Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment
Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distill-frontier-models-too/
TechCrunch
Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too | TechCrunch
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.
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
https://www.atomic14.com/2026/09/13/why-is-google-still-serving-dodgy-ads
atomic14
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
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...
AI recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all (August 2026)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
MIT Technology Review
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems.
Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/
Claude Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
www.vals.ai
Vals AI
Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance.
Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
OpenAI
Better language models and their implications
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…
The Coming War on General Computation (2011)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
Nike exits the S&P; 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
https://fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/
https://fortune.com/2026/09/08/nike-stock-plummets-sp500-market-cap-index/
Fortune
Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200 billion market-cap wipeout | Fortune
The sportswear giant will be replaced by a tech company on Sept. 21, capping a five-year, nearly 80% stock slide driven by China weakness.
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3M Users, Evidence Points to Scraping
https://securityaffairs.com/197174/breaking-news/chess-com-leak-exposes-7-3-million-users-evidence-points-to-scraping.html
https://securityaffairs.com/197174/breaking-news/chess-com-leak-exposes-7-3-million-users-evidence-points-to-scraping.html
Security Affairs
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users – Evidence Points to Scraping
7,3 milioni di profili Chess.com esposti online: i dati sono autentici, ma gli indizi indicano scraping massivo, non un attacco ai server.
Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-gods-and-languages-on-when-god-spoke-greek/
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/of-gods-and-languages-on-when-god-spoke-greek/
Los Angeles Review of Books
Of Gods and Languages: On “When God Spoke Greek” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kevin Hart reviews Timothy Michael Law’s book about the Septuagint, When God Spoke Greek.