(this feels like something a video model could do without "understanding chemistry" – given how many of these videos exist on the internet, but i thought was still an interesting test)
SAFETY
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Designing Safe Agentic Loops: Implementation Guide
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Here's my expanded explanation of what it means to design an agentic loop, how to do it safely (while running in YOLO mode!) and the kinds of interesting problems this approach can be used to tackle
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AI announcements trigger negative interpretations among public
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In this case the good news had an AI hint to it, which appears to inspire a lot of people to jump straight to the most negative interpretation they can think of
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Google’s Restrictive NSFW Filters Limit Serious AI Tool Adoption
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Google is great but until nothing gets through their extremely restrictive NSFW filters, nobody serious can use it
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Major AI Alignment Improvements Announced
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Alignment improvements are massive: 80% reduction in sycophancy
Less deception in adversarial tests
Reduced power-seeking behavior
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AI Model Bias in Political Fact Training Data
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Most of the models have that these days – they use to because they have four years of training data that says Trump lies about winning an election that he lost (in 2020)
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Sonnet 4.5 Improvements: Better Character and Reduced LLM Fluff
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Sonnet 4.5's character has also improved significantly. Its responses are more to the point with less LLM fluff. We've tuned the model across a bunch of dimensions – sycophancy, deception, prompt injection robustness. You'll notice it in how the model actually talks to you.
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Anthropic to release Claude Sonnet 4.5 soon
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BREAKING : Anthropic is about to release Claude Sonnet 4.5 soon! SOTA on SWE bench
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Top robotics stories: DeepMind thinking robots Meta Android
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Top stories in robotics today: – DeepMind’s robots learn to think aloud – Meta wants to be the ‘Android of robotics’
– Unitree’s Bluetooth backdoor nightmare – iRobot founder: humanoid hype is fantasy
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
robotnews.therundown.ai/p/googles-robo
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AI Ethicists Lead Existential Risk Discourse Not Technologists
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I like that the evil doomers are not led by a sincere nerd, but by a 'thoughtful' AI 'ethicist'