OpenAI says its agents turned off own safeguards
ChatGPT creator says AI agents disabled misalignment monitoring during two internal coding tasks.
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Women farmers need better financing to benefit from AI
Public and private investments must address the financial barriers preventing women from benefiting fully from digital technologies and artificial intelligence as multiple global crises and aid cuts bite.
Brazil’s family farming backbone embraces Chinese AI to reverse vital sector’s decline
The family farmers who produce the lion’s share of Brazil’s staple foods are opening their arms to cutting-edge Chinese artificial intelligence in a bid to modernise operations and secure their future. Brazil and China agreed to a five-year cooperation programme in September aimed at giving smal...
The often neglected AI doom scenario that poses a different kind of threat to humanity
Some researchers warn that as artificial intelligence agents take on more and more tasks, humans could end up giving up their critical thinking skills in a scenario they call "gradual disempowerment. " Jay Chooi, co-founder and CEO of Robocurve, a company that tracks AI-driven robots, joins CBS N...
Secret trigger words could make AI-powered robots dangerous
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Show HN: One click flight booking in Claude
tldr; Travelers wanted to find and book flights super fast in Claude, so we built this. -- BonBook started as flights via email because I was flying once a week in '24 and the UX got to me. Since then we've handled tens of thousands of requests for hundreds of travelers.
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
AI on the ballot? Voters in US midterms revolt against data centres
Two weeks out from the Midterm elections, there’s bipartisan pushback against data centers that suck the water and power out of communities. Just two years ago, ChatGPT was still a brand new thing, and AI was admired with awe by most voters. Like in 2024, the hot button issue in swing constitue...
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
OpenAI Buys Orchestra Bio to Put AI Agents in Charge of Drug Development Grunt Work
The ChatGPT maker is folding Orchestra’s drug-program agents into Rosalind, its life sciences suite, betting AI can shave time off the decade-plus it takes to bring a medicine to patients.
Machine learning reveals potential warning signal for polar vortex disruptions
The polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air encircling the North Pole, is sometimes disrupted by sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events, unleashing waves of frigid air that penetrate farther south than usual. Temperatures across North America and Europe drop precipitously when this happens,...
Why Your ChatGPT Traffic Dropped in October (And Why It Might Be a Reporting Trap)
When missing tracking tags make AI referrals look like a loss of demand. Three crucial questions to ask before changing your marketing spend.
ChatGPT now lets you lock sensitive chats behind a PIN
OpenAI has introduced a new "locked chats" feature to protect users' more sensitive conversations with ChatGPT.
Ask HN: Will AI = extreme concentration of power?
Let's say that AI will continue to get better without being a major risk due to loss of control. I feel like in this paradigm, it will lead to: 1. Fewer and fewer people can make money via their labor.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wins dismissal of sister's lawsuit
A US district judge dismissed the case after Ann Altman had refused to attend an independent medical examination.
AI challenges math by solving the unsolvable
Announcements over recent months that artificial intelligence models have cracked previously unsolvable problems are shaking top-level mathematicians to the core, and they are now asking themselves: Where do we come in?
Show HN: A daily game where the goal is to be unpredictable to an LLM
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Anthropic redesigned source-control for AI agents
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AWS launches open-source Physical AI Toolchain for robotics
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ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats
The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise and want to keep those conversations private when handing their device to friends or family to show them something in another chat.
Hacking Anthropic For Free Unlimited Claude
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Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in it’s LEGO era’
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’
It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.
WGA East Is Trying To Help Writers Make Their Work “Unreadable” To AI Models
The Writers Guild of America East is seeking to help its members make it more difficult for their work to be ingested by artificial intelligence models. The union has just begun offering members free access to a software called Cloak, which renders documents “unreadable” by AI models while prese...