Monday, October 5, 2026
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Calyton said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but it also posed ‘a threat’ during his DNI Senate confirmation hearing Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence , to serve also as the new White House AI czar. Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence
David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology A safety leader at OpenAI has quit the company, warning that its culture was broken and that AI firms were not “being nearly careful enough” about developing the technology
Women hold just a fraction of new AI jobs but are overrepresented in roles with high risk of AI disruption There’s a common fear among people who work in Silicon Valley: snag one of the fast-growing, high-paying jobs in artificial intelligence, or get trapped in the “permanent un
Fund managers see hedge funds and emerging markets assets as bulwarks against sudden shift in sentiment on artificial intelligence
Cyber security incidents involving company’s AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits
New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But h
StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, G
This new task force is Trump's latest response to the debate over AI safety.
India needs its own AI safety framework, not a copy of US pact: Industry experts
DigitalBridge CEO Marc Ganzi says his data centre investment group will be SoftBank’s ‘third-party infrastructure arm’ after $4bn takeover
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
How many on the list did you know? Obviously one paper like Attention is All You Need (278k citations) can influence a lot - all the authors are on the list. But still interesting imo.   submitted by   /u/ksprdk [link]   [comments]
A benchmark based on moral psychology tests adapted for AI. Interesting results: the models answers (except Jev) have considerable variance across runs. Morality, it seems, is not deterministic. https://moralitybench.ai https://preview.redd.it/n75tm1z9hhth1.png?width=1982&for
Geoffrey Hinton has pointed out that today's large language models demonstrate "clear understanding" of what they're being asked. An image models response to a prompt about."stochastic parrots" provides more evidence that this is true. https://ai-consc
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.