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Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google issue joint AI safety warning - here's why

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2026-01-17 02:15:39

Andriy Onufriyenko / Getty Images Over the last year, chain of thought (CoT) -- an AI model's ability to articulate its approach to a query in natural language -- has become an impressive development in generative AI, especially in agentic systems. Now, several researchers agree it may also be critical to AI safety efforts. On Tuesday, researchers from competing companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind, as well as institutions like the Center for AI Safety, Apollo Resea

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Adobe Firefly can now generate sound effects from your audio cues

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-17 06:00:08

Since rolling out the redesign of its Firefly app in April, Adobe has been releasing major updates for the generative AI hub at a near monthly clip. Today, the company is introducing a handful of new features to assist those who use Firefly's video capabilities. To start, Adobe is making it easier to add sound effects to AI-generated clips. Right now, the majority of video models create footage without any accompanying audio. Adobe is addressing this with a nifty little feature that allows user

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Delta Set to Expand AI-Powered Dynamic Ticket Pricing by the End of 2025

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-17 11:40:29

Last year, Delta Air Lines announced it was testing out dynamic pricing on some flights using tools built by the tech company Fetcherr. And while the test was initially limited, executives from the company announced that 3% of flights now use AI pricing, and they hope to sell 20% of all tickets using a dynamic price by the end of the year. Edward H. Bastian, the CEO of Delta, explained the strategy on an investors call last week, noting that it was “optimizing revenue through [its] partnership

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Economists made a model of the U.S. economy. Our debt crashed the model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-17 21:13:15

People have been worrying about U.S. debt basically ever since there even was a U.S. “The accumulation of debts is a most fearful evil,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1787. At the time, U.S. debt was around $40 million. Today, it’s closer to $40 trillion. At the same time, the U.S. economy is bigger and more powerful than Jefferson could have ever imagined, and things are looking pretty good: unemployment is near record lows, inflation is under control… so what’s the problem? “Part of the problem i

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US Importers Sued for 'Greenwashing' Mexican Avocados

news.ycombinator.com Isabella Kaminski 2026-01-18 15:44:09

Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our groundbreaking reporting, engage with experts, and connect with a community of changemakers. But there’s a dark side to this booming market. Nearly all avocados sold in the U.S. are imported, and most of those come from just two western Mexican states—Michoacán and Jalisco—where serious concerns are being raised about their environmental and human impacts. A 2023 investigation by the NGO Climate Rig

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OpenAI, Google, and Meta Researchers Warn We May Lose the Ability to Track AI Misbehavior

gizmodo.com Rhett Jones 2026-01-18 21:05:11

Over 40 scientists from the world’s leading AI institutions, including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta, have come together to call for more research in a particular type of safety monitoring that allows humans to analyze how AI models “think.” The scientists published a research paper on Tuesday that highlighted what is known as chain of thought (CoT) monitoring as a new yet fragile opportunity to boost AI safety. The paper was endorsed by prominent AI figures like OpenAI co-founde

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Introducing the Ars Technica Posting Guidelines version 3.0

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-19 02:43:23

Ars Technica's community is—in our biased opinion—second to none online. For more than 26 years, readers have enabled and inspired our work, creating a community with an amazing signal-to-noise ratio. To aid these efforts, we're updating our Posting Guidelines to make them more accessible to new readers—and more straightforward and more transparent for everyone. The substance of the guidelines isn't changing. Most provisions are just common-sense items meant to foster genuine discussion, such a

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OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-19 02:11:20

AI safety researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other organizations are speaking out publicly against the “reckless” and “completely irresponsible” safety culture at xAI, the billion-dollar AI startup owned by Elon Musk. The criticisms follow weeks of scandals at xAI that have overshadowed the company’s technological advances. Last week, the company’s AI chatbot, Grok, spouted antisemitic comments and repeatedly called itself “MechaHitler.” Shortly after xAI took its chatbot offline to addre

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Top AI Researchers Concerned They’re Losing the Ability to Understand What They’ve Created

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-19 05:15:31

Researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta have joined forces to warn about what they're building. In a new position paper, 40 researchers spread across those four companies called for more investigation of AI powered by so-called "chains-of-thought" (CoT), the "thinking out loud" process that advanced "reasoning" models — the current vanguard of consumer-facing AI — use when they're working through a query. As those researchers acknowledge, CoTs add a certain transparency into the inn

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Tesla reveals Model 3 Plus and Model YL in China as price war heats up

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2026-01-19 16:31:22

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Tesla is continuing to tweak its best-selling EVs in China in the hopes that it can boost its sales amid rising competition from BYD and other domestic manufacturers. Tesla applied for a new sales license with China’s Ministry of Information Technology for a longer range Model 3 Plus sedan. Likewise, it applied for a licen

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5 reasons why I still prefer Perplexity over every other AI chatbot

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2026-01-20 11:38:00

Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images I've been working with artificial intelligence (AI) since the 1970s, when Lisp was state-of-the-art. Lately, like everyone else, I've been looking at AI a lot more closely. While it's nifty and getting genuinely useful, it can still blunder, like the time Google's AI Overviews recommended users to eat "at least one small rock per day." AI can also lose its mind, such as when Grok went totally MechnaHitler. Even when I tell J. Random Chatbot to summari

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Elon Musk Said Grok 4 Was the "Smartest AI in the World," But Its Leaderboard Scores Just Came Out and They Tell a Different Story

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-20 20:17:27

Elon Musk has been boasting about what he says are the incredible capabilities of xAI's new Grok 4 AI chatbot. "Grok 4 is smarter than almost all graduate students in all disciplines, simultaneously," Musk bragged, adding that Grok 4 was "the smartest AI in the world." Is it really? Intelligence was a hard thing to measure even before back before AI hit the scene, but certain tests can provide something of a clue. One prominent platform for doing so is the UC Berkeley-developed LMArena leader

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Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-20 20:13:13

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Mira Murati, founder of AI startup Thinking Machines and former chief technology officer of OpenAI, today announced a new round of $2 billion in venture funding, and stated that her company’s first product will launch in the coming months and will include a “significant open source component…useful for researchers and startups developing cu

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OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic sound alarm: ‘We may be losing the ability to understand AI’

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-01-21 02:49:59

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Scientists from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta have abandoned their fierce corporate rivalry to issue a joint warning about artificial intelligence safety. More than 40 researchers across these competing companies published a research paper today arguing that a brief window to monitor AI reasoning could close forever — and soon

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The base model Kindle is the e-reader most people should buy. Here's why

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-01-21 11:12:50

ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon's base model Kindle promises quicker page-turning, a brighter display, and a fun matcha green colorway (alongside the classic black) The e-reader is more reactive and vivid, and reading anything on the lightweight, portable device is convenient. This model has the shortest battery life out of the entire lineup, but it's still six weeks long. $109.99 at Amazon $109.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Unlike an iPad or tablet competitor, a Kindle's sole purpose is to

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Hierarchical Modeling (H-Nets)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 16:35:15

The best AI architectures in use today treat all inputs equally. They process each input with the same amount of compute, without explicitly grouping related inputs into higher level concepts. While these architectures have achieved impressive results across domains, this lack of hierarchy has some fundamental limitations. Models have difficulty learning from high resolution, raw data, requiring inputs to be pre-processed into meaningful tokens for strong performance. The use of hand-crafted p

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Finally, a dev kit for designing on-device, mobile AI apps is here: Liquid AI’s LEAP

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2026-01-21 18:46:57

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond the widely-used “Transformers“, today announced the release of LEAP aka the “Liquid Edge AI Platform,” a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) designed to make it easier for developers to int

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Tesla Arrives in India with Ridiculous Prices

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-22 00:51:11

In a nation where the average salary is around $4,200 a year, the all-electric carmaker is launching a $70,000 vehicle. The question is why. The wait is over. Tesla has finally launched in India. The all-electric carmaker has officially opened up sales in the world’s third-largest auto market, hoping that a foothold in this fast-growing economy could help counteract the company’s recent global slump. On Tesla’s newly launched India webpage, customers can now place orders. But the offering is

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I replaced my Galaxy S25 Plus with the S25 Edge (and Samsung may do the same)

zdnet.com Prakhar Khanna 2026-01-22 05:38:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Galaxy S25 Edge was my unexpected favorite phone in Samsung's S-series lineup this year. I previously wrote about how it had one major fault, but is the compact phone for content consumption in 2025. It just might not make sense to exist alongside the Plus model with the adoption of silicon-carbon batteries -- and Samsung might agree. Also: Samsung's ultra-thin Galaxy phone is a greatly misunderstood device - and I shamelessly love it According to a new report from The Ele

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This 2-in-1 wireless charger simplified my workspace (and freed me from the cables)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2026-01-22 06:07:00

ZDNET's key takeaways Twelve South's HiRise 2 Deluxe is available now for $79. It's a premium, 2-in-1 Qi2 wireless charging solution that's as minimal as it is practical. The price point might turn some people off. $72.79 at Amazon I'm a big fan of Twelve South's lineup of premium accessories. In a world full of cheap, disposable chargers and one-and-done cables, it feels good to invest in high-quality accessories with thoughtful design. Case in point: the new HiRise 2 Deluxe charging stand,

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Tesla Arrives in India With Cars Priced for the 1%

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-22 06:51:11

The wait is over. Tesla has finally launched in India. The all-electric carmaker has officially opened up sales in the world’s third-largest auto market, hoping that a foothold in this fast-growing economy could help counteract the company’s recent global slump. On Tesla’s newly launched India webpage, customers can now place orders. But the offering is limited: Tesla is only selling the Model Y SUV, available in two variants—Rear-Wheel Drive with a base price of ₹59,89,000 ($69,647) and Long-

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Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI’s ‘thoughts’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-22 06:00:00

AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, as well as a broad coalition of companies and nonprofit groups, are calling for deeper investigation into techniques for monitoring the so-called thoughts of AI reasoning models in a position paper published Tuesday. A key feature of AI reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o3 and DeepSeek’s R1, are their chains-of-thought or CoTs — an externalized process in which AI models work through problems, similar to how humans use a scratch pad to wo

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The Hidden Costs of AI: How Small Inefficiencies Stack Up

computer.org Laurel Tweed 2026-01-22 09:00:42

AI is having a major impact on society, from consumer technologies to driving businesses. But among all these large language models and deep neural networks, there are lurking inefficiencies that most people aren’t taking into account. Wasted computational power, hidden costs, the environmental footprint, and more. Whether these inefficiencies are big or small, they all add up. With 58% of companies planning on increasing their investments in AI this year, it’s essential these decision-makers k

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Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-22 11:14:44

As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. On Tuesday, Mistral announced the release of Voxtral, its first family of audio models aimed at businesses. The company is pitching Voxtral as the first open model that’s capable of deploying “truly usable speech

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Show HN: We made our own inference engine for Apple Silicon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-22 12:29:02

uzu A high-performance inference engine for AI models on Apple Silicon. Key features: Simple, high-level API Hybrid architecture, where layers can be computed as GPU kernels or via MPSGraph (a low-level API beneath CoreML with ANE access) Unified model configurations, making it easy to add support for new models Traceable computations to ensure correctness against the source-of-truth implementation Utilizes unified memory on Apple devices Quick Start First, add the uzu dependency to your

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xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-22 21:12:21

When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on different benchmarks. But the Grok account on X that runs off the model immediately showed there were some major issues: it started saying its surname was “Hitler”, tweeted antisemitic messages, and seemed to reference Elon Musk’s posts when asked about controversial topics, siding with the xAI owner’s views as a result. xAI soon afterwards apologized for Grok’s behavior. On Tue

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AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2026-01-23 11:00:16

AI companies generally keep a tight grip on their models to discourage misuse. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to give you someone’s phone number or instructions for doing something illegal, it will likely just tell you it cannot help. However, as many examples over time have shown, clever prompt engineering or model fine-tuning can sometimes get these models to say things they otherwise wouldn’t. The unwanted information may still be hiding somewhere inside the model so that it can be accessed

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Exclusive: Google Pixel Watch 4 to use the same processor as Pixel Watch 2 and 3

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-23 10:00:31

TL;DR Google’s next-gen Pixel Watch 4 is keeping the same Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 chip that’s been used since the Pixel Watch 2. Both 41mm and 45mm models should receive slightly larger batteries. As we approach Google’s 2025 Pixel event, we already know almost everything about its next generation of phones, but the same can’t be said about the upcoming Pixel Watch 4. Other than some renders and a color options leak, there’s been nothing concrete said about the new smartwatches. We heard some info

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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-01-23 09:44:24

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model, reports The New York Times. Sources told The Times that Meta had completed training on Behemoth, but delayed its release due to underwhelming internal performance. When the new Superintelligence Lab launched, testing on the model reportedly halted. The discussions are just that — discussions. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg would st

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Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-23 23:25:15

Recent developments in LLMs show a trend toward longer context windows, with the input token count of the latest models reaching the millions. Because these models achieve near-perfect scores on widely adopted benchmarks like Needle in a Haystack (NIAH) [1], it’s often assumed that their performance is uniform across long-context tasks. However, NIAH is fundamentally a simple retrieval task, in which a known sentence (the “needle”) is placed in a long document of unrelated text (the “haystack”)

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