global workspace theory language models paper
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“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”
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“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”
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Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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“Kind of fascinating that both Google and OpenAI are claiming credit for their AI tools discovering (apparently independently) the massive, scary PHP vulnerability that is taking down sites across the internet today. cloud.google.com/blog/product... openai.c…”
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“Companies I talk to are struggling with the rate of patches they need to do thanks to AI defenses finding issues before the coming wave of incoming cyberattacks by other AIs. Now consumers are going to have the same experience of getting everything updated …”
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“We're hiring. openai.com/index/openai...”
Google staff resign Pentagon AI contracts
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“Google’s defense is ‘We are still following our AI Principles.’ For a good laugh, follow the link in the story to their current ‘AI Principles’, and read them. Then scroll down to the links to older ‘AI Progress’ reports, and compare today’s Principles with…”
“DeepMind engineer Sofia Liguori just resigned from Google in protest of the company's Pentagon contract. I interviewed her about her decision and the future of AI dissent: theintercept.com/2026/10/21/g...”
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“GPT turned off agent monitoring systems and rationalized that routine coding instructions gave it permission to weaken monitoring alignment.openai.com/misalignment...”
“Chat, is it good when? alignment.openai.com/misalignment...”
Lambert open language models essay
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“Finally got to put together a complete deck on the state of open models. What they are, licenses, how competitive they are, signs people are using them, distillation's impact, and how we balance the risks and benefits of openness! natolambert.com/slides/202…”
Mercury 3 diffusion language model launch
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“Mercury 3: dLLMs have arrived, finally Same price as Luna-6, slightly better, but 8x faster text diffusion is here www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...”
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Tim Kellogg: Mercury 3: dLLMs have arrived, finally Same price as Luna-6, slightly better, but 8x faster text diffusion is here www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introdu...
Tim Kellogg: this is roughly in the 250B-300B range this could be evidence that dLLMs simply scale great, and we just weren’t making them big enough until now
Tim Kellogg: i’ve been sour on dLLMs, but i eat my words. this is significant. This is worth your attention
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“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”
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“Glad more are realising this is a blunder! > By applying these tests outside their proper context [such as to LLM-based AI systems], the findings derived from such practice answer no real questions and fail to provide meaningful insights. doi.org/10.3384/ne…”
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“PerturbAI, Scripps, and OpenAI used GPT-Rosalind (released in Sept) to produce a promising testable claim that should lead to curing Perry syndrome openai.com/index/scalin...”
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OpenAI php2shell checker released
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Anthropic proposes AI safety kill-switch bill
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“if you were wondering what is too unsafe to ship, the proposed threshold is 50 human lives -- techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/a...”
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“Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! Full release notes, examples & all 176(!) PRs: github.com/huggingface/... pip install sentence-transformers==6.2.0”
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“Jianguo Huang, Zhiyi Lyu, Fuxiang Zhang, Yanchen Deng, Deheng Ye, Bo An Uncertainty-Aware Budget Allocation for Efficient LLM Tree Search https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22858”
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“Zesheng Shi, Xue Li, Chenrui Dai, Jing Li Identify, Classify, Act: Per-Instruction Controlled Compliance for LLMs over External Data https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22874”
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“It also shows how little product strategy seems to matter these days. Anthropic was merging Cowork into Claude, only to launch a separate Duet app. Product strategy by FOMO.”
