors. This is a follo…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogmodelsScale Bitwise-Deterministic Pretraining with NVIDIA Megatron Core
Bitwise determinism makes large-scale pretraining easier to debug, validate, and resume reproducibly. These benefits become especially valuable when training...
- Guardian AIstartupsFirmus pulls biggest ASX float since Telstra amid investor doubt about datacentre company
The $11-a-share offer would have been the biggest debut on the stock market since the telecommunication giant in 1997 Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Firmus Technologies has scrapped what was…
- Guardian AIpolicyTrump hosts awards party for tech billionaires, almost as if he doesn’t care about ordinary Americans
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, with US midterms a month away, the president held a ceremony to celebrate our tech overlords – again He stands accused of being out of touch , enriching himself and his family, building a la…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsAlphabet spinoff Isomorphic Labs reportedly raising funding at up to $50B valuation
Isomorphic Labs Ltd., an Alphabet Inc. spinoff working to accelerate drug discovery, is said to be raising a new funding round. The Bloomberg report that revealed the discussions today didn’t specify the size of the deal…
- The Verge AIsafetyAnthropic launches free AI security scans for open-source projects
Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our str…
- The Register AI + MLchipsNvidia found $1B under the couch to help secure American scientific computing dominance
Commitment comes as GPUzilla prepares to fortify Uncle Sam's arsenal with at least seven AI-optimized supers
- The Verge AIagentsInstinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no marketing, and barely so much as a website. And yet, Instinct quickly be…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsCoreWeave Forge aims to speed up the AI improvement loop
Enterprises racing to put agents into production are learning that the AI improvement loop never really ends. Agents must be run, observed, evaluated and improved continuously. CoreWeave Inc. has been assembling a full-s…
- WIRED AIpolicyInside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.
- AI BusinesssafetyAnthropic opens cybersecurity program applications, releases cheaper Haiku
Under the program, the vendor provides enterprises with models that can defend against bad actors.
- NVIDIA BlogagentsInto the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omn…
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityQuoting Carson Gross
Computer programming is, fundamentally, about two things: Problem-solving using computers Learning to control complexity while solving these problems I have a hard time imagining a future where knowing how to solve probl…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityPretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website
With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that simulates what it might have been like to rifle through the Theran…
- NVIDIA Developer Blogmodels5 Steps to Create SimReady Assets for Robotics with Frontier AI Models
Preparing CAD assets for robotics simulation requires more than converting geometry to OpenUSD: developers must configure and validate materials, collision...
- LessWrongcommunityWhen will AI surpass us at being limited?
It’s not always better to be more capable. As I mentioned yesterday , it can ( famously ) be helpful in negotiations to have your hands tied. That is, to be disempowered from giving up everything the other party wants. I…
- Engadget AIresearchFired OpenAI safety researchers dispute their dismissals in open letter
Three OpenAI researchers said their firings may have a 'chilling' effect on employees.
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsAI agent developer Manus raises $500M+ at reported $4B valuation
Manus, the creator of the eponymous artificial intelligence agent, has raised more than $500 million in funding. The Chinese startup announced the round today. It said the private equity firm Boyu Capital led the investm…
- The Register AI + MLagentsThere can be only one: Google Cloud casts Gemini as your enterprise AI hero
The Chocolate Factory proposes a single universal agent for work
- LessWrongsafetyTowards embedded evaluations for scheming propensities
TL;DR: A safety case for scheming must be able to substantiate these four key claims: scheming was not incentivized during training, strong evaluations and red teaming suggest that the model does not have a propensity to…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsCoreWeave makes the case for an open, full-stack AI cloud
The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to distinguish themselves thro…
- The Verge AIpolicyCalifornia is trying to shut down robot vs. human cage matches
The California State Athletic Commission sent a cease-and-desist letter to a startup that hosted a match between a human and a robot last month, as reported by The New York Times. The fight, which took place on September…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyFired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.
- LessWrongresearchReviewing failure modes in science as we prepare for AI researchers
Summary : Science has a long list of documented failure modes, such as p-hacking, the File Drawer Problem, shallow peer review, and ignored retractions. This post catalogs about 50 of them with the evidence for each, the…
- Guardian AIsafetyA teen tried to navigate Canadian mountains with Claude. His trek ended in an emergency rescue
The incident is the latest to raise questions about the growing reliance on digital maps for wilderness navigation The route up the Widowmaker Arete, a 1,700ft wall in British Columbia, is deceptively described as “mostl…