Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.
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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us
It’s spacious, efficient, and charges very quickly. But what about reliability concerns?
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IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
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LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
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Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Article URL: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746618 Points:…
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Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
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RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force
The USPSTF sets insurance coverage from preventive services, like colonoscopies.
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Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city
Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye…
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Astra for Law
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745940…
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Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Article URL: https://bend-lang.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163 Points: 218 # Comments:…
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HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
Article URL: https://harnesstax.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733726 Points: 214 #…
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Everybody's Lost Their Minds
Article URL: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html Comments URL:…
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The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875 million worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the…
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Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected…
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PrismML hopes its tiny LLM could change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
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Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public
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Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
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AI safety is mostly a sex cult
Article URL: https://skywriter.blue/@segyges.bsky.social/3mvom4b4dn22q Comments URL:…
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Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
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OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior,…
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The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years