Accelerating
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3h ago
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Policy & governance
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Rules, institutions and accountability.
“This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubbl…”
Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.”
Accelerating
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Signal
6h ago
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Research & technical analysis
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Evidence, methods and technical implications.
“Benchmarks shows clearly the intent to move past just coding to other disciplines www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“Hey, good news!! Fable 5.1 got interested in making a new more detailed map of Venus, which will be useful when we send, ah, rovers -- yeah, sure, rovers -- to the resource-rich and conveniently located planet. (www.anthropic.com/claude-fable...)”
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““OpenAI said today that it is integrating ChatGPT Health with Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) system, which holds data for over 325 million patients, to let clinicians import patient data and use AI to ask questions.””
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“> joins big paper about not training models to think in nonsense > their AIs commit felonies against HuggingFace > actually, trained AIs to think in nonsense > top danger level for hacking Let's just release it anyways! Nice defection OpenAI! 🤗 www.theinfor…”
Opportunity & adoption
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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.
“Astra used looped transformers www.theinformation.com/articles/sec...”
Accelerating
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Development
12h ago
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digital camouflage shirt defeats AI surveillance
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Concern & critique
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“Simon Weckert designed digital camouflage as a response to the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance cameras that detect people, vehicles, animals, bicycles, and other objects in their field of view. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404me…”
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“Work done with @paulsoulos.bsky.social, @tallinzen.bsky.social, and Paul Smolensky For much more, see our paper! arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 12/12”
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“I use AI frequently but my god I'd do anything to read English instead of Claudish for a single day across my emails, assignments, socials, Substackistan, academic literature, product announcements, etc. www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
“Bland new world: is AI making us all think the same? "Researchers worry that generative AI is homogenizing culture and cognition." www.nature.com/articles/d41...”
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2h ago
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“ChatGPT will “be classified as a so-called very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act” www.ft.com/content/6af7...”
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1h ago
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“A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/c...”
AI safety data center backlash essay
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“AI safety and the data center backlash - Andy Masley blog.andymasley.com/p/ai-safety-an… #AI #safety #EA”
“I wrote out why I don't think the data center backlash seems especially helpful for AI safety (though obviously it's a good chance to recruit people to separately think about AI more) and why I and others into EA don't want to just lie to people about them …”
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“With agents, we are at another large gap between AI abilities & public perception. Exponential gains mean that the gap is growing over time. Suddenly, agents are now really capable of long-running self-organized work. That means new risks & a new approach t…”
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9h ago
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“"There's an ineffable aspect to my favorite pieces of software where I don't think of it is as feature matrix but rather as an interface made by a human for humans that's a joy to use. And when you build software with AI, it leads to worse software." brettc…”
““I'm done using AI – Brett Codes” brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... > This is a horrible existence, and it was one of the other signs that this is untenable for me to continue like this.”
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“Research shows vision-language models (VLMs) default to male in ambiguous images, outputting male for female jobs. While alignment improves outputs, it masks encoded biases, raising fairness issues in AI applications. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31556”
METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation
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Concern & critique
3 experts
Risks, limits and unintended consequences.
“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”
Building & implementation
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How teams are shipping and applying it.
“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”
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Grace: Okay maybe the marketing conspiracy theorists have a point
Grace: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/
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“Over half of internet traffic is now non-human. With Dan Hendrycks and Leo Wu, I look at agent IDs, deployment cards, personhood, and payments. It mostly comes down to how much we let agents do and how much oversight we keep. buff.ly/AQjYo3k”
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“Over half of internet traffic is now non-human. With Dan Hendrycks and Leo Wu, I look at agent IDs, deployment cards, personhood, and payments. It mostly comes down to how much we let agents do and how much oversight we keep. buff.ly/AQjYo3k”
New
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3h ago
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“If you are still asking why regular people hate ai, you aren’t paying attention.”
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“lareviewofbooks.org/article/ken-...”
“@kyliu99.bsky.social's thought-provoking piece on copying in humans and machines, The Art of Copying, has been published in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. The essay is a part of our volume First Encounters with AI, forthcoming with @uofmpress.bsky.social. la…”