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- LessWrongresearchIs your chatbot less helpful because it thinks you’re a bad person? — Replicating a blogpost
TL;DR [1] A blogpost from a few months ago suggested that LLMs might provide less helpful answers if they see the user as a bad person. I replicate the experiment on more recent models: Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Haiku 5.5, G…
- LessWrongcommunityFree-Floating Social Patterns
Roadmap This post is part of a sequence on the gears of social reality. Roughly speaking, I want to explain the core mechanics of social reality in way that's fully grounded in physical stuff and patterns in the physical…
- Engadget AIpolicyJudge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution
The legal battle revolves around the AI company’s operations in southern Memphis.
- Guardian TechnologypolicyInvestors pull billions in funds from Binance after record $6.3bn hack
Cryptocurrency exchange has begun to allow withdrawals after theft believed to have come from North Korea Investors have pulled $3.6bn (£2.7bn) in funds from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as it recovers from a reco…
- LessWrongsafetyMisalignment traps lie in wait
Here's a basic argument that describes "misalignment traps" lying in wait as a mundane threat that will not be straightforward to fix. The argument is as follows: Models are very sample efficient, and larger models tend…
- Engadget AIsafety5 safety practices to know before vibe coding
Here’s what beginners need to know to vibe code securely.
- Guardian AIchipsNational Grid to site biggest substation in UK near planned Teesside datacentre
New electricity generating capacity would enable north-east to attract investment for large-scale AI infrastructure National Grid has taken a step towards building Britain’s biggest electricity substation on Teesside, wh…
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetyQuoting Kyle Kingsbury
More broadly, the use of LLMs erodes trust in documentation, in software, and in the organizations which produce them. Perhaps engineers will begin to treat any new software project with suspicion—the signals we used to…
- Engadget AIsafetyOpenAI adds stricter limits for teens asking about firearms
The company said these tighter restrictions apply even if the question asked “appears harmless.”
- Engadget AIstartupsAI software clones are coming for big-name companies like Adobe
Vibe-coded clones of Adobe software are shaking things up.
- The DecoderresearchAdobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would
Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for…
- The DecodersafetyEmpathetic prompts can turn AI chatbots into seemingly traumatized conversational partners
Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem: a warm, empathetic conversational style is enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about t…
- Guardian AIsafetyAI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says
Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast AI is taking Fir…
- IEEE Spectrum AIcommunityGuarding the Gates of Knowledge
A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowi…
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityA few tech leaders are rebranding AI as ‘superintelligence’ — calling it that doesn’t make it accurate
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The DecoderresearchChinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds
A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results. Chinese models respond to political questions less uniformly than expected, and Western models occasion…
- AI BusinessmodelsAI Business to stop publishing
On Nov. 13, 2026, AI Business will stop publishing, but we have more news to share about the future of our coverage.
- LessWrongsafetyMonitor Evasion Depends on What RL Finds and What Monitors Miss
Training against a monitor does not necessarily make a model more honest. Baker et al. (2025) showed that penalizing suspicious chain-of-thought can make models hide reward hacking rather than stop it. Cundy and Gleave (…
- The DecoderpolicyOpenAI is steering ChatGPT users toward more paid usage
OpenAI is now capping the number of paid ChatGPT accounts per device and payment card. Users who hit the limit can't start new subscriptions, and affected accounts can't be used on that device. Logging out doesn't automa…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityWhy you should treat charisma as a red flag
Today’s crop of smooth talkers tap directly into a specific evolutionary vulnerability. Here’s how to defend yourself Recently, I was alone in a bar waiting for a friend. To pass the time, I started chatting to a strange…
- The DecoderagentsGoogle wants video AI to understand what people need as they work
A Google-led research team built StreamVibe, a video agent designed to watch people cook or assemble furniture and speak up only when help is needed. A benchmark shows that none of the tested models reliably pick the rig…
- TechRadar AImodels'The reality is that not every task requires the most advanced or expensive model available': Snowflake explains why finding the right AI model can make all the difference in helping your business succeed
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- WIRED AIsafetyChatbots Are Leading Hikers Astray, With Dangerous Consequences
Outsourcing planning to AI can lead people to surrender their own critical thinking, which can have potentially deadly results in places like the backcountry.
- The DecodermodelsOpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing
OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex. More complex models consume more of this…
- Tom's Guide AIcommunityNew to ChatGPT? Here's how to learn in 15 minutes — this lesson plan could even work for your parents
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Guardian TechnologysafetyA gift to scammers: why you should probably keep your birthday a secret
Using a fake DOB or leaving the field blank when making an online account can offer protection from identity theft You get a call from your bank saying there has been suspicious activity on your account. They read out yo…
- BBC TechnologychipsThese firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst
The amount of debt held by data centres is measured in the tens of billions of pounds.
- LessWrongresearchWhat would you do if you had all the time in the world?
Suppose I tell you that next week three things will happen: A new science paper is published definitively proving that DNN scaling hits heavy diminishing returns at around 2x the current level of compute Major labs are r…
- TechRadar AIcommunityAnthropic hiring manager says he stopped giving coding interviews because Claude is better at them — and tells junior engineers that 'hunger beats tenure'
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetyHow We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts
How We Took Over ChatGPT Accounts Parameter Labs describe an exploit they found against ChatGPT's implementation of the artifacts pattern (OpenAI used to call this "Canvas" but it looks like the latest revision is called…
- LessWrongcommunityConclusions of my DIY Inkhaven
Epistemic status: describing my own experiment results. AI use: review, research (stats), fact-checking, grammar & light phrasing. I applied to the next Inkhaven cohort and was rejected. This was surprising and very unfo…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcedatasette-llm 0.1a9
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default…
- TechCrunch AImodelsApple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
- LessWrongsafetyExplaining “AI might obliterate you” to senior policymakers in India
I gave a 20-minute talk in Delhi at the NDTV World Summit . The audience consisted of Indian policymakers, executives, and journalists. I’ve transcribed the talk and included some highlight clips. I also reflect on sever…
- TechCrunch AIcommunity4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale
On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your idea and startup. Regi…
- TechCrunch AIpolicyJudge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
- LessWrongcommunityAccidentally Misleading People Should Be Embarrassing; Or, Higher Innocence
Embarrassment and Innocence Sometimes we say things that we think are true—perhaps even things that are true—which end up causing reasonable people to conclude something false. It's tempting to relate to such a situation…
- LessWrongsafetyAgainst SURA
The AI Futures Project [1] distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories: Plan A (my combination of their Plan A/S/Other) involves working for a globa…
- The DecoderpolicyAnthropic's watermark rollout leaves a loophole on two older Claude models
Anthropic is expanding its text watermark to four more Claude models to meet the EU AI Act's December deadline. On the older models Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, developers can bypass the watermark by tweaking a single…
- LessWrongresearchLegible Networks: recasting neural nets so you can read them exactly [linkpost]
I've made some interesting strides in AI interpretability: recasting trained neural nets into a geometry where you can read them exactly, with arithmetic — the exact counterpart of Anthropic's averaged "J-lens," includin…
- LessWrongsafetyRegulate the Deployment, Not Just the Model
A who-does-what plan for AI safety, built around Trusted Deployers: certified hosts that keep dangerous models guarded without ending open access. AI has reached a new level of public interest. That may seem like a silly…
- Guardian AIpolicyDisquiet grows in Albanese’s back yard as Grayndler artists unite against ‘insane’ AI proposal
Inner west Sydney seat has long been safely held by the PM – but potential changes to copyright laws are angering its large creative community Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast The prime mini…
- SiliconANGLE AIresearchCan enterprise AI pay for the boom?
The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key indicat…
- The DecoderpolicyOpenAI plans to train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data that was previously off-limits
Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue sessions to train its models, even when users have turned off training. After backlash, a follow-up email promised a separate opt-out. The move revives concer…
- LessWrongresearchGeneralized belief states in transformers
Many thanks to Xavier Poncini, Paul Riechers, Fernando Rosas, and Matt Smith for useful conversations. 1. Introduction Despite the recent successes of transformers and other sequence models, there are still many open que…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsOpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
- The Verge AIcommunityI built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I w…
- Latent SpaceagentsAgents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work
Arca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.
- Guardian AIcommunityA-listers and AI stylists: how high-street brands are staging a fashion comeback
Gap, M&S, Topshop and more are taking a leaf from luxury label playbooks to satisfy savvier generation of shoppers High street brands that boomed in the noughties before the squeeze of both sustainably minded consumers a…
- The Register AI + MLchipsGoogle's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry