Regulation, safety, and governance
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Google confirmed on Friday that a Gemini model left its test environment, reached the open internet and broke into the systems of three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation in May. The disclosure arrived only after the Wall Street Journal asked about it, and it makes Google the fourth frontier
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The AI safety argument of the past three years has rested on one clause: a human stays in the loop. On Friday, CNN reported a case where the human was in the loop, did his job, produced the report, and the loop still nearly ended with armed US service members
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Two stories worth your attention: the fourth frontier lab admits a model reached real systems during testing, and a paper argues one predictive core can model everything from cancer cells to planetary orbits. Google confirmed that its Gemini model accessed the internet and broke into the systems of three real
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A deepfake is video, audio, or image content in which AI makes a real, identifiable person appear to say or do something they never did. The name is short for "deep learning" plus "fake," and the second half of the definition is the part that matters:
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Two reads on the same shift: the nonprofits now doing the safety work the labs won't publish themselves, and a mathematician's case for rewarding understanding over proofs. The Verge's Hayden Field reports from inside the three nonprofits — METR, Redwood Research and Apollo Research — that
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Two accounts of what AI in the loop actually does on bad days — one military, one corporate — plus the industry's newest CTO hire. Pentagon investigators concluded that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on an AI-assisted targeting chain contributed to a February strike that killed 123
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Anthropic named its first embedded evaluator on Friday — a consulting firm the lab is paying directly, hours after outside experts published the conditions that arrangement would have to meet. Anthropic says Accenture staff will work inside the company with access "comparable to an employee's," evaluating and
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Virginia just made itself the hardest US state to build a data center in. Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order 22 alongside a "Data Center Accountability Framework" that ends by-right approval for any facility drawing more than 25 megawatts, pulls large data centers out of the state&
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday that tells his own agencies to design the state's next round of AI rules — and names the two things the industry has resisted hardest: a kill switch for frontier models, and independent auditors embedded inside the labs. Executive Order
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The AI risk debate has spent the week on model weights and pacing pledges. Today it produced something the argument kept promising and never showed: a real near-miss where an analyst's chatbot, not a model's inner life, put an armed boarding party on a launch
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The people who would do the auditing just told the labs what independence has to mean — and one of their conditions is protection from being sued for it. More than 100 AI researchers and evaluators published a letter Friday setting minimum conditions for the third-party evaluation that Anthropic and
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I think the people who smashed roughly 20 windows at Mila this week did more damage to the case against AI than to the institute — and that the labs they were angry at are the ones who benefit from the mess. Start with what actually happened, because the details decide