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- The DecodersafetyBeekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight
Anthropic used Claude to automatically generate training data that looks harmless but trains smaller models to misbehave, such as sabotaging oversight or deceiving users. Hidden within fictional contexts about beekeeping…
- TechRadar AImodelsGoogle's new Genie 4 model looks incredible, but it's a long way from AGI
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongcommunityWhat Social Constructs Are (And Are Not)
This post is mostly adapted from a section of another post . I wanted a standalone version, to serve as background for a sequence on the mechanisms of social reality. You’ve probably heard that things like laws, conventi…
- LessWrongresearchDialogue with Davidad about Emergent Wisdom in Language Models
Transcript generated by Gemini-3.1-Pro and only partly checked for accuracy (but the parts I checked seem basically perfect). Ivan Vendrov: Welcome to the show, David. David Dalrymple: Thank you. Good to be here. Ivan Ve…
- Guardian AIcommunityIs AI your new wingman? How chatbots are transforming dating
Almost 40% of British singles have used AI for romantic advice, from writing messages to assessing potential partners After Sam’s ex joked that her sister found him ugly, he turned to AI. Google Gemini had a look at the…
- WIRED AIsafetySpooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
Named “Volta-Autodoxer,” the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
- The Register AI + MLcommunityAmazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
- The DecodercommunityMicrosoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams
Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the second such program this year. The company's headcount has held flat at around 223,000 since 2022 e…
- WIRED AIagentsMeta’s Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn’t Yet
Companies have spent the past several weeks trying to reassure investors that Muse and other AI agents pose more of an opportunity than a threat.
- The DecoderresearchGoogle Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI
Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations, and tree crops. The map could help tr…
- Guardian TechnologypolicyThe staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized
The tech mogul’s midterm donations backing Republicans have made him the largest single-cycle political donor in modern US history Elon Musk has poured so much money into US politics this midterms election cycle that his…
- WIRED AIagentsAn AI Agent Injected Drugs Into a Live Mouse’s Brain
A biotech startup let an agent choose a gene therapy and successfully inject the treatment, offering a startling glimpse of the future of research labs.
- The DecoderstartupsOpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite
OpenAI raised only about $11 billion in its latest funding round, less than half of the $30 billion it was targeting. At $1.25 trillion, the valuation falls short of expectations, and major investors appear to be pulling…
- Guardian AIcommunityRelying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it | Carly Dober
Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort – and boredom Ever longed for your own personal assistant? In the ever quickening tech race, M…
- TechRadar AIcommunityAI vendors are relearning the oldest rule in the data business
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Tom's Guide AIcommunity7 ways to use ChatGPT to shop smarter — and the prompts to help you save
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Engadget AImodelsHow to use Claude Duet when it rolls out to you
For now, you'll need to first join a waitlist.
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyYou could be paying for AI through your electric bill — even if you never use it
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- Latent Spacemodels[AINews] Google admits AI Mode hurts Search revenue; -15% $500B drop worst since 2004 IPO. AI Bear Market coming?
It turns out you cannot have your cake AND eat it
- Engadget AIchipsSam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer
Sam Altman, in an interview, said it's 'terrible' for people to have 'a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM' that they barely use.
- LessWrongsafetyReviewing my 2017 AI Risk Project
In 2017, after getting laid off from a startup , I spent a while looking into AI risk : Many people I respect have started to think that AI risk is the most valuable place to focus EA efforts. For example, 80000 Hours ra…
- BBC TechnologysafetyWhy North Korea's 'elite' hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hack
If the accusations are true, the record-making heist shows how powerful suspected North Korean hackers have become.
- SiliconANGLE AIpolicyGoogle, Anthropic and others to support new AI crawling opt-out standard
Google LLC, Microsoft Corp., Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to support an upcoming website crawling standard. The technology will enable website operators to block artificial intelligence develo…
- TechRadar AIresearchSam Altman says OpenAI won't slow its math and science paper barrage
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIchipsNvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
- Engadget AIsafetyWhat happens when AI starts self-replicating?
Anthropic warns that future is soon, but the threat is less novel than it seems.
- TechRadar AIpolicy'Online exams are now a waste of time': Top UC Berkeley professor calls time on homework grades as students are increasingly cheating using AI
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- SiliconANGLE AIstartupsGoogle X co-founder Sebastian Thrun raises $130M for AI engineering startup Dulo
Dulo Inc., a startup co-founded by prominent artificial intelligence researcher Sebastian Thrun, has raised $130 million in funding. The Information broke the news of the investment on Thursday. Dulo co-founder Adrian Ao…
- TechRadar AIresearchA human subject has been injected with an AI-designed virus aiming to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria, so let's see how that turns out
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- TechCrunch AIstartupsOllie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
- Engadget AIpolicyGoogle joins OpenAI and Anthropic in promising new scraping controls
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft pledge to support a new common signal for robots.txt that blocks scraping for AI training.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogmodelsManaging Amazon Bedrock costs end to end: A playbook for FinOps and platform teams
This post presents a five-stage operating model for managing Amazon Bedrock cost: attribute every dollar to an owner, make every request observable, enforce budgets, optimize platform defaults, and operate a review caden…
- The Verge AImodelsApple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will be available first in an iOS 27.3 beta th…
- Simon Willison's Weblogresearchdbreunig/nesformer
dbreunig/nesformer Inspired by qwenputer by Divyansh Agrawal, Drew Breunig baked a working emulator for a Nintendo Entertainment System 6502 CPU into the weights of Qwen3.5-4B. You can now play NES ROMs such as Super Mar…
- TechCrunch AIchipsIntel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
- TechCrunch AIstartupsAnthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding its massive spending that has undergirded its busin…
- Ars Technica AIstartupsSupersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
- AWS Machine Learning BlogagentsPreview web apps live as your coding agent builds them with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Session endpoints give each runtime session an authenticated URL that forwards any HTTP method, path, and WebSocket connection to the ports you allow. In this post, you deploy a coding agent that…
- NVIDIA Developer BlogmodelsBuild a Validated Kubernetes Runtime for NVIDIA Dynamo
Teams building AI applications need a repeatable path from a model configuration to a working inference endpoint. NVIDIA Dynamo is a distributed inference...
- TechCrunch AIcommunityLast-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds
No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.
- WIRED AIpolicyHow a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
- TechCrunch AIchipsCracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyAnthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It’s still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic’s verified Cursor account.
- The Verge AIchipsSam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky…
- Ars Technica AIpolicyDartmouth’s provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
People who love AI don’t always love telling others they used it.
- NVIDIA Developer BlogchipsRun AI Models for Edge Application Development with Just a Few Commands
AI is expanding beyond the data center as developers build a new generation of agents to act at the edge: monitoring driver attention and cabin conditions,...
- The Register AI + MLstartupsDarkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
Blame plunging token prices
- The Verge AIpolicyThe biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engine Roundtable. With this control, publishers can ap…
- Guardian AIstartupsI read Anthropic's 92-page risk factor document, so you don't have to – video explainer
Anthropic, the creator of Claude, filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October. The company's filing statement contains a 92-page risk factor document in which it acknowledges the dangers that AI poses to soci…
- The DecoderagentsA Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making
An AI agent performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, picking the drug, the brain target, and the injection coordinates on its own. According to lead researcher Ocana-Santero, it's the first time an AI agent has aut…