GoKawiilShowcases like this event are important because they invite the public to experience robots up close. And exposure matters, as elsewhere, humanoids’ progress has been slow,
Take a tour of the robot carnival to see what it reveals about China’s humanoid ambitions.
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1 No one really knows how to safely test frontier AI models
The best models are increasingly difficult to contain and evaluate. (NYT $)
+ Alabama’s AG has subpoenaed OpenAI over the Hugging Face hack. (Verge)
+ China’s Z.ai is open-sourcing a model with powerful hacking abilities. (NYT $)
+ Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat. (MIT Technology Review)
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