Contra MacAskill on saving money for the intelligence explosion
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…
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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…
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 sug…
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…
How to pace the US frontier
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…
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.
RT DailyPapers: NVIDIA just released the NeMo Gym conversational tool-use assets on Hugging Face A bundle of golden policy/tool reference pairs and pr…
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 Rattner: This morning's jobs report was shockingly negative. Not only did the economy lose 23,000 jobs in July — the previous estimates for …
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…
What is currently considered the theoretically optimal quantization bit-width for LLMs? [D]
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…
llama.cpp PR reports up to 169% faster quantized-KV decode at 118K context on Intel Battlemage from one SYCL kernel switch
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 Mallaby: My column on @demishassabis in The Times. —Given his record of caring about AI safety and impact, people should err on the side…
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…
Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years
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
OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards
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…
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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
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Item Response Theory for AI Safety
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…
2026 NeurIPS: Where are you going? [D]
To all those in the US: Are you planning to go Sydney or Atlanta this year for NeurIPS? submitted by /u/rsesrsfh [link] [comments]
What’s behind the Google AI shakeup
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…
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
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's first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300
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…
The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
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-A…
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
How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime’s secure MicroVM isolation, unified tool access through AgentCore…
A visualization of LLM API costs to ask for local resources
I have not been successful with management to get funding for local resources despite bringing forth solid arguments about data sovereignty and related architectures. What actually…
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server: (router) do not evict busy models (#26567) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS…