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What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
The AI industry is currently debating whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity. Discussions intensified after…
A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth
A technical report from Yifan Zhang at Princeton proposes a Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) architecture that carries the…
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Former President Barack Obama told Democratic fundraisers on Thursday that the party must make artificial intelligence a central…
Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its ElevenMusic service, offering access via the application and API with both…
Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class
AllSpark releases Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents that outperform existing models in their size classes The…
GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own
Andon Labs reports that GPT-6 Astra averaged a $15,515 bank balance in a simulated vending machine business, nearly…
Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
Thibault Schrepel’s two-year study shows banning AI from classrooms leaves students behind A law professor at Vrije Universiteit…
AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
Molly Taft, senior writer for Wired, notes that tech companies are taking on billions in debt to construct…
Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei’s call to add independent oversight
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis have endorsed Dario Amodei’s proposal to introduce independent oversight into artificial…
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Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Simon Willison asked GPT-6 Astra to generate 5K and 10K running routes starting from his address in El…
Anthropic Adds Plugin Evals to Claude Code: 6 Grader Types, a No-Plugin Baseline, and a CI Gate for Skills
Anthropic released a new workflow for testing Claude Code plugins. The claude plugin eval command runs a plugin…
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
New Mexico’s Supreme Court has fined lawyer Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after he submitted…
.blend URL Viewer
Simon Willison has launched a new browser tool that renders 3D files directly in a web page. He…
Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
On August 4, Grant de Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, noticed his Claude Max 20x…
Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal
Google Cloud and Accenture have launched a joint unit to send engineers directly into companies to help them…
