Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.

The card can be used to permanently cancel the match if they “observe inappropriate behaviour from spectators or parents".

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, re…

I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...

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You delete a file on Linux while a program has it open. What happens? #Sunday #Quiz

Flock and other surveillance cameras are being installed at splashpads, playgrounds, elementary schools, middle and high schools all across the country. Why? Well, now we know. And it's not the reason you think.

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Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica"

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I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my life’s calling, I was in the back of the large computer…

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.

you have legitimate concerns, but you’re very wrong about this. zero-knowledge proofs are not only the technology behind donation badges and backup payments, but also behind groups. they can’t tie you to a specific donation just like they can’t tie you to…

We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question…

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

A row over diplomatic immunity has broken out after the return of the official who was allegedly sent abusive material