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- Simon Willison's Weblogmodelsllm-anthropic 0.30
Release: llm-anthropic 0.30 In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API - which means I don't need to push…
- Guardian AIsafetyOpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you Busi…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsNvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B
Nvidia Corp. today announced plans to spend an additional $150 billion on share buybacks through January 2028. The move represents the largest-ever expansion of a stock repurchase program. Furthermore, Nvidia plans to bo…
- LessWrongresearchTeX was invented to typeset math but is now used for reasoning
I'll keep this short, since it's a simple observation that I haven't seen anybody else make, about the way computer systems do math. If you ask a language model to do a multi-step math problem (let's take GLM-5.3 as an e…
- MIT Technology Review AIpolicyRoundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border cross…
- Engadget AIstartupsAnthropic lost $8 billion last year and said its AI could destroy humanity
Despite a $2 trillion valuation ahead of its IPO, Anthropic hasn't been a money-spinning operation so far.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsGrok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work. It offers a 500K token context window and four configurable reasoning effort levels, reachable thro…
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsWhat to expect at the Dell AI Data Platform Event: Join theCUBE Oct. 6–7
The enterprise artificial intelligence conversation is moving past models and compute. As companies push projects into production, the harder problem is increasingly what sits underneath them: getting distributed, messy…
- Simon Willison's WeblogmodelsClaude Sonnet 5.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be…
- The Register AI + MLchipsAMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
- Ars Technica AIchipsExperts worry about Nvidia’s AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
- IEEE Spectrum AIresearchA Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday…
- Engadget AIagentsMeta's Muse agent has some new skills targeting small businesses
The agent can now connect to ad accounts and analytics for Instagram and Facebook.
- The Verge AIstartupsAMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was val…
- TechRadar AIchips'Don't waste your time': Raspberry Pi expert reveals users are essentially unable to swap out RAM chips for repairs or upgrades
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIstartupsSource: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triple the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
- Microsoft ResearchresearchOne year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can cre…
- SiliconANGLE AIsafety1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks
AI agent access is complicating identity controls as agents log in, carry credentials and act on someone’s behalf. They have characteristics of both human and machine users. That overlap can make actions harder to attrib…
- SiliconANGLE AIsafety1Password ties AI agent access to individual tasks
AI agent access is complicating identity controls as agents log in, carry credentials and act on someone’s behalf. They have characteristics of both human and machine users. That overlap can make actions harder to attrib…
- Ars Technica AIpolicyFlorida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as “the greatest public nuisance ever created.”
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsAgentic AI is breaking the token meter, and enterprises need a plan for what comes next
Per-token pricing was the best thing to happen to enterprises looking to experiment with artificial intelligence, but it may be the worst thing for AI in production. That’s the quandary at the center of a new Futurum rep…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsAMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2B
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
- Engadget AIsafetyOpenAI reportedly cancels GPT-6.1 Astra's release over deceptive behavior
According to The New York Times, OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra’s release because it didn’t meet safety standards.
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsMeta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business
Meta Platforms Inc. is launching a new business unit that will provide artificial intelligence services to enterprises. The Meta Enterprise Platform, as it’s called, will be led by longtime technology executive CJ Desai.…
- LessWrongsafetyEven if others are less responsible you can still make things worse
Reposted from shortform because I think this is important enough to be a post. A few ways staying in a technology development race still makes things worse, even when there are less responsible actors around: Creating a…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents
Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both risk and the business…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsServiceNow calls for a measured response to rogue AI agents
Agent containment is becoming a practical governance question as enterprises move AI agents into production. ServiceNow Inc. is betting that the response to a misbehaving agent must account for both risk and the business…
- LessWrongsafetyFixed-weight models are adversarially vulnerable: hence misaligned
This post argues that fixed-weight models (at least as we understand them today) will a) always be vulnerable to adversarial examples in their concept-spaces, and b) hence will be misaligned, under sufficient optimisatio…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyOpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns
During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors
- TechCrunch AIagentsShopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
- The DecodersafetyMore than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending "intelligence explosion" from self-improving AI. AI systems could soon automate all AI…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyThe AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetyQuoting @joedaroo
To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to “cyber” or “swarming” or “message boards” or anything else related to the incidents is an understatement. Securit…
- Google AI BlogcommunityWatch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.
- OpenAI NewspolicyHow we will do better for Australia
OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.
- OpenAI NewssafetyTowards safety cases for frontier AI training
Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsIntroducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. It's a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model for focused coding and knowledge work, with a lower cost per task at faster speed. This post co…
- Tom's Guide AIcommunity'Surveillance Tamagotchi': Tom's Guide readers weigh in on Meta's new Muse Charm
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The Verge AIagentsOpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, i…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsQiagen grounds drug discovery agents in curated knowledge
Qiagen N.V. is betting that drug discovery agents need a trustworthy knowledge foundation as much as capable models. For biopharma companies, that means giving agents information with clear provenance and enough context…
- LessWrongsafetyThe likely outcome of an AI pause is that we unpause too early and everyone dies
Cross-posted from my website . As of a few months ago, I had this simplified mental model where either AI developers race ahead and kill everyone, or we coordinate a pause and things go okay. But my old mental model unde…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyNvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to br…
- TechRadar AImodelsAI models are becoming outdated at record speed — so what does that mean for the tokens that companies are spending millions on?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIsafetyAI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to unde…
- The Register AI + MLagentsFrench dev aims to solve bots' blindness so they can understand GUIs
Because sometimes escaping your sandbox requires clicking a button
- The DecodermodelsAnthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30 percent less per task, and nearly matches Opus 5.5 on knowledge-work be…
- LessWrongcommunityMissing markets in executive function
It’s early in the morning, and sadly 1:29pm. After spending some time looking at things and picking them up and walking up the stairs and down the stairs and considering questions like “what should I…”, which my brain ap…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsAnthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 5.5 running 30% faster than the previous-generation AI model
Anthropic PBC today announced the launch of Claude Sonnet 5.5, the most capable mid-tier model in the company’s AI family, designed for everyday tasks and a clear upgrade over the previous generation, running over 30% fa…
- TechCrunch AImodelsAnthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
- LessWrongresearchAI: cognitive labor glut + new guys
Why is the advent of AI a big deal, and more worrying than previous advents? I think there are actually two interesting things going on, that make AI importantly different to previous technologies. I. Industrializing the…