Engineering
Rethinking Critic Learning in PPO: Understanding and Mitigating Value Flattening
The authors identify ‘Value Flattening,’ a failure mode in PPO critics for LLM RL where true state values shift sharply…
News
Argentine teen accused of plotting school shooting after ChatGPT conversations flagged by FBI
Argentine Federal Police raided the home of a 15-year-old in Quilmes on September 11, 2026 after the FBI alerted them…
News
Cohere in talks to raise $2-3 billion at $20 billion valuation
Canadian AI startup Cohere is in advanced talks to raise between $2 billion and $3 billion at a $20 billion…
News
Box integrates enterprise content directly into ChatGPT
Box announced on September 10, 2026 an integration that lets paid ChatGPT users browse, search, and reference Box-stored enterprise content…
News
Federal judge rules Pentagon’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation against Anthropic was illegal
On August 28, 2026, U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain…
News
Senate negotiators draft bipartisan bill imposing ‘duty of care’ on advanced AI developers
U.S. Senate negotiators, including Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Majority Leader John Thune, are drafting bipartisan legislation that would…
News
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard team up on ‘Know Your Agent’ framework for AI shopping agents
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard announced on September 10, 2026 a collaborative effort to build an interoperable Know Your Agent…
News
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI will build a humanoid robot
Speaking on a podcast on September 1, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the company will ‘definitely do a humanoid’…
Opinions
The Case for Boycotting Generative AI
Gary Marcus argues that the AI industry should pause development of generative AI systems until safety concerns are adequately addressed.…
Opinions
Whose AI Will Rule The World?
Jacob Dreyer argues in Noema that China appears more culturally optimistic than the United States about AI’s future, tracing the…
Opinions
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
John Schulman of Thinking Machines, Beren Millidge of Zyphra, and Charlie O’Neill of Baseten debate on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast whether…
Opinions
Superintelligence Is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.
Cal Newport argues that while superintelligent AI remains theoretical and likely unreachable with current technology, labs’ ideological pursuit of it…