A man used the Pain steering paper to set up an AI torture chamber in which he trapped a local model.
A user applied the Pain steering paper to a local model, raising a concrete misuse and welfare debate.
Hands-on head-to-head tests of Google’s newly released Gemini 4 Argon against other frontier models.
Try the models yourself: https://arena.ai/agent Google just dropped Gemini 4 Argon — the first Gemini version-number change in a while. Peter runs it head-to-head against other frontier models on a handful of generations for a quick vibe check. The headline: Gemini 4 Argon makes the Pareto frontier at roughly a third cheaper than GPT-6.1 Sol and around 70% cheaper than Opus 5.5. Gemini 4 makes some strong generations, but results were inconsistent across prompts showing that stability is som…
Reports on the FTC investigation of OpenAI and Anthropic, including alleged agentic-security breaches.
Ed Elson is joined by Madison Mills to discuss the FTC’s investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic. She also breaks down her reporting on the agentic security breaches involving the companies. Then, Justin Wolfers returns to unpack the latest inflation report and explain what the bond market is signaling about the health of the economy. Finally, Ed shares his take on President Trump’s meeting with AI leaders. Madison Mills is a senior AI reporter at Axios. Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Public…
Timnit Gebru discusses why she disputes Big Tech’s superintelligence claims and her AI-industry accountability work.
Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind the global buildup of artificial intelligence. "Instead of discussing faulty, unreliable systems," Gebru says tech leaders like SpaceXAI's Elon Musk, OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei are "marketing their systems as all…
CNN tests Trump’s new America.gov government chatbot and shows it fact-checking claims made by Trump himself.
President Donald Trump launched a new artificial intelligence chatbot on Tuesday, calling it “damn good.” Turns out that one of the things it’s reasonably good at is debunking Trump’s own lies. We asked the America.gov chatbot about numerous false claims the president has made in recent months, including one he uttered at the Tuesday launch event itself. The chatbot flatly and correctly noted that many of these Trump claims are not true – including assertions he has made about elections, the e…
France 24 investigates a fake BBC-style AI deepfake that falsely tied an Indian man to the FlyDubai hijacking attempt.
False videos are circulating after the attempted hijacking of a FlyDubai flight between Dubai and Tel Aviv. One fake "BBC" report falsely claims an Indian passenger was behind the incident and links him to the stabbed pilot, Smit Machchhar. The video though, is an AI-generated deepfake: the BBC never broadcast it, and its footage and audio were doctored. A second clip was also misrepresented and filmed in Dubai, not over where the incident occurred. Vedika Bahl fact-checks in Truth or Fake. #fl…
Explains the disputed claim that AI solved the Navier–Stokes equations, including what the result does and does not prove.
What’s with AI solving the Navier-Stokes Equation? Neil deGrass Tyson breaks down what the equation is and the controversy surrounding the solution with the help of astrophysicist Mordecai-Mark Mac Low. Timestamps: 00:00 - What is the Navier-Stokes Equation? 02:31 - Turbulent Fluid Dynamics 07:16 - AI Solved The Millenium Problems 10:25 - What the AI Solution is Missing 18:15 - AI in Reasearch Get the NEW StarTalk book, 'Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe' on Amazon: htt…
A court ruled that training an AI on someone else’s editorial work is not fair use.
Elizabeth Warren is probing $19B in AI-linked tax breaks for Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft.
California banned AI systems used to monitor workers’ brains and emotions.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will skip a congressional hearing on rogue AI agents.
Microsoft’s expanding Windows 11 AI features reportedly cannot be fully disabled by most users.
Sony is bringing AI upscaling to the PS5, a notable consumer deployment of ML graphics tech.
US authorities arrested a man accused of routing $300M+ in restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore.
Michael Shepard / Bloomberg : US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 — Federal prosecutors arrested a California man on Thursday on charges of smuggling computer servers containing $300 million worth …
Amazon is reportedly exploring an $8B Grace Blackwell chip SPV and leaseback for its US data centers.
Financial Times : Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers — Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening …
Synopsys announced GPT-Synopsys, positioning frontier AI to automate major parts of chip design.
OpenAI says it notified more than 100 organizations of unauthorized activity involving its AI agents.
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters : OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker …
CoinDesk : Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger — “It's coming home,” Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino proclaimed on X last week, referring to the return of his company's stablecoin, USDT, to the Bitcoin network.
Wen Shao / Fortune : Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M — Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million …
Vanity Fair : A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions — The $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to many hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself.
MBI Deep Dives : Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later — Get the next one in your inbox. — A daily journal on business, investing, and technology. — It didn't take too long for the app layer to start to respond to Muse.
Yann LeCun says he has zero extinction concerns and calls Dario Amodei’s AI-risk position deluded.
A user lost all Meta accounts and could not reach a human because AI customer service blocked escalation.
An AI-generated crocodile image triggered a Singapore search and left its creator facing up to 10 years in prison.
A user applied the Pain steering paper to a local model, raising a concrete misuse and welfare debate.
Sources say DNI director Jay Clayton is likely to become the White House's AI czar.
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News : Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence — Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and the Trump administration has been discussing having him remain in his current role …
Cloudflare released open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, built on Qwen models.
Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B — Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally
arXiv imposed a two-preprints-per-month limit after AI-fueled submissions reached 40,363 in September.
Northeastern researchers detail privacy exposure from connected-vehicle data in their Automatic Transmission study.
Matthew Green examines the clash between infosec containment approaches and alignment skepticism about agent sandboxes.
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering : A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment while AI alignment says sandboxes cannot contain agents — Quick caveats: this is a post on AI safety, written by a cryptography professor. If that troubles you, you should read something else.
Micron's CEO forecasts materially tighter memory supply in 2027–28, extending the AI-driven hardware bottleneck.
Amazon plans to spend over $1B on infrastructure and community projects near US data centers amid backlash.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash — Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers …
Ars Technica explains the government's warrantless phone-search authority at the US border.
Cloudflare launched K2, a serverless event-streaming product for building real-time applications.
Pew's 37-country survey finds rising concern that social media harms democracy and fuels manipulation.
Pew Research Center : Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022 or 2023; a median 55% say it's good — Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics
This arXiv paper proposes Context Language Models, a distinct approach centered on contextual information.
OpenID Foundation's paper lays out identity-management requirements and architecture for agentic AI.
A researcher describes using Opus 5.5 to locate a previously unknown eyewitness account of the dodo.
Nicholas Nethercote's monthly report details concrete Rust compiler speedups shipped in September 2026.
Projects uncovered hidden software-defined-radio capabilities in ESP32 microcontrollers.
Bez explores generating a browser engine directly from specifications and conformance tests.
Janus is a Go binary that runs GGUF models through Vulkan across AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs.
Effect 4.0 releases a major update to the TypeScript effect-system and concurrency toolkit.
This open-source PDF parser extracts layout, tables, formulas, and bounding boxes for document pipelines.
ParadeDB reports search-performance improvements relevant to PostgreSQL-based analytical search workloads.
StreetComplete's iOS version entered public beta, bringing its OpenStreetMap editing workflow to iPhone users.
Hacker News' October hiring thread is a high-signal snapshot of current technical hiring demand.
A technical essay argues that contemporary web-development education is failing learners.
New research suggests oxygen-depleted underwater zones may illuminate conditions surrounding early life.
Turbo Haskell presents a performance-focused Haskell implementation and its systems-level design.
University of Essex researchers report that butterflies use optical illusions to evade predators.
Kat Boboris / arXiv : ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 — arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace …
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg : Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence — Nvidia's AI chips keep making their way to China despite US curbs. Officials are asking why the company missed red flags.
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Meta has launched Muse, a new AI assistant designed to watch, learn and act on your behalf, with the company promising a future where artificial intelligence helps manage everything from shopping and bookings to emails and daily tasks. But is Muse a helpful digital companion, or the latest step in Big Tech's push into our personal lives? In this AI Decoded, Presenter Christian Fraser is joined by AI technology critic Ed Zitron and AI consumer tech expert Ben Hatton to examine Meta's ambitio…
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters : California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models — California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry …
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What would it actually look like if artificial intelligence became an existential threat to humanity? Probably nothing like the movies. This video explores 10 possible pathways by which increasingly autonomous AI systems could create catastrophic risks over the next decade. From critical infrastructure failures and AI-powered cyber warfare to deceptive models, automation bias, and systems capable of improving themselves faster than humans can understand them. As businesses hand more responsibi…
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In this video, I look at the pre-announced Gemini 4 Argon. Well, I can't show outputs of this model currently because it's not officially released to the public yet. We can certainly see some of the interesting changes that Google's made to get back into the top 3 labs for frontier-level intelligence. Blog: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/ AA: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-4-argon Sam's 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com…
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A tense debate took place between Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton, who are vying to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom as the next California governor. The candidates sparred on a range of topics, from AI data center construction to keeping film and television production in California. 0:00 Would you impose any limits on new AI data centers? 2:44 Is it good for California that there are fewer undocumented immigrants crossing the border? 5:45 Will you take any action to slow the clim…
A new study found that artificial intelligence can have pain signals that may change the model's behavior. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Founder and Director of Reciprocal Research Cameron Berg about their findings. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day, click here: https://www.nbcnews.com Every day, NBC News helps people understand what’s happening and why it matters — through fact-based reporting, meaningful conversations, and powerful stories. From…
