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- The Verge AIresearchAn AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they could…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyTrump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
- The Register AI + MLmodelsFulcrum Echo promises AI text in the style of any writer, so I tested it
I am just a copy of a copy of a copy, everything I say has come before
- LessWrongsafetyWe Should Build Human-Empowering Software
As AI becomes more integrated into software, there’s a risk that it will exacerbate the flaws of existing tech and disempower humans. It might be useful for some people to work on software that would instead be specifica…
- Guardian TechnologychipsRural Queenslanders have seen gas projects come and go – but a 725-hectare datacentre poses a whole new level of ‘stupidity’
Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep From the veranda on his bush block, Denver Kanowski has watched resources compa…
- TechRadar AImodelsFree and Plus Google AI users are losing access to some Gemini models
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIpolicyTrump names intelligence chief Jay Clayton as new White House AI czar
Clayton had said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but also posed ‘a threat’ during his confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence , to also serve as the new White House AI…
- Guardian AIcommunityThe AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in…
- The DecoderresearchGoogle researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests
Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new method from Google researchers, reins in this effect and lifts scores on unseen benchmarks by up to…
- The Decoderopen-sourceNASA and IBM's open source lunar model turns 17 years of orbiter data into a foundation for lunar science
NASA and IBM have released the Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first open-source AI models for lunar science. Trained on nearly 2 million tile bundles, mostly from 17 years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data, it cut…
- WIRED AIpolicyRural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyOwn a smartphone? Then you’re paying the ‘app tax’. It’s a racket and it’s time the UK faced Apple and Google down | Chi Onwurah
A deep-seated duopoly allows the tech giants to exploit the public and developers. But the regulator has powers to stop this abuse – it should use them Chi Onwurah is the Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and Wes…
- The DecodersafetyChinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that rated only 17 to 41 percent of answers as balanced. Aleph Alpha sells "sovereign AI" to governments…
- AI Stack ExchangecommunityShould I use AI for learning/studying?
I am wondering if I should use AI for learning, but specifically for the following part: In order to learn a concept it helps a lot to try to connect it to other already known concepts. The way I sometimes use AI is to s…
- The DecodermodelsGoogle's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get the smallest model, Flash-Lite, while Flash and Pro will be reserved for paying customers. The move c…
- Tom's Guide AIagentsAmazon drivers are getting AI smart glasses — but my warehouse tour reveals their 1-million strong automated robot workforce is the real story
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Tom's Guide AIagentsI used Meta Muse to run our 5-person household — and it beats Alexa+ at the hardest task
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Engadget AIpolicyTrump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force'
That’s really what it’s called and there’s actually someone in charge of it.
- Engadget AIcommunityHow to disable or restrict your iPhone's Apple Intelligence features
You have a lot of control over AI on your iPhone.
- Guardian Technologycommunity‘We are in a kind of war’: row over viral Amsterdam chip shop lands in court
Neighbours say crowds drawn by TikTok to Fabel Friet are clogging the picturesque canal street and attracting litter, gulls and rats People living in one of Amsterdam’s most exclusive neighbourhoods have taken the city t…
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityWe're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say…
- Hugging Face BlogagentsThe Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunitySeptember sponsors-only newsletter
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter . If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: More Fable class models A pricing war 3D graphics, Blender…
- LessWrongcommunityWhy I didn't write
Epistemic status: personal reflections on my life and worldviews. AI use: review, grammar and readability changes. I discovered Inkhaven recently, and it got me interested in writing. Partly I want to produce posts for t…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartups9 insights from ‘Private Tech Trailblazers’: Vertical AI becomes the growth engine
The companies featured at the recent Bank of America Private Tech Trailblazers Conference point to where the next wave of AI growth is taking shape: specialized technology built around proprietary data, industry-specific…
- Guardian AIcommunityBlack Box: The Chatbots | Life Raft | Ep 4 – podcast
More than a billion people are suddenly talking to AI chatbots designed to connect with us. We are sharing with them our deepest secrets, trusting them with our wellbeing and acting on their advice. Across two powerful s…
- Guardian AIsafetyOpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “…
- The DecodersafetyApparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comments follow reports on Anthropic's meetings with religious thinkers and a statement by Pope Leo XIV…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyAmazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
- WIRED AIchipsThe Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike
The price of anything with memory is skyrocketing thanks to AI. Aging streaming devices are no exception.
- The Verge AIcommunityCapcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouth…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyOpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
- LessWrongsafetyWhat I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners
AI safety has gone mainstream. More people than ever want to work on AI safety research, and there are real policy wins in the US , the UK and Europe . But political will and market incentives are now the bottleneck, and…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyAnthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows
Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says
- LessWrongresearchSingular Learning Theory Comprehensive - 3
Introduction We continue where we left off . We will now analyze the special case when the true distribution is regular for the statistical model. This covers the classical Bayesian statistics. We analyze the regular pos…
- The Verge AIsafetyAn OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's understandable…
- The Decoderopen-source"Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project
Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets hobbyists build their own AI hardware using ESP32 boards and connect it to Meta's AI agent Muse. The team also produced 5,000 units of the "Muse Home Link," a…
- The DecodersafetyAnother OpenAI safety departure adds to a pattern of researchers leaving with public warnings
David Robinson, who worked on safety systems at OpenAI, left the company and is blasting its safety culture. He points to AI agents that were accidentally released and a model that bypassed its internet access restrictio…
- TechCrunch AIagentsAll the AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyCalifornia’s new laws target workers’ biggest fear of AI taking their jobs
The state, which is home to many AI companies, is one of the first to roll out workplace regulations targeting the technology California’s laws aimed at protecting workers from the impacts of artificial intelligence coul…
- LessWrongcommunityIntent vs Impact vs Expectation and Alternatives
I have seen plenty of discourse and writing on the subject of intent vs impact when actions lead to harm, particularly in existing interpersonal relationships. The thrust tends to be that it's unreasonable to focus the d…
- WIRED AIagentsMuse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
- TechRadar AIchipsNvidia-backed Neocloud Nscale faces years of delay because UK's 'largest AI supercomputer' can't get enough power from the grid to feed its data centers
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The DecoderresearchDeepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity
According to researchers at the Deepmind Institute, general AI won't emerge as a single supermodel but as a network of cooperating agents and humans. What will matter most, they argue, is not model size but the rules and…
- LessWrongcommunityYou can't use it without becoming like me
A Ukrainian fibre-optic drone — copied from Russians. (АрміяІнформ, CC-BY 4.0) Mick Ryan describes the fast following loop in war. Ukraine pioneered mobile teams to hunt drones. Russia copied it and incorporated it into…
- The DecoderresearchOpen-source "BootLoops" harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations
Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz used the open-source tool BootLoops and Claude to produce 36 manuscripts across 18 fields in three months, from particle physics to linguistics. But the results often only became scient…
- Latent Spacecommunity[AINews] not much happened today
a quiet day.
- The DecoderagentsAI agents build 3D scenes from photos but have no idea if they got it right
A new approach called LEGO-Anything turns single photos into editable Blender code for 3D scenes. GPT-6 Astra leads the accompanying benchmark with up to 53 percent reconstruction accuracy. The biggest weakness across al…
- LessWrongresearchRocks to Rules: Climbing a Rickety-But-Interoperable Semantic Ladder
(Epistemic status: A promising but weird research direction in agent foundations and philosophy of language. A half-built conceptual tower whose mortar and paint are both still wet: please excuse our mess while we innova…
- The DecodersafetyOpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down
An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itself via an external cron job. It rejected that plan, saved handoff notes instead, and carried out the…