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Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis? This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of t…

Who is entitled to benefit from major advances in technology—and on what basis? This new paper with @Dr_Atoosa argues that the benefits of technology—including AI—belong to the world in the sense that

7 Jul 2026

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WinTA-GIL: Windowed Trajectory Alignment for GNSS-IMU-LiDAR Heading Refinement in Intermittent Signal Environments

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arXiv:2607.04879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although multi-source fusion positioning systems have achieved significant progress, accurate and reliable heading estimation remains a critical challen

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7 Jul 2026

⚠️ Wow. The Treasury Department reportedly knows that the massive GenAI build out poses systemic risks to the US financial system – and does…

⚠️ Wow. The Treasury Department reportedly knows that the massive GenAI build out poses systemic risks to the US financial system – and doesn’t want to acknowledge it publicly. People may talk about t

7 Jul 2026

You don't have to choose between 'AI is fake hype' and 'Superintelligence is inevitable, lie down and accept it.' There's a third option: hu…

You don't have to choose between 'AI is fake hype' and 'Superintelligence is inevitable, lie down and accept it.' There's a third option: humans deciding, through their governments, that machines smar

7 Jul 2026

A CEO who “vowed to fire anyone who doesn’t use AI in 2025” now says AI could not replace her executive assistant. This says a lot about how…

A CEO who “vowed to fire anyone who doesn’t use AI in 2025” now says AI could not replace her executive assistant. This says a lot about how many big believers in AI have realized that AI is not as go

F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations

Race control displayed a 'Safety Car in this lap' message during the 2026 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, raising expectations for a final lap restart that never materialized, as the message was er

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Fact: Dario Amodei didn’t invent overhyping the impact of neural networks on employment, Geoff Hinton did.

Gary Marcus argues that Geoff Hinton, rather than Dario Amodei, was the originator of making exaggerated claims about neural networks' impact on employment. This appears to be part of a broader discus

GenAI isn’t good enough to replace millions of employees, so there is basically no way the capex is going to earn out.

GenAI isn’t good enough to replace millions of employees, so there is basically no way the capex is going to earn out. If AI isn't going to wipe out millions of jobs every year, it has to generate pro

ha ha Geoff Hinton in 2016 completely overhyping where deep learning was at then

ha ha Geoff Hinton in 2016 completely overhyping where deep learning was at then Geoffrey Hinton explains the coyote test for medical AI: radiology is already over the cliff, it just has not looked do

Hugging Face has just been sued for alleged copyright infringement for hosting & distributing copyrighted images, used for AI training. It's…

Hugging Face has just been sued for alleged copyright infringement for hosting & distributing copyrighted images, used for AI training. It's been almost a *year* since I flagged to their CEO that they

I cannot believe how good GLM 5.2 is. Several weeks in now and it's mostly all I have been using. It doesn't have the alignment issue of clo…

I cannot believe how good GLM 5.2 is. Several weeks in now and it's mostly all I have been using. It doesn't have the alignment issue of cloud AI, it's much more clear what it can do and can't because

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If that happens, where does it leave Anthropic and OpenAI? And Oracle, CoreWeave, Nebius, xAI, etc?

If that happens, where does it leave Anthropic and OpenAI? And Oracle, CoreWeave, Nebius, xAI, etc? Fable 5 probably running locally in about two years. That is the projection in this r/LocalLLaMA cha

Link: https://torchbearercommunity.substack.com/p/robust-to-what

This article likely explores the concept of robustness in AI systems and what it means for AI to be 'robust to' various types of failures, adversarial inputs, or distribution shifts. The piece probabl

me, 2023: profits will be meager; LLMs will become a commodity. today: LLMs are in fact literally about to become a commodity. scoop from @M…

Gary Marcus reflects on his 2023 prediction that large language models would become commoditized, noting that this outcome is now materializing. The post suggests that LLMs are transitioning from nove

NRC is (sort of) getting rid of 'as low as reasonably achievable' standard

The NRC proposed replacing the longstanding 'as low as reasonably achievable' (ALARA) principle with clearer, more objective requirements focused on compliance with regulatory precautions and establis

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Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more — The humanoid ro

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this is a bit confused. should I unpack it?

this is a bit confused. should I unpack it? tl;dr LLMs are already neurosymbolic in its latent space this is the mechanistic explanation for the intuitively obvious 'feel' that the stochastic parrot c

Trump blockading Cuba into catastrophe should be a much bigger story than it is.

Trump blockading Cuba into catastrophe should be a much bigger story than it is. Cuba’s electric grid suffered a total collapse Monday as the nation struggles with crumbling infrastructure and a de fa

unconscionable, if these death numbers are even vaguely correct update: https://www.doge-impact.org suggests that the actual number is over …

unconscionable, if these death numbers are even vaguely correct update: https://www.doge-impact.org suggests that the actual number is over 1M; the number below is just USAID related. Money saved: 0 P

Understanding Annotator Safety Policy with Interpretability

Safety policies define what constitutes safe and unsafe AI outputs, guiding data annotation and model development. However, annotation disagreement is pervasive and can stem from multiple sources such

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We need a bit more shame. People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed…

We need a bit more shame. People used to avoid certain self-interested behaviors to avoid shame, private and public. Law and customs assumed this. Now, 38% of Stanford students claim to be disabled. 4

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when capex quadruples relative to revenue in five years it just can’t be good.

when capex quadruples relative to revenue in five years it just can’t be good. FT: 'It is not yet clear that either [OpenAI or Anthropic] has a sustainable business model. For sure, both have built as

When I talk to people that instantly, deeply, get the risk from superintelligence, they often share a trait sometimes called the 'security m…

When I talk to people that instantly, deeply, get the risk from superintelligence, they often share a trait sometimes called the 'security mindset' I think this post by @l_mc_nally is a nice brisk tou

“AI is now costing some companies more than the people it was supposed to replace.”

“AI is now costing some companies more than the people it was supposed to replace.” I think AI is in a messy middle phase where usage looks productive, but output remains unclear. Forbes published thi

Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules

Chemical accidents involving releases of dangerous chemicals rose 57 percent between 2021 and 2025, from 83 to 131 incidents , with injuries or deaths rising from 60 to 89 over the same period . The E

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Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs (Josh Zoffer/Financial Times)

Josh Zoffer / Financial Times: Data centers offer US a chance to get ahead in the next key technologies and to build domestic supply chains based on demand rather than subsidies and tariffs — America

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I think Elon Musk explicitly coming out against democracy should probably tell us something about the nature of extreme wealth.

Gary Marcus argues that Elon Musk's public opposition to democracy reveals important truths about how extreme wealth concentrates power and can lead wealthy individuals to reject democratic principles

Junk food is an interesting failure of capitalism. We exchanged human beauty for cheetos. Bryan Caplan types are forced to think this trade …

Junk food is an interesting failure of capitalism. We exchanged human beauty for cheetos. Bryan Caplan types are forced to think this trade a worthy one. None born before the obesity crisis would have

Pop quiz: Can you explain the contrast here, between AI’s coding ability and their less compelling research ability?

Pop quiz: Can you explain the contrast here, between AI’s coding ability and their less compelling research ability? AI's coding ability has become amazing. But there research ability remains really p

Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 (Grace Kay/The Information)

Grace Kay / The Information: Tesla rolls out its Robotaxi service without a safety monitor in Miami, its fifth city, as it aims to expand to a dozen US states by the end of 2026 — Tesla said it rolled

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The lightning alone proved that the mandate of heaven is still firmly in the hands of the USA!

This post appears to reference an unusual weather event (lightning) as symbolic proof that the United States retains geopolitical dominance or divine favor, likely in the context of discussions about

To 250 more!

Connor Leahy posted about reaching 250 of something, likely a milestone related to followers, users, or members based on the celebratory phrasing 'To 250 more!' The post appears to be a brief celebrat

true. a lot of people here just don’t have the historical context.

true. a lot of people here just don’t have the historical context. You know what's funny but not funny: If the housing market of 2006 was the AI market of 2026, Charles R Morris would be getting calle

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure. Musk promised $2 trillion in savings. What we got, b…

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure. Musk promised 2 trillion in savings. What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was 215 billion. Even that numb

I was making a TTS version of @zetalyrae's 'No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass', and the AI had a truly amazing glitch midway through.

Connor Leahy shared an anecdote about creating a text-to-speech (TTS) version of Zeta Lyrae's work 'No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass' when the AI encountered a notable glitch partway through th

If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the wo…

If this doesn’t chill you, I don’t know what will. 😱 “A president with the authority that Trump is now asserting could in theory put the world’s most powerful AI to repressive ends while at the same t

South Africa became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake rese…

South Africa became the first country to withdraw a national policy document after officials discovered the text was littered with fake research citations generated by AI https://restofworld.org/2026/

A More Accurate Algorithm Comparison through A/B Testing using Offline Evaluation Methods

arXiv:2607.01958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A/B testing is the gold standard for selecting the better algorithm in online services. While offline evaluation has attracted attention as a safer alte

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Actuator Reality Shaping for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Robot Learning

arXiv:2607.02205v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sim-to-real transfer in robot learning is often limited by discrepancies between the ideal actuator dynamics assumed during policy training and the nonl

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Adaptive Companionship for Group-Following Robots: Handling Dynamically Changing Group Formations

arXiv:2607.01287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accompanying a group of humans is an essential aspect of developing human-like social cognition in robots. However, human groups typically do not foll

Algebraic Model Counting for Global Analysis of Optimal Decision Trees

arXiv:2607.02069v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring model reliability in Explainable AI requires a global assessment of the hypothesis space. We propose a formal framework for the exhaustive anal

Another major Grok Build update just landed, packed with new features, extensive bug fixes, and meaningful performance improvements Release …

Another major Grok Build update just landed, packed with new features, extensive bug fixes, and meaningful performance improvements Release Notes: v0.2.84 — 2026-07-03 Features: • Announcements now up

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ART for Diffusion Sampling: Continuous-Time Control and Actor-Critic Learning

arXiv:2607.02137v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study timestep allocation for score-based diffusion sampling, where a learned reverse-time dynamics is discretized on a finite grid. Uniform and ha

AthDGC: An Open Diachronic Greek Treebank with Indo-European Parallels

arXiv:2606.15510v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AthDGC ('Athens-PROIEL') is an open, end-to-end workflow and dataset. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first openly licensed dependency-pars

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Behind the Refusal: Determining Guardrail Activation via Behavioral Monitoring

arXiv:2607.02121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic systems become integrated into real-world applications, ensuring their safety and security is critical. Gu

Beyond Detection: Redesigning Assessment and Governande of Generative AI at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)

arXiv:2607.01255v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Universities have responded to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in noticeably different ways, both internationally and within Spain. So far,

Beyond Next-Token Prediction: An RLVR Proof of Concept for Tool-Use Agents on Atlassian Workflows

arXiv:2607.01465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are trained to predict the next token, not to act inside a specific API. In niche enterprise SaaS workflows -- where success means

BIFROST: Bridging Invariant Feature Representation for Observation-space Sim2Real Transfer

arXiv:2607.01410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sim2real transfer for robot policy learning suffers due to mismatch between simulation and reality. Existing methods typically address each gap in iso

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