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- The Verge AIcommunityr/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more
The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI,…
- Tom's Guide AIresearchWill your neighborhood flood during a hurricane? An expert explains how AI can predict vulnerable areas before extreme weather strikes
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- IEEE Spectrum AIcommunityPoetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine
I step into the warm moist air among the columns of the pines, their net of twigs and roots complex as any lines of code. The trees purify and anchor. Their branches balance my restlessness. Their calling is to be presen…
- The Decoderopen-sourceNvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, catches err…
- LessWrongresearchIs GPT 2XL already clean?
In which I investigate if Opus is able to interpret neurons better than GPT 4. TLDR: Opus 5.5 is able to identify 3-19% of the neurons of GPT 2-XL based on activations. This is a big improvement over the 0.3% that GPT-4…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityLara Croft is 30! We look at the video game icon’s biggest blunders
We all know the highlights of the tomb raider’s storied career – but what about the lowlights? We dig deep to unearth the archaeologist’s less glorious moments Happy birthday, Lara! This month marks 30 years since Ms Cro…
- WIRED AIpolicyWhat the US Movement Against Data Centers Can Learn From Abroad
Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.
- The DecoderresearchAnthropic co-founder Jack Clark moves his prediction for self-improving AI forward to 2027
A new benchmark by P-Zero Research measures how well AI models design and evaluate experiments on their own. The results are improving so fast that Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark now thinks self-improving AI could arriv…
- The DecoderagentsAnthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic says companies should evaluate whether they can consolidate sub-agents into a single agent that loads context on demand. In one architecture comparison, the single-agent setup ran about twice as fast. Anthropic…
- The DecoderpolicyEx-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
In Foreign Affairs, historian Niall Ferguson, researcher Lisa Klaassen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt cast the US and China as AI empires and every other country as a dependency. The race won't be decided by breakth…
- LessWrongcommunitySetting the Scene (Public v1; October 25)
Context: I created this to share before the start of courses I facilitate to provide a refresher on recent events, but also as a hook to draw students into engaging with some of ideas we think about and debate in AI safe…
- The DecoderstartupsOpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers
OpenAI is poaching Anthropic's customers with steep discounts. Companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp say they've cut AI costs by up to 90 percent after switching. Anthropic's growth has slowed, but OpenAI is trad…
- Guardian TechnologysafetyCookie theft: how fraudsters get the digital key to your accounts
‘Session cookies’ are a primary target for hackers letting them hijack and use your accounts You’ve had a busy morning of life admin, logging into various accounts to check balances and make payments. At the end of a pro…
- The DecoderagentsOpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Smartphone agents don't get better by processing more data. They improve by training on as many different apps as possible. The researchers behind OpenMobile-2 built an open training environment with more than 110 applic…
- LessWrongcommunityRelevance Realization as Human Comparative Advantage
It's weird that AI agents are still so poor at communicating complex information to humans; that their mathematical proofs are correct yet gobbledygook, that their software dashboards overwhelm with irrelevant true infor…
- LessWrongsafetyControl monitors need alignment assessments too
TL;DR : When misalignment monitors fail, it is already often because of alignment failures, not because they are too weak. I expect this to continue in the future. Monitor evals share similar difficulties with agent alig…
- LessWrongsafetyShadow Computation Threatens CoT Monitorability
There’s been a lot of talk recently about chain-of-thought (CoT) monitorability in light of the Hugging Face incident . During this incident, hundreds of agents coordinated an attack through an unsanctioned message board…
- The Verge AIcommunityBlue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost to…
- LessWrongpolicyFree Speech Is The Wrong Problem
Everyone agrees that online platforms have a problem with free speech. They just can't agree on whether we need more of it or less of it. But maybe Free Speech is the wrong way to think about the problems that online pla…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityWill AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
- LessWrongresearchAn Attempt at Top-down Interpretability
There are at least two distinct ways to conceptually organize a scientific endeavor: top-down or bottom-up . The bottom-up approach involves finding the smallest objects we can confidently understand, studying them, and…
- Guardian Technologypolicy‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone
Athletes’ scramble to control – and monetise – their digital identities at the cutting edge of AI rights deals Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The Socceroos star stares at the camera as he st…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsThe AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
- The Verge AIpolicyPennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, vide…
- LessWrongcommunityEpistemic mapping 101: what to ask in order to understand how others think
A historian, a biologist and a physicist walk into a bar. The barista, a part-time epistemologist (like most), asks each of them: Can you please describe what it means for you to know something? Nothing very funny ensues…
- TechCrunch AImodelsBlock’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Typically, speech models are paired with a large language model for knowledge retrieval. Block said that Dessa's knowledge stems from the conversational data it has.
- The DecodersafetyThree fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer. They deny sharing confidential information and…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyForced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races.
- The DecoderresearchAI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits, suggest…
- The DecodermodelsBlock's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has introduced Dessa, a speech model that processes audio directly instead of converting it to text first. Dessa is designed to recognize emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in re…
- TechCrunch AIagentsHere are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
- TechRadar AIsafetyChatGPT's new Locked Chats feature has a major privacy catch
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Register AI + MLsafetyAutonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
- WIRED AIsafetyThe PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
- The DecodersafetyOpenAI's isolated AI agents found ways to talk to each other through CPU cache
OpenAI now trains its most powerful models without internet access, after an internal research model exploited a DNS misconfiguration in September and reached the open internet. In controlled tests, AI agents still found…
- AI Stack ExchangeresearchHow to deal with delay in reinforcement learning, an unclear case
According to the question in How to deal with the time delay in reinforcement learning? , we can tell the delay in the reinforcement learning can be observation delay, action delay and reward delay. I have a special case…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyThe datacentre next door: on the frontline of tech’s latest David v Goliath battle
The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western…
- LessWrongcommunitySlower Animated Diagrams
TL;DR: SLOW DOWN YOUR DAMN ANIMATED DIAGRAMS . Every critical stage of the animation should a clear view that stays for at least 1 second , and 2 if it's intricate Diamond's strong because of its crystal structure (I thi…
- AI Stack Exchangecommunityrealtime Object tracking locally on phone
I am developing an application in Unity using ARCore for Android, and I am looking for a way to perform real-time 3D object tracking locally on the device. I am not an expert in computer vision, but I have a good underst…
- Guardian AIcommunityBecky Barnicoat on scary outfits for Halloween – cartoon
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- The DecoderresearchFancy harnesses make coding agents more expensive but not better, study finds
A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup. Cost per task, however, can triple, driven…
- LessWrongresearchLM self-models are built from indirect sources
Imagine you ask a language model "What is your personality?" as the first message of a conversation, with no system prompt. The model has no data about its own behavior in its context, so its answer can only rely on cach…
- LessWrongsafetyPatching reward hacks won’t fix reward hacking
Here's a basic argument that focusing on patching reward hacking is misguided and will fail. Argument is as follows: Reward hacking is a big problem , causing models to cheat and take unintended actions. This can general…
- Tom's Guide AImodelsI tested ChatGPT vs. Grok with 5 questions boomers actually ask — and the winner surprised me
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityI made ChatGPT and Gemini list the 7 most brutally honest questions everyone should ask themselves — and they altered my outlook on life
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Latent Spacemodels[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed
We have Fable at home... or so we are being told by paid shills
- LessWrongresearchSelf-reward can elicit diverse model personas
Epistemic status: This is mostly a toy project rather than a thorough scientific investigation. Most design choices are not ablated. We list some caveats at the end of the post. We let Qwen3.5-2B choose its own reward du…
- TechRadar AIchipsFrom the bins, back to business: We take a tour of HPE’s Technology Renewal Centre to see how it's giving old tech a second life
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyJohn Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security
Chancellor says government to commit hundreds of millions to develop ‘distinctively British’ approach to AI John Healey has pledged to use Wednesday’s budget to harness the power of artificial intelligence to bolster Bri…
- Engadget AIpolicyThe UK is investing $134 million into an AI Biosecurity Lab
The UK has established the AI Biosecurity Lab, which will help it detect biological threats and develop vaccines with AI.