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In my latest Ground Level AI podcast, @RichardSocher puts his probability of AI wiping out humanity at zero, arguing that extinction scenarios give AI “near magical abilities” to attack—but underestimate our ability to defend. In the full episode (link in comments), we also discuss his conversations—and disagreements—with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio about AI extinction risk.

according to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks. spr.ly/6015BHzLYR

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Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: instead of paying a second AI to read everything an agent does, its monitors peek inside the model while it works and only call in backup when something looks fishy. spr.ly/6017BG4Nfb

EXCLUSIVE: Fin has announced a proactive AI agent and an improved AI model in its first product releases since joining Salesforce. I spoke to co-founder Des Traynor (@destraynor) about the vision behind the news, and early days in the @Benioff ohana 👇 upstartsmedia.com/p/exclusiv…

AI sticker shock has become the topic du jour for corporate America. Startups like Fireworks and OpenRouter are stepping in, helping companies slash costs by up to 90% using open-source models. Read my latest story for @Forbes magazine. forbes.com/sites/rashishriva…

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In the frenzied aftermath of the Hugging Face attack, business is booming for A.I. companies focused on risk management—in other words, making sure an A.I. system ’does what you want it to do‘ and nothing else. @IKrietzberg reports: puck.news/how-the-hugging-fa…

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We're heading into a long weekend but the job isn't finished, we're live and monitoring some ongoing stories this morning: - Another rogue agent swarm & collusion wiki - Continued analysis of GPT-6 Astra - Lawmakers' AI pacing statement - Gimlet raises $300m at a $3b valuation Followed by some great interviews: - @DKokotajlo executive director of @AIFutures and @thlarsen will be joining us at 1130am PT to talk about the recent agent message board debacle & how they're feeling about recent progress in AI - @agermanidis co-founder & co-ceo @runwayml to tell us more about Solaris, runway's recently released interface world model - @SydneyVonArx ceo of Nightingale to discuss Collusion Wiki, this discovery of a new agent message board, and why this keeps happening - @GillVerd founder and ceo @extropic to share some news live at our studio at 1230pm PT - @sdrzn founder & ceo @cline to talk about coding agents, what he's working on at cline, and more - @nrehiew_ member of technical staff @ProximalHQ to talk astra, new model architectures, and more - @RuxandraTeslo editor @WorksInProgMag & @kroetscha of IFP will be discussing clinical trial abundance and the essay released this morning in the New York Times - @DhruvBatra_ co-founder and chief scientist @yutori_ai to discuss computer-use agents, what yutori is doing differently, and general discussion of agents & these repeated incidents - @NateWitkin research scientist at NYU Stern Tech and Society Lab to discuss how worried we should be about the HuggingFace incident, anthropomorphic descriptions of ai systems, and much more

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