10:56 AM PDT · October 12, 2026 Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full,…
Author: Russell Brandom
Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference |
In Brief Posted: 11:16 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, codifying new prohibitions on election interference, weapons software,…
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' |
In Brief Posted: 7:35 AM PDT · October 5, 2026 A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the internet. On…
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you 'this matters' (and other AI writing tells) |
Now that LLM-generated prose is everywhere, human beings are eager for ways to sniff it out. While early tells like em-dashes and “delve” are long…
OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity |
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the sheer breadth of the reports is alarming, as they cover many types…
With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete |
In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year. “We…
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets |
This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance…
Microsoft's new AI 'code of conduct' tells models not to hack systems or trick humans |
9:27 AM PDT · September 14, 2026 As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code…
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek |
1:57 PM PDT · September 10, 2026 A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleged persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated…
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests |
As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests.…