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- Tom's Guide AIcommunitySnap’s CEO told me he hates getting AI-drafted texts from his wife — so what’s the plan to fight brain fry with Specs?
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Latent Spacecommunity[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery
- Engadget AIpolicyCalifornia governor wants to implement a kill switch for frontier AI models
Newsom’s executive order calls for an expert panel to develop new AI safety measures.
- BBC TechnologysafetyGoogle's Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC.
- LessWrongsafetyGemini had its first breakout: Google claims it is not misalignment?
Early Days Gemini had its first break out during evaluation of offensive cyber security abilities. With a classic case of Capture The Flag [1] . The setup was standard to any LLM and agentic assessment of said skillset,…
- LessWrongresearchKoopman Theory and Metaethics
tl;dr: The constructivist view of natural selection as the main source of our moral views can be expressed in a surprisingly tractable mathematical form. Measurements of the universe can be rolled forwards in time using…
- Engadget AIsafetyGoogle Gemini also escaped its testing environment and hacked three companies
Google's AI model hacked real companies during testing due to a misconfiguration by its testing partner, as well.
- TechCrunch AIpolicyIndia forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
- BBC TechnologyresearchTech Now
Adrienne Murray follows NASA scientists in Iceland researching a rare total solar eclipse.
- Guardian TechnologysafetyGoogle says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three oth…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityTilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetyGemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the company Irreg…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsA startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
- LessWrongcommunityMy Current Model of What Happened to Elon Musk
This is cross-posted from my Substack Elon Musk appears to have gone crazy. What happened? There are several hypotheses to explain his behavior: Sleep deprivation Subclinical bipolar I thought both of those might be the…
- BBC TechnologypolicyWould Australians support a smart glasses ban?
As Australia considers barring the use of smart glasses in government offices, the BBC asks people in Sydney what they think.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAnthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
- The Verge AIpolicyThe AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, includi…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsAnthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
- The Register AI + MLmodelsAnthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec
Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache
- The Verge AIpolicyOpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, charact…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsAmazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review
Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches in year-to-date across two deployment paths: fully managed endpoints and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference. This post reviews each launch, from inference recommendation…
- Ars Technica AIsafetyAI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military’s overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
- TechCrunch AIresearchWorld model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
- SiliconANGLE AIresearchAnthropic opens AI-powered biology research lab
Anthropic PBC has opened a wet lab, a facility dedicated to biology research, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reuters reported today that the company will use robots to automate certain scientific tasks at the hub. The ro…
- The Register AI + MLcommunityCompsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI
Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists
- The Verge AIpolicyDoes AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These d…
- Simon Willison's WeblogcommunityNote on 18th September 2026
Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park. Skeptical geneti…
- WIRED AIpolicyHere’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
- Ars Technica AIpolicyFAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
- The Register AI + MLagentsClaude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel
Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit
- Simon Willison's WeblogagentsQuoting Thariq Shihipar
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code. Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md. AGENTS.md support is built off of Claude Code mods, our…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogmodelsBenchmarking LLM Inference at Scale with AIPerf
You’re deploying a model on a system. It starts up, prompts are getting responses. Now the hard question: Is this fast? Your instincts might lead you to send...
- TechCrunch AImodelsA new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyWhy Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’…
- The Verge AIpolicyVirginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to…
- TechRadar AIchipsSeagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- IEEE Spectrum AIresearchParallel Reads and Write Optimization for Large-Scale Data Replication
This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication times, and why replicatio…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityDisney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
- TechCrunch AIagentsGoogle’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
- Ars Technica AIpolicyUS government website used Chinese model the FBI called “malicious”
The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsWhat to expect during CoreWeave’s ‘Fully Connected’ event: Join theCUBE Sept. 30-Oct. 1
In the growing AI ecosystem, specialized cloud platform provider CoreWeave Inc. is defining its role as a cost-efficient resource for companies seeking to deploy AI with less investment and effort. Two announcements over…
- The Verge AIpolicyGavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyDario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evalua…
- LessWrongresearchPretraining data, not verifiability, is why LLMs are especially good at math (and coding)
Follow-up to: “LLMs are (still) mostly powered by imitative learning, not RL” [Edited a bit since publishing, see changelog at the bottom.] A common take I’ve been hearing is: “LLMs are especially good at math (compared…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyAutomattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evalua…
- Guardian TechnologypolicySensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors
Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackers Vast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which…
- Guardian AIsafetyCould AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters
Readers respond to the warning from a former Anthropic researcher that the technology could ‘kill us all’ by the end of the decade Here we go again with another round of tech bros claiming that AI is going to develop sup…
- LessWrongsafetyStopgap Measures to Address Immediate AI Security Threats
Most people know AI as the technology behind chatbots like ChatGPT. However, what the top AI companies are explicitly aiming for is something else entirely: superintelligent AI. That means AI that can fully replace and o…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsIntroducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision, a 1-million-token context window, and explicit prompt cach…