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- BBC TechnologyresearchThe virtual worlds where robots are trained
Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.
- LessWrongsafetyIf METR is overworked, how to alleviate the bottleneck?
I share the skepticism re: "Is METR a Meaningful Check on Anthropic?" Let's take it as a given that we need an independent, government-funded agency involving thousands of independent auditors to pace and supervise the f…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyAI coding agents' 0-click RCE flaw could hand attackers keys to the kingdom
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsGoogle expands CC into a shared AI agent for up to six family members
Google LLC today opened its experimental artificial intelligence agent CC to families, with as many as six people in a household able to share one. Each member picks what the agent is allowed to see, and CC sorts through…
- TechCrunch AImodelsPrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
- WIRED AIsafetyHere’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
- TechCrunch AIpolicyThe FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.
- Simon Willison's WeblogmodelsBonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
My comment on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint — Hacker News. If you want to try out out the GGUFs from https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf#th... be aware that you n…
- Ars Technica AIsafetySmall AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
- LessWrongresearchThe J-lens offset is the model's token frequency: z-scoring helps
This is a linkpost for the write-up on my site ; the full body is below, and the code, decisions ledger and devlog are in the repo . Base-model z-score calibration of the J-lens helps elicit hidden secret words from Cywi…
- LessWrongsafetyGrantmakers aren’t afraid to die
The AI Risk grantmakers do not act like they believe in imminent existential risk from AI The idea of "revealed preferences" is one of the most useful in economics; it allows us to cut through a great deal of metaphysica…
- LessWrongsafetyAgainst AI Safety becoming mainstream
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of p…
- LessWrongsafetyAgainst AI Risk becoming mainstream
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of p…
- TechRadar AIsafetyOpenAI tries to build a persona that makes it our equal, and yes, now even I'm very worried
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- LessWrongsafetyA Defense of Gradual Disempowerment
(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al. ) Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website ) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes…
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetySelf-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months". Th…
- The Verge AIresearchFlash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginn…
- TechCrunch AIagentsThe fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyOpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to h…
- Ars Technica AIagentsGoogle announces new experimental “CC” AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsAI agents erase the paper trail, reshaping audit assurance
Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents. Financial and operational data still sits across NetSuite, human resources platforms and data lakes, but…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyIs the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
- LessWrongresearchSwarm Organization as the Exponent on Test-Time Compute
Swarm organization - the efficacy of cooperation between AIs in a multi-agent system - may change how parallel test-time compute increases AI capabilities, moving it from a sublinear [1] to a superlinear exponent. [2] Th…
- Ars Technica AIpolicyMicrosoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
- TechCrunch AIagentsUN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
- Google AI BlogcommunityMaking global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.
- WIRED AIpolicyThe AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyMicrosoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
- AI BusinessmodelsGemini 3.8 Live Transforms Conversational AI
The models support real-time conversation by enabling users to interact without the traditional prompt-response structure.
- The Verge AIsafetyThe AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI co…
- AI BusinesspolicyCalls for AI slowdown raise new challenges for open-weight models
Regulating frontier AI could sideline smaller open source developers and push enterprises to take on more of the safety and governance burden themselves.
- AI BusinesscommunityAI changes the ROI equation. Here’s how some have found success
A significant portion of enterprises struggle to demonstrate clear ROI from AI initiatives, but some have found areas where AI can provide productivity gains and even revenue growth.
- TechRadar AIcommunityYou'll soon be able to talk to Slack — and if you're lucky, it'll even talk back
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- The Verge AIagentsClaude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage group…
- WIRED AIcommunityThe AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyLLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
- LessWrongcommunityGood and bad ways to evaluate a definition
Sometimes conversations involve people using the same word differently. In the best case scenario, participants notice and choose a favorable provisional definition. Outside of conversations, people advocate for specific…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogagentsReduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
Amazon Connect Talent is an AI hiring solution built for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring. It delivers AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation, helping recruiters identify s…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyEven the king of England has his hesitations about AI
King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the U.K. government.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyBase Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
- TechCrunch AImodelsPinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting, and more in photos of their own rooms — potentially helping turn saved inspiration into purchases.
- TechRadar AIsafetyMicrosoft's AI chief warns that treating AI as conscious is a huge mistake
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- TechRadar AIsafetyWhen AI sounds certain, ask why
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- TechRadar AIcommunityThe winner from Elon Musk's $100k competition to make The Odyssey with AI
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- TechRadar AIpolicyHalf of UK businesses say AI fears mean they want more control over their data as calls for digital sovereignty grow
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- TechRadar AIcommunitySome consumers may prefer to pay for less AI
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- TechRadar AIcommunityAI is changing discovery. What does that mean for your business?
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- TechRadar AIagentsTrusted measurement in the era of autonomous operations
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- TechRadar AIsafetyAutonomous AI agent hit Spanish firm with vulnerability scans before accessing files and data
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- TechRadar AIcommunityBeyond EAA compliance: Accessibility becomes the benchmark for digital quality
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