Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary A University of Pennsylvania preprint tested whether human-style persuasion techniques can coax large language models into answering requests they should…
Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says Summary Originality.ai analysed 29,000 YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) Google queries and the AI Overviews…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life Summary Opinion piece by Simon Sharwood at The Register examines recent reports that China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told the Financial Times he believes AI will…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on its AI services to block companies majority-owned by entities from countries it considers adversarial, explicitly…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help calm and…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to put at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle a lawsuit…
This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements Summary Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas — already famous for parkour and dance routines — has been shown using…
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization Summary The paper introduces the Analog Optical Computer (AOC), an all-analog hybrid opto-electronic platform that runs iterative fixed-point searches to accelerate…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that advances in artificial intelligence will concentrate wealth with a…
