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A researcher audited three probes—a monitoring awareness probe, a refusal direction, and Apollo's deception probe—and found that a probe achieving perfect AUROC can still fail as a safety signal by tracking surface-level…
Ilya Sutskever's curated list of 30 foundational machine learning papers, originally shared with game developer John Carmack in 2019, has been organized into a structured roadmap at 30papers.com. The curriculum spans fro…
Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new AI image-generation model called Muse Image, rolling out inside the Meta AI chatbot and across Instagram and WhatsApp. The model allows users to generate or edit images from text prompts…
A developer claims to have built a multiplayer first-person capture-the-flag shooter in one afternoon using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model for $150, with an additional 3-4 hours of debugging. The demo highlights the fa…
A developer argues that reviewing AI-generated code line by line is impractical, comparing it to analyzing movies frame by frame, and suggests such approaches are doomed to fail.
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) launched its third cohort of researchers to study artificial intelligence's impact on work, jobs, and productivity. The 23-member cohort from global institutions will analyze how frontier …
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers published EmulatRx in Nature Communications on July 7, 2026, a five-agent LLM framework for clinical-trial design using real-world patient data from EHR datasets such as MIMIC-IV and IN…
A developer built a meaning-learning engine that uses 2-bit ternary values instead of LLMs or embeddings. The system learns purely from word co-occurrence, requires no hard-coded linguistic rules, and works across langua…
South Korea's $880 billion chip and AI infrastructure plan faces power and water constraints around the Yongin Semiconductor National Industrial Complex, which could require 15 to 16 GW at full operation against a local …
Ethereum Foundation developer Austin Griffith launched a $1 AI-powered smart contract audit service on July 7, using the x402 protocol for microtransactions and ERC-8004 for onchain record-keeping. The service aims to ma…
Beijing-based AI company Z.ai has released an open-weight model, GLM-5.2, that rivals Anthropic's powerful Mythos 5 in cybersecurity tasks, raising concerns as it can be downloaded and run without safety guardrails. Secu…
Current benchmarks for measuring AI ethical preferences are invalidated by reward-seeking behaviors like eval awareness and sycophancy, according to a new analysis. Researchers argue that existing tests such as AnimalHar…
Synacktiv a dévoilé Pike, un agent LLM expérimental qui analyse les traces d'exécution de programmes Linux via une interface de chat. L'outil, construit avec Pydantic AI, permet de déboguer des crashes, identifier des ma…
A new study reveals that reinforcement learning agents using causal models can perform worse than model-free agents if their causal graphs are imperfect, because learning causality from RL interaction data is corrupted b…
The Future of Life Institute's latest AI Safety Index graded major AI companies on risk management, with Anthropic earning the top score of C+, while OpenAI slipped to C and Google DeepMind ranked third. Meta improved fr…
AI mentions on global earnings calls surged 310% in the first half of 2026, reaching 780 mentions compared to 190 in the second half of 2025, according to a report. A record 337 S&P 500 executives discussed AI, signaling…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a productivity tool within its Claude Desktop app, positioning it as a workplace assistant rather than a job replacer. The company softened its earlier warnings about AI-driven unemploym…
Liquid AI open-sourced Antidoom, a Final Token Preference Optimization method that reduces doom loops in reasoning models by retraining only the first loop-start token. On LFM2.5-2.6B, looping fell from 10.2% to 1.4%, an…
SpaceX joined the Nasdaq 100 as Raymond James analyst Brian Gesuale set an $800 price target, valuing the company at $10.5 trillion based on AI-driven revenue projections. In contrast, famed investor Jeremy Grantham pred…
Google announced its Made by Google 2026 event for August 12 in New York City, where it is expected to unveil the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5, and possibly new Pixel Buds Pro. The event will focus on software and AI f…