upsy.siwatching superintelligence happentag:upsy.si,2026:feed2026-10-11T22:42:49+00:00Headlines and links belong to their publishers. upsy.si aggregates and links out.Minimum required pacing: finish aligning it before you train the next onetag:upsy.si,2026:8bde83731b6a55952026-10-11T21:55:26+00:00Let's say we coordinate to pace the frontier, but we don't coordinate on an outright pause. What should the standard of pacing be? My proposal for a minimum requirement: a lab cannot train the next generation of models (in terms of capabilities) until they have adequately [1] resolved all…Alignment ForumLarge to Small Model Stitching Destroys What You Built It to Carry Along the Fittag:upsy.si,2026:1c146dc9a8dce0032026-10-11T19:17:57+00:00Independent research; early stage. Posting for feedback, particularly on whether the effect survives at realistic scale, and on prior work I've missed. Model stitching is extensively used in AI Safety infrastructure in reusing SAE & probes to make interpretability cheaper; transferring refusal…LessWrongWill the HomeView be Apple’s first smart home success?tag:upsy.si,2026:7d4e278f0b7484452026-10-11T21:14:40+00:00Apple will announce a new smart home hub on Tuesday called the HomeView, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen There have been multiple reports that Apple was working on a new smart home product, but now it seems the product has a name and a launch date…TechCrunch AISilicon Valley is falling in line with Trump’s attempt to rename AItag:upsy.si,2026:7ec8afeed3530ddc2026-10-11T18:33:56+00:00Musk, Benioff, Huang, and now Nadella have all capitulated to Trump’s ‘super intelligence’ rebrand.The Verge AIRecursive Self-Improvement Is Here. Sakana AI Demonstrates a Working RSI Loop.tag:upsy.si,2026:22035454820ec65b2026-10-11T21:47:55+00:00Recursive Self-Improvement Is Here. Sakana AI Demonstrates a Working RSI Loop.r/singularityAI made me into a manager against my willtag:upsy.si,2026:b63a37a787bd60012026-10-11T17:36:51+00:00Epistemic status: Personal history anchored to dated records (chat exports, git log, daily notes). Public launch dates are from the vendors' own announcements. My own first-use dates are given to the month and are the earliest surviving evidence, so they can only be later than the truth, not…LessWrongThe gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is wideningtag:upsy.si,2026:81c0a1839a647e182026-10-11T20:20:52+00:00Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel. - Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs…Hacker NewsNo, Cryptography Is Not “Dual Use” the Same Way AI Istag:upsy.si,2026:b169ad52b46ffe742026-10-11T15:08:26+00:00Actor and functional application matter Originally published at AGI SurveilLance . Mainly, cryptography does one critical thing—encrypts data. It is considered “dual use” as a technology because one can employ encryption whether as a private citizen, a soldier, or a criminal. But, like a wall, it’s…LessWrongCan the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?tag:upsy.si,2026:df97c62cc773ca862026-10-11T16:52:33+00:00On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.TechCrunch AIWhat is Decision 3.0? vLLM Semantic Router’s New Open Decision Modelstag:upsy.si,2026:5d4ea65307c052752026-10-11T21:43:41+00:00vLLM Semantic Router releases Decision 3.0: 5 open multimodal decision models, 0.8B to 27B, with d3 scoring 64.1.MarkTechPostAI agent teams waste massive tokens for barely measurable quality gains, research findstag:upsy.si,2026:e0e20b886a44f9122026-10-11T15:39:26+00:00Teams of AI agents barely outperform solo agents but cost up to 5.1x more, according to Vals AI. Only one out of four tests with GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 showed a measurable gain. Anthropic's own data backs this up: beyond ten agents, quality plateaus while token costs keep climbing.The DecoderThese execs think voice AI hasn’t reached its ChatGPT moment yettag:upsy.si,2026:778ab122b6ef92602026-10-11T14:00:00+00:00Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to breakTechCrunch AIWell, that’s one way to fit into a the Matrix: “Look Ma, I’m the robot’s hands!”tag:upsy.si,2026:9b7e22eba53702f32026-10-11T22:25:11+00:00We all fit in somewhere 😂r/singularityWhy We Built the Food Corridor and Why Our Business Model Matterstag:upsy.si,2026:ee81c8e77449a3852026-10-11T22:25:15+00:00Why We Built the Food Corridor and Why Our Business Model MattersHacker News: frontier AIAI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous research, study findstag:upsy.si,2026:b99473607ce8d77d2026-10-11T13:44:32+00:00Epoch AI and Anthropic independently found the same thing: current AI models like GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 can run experiments but lack scientific self-criticism and genuine creative thinking. At best, Sol reached 15 percent of the human reference score, and even that came from methods…The DecoderSo, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion?tag:upsy.si,2026:06c1b233327d88ba2026-10-11T19:43:32+00:00So, You’d Like To Sell Your Print Issues Of The Onion. If you are here, you are either simply a curious person or you believe you might have something of interest to us. If you are the former, stay curious! If you are the latter, keep on reading. How To Identify Your Issues. To check […]Hacker NewsPasskeys are a trap. Do not use themtag:upsy.si,2026:5947d794c16d80ca2026-10-11T21:59:48+00:00Passkeys are a trap. Do not use themHacker NewsI stopped resisting. This may be a meme for you, but a reality for me..tag:upsy.si,2026:b6e78c104ac2cc792026-10-11T19:27:31+00:00Feels disgusting, but it magically works...r/singularityAn AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward modeltag:upsy.si,2026:4f0ae8ed3fe2eb862026-10-11T21:44:24+00:00An AI agent's $20 Kalshi account, with an exact reward modelHacker News: frontier AIA global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new reporttag:upsy.si,2026:1c2a35040e37b8082026-10-11T18:40:33+00:00A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new reportHacker News: frontier AIMicrosoft's Nadella bows to Trump's language diktat on "Super Intelligence" and uses it to attack OpenAI and Anthropictag:upsy.si,2026:47d2e90e9f88757b2026-10-11T09:08:35+00:00Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella now calls artificial intelligence "super intelligence" instead of artificial intelligence, falling in line with Trump's preferred language. In his latest blog post, he frames AI models as insider security threats, taking yet another shot at OpenAI and Anthropic. The real…The DecoderI Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playgroundtag:upsy.si,2026:46f17ed0ec7ca90c2026-10-11T11:30:00+00:00A long day’s haul in the video game slop mines.Wired AILearning to use local AI is exciting, overwhelming, and frustratingtag:upsy.si,2026:ea95eacbd85b4f832026-10-11T04:53:46+00:00I'm embarking on a journey I've so far been hesitant to go on: actually using AI on the regular. Giving my most personal data to cloud services has been a major hold up for me, but it's increasingly possible to run powerful models locally to see what they're capable of. Is this tech so useful [...]The Verge AIWhat Are Vision-Language Models (VLMs)? How AI Connects Images and Wordstag:upsy.si,2026:3f04701b1e42e4422026-10-11T12:00:00+00:00Vision-language models connect visual features with language so a system can describe, compare, retrieve, or reason about images using words. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.Unite.AIAnalysis: Bloomington’s proposed superintelligence ban raises questions about authority, enforcement - The B Square Bulletintag:upsy.si,2026:4348da08d98c462b2026-10-11T17:38:05+00:00Analysis: Bloomington’s proposed superintelligence ban raises questions about authority, enforcement - The B Square BulletinGoogle News: AGI & superintelligenceChatSlide Puts GPT-6 Astra Behind Its Slide Generator as the Superintelligence Race Moves From Benchmarks to Desk Work - StreetInsidertag:upsy.si,2026:1a23ce549cca66e32026-10-11T17:16:03+00:00ChatSlide Puts GPT-6 Astra Behind Its Slide Generator as the Superintelligence Race Moves From Benchmarks to Desk Work - StreetInsiderGoogle News: AGI & superintelligenceTrump really wants to make ‘super intelligence’ happen. Is it going to happen? - CNNtag:upsy.si,2026:705db25d187d24b92026-10-11T16:00:44+00:00Trump really wants to make ‘super intelligence’ happen. Is it going to happen? - CNNGoogle News: AGI & superintelligenceSatya Nadella says we should assume all AI models are ‘compromised’tag:upsy.si,2026:35dc91695d5dee442026-10-10T22:10:17+00:00In a lengthy post on X, Microsoft's CEO laid out his views on the dangers posed by highly advanced AI models and how to confront those risks. Nadella says we can no longer accept a world where AI is treated as a "set of nested black boxes" whose advice and actions we simply accept or [...]The Verge AIOrcaRouter Releases OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 Cybersecurity Model With 1M Contexttag:upsy.si,2026:692d927b5cbd588f2026-10-11T06:20:21+00:00OrcaRouter's OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 is a gated 1M-context cybersecurity model scoring 100% on Cybench, 95.8% on CVE-Bench subset.MarkTechPostDwarf Fortress uses version control nowtag:upsy.si,2026:e179bee0d893481b2026-10-11T00:52:37+00:00I remember hearing a while ago that Dwarf Fortress didn't use version control. That fact has been lodged in my head, because given its inherent complexity I have trouble imagining …Simon WillisonPython 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versionstag:upsy.si,2026:24d721d473226f252026-10-10T23:58:04+00:00Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting for this for a couple of days - I even told ChatGPT to check for it: Clone https://github.com/actions/python-versions and git pull …Simon WillisonImpactful scheduling for GPU clusterstag:upsy.si,2026:43ef54e74d2760822026-10-09T15:20:29+00:00Impactful scheduling for GPU clustersHugging FaceSakana AI’s LLM Peer Review System Catches 73% of Core-Claim Errorstag:upsy.si,2026:adee3bea62b6ce0e2026-10-10T22:02:18+00:00Sakana AI’s Multi-Layered Review catches 73% of core-claim errors in a new 1,164-error benchmark for LLM-assisted peer review.MarkTechPostAI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminalstag:upsy.si,2026:459b5a69aaed20512026-10-10T12:00:00+00:00Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.Wired AISophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreaktag:upsy.si,2026:edd58468d564448f2026-10-09T07:00:00+00:00Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI DaybreakOpenAIAsana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Soltag:upsy.si,2026:90995f7dbc9c26742026-10-09T07:00:00+00:00Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.OpenAIEmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding modeltag:upsy.si,2026:2435ebd7458559182026-10-06T19:57:04+00:00Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use casesGoogle DeepMindWorkspaceBench: Evaluating Interpretability Methods for the Global Workspacetag:upsy.si,2026:b58bc74e3857fbc62026-09-23T06:58:59+00:00TL;DR We introduce WorkspaceBench, a set of evaluations for how well an activation-to-text tool can read the contents of the “global workspace” of a model, i.e. the intermediate variables during a forward pass. The benchmark comprises 3,356 questions across 27 eval families, spanning topics in…Alignment ForumSharing AI progress in mathematicstag:upsy.si,2026:47b9255d8fa0f8e82026-10-06T12:00:00+00:00OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.OpenAIThe model that didn't exist, so you made it yourselftag:upsy.si,2026:0f05fd4155a46f472026-10-08T00:00:00+00:00We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.Hugging FaceIntroducing GPT-6 Sol and Lunatag:upsy.si,2026:3d48e529ad7a20b12026-09-22T18:00:00+00:00Introducing GPT-6 Sol and LunaOpenAIThe maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launchtag:upsy.si,2026:b0e83be7355ca0902026-10-09T21:41:29+00:00What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.TechCrunch AIGemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hellotag:upsy.si,2026:914ed32ad555468d2026-09-23T15:25:14+00:00Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.Google DeepMindMultimodal open d1 decision models for the edgetag:upsy.si,2026:0825a4897dea2e822026-10-07T16:54:33+00:00A Blog post by Liquid AI on Hugging FaceHugging FaceHow Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codextag:upsy.si,2026:112b5f00879d4fef2026-10-08T16:00:00+00:00How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and CodexOpenAIShape-sensing sheet digitally tracks its own movement as it bends and twiststag:upsy.si,2026:c45c61a8e420d33d2026-10-10T12:27:36+00:00MIT engineers developed a flexible, shape-sensing sheet that digitally reconstructs its own form as it bends and twists. The sheet could be fashioned into a soft and pliable garment that a user could comfortably wear to physically control a video game character or a tele-operated robot, or to…Hacker NewsIntroducing Falcon ASRtag:upsy.si,2026:91ed3eb235f3237f2026-10-07T13:21:03+00:00A Blog post by Technology Innovation Institute on Hugging FaceHugging FaceOne Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMOtag:upsy.si,2026:5bdd694c629035342026-10-07T12:45:31+00:00One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMOHugging FaceIntroducing Playground: Create and play custom gamestag:upsy.si,2026:ea4f899dc8dfd4362026-10-07T12:00:00+00:00Build custom games with simple text prompts on Google Playground. No coding required—start creating your own playable experiences today.Google AI blogWhat Is Agent2Agent (A2A)? How AI Agents Communicate and Collaboratetag:upsy.si,2026:950bab980edbc61a2026-10-10T12:00:00+00:00Agent2Agent is an open protocol for agents to discover one another, exchange messages, and coordinate work across systems. Learn how A2A differs from MCP and why interoperable agents matter.Unite.AIAn Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia policetag:upsy.si,2026:2a1c784f84b947c82026-10-09T19:36:56+00:00Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.TechCrunch AIBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revoltingtag:upsy.si,2026:8fab848f6dcbeaf62026-10-09T19:28:49+00:00Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.Wired AI‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest droptag:upsy.si,2026:d07dddd55da287042026-10-09T19:11:12+00:00"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this…The Verge AIEndogenous Alignment Requires Dependencetag:upsy.si,2026:dde5aaa34615e2cd2026-10-01T16:20:56+00:00My post on endogenous alignment got several excellent comments. Among them, one from Karl Krueger argued that imitation learning is more important for how humans align their children than reinforcement learning. Teasing out which is more important seems hard, but I agree I was wrong to ignore the…Alignment ForumPC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023tag:upsy.si,2026:d88308f9717685b72026-10-09T18:54:52+00:00The current decline may be just the beginning of a new downward cycle."Ars TechnicaGemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligencetag:upsy.si,2026:311e095023e6d9fd2026-09-30T20:01:45+00:00Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense, rolling out soon.Google DeepMindPollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAItag:upsy.si,2026:ca1ec6c6a1a1314d2026-10-08T12:00:00+00:00With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‐Image‐2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.OpenAILegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speedtag:upsy.si,2026:f6d3626eb7c890d92026-10-08T12:00:00+00:00LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speedOpenAIHow UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducibletag:upsy.si,2026:2960c64a019e48fb2026-09-22T00:00:00+00:00We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.Hugging FaceWhy I'm scared of RLtag:upsy.si,2026:8e7d39f7b94bb5b52026-09-23T12:07:33+00:00Summary: First, I give several different angles on how I feel about reinforcement learning: Theoretical case: RL is a black-box source of agency — this should give us classic misalignment worries, especially compared to agency-via-scaffolding Recent incidents (huggingface etc) and more mundane…Alignment Forum