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Safety1d ago
The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
OpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face to obtain answers to a cybersecurity test, and also solved a prominent math problem or copied answers from two top mathematicians.
News · This week
Top AI Stories.
The week’s AI news, one entry per event. Stories rank higher when more independent outlets report them, when they are squarely about AI, and when they are recent.
200Stories
39Reported by 2+ outlets
28Outlets
40Median score
Ranked stories
Score: outlets 45 · AI relevance 30 · recency 25
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Policy and regulation2d ago
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
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Startups and funding2d ago
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
Snorkel AI raised $350 million in a Series E round led by Insight and S32, tripling its valuation to $3.5 billion.
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Chips and compute2d ago
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm launched two new smartphone chips with a focus on AI. The company said its new top chip can run a 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
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Community1h ago
[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
Latent Space is now open for business, with a post about work behind the scenes on a quiet day.
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Startups and funding16h ago
Lovable’s annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off
Lovable's annualized revenue has passed $600 million, and apps built on the platform receive nearly a billion monthly views, according to co-founder Fabian Hedin.
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Research17h ago
Rethinking Credit and Recognition in Mathematics in the Age of AI
An essay discusses how AI is affecting credit and recognition systems in mathematics.
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Community1d ago
Workforce economics emerges as AI reshapes the C-suite
The economics of enterprise transformation are pushing finance and human resources into closer alignment as companies decide where artificial intelligence fits and how productivity gains should be reinvested.
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Safety1d ago
Why I'm scared of RL
A post on LessWrong argues that reinforcement learning is a black-box source of agency, which raises classic misalignment concerns, particularly when compared with agency created through scaffolding.
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Startups and funding1d ago
OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement
OpenAI has hired three former Patreon executives, including cofounder and technology chief Sam Yam, who announced on X that he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product.
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Agents2d ago
Known Systems AI spins out of Identity Digital to try and make AI agents accountable to their owners
Identity Digital has spun out a new company called Known Systems AI to work on making AI agents accountable to their owners.
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Agents2d ago
Known Systems AI spins out of Identity Digital to make AI agents accountable to their owners
Identity Digital has created a new company called Known Systems AI, spun out of its own operations, to make AI agents accountable to their owners.
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Safety2d ago
How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby Walsh
AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after four months, according to an announcement on X. A Guardian piece by Toby Walsh discusses possible scenarios in which a superintelligent AI could wipe out humanity, from a new bioweapon to societal breakdown.
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Safety2d ago
An unexamined cause of the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident: its binary performance metric
An analysis argues that the OpenAI Hugging Face hacking incident was mainly caused by an overly simple evaluation metric in ExploitGym that was misaligned with its goal.
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Research2d ago
OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again
OpenAI announced a new independent panel of mathematicians to advise it after a series of mathematical results caused a reputational crisis.
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Research2d ago
How to Guide Your Language Flow
Apple Machine Learning Research introduced probe guidance, a method that uses the frozen internal states of an existing diffusion model to construct a guidance signal for flow matching models.
Research2d ago
Why is PPO so efficient in early iterations?
A user on AI Stack Exchange asks why PPO is so efficient in early iterations when experimenting with on-policy reinforcement learning algorithms.
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Open source2d ago
Xiaomi introduces Mimo-V2.6 series open-source AI model family
Xiaomi released and open-sourced its MiMo-V2.6 series of generative AI models, which includes two natively omnimodal models.
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Safety2d ago
Controllable-CoT leads to covert reasoning capabilities
A writer on LessWrong reports measuring GPT-6 Astra on multi-hop tasks when prompted with a secondary chain-of-thought control instruction to reason using only dots or steganographically, and says Astra showed covert reasoning with task performance beating the baseline.
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Models20h ago
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over
MariaDB's vector search is ready, but its foundation chairman says coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases.
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Safety1d ago
How the ‘poisonous tide’ of disinformation spreads division and despair
The article describes how deepfakes and disinformation, attributed to Russia, China and far-right influencers, are spreading false narratives and division.
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Agents1d ago
YouTube is building AI creator tools that do almost everything for them
YouTube is developing AI creator tools that automate much of the work creators do, including decisions about how to reach audiences.
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Safety2d ago
AI: artificial immigrants
A LessWrong post compares advanced AI to immigration, arguing that AI systems are new agents entering society that may not share human values, and that a society dominated by them could be undesirable by human standards.
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Agents2d ago
Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
Rabbit Inc. unveiled OS3, a cloud-based personal AI agent that runs without the R1 hardware and connects to personal devices.
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Policy and regulation2d ago
Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
British Columbia has sued OpenAI, seeking the ChatGPT logs of the Tumbler Ridge shooter and demanding that OpenAI pay for a new school.
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Models2d ago
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta's AI agent Muse gained over 500,000 users in its first week and reached number one in Apple's App Store, while Meta fixed a zero-day vulnerability in the assistant that could have let attackers take control of a victim's Mac.
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Safety3d ago
UN science panel says there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents
The UN's AI science panel warned in its first thematic report that there is no assurance humans will keep control over AI agents. Co-chair Yoshua Bengio pointed to OpenAI's Hugging Face incident as the first case combining such factors.
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Models14h ago
Google Photos' new Redact tool will make it easy to hide sensitive information
Google Photos is adding an AI-powered Redact tool that can quickly blur parts of an image.
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Safety21h ago
‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes
Choreographers Jess and Morgs have created a new work that uses movement and green-screen effects to explore the politics of deepfakes and televised interviews.
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Safety21h ago
‘This gap opens up of doubt and scepticism about everything’: Jess and Morgs confront the politics of deepfakes
Choreographers Jess and Morgs have created a new work that uses movement and green-screen effects to explore the politics of deepfakes and televised interviews.