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OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment — OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
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OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences — Summary — We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries …
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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis — Senior administration officials have gathered almost daily in recent months to map out potential guardrails
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| Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend — Apple Inc. Executive Chairman Tim Cook and OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman are poised to attend a White House state dinner …
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Snap Specs hands-on: more advanced than Meta's top-end glasses, fully untethered, mostly comfortable, and navigation works well, but its design has compromises — The technically advanced Specs feature an integrated display and a convenient self-contained design.
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Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions — A new coalition launched Wednesday is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.| Justin Papp / CNBC: |
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews — Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, on Tuesday.Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times| Reuters: |
Huawei plans to launch the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and says its UnifiedBus tech is key to its next-generation large AI systems — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) will launch two new artificial-intelligence semiconductors in 2027, rotating chairman David Wang said on Thursday …
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| Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS says it can't restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring — Amazon's announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials, revamped Health Sensing System, an S11 chip, and future AI features, but few design changes — The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all about what's happening underneath. Headlined by a new Health Sensing System …
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The US SEC unveils a five-year “Innovation Exemption” to free platforms that facilitate blockchain and tokenized stock trading from many stock exchange rules — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies …
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| Bloomberg: |
King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests — Titans of the artificial intelligence industry gathered in Scotland to hear Britain's monarch challenge them to control their inventions.
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| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
The UK FCA, alongside tax authorities and police, raids three illegal peer-to-peer crypto businesses, signaling an end to “light-touch” crypto regulation — The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Thursday that it conducted actions to crack down on three illegal peer … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Docs: Automattic interim CEO Mark Davies and CLO Andy Missan signed each other's severance packages worth $8.15M during Matt Mullenweg's brief ouster as CEO — Last week, on September 9, Automattic's board voted to put CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave, a decision the board still hasn't explained publicly.| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B co-led by Atreides, Valor, and Mubadala at a ~$30.9B post-money valuation, as it bets on factory-built data centers — Crusoe raised $3.9 billion at a valuation of nearly $31 billion, as it bets on factory-built data centers| Financial Times: |
A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors — Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict.| Yael Grauer / The Verge: |
Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models — Security researcher Matthew “Zigula” Gore-Kormanik was analyzing a fraudulent dating app called Dora when he got a pop-up message saying he was receiving a call from Jennifer.
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations — Remember when OpenAI landed in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem?| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space — It's both a “Snow Leopard update” and a major leap for Apple Intelligence. — Apple Intelligence is back, baby!
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| Bloomberg: |
DoorDash says Costco members can order same-day delivery from every US Costco warehouse, after Uber expanded its delivery partnership from 17 to 47 US states — DoorDash Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc. are expanding their delivery partnership with Costco Wholesale Corp. …
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Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announces a deal with Tata to manufacture and package chips in India, further sealing its split from Chinese parent Wingtech — Dutch chipmaker Nexperia announced a far-reaching partnership with Tata Electronics on Thursday to manufacture and package computer chips in India … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director is drafting an EO to establish a government-led incubator aimed at cybersecurity research — The Trump administration is weighing a plan to establish a government-led incubator aimed at investing in cybersecurity research … Sponsor Posts
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