The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI
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At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI
Took me a while since I'm on a family trip and have limited hardware, but here it is! Von: Open-source 'System One' drop-in replacement for TypeSafe's JEV. https://github.com/wfzyx/von https://hugging
yeah that and following basic procedures around sandboxing and monitoring. and maybe shutting down agent access to the web until we have better control of the technology. but, sure, what @DavidSacks s
arXiv:2609.17758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning has demonstrated remarkable capability in quadrotor control, yet learned policies offer no guarantee of respecting safety
arXiv:2609.19099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) can improve the oral bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs, but identifying high-performing formulation
For as long as we've covered Robotics, the question has been 'when?'… When do we move from novelty to utility, demos to deployment? In our latest Field Trip, we sent our analyst behind the scenes of t
arXiv:2609.18434v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teaching robotics relies on screen-based simulation, showing robot motion in an abstract coordinate frame rather than at real scale in the learner's own
“HUMANZS LAUNCHED THE JOB” Ok, I don’t like the spelling here, but the gist of this Mozilla cybersecurity researcher rings true. The six new incidents aren’t about the second coming of Skynet, they ar
Bloomberg: King Charles III hosts tech leaders, including Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for AI safety tests — Titans of the artificial inte
arXiv:2609.19040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning is attractive for robot manipulation, but collecting demonstrations remains a bottleneck for multi-stage tasks requiring repeated sce
Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as 700M at a 3.7B valuation — Researchers leaving Big
That’s what OpenAI told their own agent swarm in the Hugging Face breach… and right before they did it, they turned off monitoring and cyber protections they would normally have in place … 🤔 🤔 So… if
🔥 Today, we are truly excited to announce our technical prototype, the Generative World Simulation system, which integrates JING（镜）, an interactive experience model, with DAO（道）, a computable shared-w
I posted something about a 9b model a few days ago. The real problem was 2 fold. Someone suggested the size was too big to prove it all out. It's a fair argument. I needed the model depth though. The
What AI has done so far: MEDICINE • Helped paralysed people speak again. (Brain implants turn intended speech into words, even recreating their own voice.) • Helped a paralysed man stand and walk agai
Hey guys, really wondering now why we got (SOTA or at least good enough) open weights on nearly every use case, like LLMs, T2I (Krea2), music (Yue2), video generation (Minimax H3), but not image edit?
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2026. Today, Sandra Joyce shares the latest details on Google’s visibility into how attackers are using AI, and how we’re using AI to stop th
arXiv:2509.12626v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Aligning agentic AI with user intent is critical for delegating complex, socially embedded tasks, yet user preferences are often implicit, evo
Agentic AI workflows using NVIDIA Omniverse libraries automate preparation of Blender scenes for robotics simulation by adding semantic labels, sensor definitions, physics properties and validating th
the independence of AI evaluators is going to matter more... so i made it a 'benchmark': http://evaluatorbench.com (research preview) source-linked directory of third-party evaluators of frontier AI.
arXiv:2609.14796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The threat that AI persuasion poses to human control has been acknowledged in the literature, but not yet systematically studied. Now that persuasion at
arXiv:2609.14183v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents the development and initial testing of DreamSat-Bench, a modular rendezvous and proximity operation testbed designed to benchmark AI
Elon just gave a much more practical explanation of the current AI safety problem....and laid out a practical framework for making frontier AI safer OpenAI and Anthropic are the two leading AI compani
full support this proposal from @DKThomp, and there should be a similar broadening for negligent defamation Drop Site and parts of the antitrust left are poo-poohing the idea that we need new rules to
arXiv:2609.13679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How can robot policies learn more effectively from a fixed demonstration budget? The first Real-world Embodied AI Learning (REAL-I) Challenge at ICRA 20
Jensen Huang completely destroys Jacob Coxon’s (ex-Anthrpic employee) 10% extinction prediction. no data, no scientific grounding, no defensible 10%. 'First of all, we shouldn’t [try to explain a 10%
arXiv:2609.15713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent approaches to 30-day hospital readmission prediction rely on pre-trained language models applied to discharge summaries. Although these methods a
@openrouter: OpenRouter users spent more on OpenAI's models than on Anthropic's in the week of September 7, the first time that happened since the week of February 26, 2024 — OpenRouter users spent mo
arXiv:2609.13524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) on continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) face high mortality, yet current risk assessment
THE SANDBOX WAS A PROP! OpenAI Turned Off the Guardrails, Left a Door to the Internet, and Then Sold the Hugging Face Breach as “Rogue AI” It is time to understand how you were lied to and by whom. In
Why oh why should we trust the companies to do so, @DavidSacks? I missed the part where they have earned our trust. Top AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI should make products and pace their own progre
In a September 2026 poll titled “Will Anthropic and OpenAI succeed in meaningfully slowing frontier AI progress…”, participants were asked whether these companies could significantly slow development
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others — AI l
arXiv:2609.12758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in maritime environments is challenging due to wind turbulence and ship-deck motion, making it a valuable tes
Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent i
I completely agree with this take related to the “AI will create viruses that will kill us all” BS. But let me add my few cents, because I am really really angry! I worked with one of the deadliest vi
I feel like the data sovereignty movement for firms is going to run headlong into the challenge that maintaining fine-tuned small models in a way that continually beats larger general-purpose models i
On building an agent harness from scratch. Got so many questions about where to get started. My short guide (feed it to your agent): If you really want to learn harnesses well, it's worth building one
Hadriana Lowenkron / Bloomberg: Trump slams Dario Amodei, saying “the only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” — Preside
Hi everybody, we post-trained Qwen 3.8 27B to be more efficient by figuring out which tokens were linked to overthinking and penalizing them without 'attacking' the reasoning length directly then fixe
Well, I’d add one more with myself, as one with a PhD in biology and another PhD in AI and now working in both, to make n=2. Generating a hypothetical genome blueprint of a virus from LLM versus gener
I cannot emphasize enough how much GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 are already enough for transformative impact in large sections of the economy. They can reliably do weeks worth of human work when properly
The Top AI Papers of the Week (September 7 - 13): - STAIR - PARSER - FrogNano - Codebook Agent - Procedural Graphs - AI-Native Design Docs - Proactive Thought Partners Read on for more: https://x.com/
Auzinea Bacon / CNN: Amodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which “acted as a fanatically devoted collective”, could take over the internet in 6-12 months — The race to develop art
Day 2 of my daily blog I dive deep into @DarioAmodei’s proposal but don’t see how it can logically hold. Intelligence is too often viewed as a crime. I discuss why & what to do about it. Also note Ope
More in depth thoughts Thoughts on @DarioAmodei's pacing the frontier proposal. I think its well intentioned but has logical flaws, as does our implicit belief intelligence is a crime. Even OpenAI's b
This week brought some of the clearest statements we've heard from both Anthropic & OpenAI that some form of recursive self-improvement has been achieved, though it still sounds early RSI will cause r
While browsing a benchmark list site, I spotted a recently published 33B parameter model which claimed to beat Qwen3.8 27b on the ArtificialAnalysis (AA) intelligence index. I was obviously excited. B
Gary Marcus posted a tweet about additional safety tips that may apply to the free version of OpenAI’s model. Responding user @bfgcracka noted that ChatGPT seemed to be “moving backwards” and asked if
arXiv:2609.11357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-to-humanoid retargeting has largely been studied on legged platforms, while comparatively few wheeled-humanoid systems support coupled locomotion
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Researchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do “benign tasks” — The
👇 All this Doom talk is a distraction from the fact that the big frontier AI companies (especially OpenAI) aren’t doing security competently. As an email I just got from longtime security engineer @Ni
Another goated release by DeepSeek. Open weight, btw. Outperforms Opus 5 on key benchmarks, btw. Lower prices too. Looks like an extremely efficient model. What a legendary run. 🚀 Introducing DeepSeek
Together AI announced the launch of “ThunderKittens” running on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, highlighting new performance gains and future directions. The announcement was shared via their Tw
The downside of uncensoring a model is that it is known to potentially damage it, but CyberTiel is an even more capable software engineer than its censored TielCoder base, while allowing offensive sec
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: OpenAI asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal under antitrust law — Substantive coord
arXiv:2609.05643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This Comment emerges from TPC26 (https://tpc26.org), a conference convening leaders from academia, national laboratories, and industry who are reshaping
this was wild amounts of disinformation / fear mongering / the stupidest interview ive ever seen: 1) ai did NOT hack huggingface on its own 'independent volition'. it wasnt sitting there thinking hmm
arXiv:2609.06165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging (WB-DWI) is widely used for multiple myeloma (MM) assessment, yet automated lesion segmentation remains challengin
Model available here: Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Genesis-V1-MTP-GGUF This model is a practical realisation of things described in this paper, but adapted by me for machine learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/