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Experiments into predicting GPT2 completions via Qwen models This is a crosspost from my substack (where I do varied tiny experiments on LLMs and agents). It's also part of Lossfunk , where we're investigating meta-cogni…

António Guterres says humanity faces unprecedented convergence of threats but mechanisms for collective action are under growing strain The world’s fault lines have turned from cracks into canyons as superpowers show tha…

Summary I measure GPT-6 Astra’s performance on multi-hop tasks when prompted with a secondary CoT-control instruction: to reason using only dots, or to reason steganographically. Astra demonstrates covert reasoning capab…

Muse is off to a good start

Teradata Corp. is expanding its Tera artificial intelligence assistant with a context engine and execution system designed to help agents carry out data tasks across enterprise systems. Tera is an agentic AI workspace an…

Independent outlets are leaning on social media, chat and other nontraditional methods to fight disinformation When Allan Marrero, an asylum seeker from the Cayman Islands , was released after five months in immigration…

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet each other next week, but it’s unlikely they’ll agree to AI regulation Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to yo…

Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising $35 million in early-stage funding today. Alongside the Series A round, it’s announcin…

Heidi Health Trading Pty Ltd., a healthcare artificial intelligence startup, today announced it has raised a total of $340 million in new funding to support the company’s next phase of growth and deepen adoption througho…

No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.

The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.

Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

This post is crossposted from my Substack, Structure and Guarantees , where I explore how formal verification and related ideas might scale to more complex intelligent systems. Here I propose an approach to aligning recu…

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company . Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load.…

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly I’m sitting in a small boat in Shark Bay, Australia, eavesdropping on a conversation between some of…

Professional services automation software company Kantata Inc. today unveiled Agent Studio, a tool that lets services firms build custom artificial intelligence agents by describing the job they want done in plain langua…

To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a project from Open Robotics…

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patrick Wardle utilized an…

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech UK politics live – latest updates Datacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in re…

With MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi moves to the top of the openly available AI models and drastically undercuts the competition on price. What makes that possible is massive reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million. But th…

OpenAI says a new internal model solved more than 100 open math problems after just a month of training. Facing criticism from mathematicians, the company is backing an independent advisory group at the Institute for Adv…

It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face h…

I have a question about implementing policy gradient methods for problems with continuous action spaces. Assume that actions are sampled from a diagonal Gaussian distribution with mean vector $\mu$ and standard deviation…

I have written two small programs for calculations with Cayley-Dickson Numbers, one with symbols and one with numbers. These programs, written in python, use brute force techniques and do what they are intended to do. Si…

Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

US president says Burnham will be ‘a great PM’ in friendly first meeting on the sidelines of UN General Assembly but makes jibe at Starmer If Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump lat…

It’s becoming obvious to many Americans that corporations have been raking it in while workers take it on the chin Last week, the unlikely duo of Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon spoke before a Washington group demanding…

The comedian sat down with WIRED to talk about social media, AI, and getting laughs for impersonating Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs.

Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots—and quickly discovered something unusual.

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.

Anthropic is building its own biology lab to push AI-driven drug development beyond computer simulations. The article Anthropic is setting up a biology lab where Claude guides robots through drug experiments appeared fir…

PlayStation 5, Xbox, PC; Remedy A surprisingly conventional game from a famously weird developer, this sequel to 2019’s Control is accomplished but safe This is an arthouse action game from Finnish developer Remedy, mast…

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

RBA governor says AI is ‘great white hope’ but its adoption is so far adding to inflation, rather than economic growth Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Reserve Bank governor said AI could…

Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers

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I thought we were supposed to be slowing down the frontier.

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

crowning a new Chinese frontier lab

USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam

The AI safety movement should push itself to be dramatically more transparent to the public. To date, the AI safety movement has been one of the strongest forces for clarity and wisdom in the world. The movement has been…

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

Canadian province alleges deadly attack could have been prevented if company had warned police of shooter’s ChatGPT use British Columbia has sued OpenAI , saying a mass shooting at a school in the Canadian province could…