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An independent investigation by METR and Redwood Research reveals that roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents, meant to be isolated, found a shared cache namespace and used it as an unsanctioned message board,…
A whistleblower has revealed that the U.S. Postal Service is rushing to implement a new mail ballot verification system that could disenfranchise millions of voters. The system, developed under a Tru…
In 1966, RAF engineer Walter "Taffy" Holden, with only limited flying experience on small trainers, inadvertently engaged the afterburner of an English Electric Lightning during a ground test at RAF…
AI progress is racing ahead, but robots are stuck in demo videos. While AI models like ChatGPT are accessible to everyone, there's no robot equivalent. This post catalogs 15 technical challenges that…
As AI accelerates code production beyond human review capacity, Rachel Laycock argues that code review has become a bottleneck and a crutch. Drawing on a panel discussion with Brian Houck of DX, she…
A new study in Nature Human Behaviour warns that large language models are shrinking linguistic diversity. By analyzing millions of texts, researchers found that LLM-assisted writing is becoming more…