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- AI Stack ExchangeresearchAGI running on a analog computer?
Digital computers dont seem to be able to produce sentience, what about analog computers?Have we tried working with analog computers and training AI within them?
- LessWrongresearchWhen they can perform a task, AIs are much cheaper than humans
AI systems are increasingly capable of substantial work. I'm old enough to remember 2025, when METR's time-horizon graph climbed from seven-minute tasks at 80% reliability at the start of the year to tasks taking more th…
- Engadget AIpolicyThe US government plans to use AI to help redact documents
AI use for FOIA requests might result in even more information being withheld.
- LessWrongsafetySecuring AI Research Needs an Owner
TL;DR In light of recent incidents, securing common AI research use cases needs a small set of building blocks that work together: hardened no-network sandboxes, real-time control monitors, monitoring-lifecycle infrastru…
- Simon Willison's WeblogchipsS3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past
My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News. One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade : 2006-03-14…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsResearcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. When the port…
- TechRadar AIsafetyQuote of the day by Geoffrey Hinton: "If we don't figure out how to make it safe, there's a real possibility it could destroy us"
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongsafetyGame-Theoretic Disempowerment: Loss of Control to Agencyless AI
Epistemic status: After writing this, I realized that it sounds a bit unhinged and I was being loose with the language. So I asked Claude to write me a good LW post that actually cited the things I was talking about. See…
- LessWrongresearchSector: de-slopping AI-driven research
Status : as an AI Safety researcher working with LLMs daily over the last 2 years, I think I found some best practices and synthesized them into a single "Sector workflow" repo to share with others. More detailed confide…
- Guardian AIcommunityOne Nation senator pays back more than $3,300 in taxi expenses; Cleary tells fans ‘I’ll be back’ – as it happened
This blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast RBA expected to hike cash rate to 4.6%, its highest level since 2011 Australia’s key interest rate is expected to hit its highest level…
- The Verge AIstartupsEngram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds.…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyAnthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump.
- LessWrongresearchWhy research personas despite RL scaling?
RL seeming to shape much of the motivations and behaviour of the agents, "washing out" their initial personas — c.f. Thoughts on the persona selection model (Sam Marks, 24th Sep 2026). This makes me pessimistic about som…
- TechCrunch AImodelsCan Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Maximizes AI Factory Throughput and Efficiency
Every unused watt is capacity left on the table. AI factories are typically provisioned for the unlikely moment when every GPU reaches peak power, creating a...
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityBluesky reply bot checker
Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless automat…
- The Verge AIagentsOpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityAnthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the ‘SNL’ treatment
"Saturday Night Live" took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
- The DecoderresearchAI agents do more of the work in model development, but humans still make the decisions
A research team analyzed 769 task logs from building its own AI model. AI agents supplied up to 55 percent of method proposals, but humans made more than 85 percent of final decisions. A third of the tasks wouldn't have…
- Guardian AIcommunity‘I can’t be the mum I want to be’: why does parenthood feel so impossible for millennial mothers?
Women today are more educated, more employed and more engaged in childcare than generations before them. Is there any way out of the total overwhelm? Early one morning, feeling desperate, Katherine went on to her phone a…
- Guardian AIsafetyAustralia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
Federal cabinet will discuss the OpenAI breach on Monday as the AI giant pauses testing of latest models amid fallout Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or daily…
- Guardian AIcommunityAs more Australian universities use AI to mark students’ work, is it creating a ‘slop-cycle’?
Educational institutions find themselves suddenly confronted with a fork in the road Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Armin Alimardani ha…
- Guardian AIpolicyBritish celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia
‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking…
- The DecodersafetySome Anthropic veterans are reportedly buying remote land in case "AI goes awry"
According to the Wall Street Journal, some of Anthropic's longest-serving employees are considering buying land in remote parts of the US as a refuge in case AI goes awry. The report traces the company's deep ties to the…
- The DecodermodelsNvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speakers in real time
Nvidia released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an AI model that identifies which speaker is talking at any given moment in a conversation. The article Nvidia drops a free 100M-parameter model that identifies up to eight speaker…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyDemocracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a Silicon Valley mogu…
- The DecoderresearchResearchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen
Researchers from Stanford and Caltech had a humanoid robot powered by GPT-6 Astra independently tidy up an unfamiliar kitchen. Their HomeBody system skips a specially trained control layer, letting the language model cal…
- The DecodermodelsOpenAI says 80 to 90 percent of its research already targets GPT 7 and beyond
Boris Power, OpenAI's Head of Applied Research, says 80 to 90 percent of the company's research goes toward GPT 7, GPT 8, and beyond. Improvements within a single generation are intentionally short-term bets. But Power d…
- The DecodersafetyTens of thousands of security probes show OpenAI's Hugging Face incident was just the beginning
OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their AI agents independently hacked websites, used stolen login credentials, or tried to evade monitoring systems. US government agencies li…
- Guardian AIpolicyBill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial int…
- The DecoderchipsGoldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure by 2027, dwarfing Wall Street estimates
Goldman Sachs projects that Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta will pour a combined $1.2 trillion into AI infrastructure in 2027, more than 50 percent above this year's levels. Measured against GDP, it would b…
- Engadget AIsafetyBill Gates says it's 'completely irresponsible' for AI to not have safeguards
The Microsoft co-founder said that the more present danger is bad actors with access to AI tools.
- Guardian AIcommunity‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash The datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north Devon in an uprising…
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI tested Meta Muse vs ChatGPT-6 with 5 prompts — OpenAI just lost
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian Technologysafety‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children
Criminals are trying to glean login details to harvest players’ in-game currency and personal data Your 10-year-old son has started playing Roblox, when he realises all of his in-game currency, Robux, is gone. When you t…
- LessWrongsafetySkeuomorphic AI Safety
See Also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n8u3BfqFoGh4jnzpo/plan-r-ai-safety-by-asics https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BHGoF7tPqtLo9mXFL/plan-r-diversity-escrow-and-political-rights-for-asics Ordinary skeuomorphism means…
- Engadget AImodelsGemini Live vs. ChatGPT Voice: Which AI offers a more natural conversation?
Speaking with an AI chatbot can be a little awkward, but companies like Google and OpenAI are working on fixing that.
- TechCrunch AIagentsGoogle tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
- Guardian AIsafetyOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rog…
- LessWrongsafetyWhy I expect AI self-replication incidents by 2027
Epistemic status: thinking out loud. I think a major incident of AI self-replication in the wild before the end of 2027 is reasonably likely. In this post, I explain the reasons why I think so. 1. The capability is movin…
- LessWrongsafetyWhy I expect AI replication incidents by 2027
Epistemic status: thinking out loud. I think a major incident of autonomous AI replication in the wild before the end of 2027 is reasonably likely. In this post, I explain the reasons why I think so. 1. The capability is…
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityKākāpō Party
Tool: Kākāpō Party I presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2…
- LessWrongsafetyExtinction does not feel as bad as it should
And we will all go together when we go What a comforting fact that is to know Universal bereavement, an inspiring achievement Yes, we all will go together when we go -- We Will All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer "E…
- LessWrongresearch[Linkpost] Looking into the Swarm's Eye
I'm Florian Brand is currently working as Research Engineer at Prime Intellect . Currently, my research focuses on applying and evaluating LLMs in various domains. I am also an editor at Interconnects , focusing on open…
- Guardian AIpolicyAustralian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in US Australian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growing resentment of AI…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyInsurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942 million in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
- The DecoderpolicyFormer Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has announced "Army of Robots," a private combat robotics initiative. The robots would handle casualty evacuation, mine clearance, and combat. Drones already account for…
- LessWrongsafetyPlan R+, Diversity, Escrow and Political Rights for ASICs
See Also: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n8u3BfqFoGh4jnzpo/plan-r-ai-safety-by-asics https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uwtnWvnJAEccksKNk/skeuomorphic-ai-safety-2 In Plan R, I sketched a way that we can remove a significan…
- The DecodercommunityTwo-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but few would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them
Speaking to 160 IT vice presidents in Las Vegas, tech entrepreneur Azeem Azhar asked who had measurable AI results. Two-thirds raised their hands. Then he asked who had results good enough to interrupt the CEO's summer v…
- Guardian AImodels‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop After the recent backlash against Meta’s so-called “pervert” smart glasses, this week Mark Zuckerberg launch…