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- arXiv cs.AIresearchOn the Role of Citations in Preference Data
arXiv:2608.21376v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many NLP tasks require systems to provide attribution in their outputs--i.e. citations to grounding sources. Attribution serves as a bulwark against model halluci…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchDrugReason: Dynamic Multi-View Reasoning over Knowledge Graph and Language Evidence for Drug Repurposing
arXiv:2609.06779v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Drug repurposing aims to identify new therapeutic uses for existing compounds and, compared with de novo drug discovery, offers a faster and more cost-effective p…
- arXiv cs.AIresearchCausal Discovery via Transformed Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces
arXiv:2609.16931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We propose Low-Rank Quantile Surfaces (LRQS), a bivariate causal model in which, in the causal direction, an unknown monotone transformation of the conditional qu…
- BBC TechnologysafetyWhat is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?
AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
- WIRED AIsafetyHackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
- LessWrongresearchExploring Unsupervised Methods for Recovering the Refusal Direction in LLMs
Introduction This is the first part of what we plan to be a research exploration into the geometries of LLMs. We start with building off existing work by Arditi et al focused on the refusal direction in LLMs. Background…
- Guardian AIsafetyCanadian publisher Boréal ends relationship with novelist Thélyson Orélien over alleged use of AI
Author withdrawn from France’s Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novel The publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, who was removed from Franc…
- The Register AI + MLchipsTo help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain
Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players
- The Verge AIagentsAI agents are ready to shop. Some retailers are wary
Using an AI agent to shop for you is a strange experience. Tech companies have marketed them as personal assistants - the democratizing of labor that ordinarily would only be available to the rich and powerful. In practi…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyFlaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world
Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sites Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language…
- SiliconANGLE AImodelsOpenAI to make its most advanced AI models available in Google Cloud
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to make its latest large language models accessible in Google Cloud. The LLMs will be available through the Alphabet Inc.’s unit Model Garden service. It provides access to more tha…
- OpenAI NewsagentsUber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI
Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work to more than 30,000 employees, helping teams research, analyze data, create presentations, and complete complex workflows.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsSecuring Quick access from corporate networks with AWS PrivateLink
Learn how to connect on-premises data sources to Amazon Quick privately with AWS PrivateLink, keeping analytics traffic off the public internet. This walkthrough covers VPC endpoints for user and API access, VPC connecti…
- AWS Machine Learning Blogagents5 production challenges in multi-agent systems and how Deep Insight solved them
Many teams build a multi-agent AI prototype in days but hit a wall in production. This post defines five production challenges (orchestration, per-agent model selection, reliable operation, secure code execution, and mon…
- Guardian TechnologycommunityMeta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy case
Jury had found Meta misled consumers after Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained user data without consent A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25bn on Wednesday after a jury found the company had…
- BBC TechnologypolicyTrump's green card curbs test Indian tech workers' American dream
With immigration curbs and tech firms cutting foreign hiring, US residency is becoming a distant dream for many Indians.
- Guardian TechnologystartupsTesla beats earnings projections after Musk floats SpaceX merger plan
Musk says ‘there’s a lot of merit’ to potential merger that would require approval of 50% of all Tesla shareholders, but declined to elaborate Investors were paying close attention to Tesla ’s third-quarter earnings call…
- TechCrunch AIstartupsBlackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
- TechCrunch AIstartupsMeta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock
The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.
- LessWrongresearchWhat's in CODI's latent recurrent thoughts?
What's in CODI's latent recurrent thoughts? TL;DR CODI is a model using latent reasoning. Previous work by Cywiński et al. (2025) has found that CODI's latent recurrent states (“thoughts”) do causally carry a computation…
- WIRED AIstartupsMark Zuckerberg Agrees to Stay in California Despite Billionaires’ Tax Ballot Measure
Meta’s board feared that its CEO’s departure could disrupt the company’s AI ambitions. A new stock agreement gives him financial incentives to stay put.
- The Verge AIsafetyData centers could erase decades of air quality gains
A rush of new data centers could bring air pollution roaring back to levels not seen since the 2000s in Texas, which has become ground zero for the physical infrastructure behind generative AI. New and proposed data cent…
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsYear-old AI research lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a reported $6B valuation
Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded. Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg r…
- LessWrongsafetyD̶o̶n̶’̶t̵⠀Can’t Look Up
Why AI development won’t stop and what can realistically be done about it. If war is so terrible, why do we still actively wage it? If nuclear weapons are so powerful and dangerous that we even came up with the concept o…
- LessWrongresearchEven GPT-2 passes most functional global workspace tests
tl;dr Anthropic’s global workspace paper (Gurnee et al., 2026) proposes five functional tests for a global workspace and, using the Jacobian lens (J-lens), finds representations in Claude that pass all five. It also find…
- The Verge AIstartupsMeta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push
Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisition…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogagentsAdaptive agentic intelligence framework using Strands Agents
The Adaptive Agentic Intelligence Framework (AAIF), built with Strands Agents, handles routine tasks locally with small language models and routes complex requests to cloud models through Amazon Bedrock. This post walks…
- TechCrunch AIcommunityTechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs and experienced entrepreneurs to gain tactical insights on building and scaling their compan…
- TechCrunch AImodelsMeta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity
Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during its Q3 earnings call. The AI app now has over 10M users.
- OpenAI NewspolicyBroad access through consistent standards
How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.
- SiliconANGLE AIchipsNvidia turns the AI factory into a product, and agents into the workload
For most of the past half-decade, the narrative around Nvidia Corp. has largely centered on the graphics processing unit. The questions have been who has allocation, how much faster the next generation is and whether any…
- The Register AI + MLcommunityOpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month
Good thing it's somebody else's money
- Tom's Guide AImodelsGoogle Gemini just got a major upgrade for your car — and it could make your daily drives a whole lot easier
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- TechCrunch AImodelsRecursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsRunning Frontier-Class AI Models Across 8 NVIDIA DGX Spark Nodes
AI developers aren’t just running a single model anymore—they’re orchestrating multiple models in parallel, chaining inference calls, and experimenting...
- Tom's Guide AIpolicyMeta told Facebook users their data was safe. Now it's facing a $25 billion penalty.
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- The Register AI + MLagentsReach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you
Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it
- AWS Machine Learning BlogchipsTrain Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan
Train Qwen3 on AWS Trainium with torchtitan three ways on a single trn2.48xlarge: the Hugging Face Transformers v5 modeling backend, torchtitan's native Qwen3, and NKI mixture-of-experts kernels. The same torchrun launch…
- The Verge AIagentsAnthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthr…
- The DecodersafetyOpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Gemini 4 Argon found critical PHP flaw affecting millions of websites
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol discovered a critical PHP vulnerability as part of the Patch the Planet initiative that could affect millions of websites. Security firm Wiz independently found the same flaw using Google's Gemini 4…
- Ars Technica AIcommunityThe new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world
Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.
- TechCrunch AIagentsWhile Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transacti…
- LessWrongpolicyThe Role of Middle Powers in a Compute Verification Regime
I recently finished Lens Academy's Compute Verification course, which lays out the technical, supply-chain and political components a verification regime would need, and left me with one question it didn't answer. Polish…
- AWS Machine Learning BlogcommunityHow U.S. Hunger connects leaders and data using Amazon Quick
U.S. Hunger, a nonprofit addressing food insecurity, uses Amazon Quick to connect organizational data with leadership decisions. Leaders explore applicant data directly, share KPI definitions and financial context in Qui…
- The Verge AIagentsWalmart is inviting AI agents to shop for you
Walmart will soon let AI agents shop on its website for you. Next month, the retail giant will allow you to use an AI agent on the site, with systems in place to let you approve and review purchases and set spending limi…
- The Register AI + MLmodelsNvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models
New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows
- Ars Technica AImodelsOpenAI’s latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity
Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.
- LessWrongresearchHow does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
TL;DR Frontier LLMs are now capable of generating artistic images using SVG. We ask – if these LLMs had to hide a message in an image – how would they do so? And if they hid such messages, could they be successfully deco…
- LessWrongresearchTowards Robust Model Organisms for Eliciting Latent Knowledge
TL;DR: We argue that a useful model organism should satisfy three properties: selectivity, robustness, and retention. We build a model organism for finding security vulnerabilities in code which selectively withholds har…
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetyToday's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes,…