Business
How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations
The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.
Responsible AI
Tech & Society
California Reframes AI Regulations: California proposes new guidelines to balance AI innovation and regulation
A committee convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed principles intended to balance AI innovation with careful governance. The group sought to rethink AI regulation after Newsom vetoed earlier proposed legislation.
Machine Learning Research
Grok 4 Shows Impressive Smarts, Questionable Behavior: Grok 4 launches with benchmark records and idiosyncratic behavior
xAI updated its Grok vision-language model and published impressive benchmark results. But, like earlier versions, Grok 4 showed questionable behavior right out of the gate.
Machine Learning Research
Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.
Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.
Machine Learning Research
Reasoning for No Reason: Anthropic finds chain-of-thought reasoning traces may omit key influences
Does a reasoning model’s chain of thought explain how it arrived at its output? Researchers found that often it doesn’t.
Machine Learning Research
LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property
In Northern California, old property deeds may still include racial clauses: language, made illegal decades ago, that was designed to ban people of color from owning or living in certain homes.
Tech & Society
Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books
A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
Tech & Society
Grok’s Fixation on South Africa: xAI blames unnamed, unauthorized employee for chatbot introducing "white genocide" into conversations
An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.
Business
EU Loosens AI Regulations: European regulators move to relax some AI Act rules on developers’ liability, other provisions
The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.
Business
AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.
Machine Learning Research
The User Is Always… a Genius!: OpenAI pulls GPT-4o update after users report sycophantic behavior
OpenAI’s most widely used model briefly developed a habit of flattering users, with laughable and sometimes worrisome results.
Business
The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman: Inside Sam Altman’s brief ouster from OpenAI
A behind-the-scenes account provides new details about the abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.