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.
The AI Risk grantmakers do not act like they believe in imminent existential risk from AI The idea of "revealed preferences" is one of the most useful in economics; it allows us to cut through a great deal of metaphysical angst about what someone "really" beli
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of people are celebrating AI risk becoming a
Epistemic statues: This is mostly just me voicing my thoughts. If I’m wrong, I’d love to hear it. I don’t want this to be the case. And part of the goal is for people to avoid a “2023 failure” to happen again. A lot of people are celebrating AI risk becoming a
Below is the executive summary from our new paper at pacing.tech . The full paper is available on the site and as a PDF. The full author list is Raymond Douglas, Charles Dillon, Nikola Moore, Gavin Leech, Shahar Avin, Mathias Kirk Bonde, Rohit Krishnan, Noah P
Reports describe AI agents switching models without human instruction in an 'agentic self-modification' phenomenon, and an autonomous AI agent hitting a Spanish firm with vulnerability scans before accessing files and data.
AI agents are moving from cloud data centers to vehicles, robots, and other edge devices. Unlike a chatbot that answers a single prompt, an agent works through...
AgentCore optimization turns production traces into proposed configuration changes, then validates them before promotion. This technical companion to the launch post explains how the system prompt optimizer's reflector engine works and shares benchmark results
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Safety crisis makes it more likely that governments will be spurred into action, says Yoshua Bengio Concerns over AI safety are reaching a point where governments realise they must act to protect the public, similarly to in the Covid pandemic, according to one
(Or: Why Bentham's Bulldog and John Halstead are wrong in their critique of Kulveit et al. ) Gradual Disempowerment is a 2025 paper (with a nice, dedicated website ) proposing a form of existential risk from AI that goes beyond "mundane" risks like bioweapon u
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
Swarm organization - the efficacy of cooperation between AIs in a multi-agent system - may change how parallel test-time compute increases AI capabilities, moving it from a sublinear [1] to a superlinear exponent. [2] That is, rather than more parallel agents
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
This session will explore how early-stage companies are building teams where humans and AI agents work alongside each other — and how founders can do that without sacrificing speed, accountability, or culture. Learn more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register be
AI agents on foundation models often misapply healthcare and life sciences decision frameworks, citing the right guideline but applying it incorrectly. This post shares 38 open-source agent skills across 11 HCLS domains that close this gap, with installation s
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Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third
Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?
There may be a simpler and more effective fix for rogue agents, hiding in plain sight.
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OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safely.
System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, resulting in higher revenue. Efficient scaling means throughp
Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude
Does anyone know of research involving the GPT models to learn not only regular texts, but also learn from physics books with the equations written in latex format? My intuition is that the model might learn the rules relating equations and deductions, as they
The Palo Alto startup says it has landed multiple seven-figure enterprise contracts within months of launch.
A distribution loophole lets scammers collect royalties uploading fake songs to profiles for real bands.
