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Researchers quantitatively assessed for the first time that somatic mutations alone cap human lifespan at 146–194 years. Brain and heart cells are the main bottleneck, while the liver could last millennia.
Your liver is a god, but your heart has a hardware expiration date.
US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
Import taxes for physical goods, sanctions for weights: the trade war goes neural.
US, China to hold AI talks in September, sources say
The two final bosses are meeting in the lobby to discuss the server rules.
Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation
Software is eating the world, but it still needs a physical plate to sit on.
A Survey on the Verification of Reinforcement Learning Policies
When 'trust me bro' isn't enough for your trillion-parameter RL agent.
Why Quantum Fine-Tuning is the Scalable Answer to AI's Power Crisis
Throwing the word 'quantum' at the electric bill and hoping for a discount.
AI just predicts the next word!!
Local man solves AGI by reading the first sentence of a Wikipedia summary.
How Does Empowering Users with Greater System Control Affect News Filter Bubbles?
giving you the wheel doesn't mean you'll drive out of the echo chamber.
Harmonizing AI Safety Thresholds
Safety standards are currently a 'choose your own adventure' and researchers are over it.
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
Sam Altman wants to pull the ladder up, and he's using China as the boogeyman.
Chat is this real
POV: your AI intern just hallucinated the entire quarterly report.
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Train on everything, lock nothing: the 'Stratechery' playbook for winning the AI arms race.
Closing the AI Trust Gap: The Case for Independent Certification for Trustworthy AI
Good vibes aren't data: researchers demand a 'Certified Organic' sticker for LLMs.
A Formally Grounded ODRL Evaluator: Implementation and Comparison
giving ai policy a math degree so lawyers don't have to guess.
Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
Sam Altman's 'reasoning' models are learning how to procrastinate or plot, take your pick.
Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)
The godfather of VR thinks 'AI' is just a fancy way of saying 'collaborative filter'.
The Trump administration considers banning cutting-edge Chinese AI models (per Axios). Decel move?
The iron curtain is getting an upgrade to the silicon firewall.
Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum
Make weights American again: the export control boogaloo continues.
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
The machines aren't just copying our racism, they're inventing their own flavors now.
A Critical Analysis of Trustworthy AI Tools, Mark Frameworks, and the Implementation Chasms
Everyone wants 'Trustworthy AI' but nobody knows how to actually code it.
Once AI development is completely automated in top ai companies, what reason would the govt in usa or china possibly have to not take over the company and it's assets?
Governments: 'It's our AGI now, comrade.'
Reducing the model parameter size?
Honey, I shrunk the 2-trillion parameter model.
given the increasing likelihood of an open source AI ban, what are the alternative channels for downloading models?
POV: You're panic-hoarding weights before the AI Iron Curtain drops.
AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found
The 'vibe' is strong, the math is wrong.
What happens when AI can produce knowledge humans can verify but never understand?
POV: trying to explain quantum gravity to a golden retriever.
I don't see how open-source AI models in the U.S. can successfully compete with those from China.
VC term sheets vs. state-backed infinity money: who wins the compute war?
Am I focusing on the wrong skills as a CS student in the AI era? (Need brutally honest advice) [D]
POV: You're halfway through a CS degree and realized your homework is now a prompt.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Replacing your middle management with a LLM might actually be a bad idea, who knew?
The Industrialization of Research ; On AI-Driven Science and Its Consequences
PhD students are just a legacy bug in the new AI research pipeline.
Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise
POV: your 'luxury loft' is actually a dungeon and a Midjourney prompt.
is it possible that robotic automation will benefit China more than the US?
The factory of the world is upgrading to a factory of bots.
Man, Machine, and Masterpiece: Artistic Ownership in the AI Era
Software trying to measure 'vibes' discovers that artists don't like being math problems.
Moral Attitudes of Sentient ASI towards Humanity and Implications for AGI Development
POV: You're being peer-reviewed by the God-King machine you just built.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
Nobody knows what's happening but we’re all pivoting anyway.
Days after Demis Hassabis proposed a FINRA-style AI standards body, the Trump administration is considering a remarkably similar plan
POV: The frontier labs finally lobby-speedran their way into a regulatory moat.
White House launches “Gold Eagle,” moving to control frontier AI releases and decide who can access new models
The White House just entered the OpenAI group chat and everyone is muted.
While China endorses open-source AI models, Demis Hassabis heads to Washington to push AI vetting proposal and David Sacks criticized regulators in latest tweet
Nobel winner goes to DC to explain why we need a license to print tokens.
All this hysteria about datacenter water use. Check out this graph of how Al water consumption in America compares to laundry, flushing toilets, etc. From CBS news. Also AI is only 10% of datacenter use.
Your toilet uses more water than my GPU, so let me train in peace.
Measuring How Students Rely on Generative AI in Academic Writing: Development and Multi-Source Validation of the Generative AI Reliance Types Scale (GenAI-RTS)
New taxonomy dropped: are you a 'Strategic' pro or just a 'Dependent' prompt-monkey?
Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Mozilla is here to remind you that your favorite 'open' model is actually just a mystery box.
How Artificial Intelligence LLM Engines Shape the Global Conflict Information Environment
LLMs basically writing fan-fiction for wars that aren't trending on Twitter.
Researchers: Is this framework useful, or complete BS?[D]
From copy-pasting to Nobel prizes: a new map for the lost research soul.
The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
New fear unlocked: hackers poisoning the weather models to ruin your weekend and the economy.
open source models pose EXTREME DANGERS
Gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss: the new manifesto for closed-weights supremacy.
Why teens deserve access to safe AI
OpenAI wants your kids' homework to be 'safe' and 'age-appropriate' for the algorithm.
AI advice suppresses people's willingness to say "I don't know", even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized
POV: You're now 2x more confident about being 100% wrong because the chatbot said so.
Mozilla’s State of Open Source AI Report
Mozilla reminds everyone that 'open' is a spectrum, not a toggle switch.
Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe
EU to Google: stop making fetch happen (solely for yourself).
Our approach to bioresilience
DeepMind trying to make sure the AI doesn't accidentally cook up a 2.0 plague.
Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
It’s not a hammer if the hammer can decide to rebuild the house without you.
Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
Local boy discovers that building AGI on a closed-source subscription is probably a bad idea.
Is anyone else beginning to feel the AGI?
Schizo-posting or time traveler? Bro is 'feeling' models that don't exist yet.
Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]
MIT economists just delivered the 'are we the drama?' vibes for the AI hype cycle.
Looking for JEPA devil advocates [R]
Yann LeCun thinks LLMs are a dead end; Reddit is checking for the fine print.
Isolation as a First-Class Principle for LLM-Agent System Safety: Concepts, Taxonomy, Challenges and Future Directions
Your agent needs a sandbox, not just a vibe check.
The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
Sam Altman wants 50 different rulebooks to magically become one legal Bible.
The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
Your voice is now a public API and the password is 'Hello?'
A Threshold Exceedance Framework for CBRN Uplift Evaluation in Frontier Language Models
New 'how to not build a nuke with LLMs' evaluation framework just dropped.
Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit [D]
Your scaling law just hit a wall called Godel and it's awkward.
AI jobs created vs. jobs eliminated?
The 'Will I have a job in 2026' vibes are hitting a fever pitch again.
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