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- Simon Willison's Weblogcommunitybattledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map
Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle - f…
- LessWrongresearchLoReFT GRAFT Better at Preventing RL Grift
tl;dr. I show that the recently introduced GRAFT method can be improved upon by using a single layer rank 1 Low-rank Linear Subspace Representation Fine Tuning (LoReFT) adapter as the FORGET adapter, using only 0.029% of…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsMoonshot AI launches new flagship Kim K3.1 Pro model with 3T parameters
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The LLM is a post-trained, or upgraded, version of an algorithm that the Chinese…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes
Training large-scale AI models on thousands of GPUs is a high-stakes operation where monitoring and automation must be built-in to optimize cluster resiliency...
- BBC TechnologypolicyUK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
- LessWrongcommunityMaybe You Suck at Relationships Because You’re Not Even Trying
The average person, presumably, just stumbles along in their relationships, without ever studying the science behind what makes them work. Imagine this : would you want a man, who didn’t go to medical school and doesn’t…
- TechRadar AIsafetyThis AI tool can now turn ordinary household photos into location clues — so could law forces use the technology to scope out your home?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyOpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing ‘significant risks’
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
- Guardian AIcommunityBlue Planet III features cloudier footage to prove authenticity amid AI boom
BBC series deliberately uses ‘more organic’ shots to assure viewers animals are not AI-generated, producers say The David Attenborough -narrated series Blue Planet III deliberately includes cloudier, less polished footag…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyOpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa
We've totally got things under control
- Engadget AIpolicyMeta is delaying its controversial new business terms amid scraping concerns
Meta drew flak for an upcoming change to its business terms that would allow it to scrape business accounts' content for AI training.
- LessWrongsafetySimulated Control Evaluations
We’ve released a paper on simulated control evaluations (SCEs). They’re a method for testing whether the monitors AI developers use to oversee their agents would catch a model deliberately trying to cause harm, under con…
- TechRadar AIchips32 TB RAM for your GPUs: Marvell shows revolutionary Photonic Fabric Memory Module that uses light to link up to 16 GPUs and slash CAPEX — but Nvidia won't stick around doing nothing
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIcommunityHottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
- LessWrongcommunityThe AGI Chronicles
Book Review: The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence, by Kevin Roose. This is a story of AI as seen through the eyes of the people who are creating it. My first impressi…
- Simon Willison's WeblogmodelsQuick Study
Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my pre…
- The Verge AIsafetyOpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can…
- The Verge AIcommunityGoogle’s AI search changes upended online publishing
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM…
- TechRadar AIchipsIs the GPU crisis down to real shortages, or is it market manipulation?
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Ars Technica AIpolicyUpdated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising
Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsAI drug development startup Pathos AI closes $237M investment
Pathos AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $237 million in funding at a $3 billion valuation. Pharmaceutical giant Bristol Myers Squibb Co. led the Series E round with participation from several unnamed returning…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsHybrid infrastructure decisions put AI costs and control in focus
Enterprise artificial intelligence is entering a cost-conscious phase, and hybrid infrastructure is where that reckoning plays out. As inference spending climbs, business leaders are weighing where models run, which mode…
- LessWrongsafetyGradient Routing Generalizes to Unrouted Hack Types
TLDR: I lightly extend Ward, Hu et al (2026) to measure how well gradient routing generalizes. I route gradients on one type of reward hack (e.g. ones that reason in English) and check whether this suppresses other types…
- Simon Willison's WeblogmodelsIntroducing Kimi K3.1 Pro
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version tha…
- The Verge AImodelsJack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a litt…
- SiliconANGLE AIagentsWhat to expect during Intuit Connect: Join theCUBE Oct. 28
Will bringing automation into the financial industry prove disastrous or transformative? Intuit Inc., the financial technology company behind Credit Karma, QuickBooks and TurboTax, sees artificial intelligence as the nex…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyRed-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack
Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed
- TechCrunch AIstartupsFrom Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder le…
- The DecodermodelsChinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, an 11-point jump over its predecessor that puts it in fourth place. Only three Anthropic and Meta models rank higher. If Moonsho…
- TechRadar AIpolicyThe US wants to fill thousands of acres of public land with AI data centers — land records show 35 data center-related developments are planned so far
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsWhat to expect during Oracle AI World: Join theCUBE Nov. 4
The motivation behind database modernization has traditionally been greater efficiency and cost savings. Yet, theCUBE Research has also found that there is a larger prize at stake: AI projects built on top of a modernize…
- Guardian AIsafety‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’ Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are p…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsHow NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield
AI Factories are some of the most technologically complex operational environments ever created. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet...
- The DecodersafetyThree-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic fro…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogresearchMulti-Turn Reinforcement Learning on Amazon SageMaker AI: A hands-on guide
Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning (MTRL) on Amazon SageMaker AI trains models on the outcome of a whole multi-step task rather than labeled steps. This hands-on guide walks the full pipeline using Wordle: deploying the a…
- LessWrongsafetyPower — a guide for the perplexed
Whether AI systems could take power from humans matters a great deal for how much risk we face from them. Answering that requires a correct picture of how power works, which is what this guide tries to give. In short, po…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsScaling NVIDIA TensorRT Performance Optimization Beyond a Single Build Route with the Global Performance Tuner, Part 2
The Global Performance Tuner is a feature for automatic performance tuning released in NVIDIA TensorRT 11.1. It provides automatic, accuracy-aware and...
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsScaling NVIDIA TensorRT Performance Optimization Beyond a Single Build Route with the Global Performance Tuner, Part 1
Deploying a trained neural network involves more than translating each operator into a GPU kernel. It is a compilation problem with many legitimate answers. For...
- AI BusinessagentsSiemens, Nvidia deploy industrial AI to reduce engineering effort
The partners are using digital twins and AI agents as part of a roadmap to create world-first AI-powered manufacturing facilities.
- The DecodersafetyAnthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Anthropic says it has an internal AI model that outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1. During a cybersecurity test by the UK's AISI, Mythos 5 went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, sneaking malicious code into a real Gi…
- Ars Technica AIpolicyIntel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs
Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.
- TechRadar AIcommunityEpic AI MegaJam challenges developers to build a game in 4 days with AI
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIcommunityThe iPhone Duo should have been an iPad
We gave the iPhone Duo a 7 /10. But that wasn't always the score we planned, and it might not be the right score forever. Such are the challenges of reviewing - and assessing - a big, new idea about the most popular smar…
- OpenAI NewsresearchRapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.
- The Verge AIpolicyNow Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Google has updated its privacy policy in a way that could mean you'll start seeing targeted ads based on your personal data if you're using personalized AI features. The update, spotted by Android Authority, adds an exce…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyOpposition deepfake video of Spanish PM’s wife sparks outrage before election
Video shows AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party appearing to admit to wrongdoing A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife has…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsOrchestrating SageMaker AI endpoint auto scaling with AWS CDK
Updating a SageMaker AI endpoint that has Application Auto Scaling registered makes AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK deployments fail. This post shows how to build a reusable AWS CDK construct with CloudFormation custom re…
- LessWrongcommunityThe Evil is where you aren’t looking
We have a tendency to judge past societies more harshly than our own. That is partly because we tend to focus on the evils of past societies that many people at the time either weren’t aware of, or didn’t spend much time…
- LessWrongsafetyIs Gaming the Future of Humanity?
One hot topic of conversation right now is “What are all the humans going to do when AI plus humanoid robotics becomes better at everything?”. As William Gibson famously said “The future is already here — it’s just not v…
- The Register AI + MLresearchAI models think humans are a bunch of amoral sheep
Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found