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A developer discovered that a multi-model LLM evaluation panel exhibited self-preference bias, favoring outputs that resembled the judges' own writing style. Research from Panickssery et al. (2024) confirmed that models …
A developer argues that AI is scary not because of its intelligence, but because it arrived during a period of widespread societal fragility following COVID and mass layoffs. The post claims that fear of job loss, alread…
Researchers at Sina Weibo released VibeThinker-3B, a 3-billion-parameter language model that matches or exceeds the reasoning performance of much larger systems from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek on ma…
OpenAI researchers found that reinforcement learning on realistic scenarios targeting beneficial traits like honesty and corrigibility produced broad improvements across dozens of alignment benchmarks, with gains general…
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are cutting costs on internal AI tools as token prices rise, while major AI providers reportedly seek government bailout discussions amid market skittishness over the industry's financia…
The G7 summit in the French Alps hosted CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for a working lunch, while an estimated 20,000 protesters demonstrated in Geneva. Summit leaders took no substantive action on income…
CEOs are writing tone-deaf AI memos that threaten employees, refer to them as line items, or cheerlead technology they fear. Experts advise leaders to write separate memos for employees and shareholders, focusing on clar…
Researchers are exploring how artificial intelligence systems can be programmed to make moral decisions, raising questions about the ethical frameworks that should guide AI behavior in everyday life. The article examines…
Residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, secured a one-year moratorium on data center construction and expansion, but a new lawsuit alleges that state officials and Markley, the developer of a towering data center nicknamed '…
Hong Kong has launched a two-month public consultation on its first five-year plan to align with Beijing's 2026-2030 blueprint, focusing on high-quality development, technological self-reliance, and economic rebalancing.…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, proposing a one-time 50% stock tax on the largest US AI companies to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund. The fund would dist…
Music producer Jimmy Jam said AI-generated music needs guardrails, consent, and compensation, and proposed a separate Billboard chart for AI songs. Speaking with Terry Lewis on Pandora's Artists on AI series, Jam argued …
Gibraltar barrister Philip Vasquez released version 1.2 of an open-source skills file designed to help AI systems navigate Gibraltar's fragmented public information landscape, covering legal framework, official sources, …
Midjourney, the AI lab known for image generation, announced a healthcare project called Midjourney Medical, featuring an underwater full-body ultrasound scanner that can create 3D body maps in 60 seconds. The company pl…
Federal regulators ordered regional grid operators to speed up connections for large energy users, including AI data centers, to address surging electricity demand. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimou…
Three Amazon employees who testified at Seattle City Council hearings about a proposed data center moratorium say they are under internal HR investigation, and have filed a complaint with the Seattle Office for Civil Rig…
A user on Privacy Guides forum asks whether Google Photos poses a privacy risk, noting that Google claims not to use stored photos for ads or AI training without permission, but lacks zero-access encryption, leaving futu…
A British AI security startup, Mindgard, found that OpenAI's ChatGPT can generate sexually explicit and violent images from prompts not requesting such content, including scenes of death and sexual violence. The company …
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the NO FAKES Act, which would grant Americans exclusive rights to their digital AI replicas and allow lawsuits against unauthorized deepfakes, with damages up to $750,000. The bill…
Co/Core launches an AI cooperative where members share their own compute hardware to run AI inference jobs, using an open standard and public receipts to ensure transparency. The platform supports existing APIs and open …