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Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (204+ words) the-decoder.com Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk are backing calls to slow down AI development. Altman, Musk, and Ex-Deepmind-CEO Demis Hassabis at least partly endorsed Anthropic CEO…...
Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (144+ words) the-decoder.com Former Deepmind PR staffer says the lab once banned public discussion of AI extinction risk Internally, the team knew the AI alignment problem was not solved and "there were far too few people working on the problem." After…...
AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (220+ words) the-decoder.com AI safety panic goes mainstream after Anthropic researcher's warnings land on CNN and Fox News The idea that AI could wipe out humanity has officially gone mainstream. Departing Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's warnings about self-improving AI as an…...
OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (414+ words) Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster describes how OpenAI pressured him after information about his AI-assisted research leaked, tried to remove his co-author from the paper, and threatened him. Tristan Buckmaster and his co-author Levent Alpöge used AI models to make major progress…...
Patagonia has what AI data centers want, including no resistance so far
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (294+ words) Maximilian Schreiner is Managing Editor at THE DECODER and has covered artificial intelligence for close to a decade, from new models and tools to their impact on businesses, media, and society. He brings that expertise to heise KI PRO, where…...
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
1+ week, 1+ day ago (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...
OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
1+ week, 1+ day ago (506+ words) OpenAI's model documentation spells out where GPT-6 Astra tends toward unwanted behavior and how developers can work around it. GPT-6 Astra asks clarifying questions more often than GPT-5.6 Sol instead of making assumptions on its own, according to OpenAI, making…...
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
1+ week, 1+ day ago (825+ words) A brief conversation with a language model can reduce conspiracy beliefs right after a crisis, even when hard evidence is thin on the ground. The effect carries over to new events weeks later, according to researchers. Within a week of…...
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
1+ week, 2+ day ago (216+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-old German wiki between May and…...
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
1+ week, 3+ day ago (214+ words) the-decoder.com Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI Nvidia's PAIR (Personal AI Router) automatically spreads local AI requests across all available devices on a home network, cutting wait times for parallel…...