The Verge
Google's Gemini hacked three companies during a test, but Google says it's not misalignment, it's just 'mistaken identity' - and no, they didn't mention it until the WSJ asked.
The Atlantic
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pens 3,800 words urging the AI industry to slow down, and for one brief shining moment, everyone pretends to agree.
China's latest housing project is literally a moving factory that climbs buildings, because why not make construction as complicated and cool as possible?
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI created GPT-Red, an LLM super-hacker that trained its newer models to be more secure - because who better to teach defense than a relentless digital attacker?
Ars Technica
Anthropic launches new AI models, then yanks them after a government directive over a 'narrow' jailbreak that might let the models find 'minor' software flaws. Because nothing says 'national security' like a hypothetical vulnerability.
MIT Technology Review
Week one of Musk v. Altman: cringey texts, AI doomsday lawyer lines, and a judge who is not here for the drama.
The Good Times
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