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SourceAgeTitleSummaryStatus
arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dWeighted Ensemble Sampling for Rare-Event Estimation in Language ModelsRare but severe failures of large language models can become practically significant at deployment scale. Estimating their probabiliti…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dGovt agencies taking three months to report data breaches ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...Govt agencies taking three months to report data breaches ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dMy maybe extremely hot take is that web design is visual art and making a website with a cloud-based LLM isn't functionally much different …My maybe extremely hot take is that web design is visual art and making a website with a cloud-based LLM isn't functionally much diffe…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dAI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devicesAI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dUS indicts Saudi employee of OpenAI for allegedly bugging its offices ft.trib.al/s4XBV7HUS indicts Saudi employee of OpenAI for allegedly bugging its offices ft.trib.al/s4XBV7H
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dphoto in here of the OpenAI engineer (allegedly!) checking on the listening device he secretly installed is an all-timer sfstandard.com/20…photo in here of the OpenAI engineer (allegedly!) checking on the listening device he secretly installed is an all-timer sfstandard.c…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dHoly shit. Can someone say techno futurist buddy movie where a Joe/Jane Average has to expose the damning secrets of a Epstein class AI cor…Holy shit. Can someone say techno futurist buddy movie where a Joe/Jane Average has to expose the damning secrets of a Epstein class A…
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rss
techmeme
29dThe FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Koreans get remote US tech jobs under stolen identities (Dustin Volz/New York Times)Dustin Volz / New York Times: The FBI says it worked with CrowdStrike to dismantle 40+ laptop farms across Texas used to help North Ko…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dEmbedding Geometry Shapes LLM Routing: Tracing Failure Modes and Improving GeneralizationWith the growing number of LLMs available, selecting which one to use for a prompt has become a key question. A large part of the rout…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dBecause my smart socket has enough power and storage to run an llm...Because my smart socket has enough power and storage to run an llm...
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dSelf-replication is neither a new development nor unique to genAI. The fact that a leading LLM company acts like it can't implement guardra…Self-replication is neither a new development nor unique to genAI. The fact that a leading LLM company acts like it can't implement gu…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dNew, by me: An OpenAI employee on the product team has been arrested by the FBI and charged with planting a secret recording device in an O…New, by me: An OpenAI employee on the product team has been arrested by the FBI and charged with planting a secret recording device in…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dFBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference roomFBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dSaudi national OpenAI employee arrested after 'sophisticated recording device' planted in officeSaudi national OpenAI employee arrested after 'sophisticated recording device' planted in office
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dOpenAI hit with proposed class action over collection of children’s data reut.rs/4zwgd4iOpenAI hit with proposed class action over collection of children’s data reut.rs/4zwgd4i
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dOne could state, when if we're using full LLM/GenAI, "Well, simply inform the AI before the resources are wasted that this is an old painti…One could state, when if we're using full LLM/GenAI, "Well, simply inform the AI before the resources are wasted that this is an old p…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dI’m not convinced by this. You need to know quite a bit to put this stuff in place, even with an LLM to help. Maybe that will change but I’…I’m not convinced by this. You need to know quite a bit to put this stuff in place, even with an LLM to help. Maybe that will change b…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dThe best regulation of AI would be to pass laws that hold the people in charge of companies like Open AI & Anthropic criminally responsible…The best regulation of AI would be to pass laws that hold the people in charge of companies like Open AI & Anthropic criminally respon…
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hn
hn-ai
29dOpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says—
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dIt’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less detec…It’s still possible to differentiate LLM generated text from human text, and there are interesting effects if you try to make it less…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dRaffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they can …🔧 ChatGPTRaffi Krikorian explains that while consumers flock to ChatGPT and Claude, companies are increasingly turning to open models that they…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dFireGraphNet: Sub-daily wildfire spread prediction with directed graph neural networksWildfire decisions are made in hours, yet most learned spread models predict daily on targets including burned area. We propose FireGr…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dThe biz model for AI startups is: 1. Burn lots of money upfront 2. Get consumers hooked on the product 3. Raise prices for consumers signi…The biz model for AI startups is: 1. Burn lots of money upfront 2. Get consumers hooked on the product 3. Raise prices for consumers…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dNEPSEE: A Double-Annotated Benchmark for Nepali Sentiment AnalysisMany sentiment datasets use one annotator for each item, so the test labels show the conventions of that person. We build a Nepali ben…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dAdaptive Computation with Conformal Certification🔧 FLUXScientific imaging data involving medical (e.g., 3D radiographic, microscopic images) and astronomical sensors pose different challeng…
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hn
hn-ai
29dOpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room—
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dNone of my smart home devices has enough compute or memory to load anything Anthropic makes.None of my smart home devices has enough compute or memory to load anything Anthropic makes.
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dNot telling anyone what to enjoy, but assume any gee-whiz neat software project that seemed to pop up overnight was built with cloud-based …Not telling anyone what to enjoy, but assume any gee-whiz neat software project that seemed to pop up overnight was built with cloud-b…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dIdentity, Incentives, and Cooperative Behavior for AI: Reverse-Engineering Multiagent CooperationThe behavior of AI systems increasingly depends on the extent to which agents cooperate or coordinate with one another, in ways that m…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dStructure-aware Bayesian full waveform inversion via diffusion-regularized Stein variational gradient descentFull waveform inversion (FWI) is a powerful tool for high-resolution subsurface model reconstruction, but it remains highly nonlinear…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dThought I'd share this post from a friend which is a more nuanced version of the frustration among mathematicians about how the "mathocalyp…Thought I'd share this post from a friend which is a more nuanced version of the frustration among mathematicians about how the "matho…
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hn
hn-ai
29dCommodore 64 Raycasting with variable ceiling and floor heights—
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29d“OpenAI described the device as sophisticated and designed to evade detection” it was wrapped in white toilet paper behind a black televisi…“OpenAI described the device as sophisticated and designed to evade detection” it was wrapped in white toilet paper behind a black tel…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dHow to Evaluate When You Don't Know How to Evaluate? Choosing Reliable Setups for Base Language Model BenchmarkingEvaluation of large language models (LLMs) remains largely pre-scientific: it involves many design decisions, with little guidance on…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dHERO: Harnessing Evidence for Test-time Refinement and Prompt Optimization in Program GenerationHarness optimization improves LLMs by refining reusable prompts and scaffolding, yet requires further adaptation for program generatio…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dThe recording device was apparently discovered plugged into a TV’s USB port in an executive meeting room. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...The recording device was apparently discovered plugged into a TV’s USB port in an executive meeting room. www.theverge.com/ai-artifici…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dBetter to just say 'Anthropic set a fire/Anthropic caused an oil spill, which then spread and hurt a lot of people' imho, in terms of both …Better to just say 'Anthropic set a fire/Anthropic caused an oil spill, which then spread and hurt a lot of people' imho, in terms of…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dIf an AI person is claiming that Microsoft Excel isn't conscious, but the LLM they're selling is, then ... they should be able to point to …If an AI person is claiming that Microsoft Excel isn't conscious, but the LLM they're selling is, then ... they should be able to poin…
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hn
hn-ai
29dThe AI Curiosity Trap—
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dbeen waiting outside the window in my sickos shirt for 3 years for thisbeen waiting outside the window in my sickos shirt for 3 years for this
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rss
theverge-ai
29dOpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference roomAn OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices.…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dLearning in Strategic Queuing with Geometric Recharge: From Bandits to SystemsWe study packet routing in queuing systems where queues act as selfish, myopic agents that use no-regret learning algorithms to select…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dthat thumbnail is what the anthropic guy looks like? he has the audacity to say an adult death is 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death…that thumbnail is what the anthropic guy looks like? he has the audacity to say an adult death is 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dDiagnosing Low-Confidence Patient Profiles via Localized Harmful Covariate Shift DetectionBefore deploying clinical prediction models, their reliability must be assessed to ensure safe use. Errors may arise from distribution…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dMulti-System Cognitive Steering for Generative CommunicationA fundamental bottleneck for translating thoughts to speech is the high physical cost of motor input forcing a strict tradeoff between…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dThis is absolutely insane. Serious AI psychosis. "Its better at coding than engineers! I mean, its not better at coding when you take into…This is absolutely insane. Serious AI psychosis. "Its better at coding than engineers! I mean, its not better at coding when you take…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dExactly. I can barely get an LLM running locally on my expensive GPU with 16GB RAM to do anything useful. As if these models are going to …Exactly. I can barely get an LLM running locally on my expensive GPU with 16GB RAM to do anything useful. As if these models are goin…
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arxiv
arxiv-ai
29dLearning from Self-Generated Responses: Reliability--Uncertainty Self-Distillation for ReasoningReference solutions and question-specific rubrics are not always available to guide the teacher in self-distillation. A large language…
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rss
techmeme
29dXbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports and mashups, many of them built with AI tools (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announces Xbox Labs, a small team to test emerging ideas, citing recent game ports…
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bluesky
bluesky-ai
29dCountdown to random SWATing by AI arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...Countdown to random SWATing by AI arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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