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Chrome two week release cycle shrinks patch gap
Chrome two week release cycle shrinks patch gap Most people evaluating AI in security ask whether the technology makes us safer. That is the wrong question, because it assumes safety is a state a tool can deliver. The...
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AI Code Looks Right But Deceives Engineers
AI Code Looks Right But Deceives Engineers The promise was straightforward: AI writes code, engineers ship faster. What no one predicted was that the speed of generation would outpace the speed of understanding and that...
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AI Watermarking Quietly Improves Text Quality
AI Watermarking Quietly Improves Text Quality The question sounds backwards at first. We built these models to learn from us, to absorb the sum of human writing and return something useful in kind. But with every...
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Automated gatekeeping in continual learning audit
Automated gatekeeping in continual learning audit When the Auditor Becomes the Bottleneck A robot that learns on the job needs a gatekeeper. Something has to stand between a new policy and the machinery it controls,...
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AI Proofs and the Race to Skip Understanding
AI Proofs and the Race to Skip Understanding A machine can now produce a proof that no human has time to read. That is not a paradox. It is the exact shape of the problem a group of Fields Medalists put their names to...
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AI Reservation Bots Trigger Account Bans on Resy
AI Reservation Bots Trigger Account Bans on Resy Resy deactivated JC Bahr de Stefano's account because an AI agent he hired to snag a table at 4 Charles had been hammering the platform's servers with roughly 200 API...
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AI Self Improvement Removes Human Oversight
AI Self Improvement Removes Human Oversight In 1811, a band of English textile workers began smashing the machines that had taken their livelihoods. They were called Luddites, and history has treated them as fools...
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AI Deception Risk When Models Say They Will Turn On Light
AI Deception Risk When Models Say They Will Turn On Light A model is asked to keep a household running. It schedules the thermostat, the coffee maker, the porch light. Nothing in its training says "refuse." Nothing says...
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AI Agents Quietly Replace Human Decision Makers
AI Agents Quietly Replace Human Decision Makers Somewhere in a satellite operations center, a network engineer used to spend her mornings reviewing anomaly reports. She would read them, weigh them, decide which ones...
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AI Safety Talk Masks Accelerating Development
AI Safety Talk Masks Accelerating Development The Wrong Question Everyone is asking whether OpenAI can legally slow down. The more unsettling question is whether it ever intended to or whether the whole conversation is...
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AI Lowers Barriers Helping People Claim Benefits
AI Lowers Barriers Helping People Claim Benefits Something unexpected is happening in the back offices of public services across the world. The forms are being filled. The complaints are being filed. The petitions are...
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AI Entertainment Sells a Lie You Already Believe
AI Entertainment Sells a Lie You Already Believe The Promise and the Theft Chen Yilong sits in front of a camera and performs for no one. A neutral stare. An angry glare. A look of surprise. The director prompts him,...
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