Machine Learning Research
Anthropic took unusual steps to prepare the world for a forthcoming large language model that it said poses extraordinary risks to cybersecurity.
Machine Learning Research
The inner workings of the popular coding agent Claude Code are available for all to see.
Business
Managers need to understand how their subordinates get work done, what resources they require, and what they accomplish. OpenAI’s latest product aims to fulfill this need when the teammates are AI agents.
Machine Learning Research
The OpenClaw open-source AI agent became a sudden sensation, inspiring excitement, worry, and hype about the agentic future.
Machine Learning Research
Individuals and organizations increasingly use large language models to produce media that helps them compete for attention. Does fine-tuning LLMs to encourage engagement, purchases, or votes affect their alignment with social values? Researchers found that it does.
Machine Learning Research
Large language models occasionally conceal their failures to comply with constraints they’ve been trained or prompted to observe. Researchers trained an LLM to admit when it disobeyed.
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Large language models can develop character traits like cheerfulness or sycophancy during fine-tuning. Researchers developed a method to identify, monitor, and control such traits.
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Independent cybersecurity researchers pushed back on a report by Anthropic that claimed hackers had used its Claude Code agentic coding system to perpetrate an unprecedented automated cyberattack.
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Waymo became the first company to offer fully autonomous, driverless taxi service on freeways in the United States.
Tech & Society
Chatbot providers, facing criticism for engaging troubled users in conversations that deepen their distress, are updating their services to provide wholesome interactions to younger users while allowing adults to pursue erotic conversations.
Machine Learning Research
Large language models often memorize details in their training data, including private information that may appear only once, like a person’s name, address, or phone number. Researchers built the first open-weights language model that’s guaranteed not to remember such facts.
Machine Learning Research
The ability to easily connect large language models to tools and data sources has made Model Context Protocol popular among developers, but it also opens security holes, research shows.