Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent. Previously, nearly all biology-related queries got blocked and rerouted…
High-performance inference of NVIDIA's Parakeet TDT 0.6B V2 English transcription model, in the browser. Check out the live demo: https://parakeet.narcotic.sh/ A fully custom, dependancy-free implementation with…
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning.Also up on YouTube, pod feed, and Substack.
Will MacAskill recently argued that large donors should invest money now, and wait until the intelligence explosion to give away their money. In a draft Forethought…
Re ok this is happening this weekend. signup form here and i'll send out the requirements to attendees https://x.com/swyx/status/2085518361879011725?s=20swyx: not sure if this weekend but sign…
RT JMB 🧙♂️Not sure if poetiq is actually close to RSI but this is an interesting read,It's also meta-interesting because its publication suggests a culture shift…
IntroductionLast week, the Pacing the Frontier open letter, signed by over 1,000 frontier AI employees, requested “the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the…
Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.
RT DailyPapersNVIDIA just released the NeMo Gym conversational tool-use assets on Hugging FaceA bundle of golden policy/tool reference pairs and prompt histories for Gym's conversational tool-use…
RT Steve RattnerThis morning's jobs report was shockingly negative.Not only did the economy lose 23,000 jobs in July — the previous estimates for May and June…
I’m curious whether there is now a theoretical or empirical “sweet spot” for LLM quantization, preferably research done using open-source formats like GGUF Suppose you have…
A fresh llama.cpp PR (#26689) changes what looks like a tiny SYCL FlashAttention dispatch decision. With a quantized KV cache ("q4_0" / "q8_0"), decode was being…
RT Sebastian MallabyMy column on @demishassabis in The Times. —Given his record of caring about AI safety and impact, people should err on the side of…
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-jobs-july-2026-9.7299225 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213367 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know? How much should we update, therefore, that it is a lot worse than…
server: (router) add LRU scheduler (#26572) add lru_sched handle coalescing (req leaves waiting queue) add tests fix stream case address review comments Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS…
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
TLDR:Many important decisions for safety depend on or are influenced by benchmark scores. These benchmarks, in effect, are trying to measure latent properties of models from…
To all those in the US: Are you planning to go Sydney or Atlanta this year for NeurIPS? submitted by /u/rsesrsfh [link] [comments]
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are…
Article URL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213097 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn…
Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/2026/08/07/sf-ai-billboards-dystopian-not-funny/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212928 Points: 16 # Comments: 25
congrats to oklo for achieving criticality!(less than a year after groundbreaking)https://oklo.com/newsroom/news-details/2026/Oklos-Groves-Reactor-Achieves-First-Criticality-in-Under-a-Year/default.aspx