How the human mind is different from our conception of it

Complex and self-aware personages deserve a shot at dignity. Let me show you one.

I’m at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I’ll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me …

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

with apologies to Terry Bisson

The open-source System One decision model. Sub-15ms, non-autoregressive, local drop-in alternative to TypeSafe Jev. - wfzyx/von

A moderate's view on the trajectory of AI.

Anthropic proposes three transparency metrics for frontier labs: AI-led R&D share, agent oversight, and compute allocation.

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The video-first, twice weekly show from the creators of 'Hard Fork' will unpack the most consequential technology stories of our time for broadcast and digital audiences.

This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare. One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as tapping into the internet backbone or mass collection of telephone or internet metadata. The legal and technical architecture of modern mass surveillance, initially framed as a necessary defense against terrorist threats, has grown far beyond that justification and national security in general.

Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.

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