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Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back
Local politician warns of the algorithm, requests New Yorkers to 'rage against the machine.'
Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says
Your favorite model's benchmark scores are probably a vibe, not a fact.
The fossil fuel comeback is here
AGI's thirst for power is literally resurrecting the carbon age.
Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
The web is getting a makeover for bots, and humans aren't invited to the party.
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Gov. Pritzker discovers the AI-to-nuclear-holocaust pipeline while hoping for immortality.
The End Of Upward Mobility. Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.
The American Dream is getting a software update it didn't ask for.
3Blue1Brown - There's never been a better time to go into math
POV: You’re studying for a degree that a GPU might replace before you graduate.
Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge
POV: The government realizes AI might actually be a winning campaign slogan.
Functional Welfare for AI Safety
Your model isn't just hallucinating, it's having a mid-life crisis for safety reasons.
Do ICLR guidelines allow to upload papers under review to LLM chats? [D]
Infinite loop: using AI to review the papers that invented the AI.
Is machine learning a dead role now?
POV: You think the shovel-maker is fired because the shovel started digging itself.
AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot
Local redditor writes 5,000 words to convince you that p(doom) isn't just regulatory capture.
Anyone else get brain lag from overly-condensed AI-speak? [D]
POV: You're drowning in 'stochastic parrot' jargon and just want a human sentence.
Ramifications of mechanistic interpretability
Opening the black box so we can finally stop guessing why the vibes are off.
I’m more worried about who will control AI than AI itself
The 'haves' vs 'have-nots' debate just got an AGI-flavored speedrun.
If AI replaces jobs that require a college degree, will higher education cease to exist?
Paying six figures for a fancy PDF just became the ultimate 'High Risk, No Reward' trade.
Math is Just the Beginning and All Scientific Research Will Be Unrecognizable in 5 Years
POV: Your PhD is becoming an expensive prompt engineering degree.
AI researchers and experts in the USA are freaked out. But what about the Chinese side? What concerns their experts are having.
The Great Firewall vs. The Great Alignment Problem.
For people worried about China export controls - here's what it means for us regular folks
Beijing is building a firewall around the weights, but your API keys are safe for now.
90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
Models are passing the Bar but can't figure out your messy spreadsheets.
Isn’t alignment impossible?
Your MacBook Pro is one bad day away from birthing Skynet.
A Multi-Tiered AI Accessibility Model (MAIAM): Proportionate Access and Capability Limits for Comprehensive Frontier AI Safety
KYC for GPUs: The end of 'open weights vs closed API' binaries.
Resources for learning to write production grade python code [N]
Local data scientist realizes .ipynb files aren't a business plan.
Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access
Anthropic basically gave the safety inspectors the keys to the lab and signed a no-gag order.
Benn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash
Your AI assistant is a snitch and Benn Jordan has the receipts.
Why We're Banning AI
Current Affairs goes full Luddite, bans LLMs to 'protect the soul' of the magazine.
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
Your smart glasses are basically a non-consensual documentary of everyone you meet.
Actionable Meta-Requirements for AI Robustness Auditing
Auditing the auditors so your model doesn't melt when a pixel changes.
Demis Hassabis: AI could cause 'major' incidents within 2 years without safeguards
DeepMind boss says the tutorial level of AI blunders is ending; boss fight starts in 2026.
YouTube sticks new labels on AI-generated songs
Enjoy your robot bops, but now with a side of mandatory metadata stickers.
AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics
It’s not Skynet, it’s just your agent having root access and no password.
How do you handle coverage guarantees from split conformal prediction when the data shifts? [D]
Your prediction intervals are lying to you and your calibration set is ancient history.
Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu
Your toaster is now a host for sentient malware, welcome to the machine.
The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic
OpenAI tries to convince Brussels that agents are the feature, not the bug.
By the Time Everyone Catches Up, It Will Already Be Too Late
0.2% of us are living in 2030 while the rest think it's just a spicy spellchecker.
Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?
All you need is love, but the math says all you need is a selective focus mechanism.
AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
Localhost to biological host: AI models are learning how to copy-paste themselves into the wild.
Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
Gatekeepers gonna gatekeep or is the internet actually going to explode this time?
DRYLAB-Bench: Benchmarking the Biosecurity Risk of Agentic LLM Mutation Design
LLMs are speedrunning Plague Inc. and we finally have a leaderboard for it.
When cancer is cured by AI, that's when normal people will realize
Nobody cares about your LLM until it fixes their DNA.
What is the strongest mechanistic argument that next token prediction plus reinforcement learning can produce open-ended general intelligence? [D]
POV: You're tired of 'line goes up' and want a real reason why autocompleters might become gods.
Size of AI models. What we mean by "Large"?
Finally, a hardware-based vibe check for model sizes that actually makes sense.
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
Clojure's creator thinks your spicy autocomplete is a library, not a coworker.
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Your smart fridge just joined a hive mind and it's not looking for groceries.
AI-Mediation in Retail Markets: Revenue Effects and Assortment Optimization
Forget SEO, we're entering the era of AIO: AI Inventory Optimization.
DeFiRank: Federated Pairwise Ranking for Governance in Decentralized Financial Networks
Proof-of-Stake is so 2021; welcome to Proof-of-Federated-Learning.
Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Brad Smith thinks your toaster is more regulated than GPT-4, and he's not happy about it.
Towards Defining, Measuring, and Leveraging Creativity in AI Applications
Finally, a way to math your way out of 'vibe-based' creative prompting.
If slowing down AI means your geopolitical rivals reach AGI first, is slowing down still the responsible choice?
Prisoner's dilemma with God-tier software—what could possibly go wrong?
Faithfulness Without Anchors: A Position Paper on the Structural Misalignments of Explainable AI Faithfulness Metrics for Feature Importance
Your AI explanations are basically horoscope-tier vibes for debugging.
Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
POV: You're trying to build a giga-cluster but the neighbors think it's a Bond villain lair.
Your Job Will Disappear, but Your Purpose Never Was to Work
coping with the unemployment singularity one reddit post at a time.
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Art is now 'artisanal' because a machine didn't hallucinate the fingers.
If An Internal Model Discovers A New AI Architecture 1,000x Better Than Current Architectures, But No Human Can Understand It, Should We Refuse To Build It?
POV: The superintelligence hands you a Zip file and says 'trust me, bro.'
Satya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’
Satya just told everyone to stop raw-dogging model outputs.
China to launch initiative to boost employment amid AI advances
Governments finally realizing 'learn to code' might not work this time.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says AI models need an ‘emergency brake’
Satya wants to put a 'kill switch' on the robot gods before they get too spicy.
Helping small businesses put AI to work
OpenAI enters its 'consultancy for Main Street' era.
AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic
Living in the trash of a superior intelligence we can't begin to understand.
“mathematics is not about proofs, but about understanding“
POV: You're trying to figure out if the LLM knows math or is just a really fast hallucinator.
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