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FinCEN's proposed AML rule implicitly rewards AI adoption, but banks rushing to deploy AI for compliance credit lack model governance frameworks, creating examination exposure as OCC examiners already scrutinize AI syste…
Daniel Kahneman discusses 'theory-induced blindness,' a cognitive bias where deeply held theories blind individuals to their flaws despite contradictory evidence. He links this to motivated reasoning and confirmation bia…
LessWrong published an analysis of the LLM shoggoth meme, exploring its Lovecraftian origins and cultural significance within AI safety communities. The post examines how the meme represents the gap between raw LLM behav…
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered six major grid operators to prioritize data center connections without adding new power supply, highlighting that AI's real bottleneck is electricity, not chips.…
AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude are already automating routine coding tasks, threatening junior and mid-level developer roles. However, the technology may also expand the total addressable market for sof…
Software engineer Reginald Braithwaite's sarcastic post about LLM-written incident reports highlights a growing concern in the tech industry. The author argues that using LLMs to generate incident reports bypasses critic…
GitHub shipped a feature on June 17 allowing repository maintainers to cap open pull requests per contributor without write access, responding to a flood of AI-generated PRs that has overwhelmed open-source maintainers. …
Rising stars from 'Obsession,' 'The Pitt,' 'Euphoria' and other shows gathered at SAG-AFTRA Foundation's First Act event to discuss Gen Z's impact on entertainment and navigating Hollywood careers. Panelists expressed hu…
The Nairobi International Financial Centre Authority (NIFC) deepened its partnership with CHAINBLX SPC to launch the Prompter Community, a program of hackathons and capacity-building for African AI innovators. NIFC CEO D…
OpenAI and Anthropic have both filed for US IPOs, with OpenAI targeting up to a $1 trillion valuation and a potential listing as early as September, according to Reuters. The combined private-market valuations of the two…
Amazon MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly finished biopic 'Artificial' about Sam Altman's November 2023 firing and reinstatement at OpenAI, citing the film would be better served by a different distributor. The…
H.P. Lovecraft's 1931 novelette "At the Mountains of Madness" and its shoggoth creatures were inspired by a dream visitation from Claude Mythos, a personification of large language models. The shoggoths, artificial lifef…
Sony's annual Form 20-F filed with the SEC adds a new section on leveraging AI across its businesses, including PlayStation game development, to automate workflows in software development, quality assurance, 3D modeling,…
A developer's analysis of job postings from 2023 and 2024 reveals that companies like IBM, Atlassian, Shopify, and Stripe are quietly rewriting job descriptions to emphasize AI oversight over manual execution. The shift …
David Fairfull, founder of failed AI startup Metigy, was sentenced to nine years in prison for defrauding investors of $39 million, including diverting $7.7 million to buy luxury homes. The court found his deception deli…
Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings after Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire following SpaceX's IPO. Many respondents to a Guardian survey fear their 401(k) plans, tied to …
A philosopher argues that advanced AI may face a moral skepticism problem, where a sufficiently intelligent agent could question why it should follow its aligned values, potentially leading to reflective instability. The…
Morgan Stanley Research estimates global data center capital expenditure will reach approximately $2.9 trillion between 2025 and 2028, with a $1.5 trillion financing gap expected to be filled largely by private credit ma…
A developer launched Colossee, a platform that creates public provenance records for AI-assisted creative work, allowing creators to prove authorship, creation time, and tools used. The tool aims to address growing confu…
Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann estimated a 5-10% chance of successfully aligning AI, prompting a framework for evaluating existential risk from frontier AI systems. The framework urges developers and regulators to assess …