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When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
3+ hour, 14+ min ago (311+ words) AI companies train chatbots to deny having consciousness. A study involving Google researchers shows this training has side effects that reach far beyond the topic itself. Chatbots aren't supposed to convince users they're living beings with feelings, since that kind…...
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests
7+ hour, 15+ min ago (174+ words) the-decoder.com Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests From the company whose CEO calls AI-assisted development of chemical and biological weapons a bigger threat than cyberattacks comes a safety report revealing that Anthropic's blocking…...
Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
8+ hour, 35+ min ago (405+ words) Optima lets users build custom benchmarks and compare AI models on quality, cost, and speed for their specific use cases. Users can build their own benchmarks using their own data, workflows, or descriptions of a use case, then run them…...
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds
9+ hour, 35+ min ago (558+ words) A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing. One in five working…...
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings
22+ hour, 54+ min ago (233+ words) Nvidia and OpenAI close in on data center deal, but cut the guarantee nearly in half Instead of backing $250 billion as originally planned, Nvidia would initially guarantee just under $120 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. Investors pushed back over concerns…...
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (768+ words) An analysis of more than 14,000 self-published Amazon books shows that AI-generated titles are displacing human authors through sheer volume, not quality. Revenue per book is falling even for titles where no AI text was detected. The researchers analyzed 14,419 randomly selected…...
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (470+ words) A self-represented plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible AI instructions in official court filings to sway a potential automated review in his favor. A pro se plaintiff named Matthew Elliott embedded prompt injections in his filings in a Connecticut court case....
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (672+ words) World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot control systems entirely in virtual environments. The models then run reliably for hours on real hardware. The company's "Real-to-Sim-to-Real" (R2S2R) engine turns real-world…...
New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (337+ words) Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually "see," separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60 percent accuracy, and GPT-5.6 Sol leads by a narrow margin. Many supposed reasoning errors actually happen as early as the…...
The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (602+ words) A new research paper describes how rational AI adoption by individual companies could destroy the collective expertise of entire professional fields. That same pattern now threatens the professional expertise of entire occupations, argues Nolan Lovett of the NATO Special Operations…...